Dr. Rao Y. Surampalli is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. He was with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for 29 years and retired as an Engineer Director in October, 2014. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Iowa State University, respectively. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the branches of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and also a Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers (DWRE). He is an Adjunct Professor in seven universities and distinguished/honorary visiting professor in six universities. Currently, he serves, or has served on 67 national and international committees, review panels, or advisory boards including the ASCE National Committee on Energy, Environment and Water Policy. He also served as President of Civil Engineering Certification (CEC), Inc., that was started by ASCE for Board Certification of various specialties within civil engineering. He is a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of both the Oklahoma State and Iowa State Universities, and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an elected Member of theEuropean Academy of Sciences and Arts, an elected Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, an elected Fellow of the Water Environment Federation and International Water Association, and a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He also is Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste, past Vice-Chair of Editorial Board of Water Environment Research Journal, and serves on the editorial boards of 8 other refereed environmental journals. He has authored over 600 technical publications in journals and conference proceedings, including 12 patents, 18 books, 115 book chapters, 275 refereed journal papers, and 230 national and international conference presentations and proceedings, and presented over 115 plenary/keynote or invited presentations worldwide.
