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Arnaud is the founder and scientific coordinator of Sustainability Transitions Collective. He is an Associate Professor at Université Clermont Auvergne, in the Centre for Studies and Research on International Development (CERDI). Arnaud’s research focuses on Economic Modelling, History of Ideas and Economic Facts, Agricultural Innovations and Education for Sustainable Development. He is also engaged in the Post-Growth Institute’s activities. Arnaud is a core member of ERASME’s management team.

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Paul Ekins has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London and is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London. From 2004-2014 he was a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, and from 2014-19 its Deputy Director, leading on its Energy Resources theme, with research publications on low-carbon futures, fossil fuels and hydrogen. In addition, he is a member of UNEP's International Resource Panel and was a lead author on its publications on resource efficiency and mineral resource governance. From 2005-10 he was Chairman of the Government-funded National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP), the UK’s most successful programme to improve resource productivity. From 2002-2008 he was a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. From 1997-2005 he was a specialist adviser to the Environmental Audit Committee of the House of Commons, from 2003-2007 was a Member of the Government’s Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board, and in 2007 was a Specialist Adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Climate Change Bill. He has extensive experience consulting for business, government and international organisations, which has included over 50 projects and consultancies over the last ten years, and many advisory positions. From 2003-17 he was a member, and then Chairman, of the Judging Panel, UK Ashden Sustainable Energy Awards, and he is on the Judging Panel of the Rushlight Awards. He was a member in 2010-11 of two Ministerial Advisory Panels, on the Green Deal (DECC) and on the Natural Environment White Paper (DEFRA), and was also on the Advisory Board of DECC's Energy Efficiency Deployment Office. In 2011 he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the DG Environment Commissioner’s High-Level Economists Expert Group on Resource Efficiency and a member of the European Commission's high-level European Resource Efficiency Platform. From 2015-18 he was a member of the European Commission's High-Level Panel on the European Decarbonisation Pathways Initiative. From 2017-19 he was Co-Chair of UN Environment's sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6), following the publication of which he was Co-Chair of UNEP's GEO-for-Business initiative. He was also Co-Chair of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP)'s Research Committee on Natural Capital. He has been a member of UNEP's International Resource Panel (IRP) sine 2013, and was the lead author in 2017 of the G7-commissioned report on resource efficiency. He was a co-author in 2020 of IRP's report on Mineral Resource Governance, and is the Coordinating Lead Author of the report on Financing Critical Minerals for Sustainable Development, to be published in 2024. His new book, Stopping Climate Change: Policies for Real Zero, will be published by Routledge at the end of November 2023. In 1994 Paul Ekins received a Global 500 Award ‘for outstanding environmental achievement’ from the United Nations Environment Programme. In 2015 he was awarded an OBE in the UK's New Year's Honours List for services to environmental policy. in 2015 he was also awarded an Hon. DSc from Keele University.

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An expert in educational institution startups and accreditation and quality assurance systems. Prof. Mohsen has strong knowledge and hands on experience in institutional and program accreditation and quality assurance systems of several countries including USA, UAE, Kuwait and Jordan. Currently, he is the President at the American International University in Kuwait. Before, he was the founding Dean of the School of Engineering at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the Hashemite University in Jordan. He is managing multi-disciplinary projects activities that are specialized in Energy, Renewable Energy, Water Desalination, Environment, Capacity Building, Exchange of Staff and Students, Programs Development and Gender Issues, all these projects are funded by International Agencies such as European Commission (FP7, Life, Tempus, Erasmus Mundus), NATO (Science for Peace and Security Program), MEDRC (Middle East Desalination Research Center), and CIDA (The Canadian International Development Agency).
Prof. Mohsen is one of the directors of The International Association for Sharing Knowledge and Sustainability (IASKS), which is registered in Nova Scotia, Canada. IASKS brings together expertise, experience and views of research institutes in developing and developed countries working in the field of sustainable development.
Also, Prof. Mohsen is a member of the Scientific Board of the Sharing Knowledge Foundation, Geneva. The Foundation sets itself the following goals: To encourage a dialogue between scientists coming from North, East and South shores of the Mediterranean. To build a network from within the Civil Society dedicated to realizing concrete projects contributing to a sustainable development. To contribute to the reduction of the disparities and the imbalance between nations.
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Project Management, Energy Systems, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Water Desalination, Environment and sustainable development, Knowledge sharing and transfer.

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I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at De Montfort University in the UK. My research is broadly concerned with design and sustainability, with a focus on upcycling, circular economy and net zero. I have research interests and expertise in sustainable design, craft, production, business, supply chains, behaviour, consumption and lifestyles. My research uses design as a tool for new product development, service innovation, behaviour change, scaling up niche sustainable practices/behaviours, and transitioning to the circular economy and net zero. I have published over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters in my field with high-impact journals and high-quality publishers. I am interested in supervising PhD students. If you are interested, please see detailed research interests/expertise below. 

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Upcycling and circular economy

Sustainable art, design and craft

Sustainable production, businesses and supply chains

Sustainable behaviour, consumption and lifestyles

Consumer behaviour and behaviour change 

Product design and new product development 

Product-service systems and service innovation

Systems thinking and innovation 

Scaling-up and transition 

Design education 

Net Zero

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P. C. Abhilash is affiliated as a senior Assistant Professor (Stage III) of Sustainability Science at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, BHU, Varanasi, India and Group Leader of the Agroecosystem Specialist Group of the Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), IUCN. His research interests lie primarily in the areas of exploring ecological solutions for sustainability and thereby achieving the UN-Sustainable Development Goals. Specifically, he is interested in the restoration of marginal and degraded lands for regaining ecosystem services and supporting a bio-based economy, land system management, sustainable utilization of agrobiodiversity, nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based adaptations for climate-resilient and planet-healthy food production, and sustainable agriscape management for food and nutrition security. He is also interested in policy research and realignment, sustainability analysis, sustainability indicators, circular economy principles, and localization of the UN-SDGs. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Anthropocene Science (Springer Nature) and serving on the Editorial Board of leading journals in Ecology, Environment & Sustainability from Wiley, Elsevier, Springer Nature, MDPI, BMC etc.​ He also visited the São Paulo State University, Brazil; the Beijing Normal University, China and the University of Sharjah, UAE as a Visiting Professor and taught courses for Masters & PhD. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) & National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), India; and a recipient of the INSA Medal for Young Scientist, NASI-Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award, ICAR-Lal Bahadur Shastri Young Scientist Award, HIYOSHI Young Ecologist Award, and Malaviya Memorial Young Faculty Award of BRSI. He is involved as a subject expert for various UN agencies (UN-IPBES, IRP-UNEP, UNDP-BES Network, IPCC, UNCCD) and other international organizations such as APN, GLP, and IUCN Commissions (CEM, CEC, CEESP, & SSC) for fostering global sustainability. He also visited Universities in the USA, UK, Japan, China, Nepal, Brazil and UAE as part of his academic research.

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Currently, Prof. Dr. Hosam Bayoumi Hamuda is working at Obuda University, Sandor Rejto Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Environmental Engineering and Natural Sciences (Budapest, Hungary) since 2008. He was Senior Researcher and Deputy Director of Research Group for Environmental Microbiology of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest) between 1997 and 2004. Briefly, He received the degrees of B.Sc. (1978, Chemistry and Botany), M.Sc. (Biological Sciences) from Garyounis University (Benghazi, Libya), University Doctor (1987, Agricultural Sciences Soil Microbiology) and PhD in Biological Sciences (1999) from Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences (Gödöllő, Hungary) and C.Sc. in Biological Sciences (1994) from Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. He received the Doctor Habilitation Degree in Environmental Sciences (2007) and the Professor degree from Szent István University (2008, Gödöllő, Hungary). Also, University Doctor Degree in Natural Sciences from Eötvös Loránd University (1995, Budapest). Prof. Hamuda was awarded many times from different organisations, e.g., the Society of Hungarian Microbiologists (MMT), the Hungarian Professors Council (MPV), etc. and he is a member of many Hungarian and International Organisations. Prof. Hamuda was the general secretory and now is the president of International Council of Environmental Engineering Education (ICEEE) originated since 2010 (Budapest, Hungary) and Member of the International Society of Development and Sustainability (Japan), Society of MMT, Soil Science and Agrochemistry Committee of the Agricultural Sciences Department of IV of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest) and Association of Hungarian Medical Societies (MOTESZ) and others. He was the director of MSc program titled: Microbial Science and Biotechnology (Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary) from 2000 to 2008 and Director of PhD Program titled: Agricultural-, Environmental Microbiology and Soil Biotechnology until from 2007 to 2015 and now a member of the Environmental Sciences Doctor’s School at Szent István University and Doctoral School on Materials Sciences and Technologies at Obuda University. Prof. Hamuda is acting as editorial member, reviewer of many international journals, and he organize many international conferences and symposiums. He delivered more than 120 plenary and keynote lectures in international events and a member of scientific committee of more than 100 conferences. He is the editor in chair of more than 15 Proceedings Books of International Conferences. Research Interest Topics: 1. Microbial biotechnology: solid waste and wastewater management. Soil Biotechnology: rhizosphere index, soil microbial biomass and enzymatic activities. soil health, and soil biodiversity. Soil security, biocontrol and biofertilizers. microbial inoculants. Colonization of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizomicrbiota. Nitrification inhibitors and crop quality. 2. Monitoring of soil organic matter. Econanotoxicology. Roles of engineered metal oxide nanoparticles in soil. 3. Public health and healthcare. Bioengineering and Environmental Health. Probiotics, antibiotics, xenobiotics, and human gut microbiomes. Impacts of xenobiotics: pesticides and other pollutants on soil biological activities 4. Climatic changes and global security. 

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Dr. Sahay’s teaching and research interests are in the area of Strategic Management, M&A, Strategic Alliance & JV, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and CSR. He has been a Turnaround Manager, Corporate Entrepreneur, Researcher, Educator and an Institution Builder.

In his earlier assignment as Chairman & Managing Director, SIL, he played the lead role not only in turnaround of the company but in creating new products and processes for national and international markets. He has continue to serve both corporate as well as academic institution boards.

He has advised leading companies in the area of ‘Corporate Strategy’ which included creation of their Vision, Mission and Values. He was the lead consultant in projects sponsored by European Union, Govt. of India and Corporates.

Dr. Sahay is recipient of various best research and case writing awards. He has published in various journals of repute, in areas like strategy, Innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and CSR besides writing research, text & edited books and teaching and research cases. He also writes popular articles in business press. His publications have crossed 125 mark.

At BIMTECH, he aims to imbibe research culture and drive social change through social entrepreneurship.

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I am a Professor of Econometrics and Finance (Professeur des Universités) and the Director of the Master CGAO at the University of Lille (France), and I was an Associate Professor at the University of Evry-Paris Saclay from 2010 to 2018, and an Assistant Professor at Amiens School of Management from 2006 to 2010. Currently, I am an Associate Researcher at EconomiX-CNRS (University of Paris Nanterre) and a Deputy Director for CAC (Cliometrics and Complexity Team at IXXI Complex Systems Institute, http://www.ixxi.fr/?p=3219) in France. In addition, I’m an Officer of the Society for Economic Measurement in the U.S. (http://sem.society.cmu.edu/home.html ), and a Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Egypt. I am a Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement (elected in June 2018) https://sem.society.cmu.edu/SEM_Fellows.asp. I 'm also a Charter Fellow at the Institute for Nonlinear Dynamical Inference (INDI) in Russia since 2015. I have been a Visiting Scholar or Professor at the University of Chicago, Emory University, University of Kansas, University of Liverpool, University of Ljubljana, University of Greenwich, and University of Gent since 2009.

My research interests are: Empirical Finance and Applied Econometrics. I’ve over 100 papers published in various International Journals including: Annals of Operational Research, Applied Economics, Computational Economics, Econometric Reviews, Economic Modelling, Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Quaterly Review of Economics and Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Revue d'Economie Politique, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, The Energy Journal, etc. I’ve co-authored and co-edited several books and book chapters for Chapman Hall / Francis and Taylor, Emerald Group Publishing, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, World Scientific, etc.

I have also served as an Associate Editor or a Subject Editor to the following Journals: Computational Economics (since 2016), Emerging Market Review (since 2016), Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (since 2015), Macroeconomic Dynamics (since 2014), Research in International Business and Finance (since 2014), and Economic Modelling (since 2013). Additionally, I’ve co-edited several special issues for different national and international journals in Economics and Finance.

Lastly, I’m the Co-Organizer of two International Conferences: The first one covers topics on Computational Economics (International Symposium in Computational Economics and Finance (www.iscef.com ), while the second one looks at the recent developments in financial and nonlinear econometrics: International Workshop on Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics (www.fmnd.fr).I was also the Co-Chair of the SEM (Society for Economic Measurement) 's Second Conference (Paris, July 22-24, 2015). I was the Co-chair the 25th Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics: http://snde2017.essec.edu/home that was organized in Paris on March 30-31, 2017, with ESSEC.

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Paulo Ferrão is a Distinguished Professor of Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, President of IN+, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research. He is a board member of the EUREKA Association, and a former President of the COST association. He has been the President of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia from 2016 to 2019, and Director of the MIT-Portugal Program from 1996 to 2016. He is a member of the Environmental Advisory Committee of Rolls-Royce.

He has been active in “Sustainable Cities”, where he co-authored a book at MIT-Press on “Sustainable Urban Metabolism”. He is a member of the European Commission Mission Board on “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities”, and he has been engaged with the U.S. National Academies as a member of the Sustainability Roundtable, the Committee on “Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government” and the committee of “Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States”. He has been leading the urban project component in two ADB projects, for which the publication “Urban metabolism of six Asian Cities” emerged.

His scientific career has evolved within the areas of “Laser diagnostics for turbulent combustion”, “Energy Systems” and “Industrial Ecology”. He is very active in the area of Waste management, and he was the coordinator of the National Waste Management Strategy for Portugal and of the Portuguese Municipal Waste Management Strategic Plan (PERSU 2020).

He is author and co-author of nine books and more than hundred peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals and a variety of book chapters and over hundred papers presented in conferences and invited talks in different domains.