Handbook of Green Chemistry : Green Metrics

Paul T. Anastas joined Yale University as Professor and iserves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. From 2004-2006, Paul Anastas has been the Director of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. Until June of 2004 he served as Assistant Director for Environment at e White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where his responsibilities included a wide range of environmental science issues including furthering international public-private cooperation in areas of Science for Sustainability such as Green Chemistry. In 1991, he established the industry-government-university partnership Green Chemistry Program, which was expanded to include basic research, and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. He has published and edited several books in the field of Green Chemistry and is one of the inventors of the 12 principles of Green Chemistry.

David J.C. Constable is the Director the American Chemical Society´s Green Chemistry Institute®. From the end of September, 2011 until January, 2013 David worked as the owner and principal at Sustainability Foresights, LLC. David left Lockheed Martin as the Corporate Vice President of Energy, Environment, Safety & Health (ESH) at the end of September 2011. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, David was the Director of Operational Sustainability in the Corporate Environment, Health, and Safety Department at GlaxoSmithKline.
During David´s tenure with GlaxoSmithKline, he held positions of increasing responsibility and global reach within Corporate Environment, Health and Safety. He first joined SmithKline Beecham, a predecessor to GlaxoSmithKline, in 1991. Prior to joining SmithKline Beecham, he served as a Group Leader in the SHEA Analytical Services group of ICI Americas.

Dr. Jiménez-González is currently Director of New Product Development at Stiefel, a GlaxoSmithKline company. She has worked in GlaxoSmithKline for about 14 years in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility, most recently Director of Engagement, Planning, Analysis and Reporting and Director of Operational Sustainability leading teams responsible for the global programs to embed Sustainability into the operations, the Sustainability external reporting and the Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) strategic plan. Before joining GSK, she was program manager at the Environmental Quality Center of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Superior Education (ITESM), and worked in several EHS and sustainability positions in Mexico. She currently also teaches Green Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU). In the past she was a faculty member at ITESM and visiting faculty in the Saltillo Institute of Technology, Mexico. She has a B.S. in Chemical and Industrial Eng. from the Chihuahua Institute of Technology (Mexico); a M.Sc. in Environmental Eng. from ITESM, Mexico; and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from NCSU. Her publications involve topics in the area of life cycle assessment, material selection, green chemistry, energy optimization, much of the publications as a result of GlaxoSmithKlines research.