I am currently associate professor at the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh city (VNU-HCM). I'm leading a newly established Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED) and also affiliated with socio-hydrology group at center of Water management and Climate Change (WACC), Institute for Env. and Res. (IER), VNU-HCM. I have a special interest in solving environmental related issues based on inter/trans-disciplinary study and by a strong partnership among academia-industry-government.

W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law and International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University (B.A. Brandeis University; M.P.P. Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; J.D. Columbia University). Rresearches in the areas of economic globalization, corporate social responsibility (including human rights and sustainability/climate change), international affairs, global governance, trade and finance, and on Party-State systems, with specific focus on China and Cuba. Teaches courses in corporate law, CSR-RBC, multinational corporations, international institutions, as well as on religion and constitutional law (liberal democratic and Marxist-Leninist) . Lectured in Latin America, Europe and Asia. In addition to journal articles and contributions to collected multi-authored works, his publications include "Elements of Law and the U.S. Legal System "(Carolina Academic Press forthcoming 2021), "Hong Kong Between 'One Country' and 'Two Systems':" (Little Sir Press, forthcoming 2020); "Cuba’s Caribbean Marxism: Essays on Ideology, Government, Society, and Economy in the Post Fidel Castro Era" (Little Sir Press 2018); "Lawyers Making Meaning: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education II" (Springer, 2013) (with Jan M. Broekman) "Comparative Corporate Law" (Carolina Academic Press 2002), and edited collections of essays, "Signs in Law, a Source Book—The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education" (with Jan M. Broekman, Springer, 2014) "Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization" (Carolina Academic Press, 2007). He has published over one hundred articles and book chapters in journals in the U.S., Latin Americas, China, and Europe, where he has also lectured. His short essays on many of these topics may be found on his blogsite: “Law at the End of the Day” (https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/). Spainsh fuent; reading knowledge French, Italian, Portuguese.

I am an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at Penn State University. In my research, I use econometric tools to examine human-environmental interactions related to environmental health, water and sanitation, air pollution, human capital accumulation, and water resource management. My research includes work to understand the processes by which households adopt and use environmental health technologies, the health and educational consequences of ambient air pollution exposure, and the economic implications of water resource management. I also study energy and environmental policy applications. I received my Ph.D. in public policy, with a concentration in economics, from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. I also hold a M.A. in economics from Duke University and B.A.s in economics and political science from Moravian College.

Egyptian-American, Economics PhD student at SUNY Stony Brook University and BA from France.