Raymond R. Tan, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Univ. Fellow of De La Salle Univ. and an Academician of the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology. His research areas are process systems engineering, process integration, and carbon management, with a body of work of over 400 publications. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, Associate Editor of Sustainable Production and Consumption and of Cleaner Engineering and Technology, and serves as an editorial board member of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. He is the author of the books “Process Integration Approaches to Planning Carbon Management Networks” and “Input-Output Models for Sustainable Industrial Systems.” He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering and a PhD in mechanical engineering from De La Salle Univ. He has received multiple scientific awards from organizations in the Philippines, and is in the Reuters Hot List of the world’s top 1,000 climate researchers.