| Editor-in-Chief: Dr Wesam Al Madhoun wesam@gsdevelopment.org |
| Dr. Al Madhoun is a Global Climate and Sustainability Leader, he is the Founder of a global initiative “Global Ambassadors of Sustainability ” which has more than 13300 members from 130 countries. Dr Al Madhoun holds A fellowship on Sustainable Cities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) and a PhD of Environmental Engineering from Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has 18 years of working experience (teaching, training, research and consultancy), where he had assignments in Brunei, Canada, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Palestine, South Korea and USA and He was a Research Professor at University of Seoul, a visiting scholar at University of Windsor and he was a guest speaker at Harvard University, MIT and IIT. Dr Al Madhoun conducted several international training programs on Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Air Pollution and Environmental Assessment. He also was appointed as a consultant for projects funded by USAID and UNICEF . In terms of publications, he has more than 55 papers published at international peer reviewed journals and international conferences. He is also the Co Founder of Middle East SDG’s Academy. Expertise Area: -Sustainable and Resilient Cities -Climate Change -Air and Noise Pollution -Environmental Impact Assessment and – International Relations. |
| Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Acep PURQON acep.purqon@itb.ac.id |
| Associate Professor Acep Purqon is researcher for 25 years in physics of earth and complex systems at Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) Indonesia. He pursued doctoral degree in Computational Science at Kanazawa University, Japan in 2005-2008 and continued Postdoctoral position at Institute for Chemical Research at Kyoto University, Japan 2008-2010. His research focuses on Green Physics and Smart Complex Systems. He had a position as Chairman of Science TechnoPark (STP) roadmap ITB. He is also a member of SDGs expert ITB (Sustainable Development Goals) and also member at research centre of new and renewable Energy ITB. He has interest in hybrid renewable energy such as a grant collaboration with bp Indonesia for constructing Solar Panel in remote area in entitle: “Development of Sustainable Hybrid Energy for Empowering the Arguni Island Community, West Papua”. He also give a course entitled Precision farming in department of agricultural engineering ITB and project to agrivoltaics as solution in remote area. Hybrid renewable energy is challenging in Indonesia country with more than 17,000 islands mainly in remote area. |
| Dr Amal Abdelhaleem amal.abdelhaleem@connect.polyu.hk |
| Amal got her Ph.D. degree from Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Currently, Amal is an assistant professor at Environmental Engineering Department, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology. She worked as a Director of Environmental Projects at Medaf Investments company, Egypt. In this position, she shall provide leadership in the assessment of global industrial technologies related to water and wastewater treatment, clean energy, and solid and hazardous waste management especially waste to energy technologies and their potential implementation and application. She worked as a reviewer and grant proposal officer at the United Nations Volunteers. Additionally, she worked as an environmental researcher in the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency for thirteen years. Her role included water and wastewater quality assessment, water and wastewater management, hazardous and non-hazardous wastes management. Her role extended to include providing the technical support and leadership in the implementation of the national emergency plans to combat marine pollution including oil spills, hazardous materials, etc. and upgrading local disaster risk assessment methodologies and disaster risk analysis systems from the environmental perspective. She published more than ten journal papers in high-impact factor journals (Q1) and participated in twelve international conferences and workshops. She has served as a reviewer for several journals including Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Sustainable Materials and Technologies, Electrochemical Science Advances, and Egyptian Journal of Chemistry. |
| Dr. Ahmed H. Hilles dr.ahmed@nied.ps |
| Dr. Ahmed H. Hilles (Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences): He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Gent University, Belgium. Dr. Hilles awarded VLIR-UOS Scholarship in Technology for Integrated Water Management from University of Antwerp and Ghent University, Belgium, 2016. He holds a Ph.D. degree in environmental sciences from the Department of Environment Health at Alexandria University (2015). He is also a member of the steering committee as NFG of UNDP/GEF in Palestine. Dr. Hilles has worked as the Director of the Environmental Awareness Department at The Palestinian Environment Quality Authority for 12 years, from 2005 to 2017. In addition, he works as the Chairman (and founder) of the National Institute for Environment and Development (NIED), and as an Academic Lecturer (Master Program) at the Institute of Water and Environment at AL-Azhar University-Gaza. Moreover, Dr. Hilles works as a consultant and researcher with a number of local and international organizations working in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in the field of water and environment, green economy, disaster risk reduction, emergency management, WASH issues and public health topics. Dr. Hilles has published many refereed research papers, publications, and practical manuals. He also has conducted several projects in these fields. Dr. Hilles has delivered more than 3,343 training hours as a trainer for more than 19 years in his field of study and work targeted different types of trainees and community levels. |
| Prof Dr Hjh Raja Suzana Raja Kasim rajasuzana@umk.edu.my |
| YM Professor Dr Hjh Raja Suzana Raja Kasim holds Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship from the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK, a PhD in Management/Knowledge Management, and MSc in Information Management/Knowledge Management. Prior joining academia she served industry as a company secretary. She had hold several other leadership posts at university level. She took an active role in local youth community-based organisations and the disadvantaged groups such as the disabled students. Her international engagement includes; visiting scholars at Babson College, MA, USA, the Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Technology Venture Program at Stanford University, California, USA, Steering Committee at Cambridge International Academics, (R&D private division in Cambridge, UK), national consultant for SME Cleantechs performance under the United Nation Industrial Development Office, Vienna, and had served as judges and mentors at various setting up of startups. Raja Suzana is currently the Founding Director for AI for Non-AI: creating AI STEMpreneur, a startup mentoring and coaching programme for graduates AI for all and entrepreneurship in Malaysia. She is widely recognised as a thought leader on issues on youth startup and social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Her main focus of work is on social innovation capacity and social impact evaluation. Raja Suzana has spoken widely on these topics in both local and Commonwealth countries. She has more than twenty years of experience in startup nation and is in charge of coordinating the Bottom 40 youth startup programmes at major universities, TVET institutions, youth NGOs and colleges in Malaysia. Raja Suzana works in close cooperation with Skills Development Division, Ministry of Human Resources for NOSS Technopreneur and Entrepreneur, and the Division of Technical and Vocational, Ministry of Education of Malaysia in developing entrepreneurship incubator centers. She is developing more than 200 youth startups, partnering with global mentor entrepreneurs as well as promoting excellence in entrepreneurial competency-based, social entrepreneurship, and social innovation capacity building. Her research, consultancy and teaching experience fall across a range of subjects centred on AI for Non-Ai enterprise strategy, social innovation, TVETpreneurship, STEMpreneurship, along with initiatives on incubator programmes, positive youth development and social entrepreneurship issues. |