Joseph Fiksel

Joseph Fiksel, Ph.D., is executive director of the Center for Resilience at Ohio State University, an interdisciplinary research center that is developing a unified approach for modeling risk, resilience, and sustainability in complex systems. As senior research scientist for Integrated Systems Engineering, he engages in collaboration with companies, government agencies, non-profits, and other research organizations to develop new methods and tools for understanding the interdependence among social, environmental, and economic interests. Currently he is leading the development of a toolkit for optimization of industrial ecology networks, with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Joseph is also principal and co-founder of the consulting firm Eco-Nomics LLC, and is an internationally recognized authority on sustainable business practices. He has more than 20 years of experience in applied research and management consulting, specializing in environmental risk assessment, product stewardship, design for environment and sustainability.

He is the author of "Design for Environment: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development," which is now in its second edition from McGraw-Hill, New York, 2009.