Dr. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Professor in Mechanical Engineering since 1998 & Chief Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable Development and Resource Efficiency Management at Jadavpur University, India. He also served as the Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology & Head, mechanical engineering. He was the Director, CBWE, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India and Larsen & Toubro Ltd. He is a renowned personality in the field on Waste Management, Circular Economy, Green Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Development, Co-processing of Hazardous & MSW in cement kiln, Plastics Waste & E-waste management & recycling, management system standards (ISO) and TQM having three patents approved. Prof Ghosh is the founder Chairman of the IconSWM; President, International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water (ISWMAW) and the chairman, Consortium of Researchers in International Collaboration (CRIC). He received several awards in India and abroad including the distinguished visiting fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK to work on ‘Energy Recovery from MSW’. He wrote 9 books, 40 edited volumes, more than 230 national and international articles & book chapters. He is the Associate Editor of Waste Management, Journal, Elsevier and International Journal of Materials Cycle and Waste Management (IJMCWM) and Editor-in-Chief of IconSWM-ISWMAW Secretariat. His significant contribution has been able to place the name of Jadavpur University in the world map of research on waste management. He is consultant & international expert of UNCRD)/DESA, Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Japan, China Productivity Council (CPC), SACEP Sri Lanka, IGES Japan etc. His international research funding includes, European Union Horizon 2020, Erasmus plus, UKIERI, Royal Society–DST, GCRF UK, Royal Academy of Engineering, Georgia Govt. etc. He is the leader of the Collaborative International Research Project on "Global Status of Implementation of Circular Economy (2018-2022)" by ISWMAW involving experts from 44 countries. He was the convener of ISO TC 61 WG2, member in the Indian mirror committee of ISO TC 207 & ISO TC 275. He is expert committee member of government initiatives & was the State Level Advisory Committee Member of Plastics Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 2011, expert committee member for the Preparation of standards for RDF for utilisation set up by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), govt of India, Chair Elect of 11th IconSWM 2021 to be held in Dec 2021. He is available at: sadhankghosh9@gmail.com & www.sadhankghosh.com. Prof. Dr. Sasmita Rani Samanta, an insightful academician loaded with high degree of incisiveness and passion for research and schooling which is intermingling with innovative pragmatically approach is the Pro Vice Chancellor, and former Reader and Professor, KIIT Deemed to be university, Odisha, India. Her theoretical knowhow has been mellowing day by day out of shouldering the assigned task for last one and half decades in different capacity of the academic institution. She implements waste management policy of her own institution and implemented energy recovery process from kitchen wastes and garden wastes. Her leadership roles in KIIT ranges from admission process, human resource management, talent acquisition, general administration, to institute governance and competency management and has taken several steps for execution of innovative academic practices in teaching learning methodology, evaluation and connecting the students and faculty to the academia, engaging and retaining people, bringing transparency in system leading to high motivation, ownership and commitment among the employees, increasing their productivity for triumph of organizational goals. Prof. Samanta is a fellow member of Indian Social Science Congress and Royal Society of Arts, UK. She has a number of publications in national and international journals. She was the Co-chairman of the 10th IconSWM-CE (International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management towards Circular Economy) in Nov 2019. Prof. (Dr.) Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is a prominent figure in the fields of Waste Management (MSW, Bio-medical waste, wastewater treatment), Inclusive Innovation, Rural Development & Tribology. Under his leadership CSIR-CMERI has grown as a laboratory for waste management & engineering. He is recoganized for Outstanding Vision, Leadership & Contribution in the Field of Engineering Innovation and R&D Management by The Institute of Engineers (India) in 2019. He was Vice-Chairman of JEE Advanced, 2014-16, Editor of Indian Journal of Tribology (IJT) and Vice-Chairman of Delhi Chapter of Tribology Society of India (TSI). He was awarded BOYSCAST fellowship in 2004 by the DST, Govt. of India to pursue research with Prof. Nam P. Suh at
