Prof. Hilary I. Inyang is the Duke Energy Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science, Professor of Earth Science and Director of the Global Institute for Energy and Environmental Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has co-authored more than one hundred and seventy research articles, design manuals, book chapters, federal design manuals and a book on environmental geotechnology and serves on the editorial boards of eight refereed international journals. In addition, he serves on more than sixty international, national and state science/engineering panels and committees, he conferences in the United States, China, Brazil, Japan and Canada. Prof. Inyang is the chair of the Engineering Committee of the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a member of the National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT). He is serving his second term as a member of the National Environmental Systems Policy Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has been appointed/elected to many positions of professional responsibility, including the presidency of the newly formed International Society for Environmental Geotechnology (ISEG). He was born in Uyo, Nigeria and received his Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering and materials from Iowa State University in 1989..