Dr. Nabil Nasr is Advisory Board Member, Associate Provost and Director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and CEO of the REMADE Institute.

He founded RIT’s Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery, a leading source of applied research and solutions in remanufacturing technologies. His research interests focus on remanufacturing, circular economy, life cycle engineering, cleaner production, and sustainable product development, and he is considered an international leader in research and development efforts in those disciplines.

As CEO of the REMADE Institute, he is providing oversight of research programs and roadmap development as well as corporate engagement of the Institute partners. This national coalition of government, industry, national labs, and industry organizations is working on new clean energy initiatives, focusing on driving down the cost of technologies essential to reuse, recycle, and remanufacture materials.

Dr. Nasr served on The National Academies National Research Council, National Materials and Manufacturing Board (NMMB). He served a three-year term as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Singapore Institute for Manufacturing Technology. Dr. Nasr also served as chair of the OECD Advisory Expert Group on Sustainable Production and Eco-innovation from 2008-2011.

Dr. Nasr currently serves as a member of the International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environment Programme. In addition, he has been an expert delegate with the U.S. government in several international forums such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), United Nations, World Trade Organization, and the OECD. He holds an MS and PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Rutgers University.