External Review Committee

Roland Clift is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Technology and Founding Director of the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) at the University of Surrey (UK). His research specialization is in the broad field of Environmental System Analysis, including Life Cycle Assessment, Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Energy Systems.

PhD Aeronautical Engineer by the Polytechnical University of Madrid (1977). PhD Mechanical Engineer by the University of the State of New York (1973). University professor of Mechanics of Fluids of Centro Politécnico Superior (CPS) of the University of Zaragoza (UZ) from 1981 and Director of the Research laboratory in Technologies of Combustio'n (LITEC), Mixed Center CSIC/UZ/DGA. Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Fluids Materials and of the UZ (1990- 1992 and 1997-1999).

Professor Dordick received his B.A. in Biochemistry and Chemistry from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biochemical Engineering. In 1987, Dr. Dordick joined the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Iowa, where he served as Department Chair from 1995-1998. He was also Associate Director of the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing at the University of Iowa and held a joint position in the Department of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy. In 1998, Prof. Dordick joined the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, where he is also the Howard P. Isermann Professor of Biochemical Engineering.

Nick Oliver is Professor of Management and Head of School at the Management School and Economics, University of Edinburgh. He joined Edinburgh in January 2007, having spent 14 years at the Judge Business School, Cambridge. Prior to that he was at Cardiff Business School (for seven years) and the before that with the Systems Group at the Open University for four years.

Robert Skinner has been the Executive Director of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering since 1994. TRB is a non-profit organization that promotes transportation innovation by sponsoring professional meetings and publications, administering applied research programs, and conducting policy studies. It serves as an independent adviser to the federal government and others on scientific and technical questions of national importance.