Justin R. Swift is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs in the Office of Fossil Energy. Mr. Swift, a Washington, D.C., native, is responsible for oversight of export and import activities within the Office of Clean Coal and the Office of Oil and Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology.  He also participates in the activities of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), a coalition of 21 nations and the European Union dedicated to research and development that will allow continued reliance on fossil...Read more

Harper is owner and CEO of United Energy, established in 1995 primarily as a bulk plant operations selling fuel and lubricants, United Energy has grown from a small town jobber to a multi-state wholesale marketer selling and delivering over 100 million gallons annually in over a 5 state area including Motor grade fuels, Alternative fuels, lubricants, and specialty services including procurement strategies, contract management, and inventory management. Harper, originally from Toledo, Ohio and a graduate of the University of Toledo, has worked in the oil industry since 1988. Prior to...Read more

Matthews is the chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. Matthews received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Dr. Peter Zandstra graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McGill University in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, under the supervision of Jamie Piret and Connie Eaves. He continued his research training as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the field of Bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Doug Lauffenburger).  In 1999, Dr. Zandstra began his faculty appointment at the University of Toronto’s (UofT’s) Institute...Read more

Dr. Julia V. Bukowski is a systems engineer with over 30 years experience in reliability and safety modeling and analysis. She has authored over 50 technical papers in these areas. She is a key consultant to Systems Applications Associates, LLC, a consulting firm providing engineering support activities in the private, industrial, commercial, and governmental sectors. She has been a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently affiliated with Villanova University.Read more

Gregory N. Stephanopoulos is the 2016 AIChE President and the W. H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. After obtaining his chemical engineering doctorate at Univ. of Minnesota, he taught at Caltech before joining MIT in 1985. His research focuses on metabolic engineering — the engineering of microbes to convert them to chemical factories for the production of fuels and chemicals. He has co-authored or edited five books, including co-authoring the first textbook on Metabolic Engineering, 450 papers, 50 patents, and supervised more than 150 graduate students and post-docs. He is...Read more

Georges Belfort, PhD, holds an endowed Institute Professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI; Troy, NY), and conducts research on membrane-based purification of mRNA (vaccines), in vitro production and purification of biofuels, and organic solvents. He was educated in chemical engineering at the Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa, where he received his BS degree, and at the Univ. of California at Irvine, where he earned an MS and PhD in engineering. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2003; chosen by AIChE as one of the “100 Chemical Engineers of...Read more

Al Armendariz was appointed by President Obama on November 5, 2009, as the Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, in Dallas. As Regional Administrator he is responsible for managing the Agency’s regional activities under the direction of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. The region encompasses Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and 66 Tribal Nations.

 Prior to his appointment, for eight years he was a professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he...Read more

Professor Liao received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After working as a research scientist at Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY, he started his academic career at Texas A&M University in 1990 and moved to University of California, Los Angeles in 1997. He was Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair Professor and Department Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering until 2016. He has served as President of Academia Sinica in Taiwan since June 2016.

Professor Liao is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences...Read more