Nabil Nasr is Director of Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology. His fields of expertise are sustainable production, remanufacturing, circular economy, cleaner production, and sustainable product development.
Dr. Nabil Z. Nasr is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, and Director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) and the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He is also the founding CEO of the REMADE Institute, a national partnership among industry, academia, trade organizations, and national laboratories. Funded by the U.S. government and consortium members, the institute accelerates applied research and development in circular economy, industrial sustainability, including remanufacturing, materials recovery and optimization, and advanced product and process design.
As a global leader in the transition to the circular economy, Dr. Nasr’s work advances a more sustainable industrial model that improves resource efficiency while reducing energy use, emissions, and waste. His research and leadership focus on circular economy, sustainable production, remanufacturing, cleaner production, and sustainable product development, and he is widely recognized as an international leader in these fields.
Dr. Nasr has served in numerous national and international advisory and leadership roles. Previously he chaired the OECD Advisory Expert Group on Sustainable Production and Eco-Innovation. He served on the advisory boards of the Resource Conservative Manufacturing, consortium and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) Cluster Advisory Board, and has represented the U.S. government as an expert delegate to international forums including APEC, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization.
His prior service includes membership on The National Academies’ National Research Council, the National Materials and Manufacturing Board (NMMB), and the Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design (BMED). He has also served as president of the Center for Environmental Initiatives (CEI) and holds editorial and advisory roles across leading journals and organizations focused on sustainable manufacturing, engineering management, and energy systems.
Dr. Nasr serves on the executive committee of the Remanufacturing Industries Council (RIC), co-hosting its premier annual conference for industry colleagues across sectors. He also serves on the Imaging Technology Council. He is a board member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and serves on the advisory board of the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI). He is the founding president and a former board member of a technology startup based on his patented research, focused on advanced prognostics and system health management for transportation applications.
He earned a Ph.D. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from Rutgers University and is a member of Alpha Pi Mu, and a fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.
