Dr. Ruiz-Mercado is currently leading and developing U.S. EPA research projects in areas of sustainable development for helping society, government, industry, and academia. His experience, published record, and contributions to the advancement of knowledge in research areas such as sustainability evaluation, sustainable process design and life cycle sustainability evaluation, demonstrate his capability to identify new research needs and challenges.Heriberto Cabezas is a Research Professor at the Department of Applied Sustainability at the Széchenyi István University in Gyor, Hungary. He is a Senior Advisor at the Vishwamitra Research Institute in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Miskolc in Hungary. He led the workgroup on global sustainability at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. He served as a Senior Science Advisor (Ret.) at the United States Environmental Protection Agency.