Education: graduated from the Faculty of Geography of the M.Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). Specialty Oceanography.Career: After graduating from MSU for almost 10 years worked at the P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences. Dealing with problems of water circulation, atmosphere-ocean interaction in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. From 1975 to 1986 he worked in the Secretariat of the Oceanographic Committee of the Soviet Union. He was engaged in international cooperation of the USSR in the study of the World Ocean: coordinated participation of the Soviet Union in the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO programs, he was the scientific secretary of the Soviet part of the Joint Soviet-French commission on study the oceans.

Sulaiman Alyahya is an academic professor by by profession and works with one of the govrnment univerities in Saudi Arabia. He holds a BSc in Agricultural engineering from King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) and MSc and PhD in agricultural engineering from Iowa State University(USA). Sulaiman has 30 years of experience in education, research and administration.  Curently, his main interest is in biomass energy. Sulaiman grew up in one of the agricultural cities of Saudi Arabia

Wojciech Szulc is research worker and Deputy Financial and Operational Director. Specialist in the field of plastic deformation of metal, business consultancy for steel sector in that in the area of environmental protection. An expert in the field of best available BAT techniques for further metal processing (FMP) – member of TWG for FMP BREF review - JRC EIPPCB in Seville. V-ce President of European Steel Technology Platform ESTEP. Co-author of industry guide on the application of BAT techniques for the metallurgical industry ordered of the Ministry of the Environment.

Dr. Elhachmi Essadiqi, is currently Dean of Aerospace and Automotive Engineering school at the Université Internationale de Rabat (UIR), Morocco and adjunct professor at Mississippi State University, in the USA. His main research interests are in the area of lightweighting materials for aeronautics and automotive applications (e.g. Al – Li, composites), alloying and process design for casting and thermo-mechanical processing and additive manufacturing; microstructure and properties relationship in materials. He is now working on Seawater Desalination using solar energy, and GHG reduction.