Alberto Bustani Adem

His grandparents emigrated from Lebanon at the beginning of the 20th century, in the second period of Lebanese immigration to Mexico,[1][2] and dedicated to commerce in hardware and the workwear clothing industry.

His PhD thesis focused in studying the steam gasification of a reactive coke to produce synthesis gas, which involved the design and construction of a pressurized fluidized bed reactor at pilot plant scale.

The results were presented in April 2000[16] at the Call to Action issued on the authority of The Aspen Institute and its Program on Energy, the Environment, and the Economy.

In 1997 he was part of the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) policy group who assisted the CEC Secretariat[18] in developing a North American agenda for the control of air and marine pollution and develop recommendations regarding transboundary and long-range transport of air pollutants[19] He studied the problem created in Mexico in the 1980s when a shift from natural gas to heavy fuel oil in industrial processes increased emissions of air pollutants significantly, and later in the 1990s the benefits of substituting leaded for unleaded gasoline[20] He is author of section 1 of the report “The Fundamentals of Gasification and its Technology" developed for The Watt Committee on Energy Working Group on Gasification and published in 1989 [21][22] He was President of the main campus of Tecnologico de Monterrey (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education) from 2001 to 2010.

[25] In 2002, he participated in the working group “The challenge to academia: preparing the next generation of leaders”,[26] organized by The Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS).