Waste Management in Developing Countries

Prof. Dr. Hassan El Bari has been a Professor at Ibn Tofail University-Morocco since 1988. He obtained a Ph.D. in Material Sciences from INPL (France) in 1987 and has a "Doctorat d'Etat" in Mechanical Engineering, University Mohamed V - Morocco, since 1998. Prof. Dr. El Bari is the President of the Moroccan Association of Solid Waste and was a member of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) from 2004-2014. He has been involved in many funded projects as coordinator and partner and has a long experience teaching solid waste management, biomass and bioenergy, and anaerobic digestion technology. He is an Associate Editor of the Cleaner Waste Systems Journal and a guest lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Professor Cristina Trois is currently the NRF South African Research Chair in Waste and Climate Change (SARCHI) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). She is also a Full Professor in Environmental Engineering and the formerDean and Head of the School of Engineering. She holds an MScEng (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the Department of Geo-Engineering and Environmental Technology of Cagliari University. Professor Trois is a C1-rated scientist with the National Research Foundation. Her main fields of expertise are environmental and geo-engineering, waste and climate change in sustainable cities, waste and resources management, control, management, and treatment of landfill emissions, renewable energy from waste, greenhouse gas control from zero waste in Africa and developing countries, and alternative building materials. She is the author of over 100 publications in high-impact journals and has successfully supervised more than 60 Ph.D. and Master's students. Professor Trois is the Chair of the joint secretariat for the Southern Africa Region of the UN-IPLA Programme (International Partnership for Advancing Waste Management Services of Local Authorities) and the IWWG (International Waste Working Group) and a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineers.

Prof. Dr. Hassan El Bari自1988年起擔任摩洛哥Ibn Tofail大學的教授。他於1987年在法國INPL獲得材料科學博士學位，並於1998年在摩洛哥Mohamed V大學獲得機械工程的博士學位。El Bari教授是摩洛哥固體廢棄物協會的主席，並於2004年至2014年間擔任國際固體廢棄物協會（ISWA）的成員。他參與了許多資助項目，擔任協調人和合作夥伴，並在固體廢棄物管理、生物質和生物能源以及厭氧消化技術方面擁有豐富的教學經驗。他是《Cleaner Waste Systems Journal》的副編輯，並在南非夸祖魯-納塔爾大學擔任客座講師。

Cristina Trois教授目前是南非夸祖魯-納塔爾大學（UKZN）的NRF南非研究主席，專注於廢棄物和氣候變化（SARCHI）。她也是環境工程的全職教授，曾擔任工程學院的院長和系主任。她擁有卡利亞里大學地質工程和環境技術系獲得的環境工程碩士學位（優等榮譽）和博士學位。Trois教授是南非國家研究基金會評級為C1的科學家。她的主要專業領域包括環境和地質工程、可持續城市中的廢棄物和氣候變化、廢棄物和資源管理、控制、管理和處理垃圾場排放、廢棄物的可再生能源、非洲和發展中國家的零廢棄物溫室氣體控制以及替代建材。她在高影響力期刊上發表了100多篇論文，並成功指導了60多名博士和碩士研究生。Trois教授是聯合國IPLA計劃（國際促進地方政府廢棄物管理服務的合作夥伴關係）和IWWG（國際廢棄物工作組）南部非洲地區聯合秘書處的主席，並是南非工程學院的院士。