Shabbir H. Gheewala is a full professor of Life Cycle Assessment at the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE), Thailand. His research focuses on sustainability assessment of energy systems, sustainability indicators, circular economy, and certification issues in biofuels and the agro-industry.
Shabbir H. Gheewala is a full professor at the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE), Thailand, where he teaches Life Cycle Assessment and has led the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Lab for almost 25 years. He also holds an adjunct professorship at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA, the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and Diponegoro University, Indonesia.
His research focuses on sustainability assessment of energy systems, sustainability indicators, circular economy, and certification issues in biofuels and the agro-industry. He is a national expert on lifecycle inventory as well as product carbon and water footprinting in Thailand.
He mentors the research network on sustainability assessment and policy for food, fuel and climate change in Thailand. Along with graduate teaching and research, Prof. Shabbir has worked extensively with industry in Thailand providing training and consultancy to scores of companies with aspirations towards improvements in sustainability.
He has been ranked as one of the world’s top 1000 most influential climate scientists (Reuter’s Hot List 2021) and the world's top 1% of the most-cited researchers in environmental sciences during 2020-2024. He was awarded the “Mahidol Science Environment & Sustainability Award” in 2022. With over 350 papers in peer reviewed journals and a Scopus h-index of 58, he is the Specialty Chief Editor of Quantitative Sustainability Assessment at Frontiers in Sustainability, and on the editorial boards of Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier), International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (Springer), and a host of other international and national journals.
He joined the Panel in May 2025 for a 1-year engagement period, before being considered for full membership by May 2026 (as per IRP standard procedures).