Professor Shabbir H. Gheewala is a full professor at the Joint Graduate School of Energy and
Environment (JGSEE), Thailand where he teaches Life Cycle Assessment and has led the Life Cycle
Sustainability Assessment Lab for over 20 years. He also holds an adjunct professorship at the University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA. His research focuses on sustainability assessment of energy systems;
sustainability indicators; circular economy; and certification issues in biofuels and the agro-industry. He
is a national expert on life cycle inventory as well as product carbon and water footprinting in Thailand.
He mentors the research network on sustainability assessment and policy for food, fuel and climate
change in Thailand. Along with graduate teaching and research, Prof. Shabbir has worked extensively
with industry in Thailand providing training and consultancy to scores of companies with aspirations
towards improvements in sustainability.
He has been ranked as one of the world’s top 1000 most influential climate scientists (Reuter’s Hot List
2021) and the world's top 1% of the most-cited researchers in environmental sciences (2020-2023). He
was awarded the “Mahidol Science Environment & Sustainability Award” in 2022. With over 300 papers
in peer reviewed journals and a Scopus h-index of 53, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Sustainable Energy and Environment, Specialty Chief Editor of Quantitative Sustainability Assessment at
Frontiers in Sustainability, and on the editorial boards of the Sustainable Production and Consumption
(Elsevier), International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (Springer), and a host of other international and
national journals.
