principle expertise of solid and hazardous waste management
Global expert in Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Dr. Agamuthu FASc, is a Senior Professor in the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development at Sunway University. Prior to this he was attached to University of Malaya for 44 years. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Malaysia. He is appointed as the High-Level Foreign Expert for the Ministry of Science and Technology, China and is also a Visiting Professor for Zhejiang University of Technology in Hangzhou, China. Current responsibility includes Senior Editor in Chief of Waste Management and Research, and is on the editorial boards of several journals such as Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management and Journal of Safety and Environment. He is the Vice-President of the Society of Solid Waste Management Experts in Asia and Pacific Islands (SWAPI). He is the Founder Head of the Center for Research in Waste Management and the Founder President of the Malaysian Society of Waste Management and Environment. Currently he is the Chairman for the Organization for Climate Change (OFCC), Malaysia. He is a member of International Solid Waste Association (ISWA). He has published 21 books, 28 chapters in book and authored over 475 peer-reviewed articles, proceedings and invited papers. He has done over 75 consultancy projects and supervised over 200 Master’s Degree students and 30 doctoral students. His research interest includes Solid Waste Management, Plastic and Microplastics, Marine Debris Landfills and Biomass/Waste to Energy to name a few. He has international cooperation and collaboration in several countries such as the UK, China, Austria, Japan, India, Norway, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, to name a few.