Professor Michele John (B.Ec, MBus, PhD) is
the Director of the Sustainable Engineering Group (SEG) at Curtin University,
Perth Western Australia. Michele is a resource economist with particular
research interests in life cycle analysis, sustainability impact assessment,
renewable energy transition, industrial symbiosis, waste management and
resource recovery, sustainable development, and eco-efficiency. Her leadership
of SEG is focused on the development of applied sustainable engineering
research and the extension of sustainable engineering education. She currently
leads an internationally recognized industrial ecology research group with
major projects in industrial symbiosis, sustainability education, waste
management, re-manufacturing, and sustainability design and policy. She is also
the lead organizer of the Australian Sustainable Engineering Education Network.
She is responsible for the MSc (Sustainability Transformation Management)
degree at Curtin University and teaches a variety of subjects including
corporate stewardship, global sustainability studies, organizational
sustainability management, engineering for sustainability development, and
industrial ecology. Before joining SEG, Michele was a Post Doctoral Research
Fellow at the University of Western Australia and CSIRO. She has worked
internationally with several large multi-national companies in the mining and
manufacturing industry in London, Japan, and Singapore.
