Professor Luis Velázquez Contreras

Global Advisory Member, Mexico

Professor Luis Eduardo Velázquez Contreras is a senior sustainability researcher with over 30 years of experience as an Industrial Engineer. Dr. Velazquez holds a doctoral degree in engineering science with a major in Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has been a sustainability research intern at several higher education institutions, such as the Center for Health and the Global Environment of the Harvard School of Public Health. Boston, USA; the Universidade Paulista. Sao Paulo, Brazil; Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Holland; and the University of Applied Sciences in Zittau/Gorlitz, Germany. Since 1993, he has served as a project manager in several sustainability initiatives in different countries.

Professor Velázquez has conducted several investigations in the Sustainability, Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention fields as well as in the study of sustainable universities. Currently, he is a member of the Mexican National Research System, SNI 3.  He has published several papers in refereed journals and offering several plenaries in international congresses.