Dr. John Warner
​Dr. John Warner is the recipient of the 2014 Perkin Medal, widely acknowledged as the highest honour in American Industrial Chemistry. He was also named a 2016 AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador. Dr. Warner received his BS in Chemistry from UMASS Boston and his PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University. After working for the Polaroid Corporation he served as tenured full professor at UMASS Boston and Lowell. In 2007 he founded the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, LLC (a research organization developing green chemistry technologies) where he serves as President and Chief Technology Officer, and Beyond Benign (a non-profit dedicated to sustainability and green chemistry education). Dr. Warner is one of the founders of the field of Green Chemistry. He has published nearly 300 patents, papers, and books. Dr. Warner received the 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring, the American Institute of Chemistry’s Northeast Division’s Distinguished Chemist of the Year for 2002 and the Council of Science Society President’s 2008 Leadership award. He was named by ICIS as one of the most influential people impacting the global chemical industries. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Chemical Society and named one of the “25 Visionaries Changing the World” by Utne Reader.
​Dr. Philip Jessop
Dr. Philip Jessop is the Canada Research Chair of Green Chemistry at Queen’s University and the Technical Director of GreenCentre Canada. After his Ph.D. (UBC, 1991) and a postdoctoral appointment (Toronto, 1992), he did contract research in Japan with Ryoji Noyori (Nobel Prize 2001). As a professor at the University of California-Davis (1996-2003) and since then at Queen’s, Jessop has studied green solvents and the chemistry of CO2. Distinctions include theEni Award for New Frontiers for Hydrocarbons (2013), Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (2013), the Canadian Green Chemistry & Engineering Award (2012), and the NSERC Polanyi Award (2008). He serves as Chair of the Editorial Board for the journal Green Chemistry, has chaired two international conferences and helped create GreenCentre Canada, a National Centre of Excellence for the commercialization of green chemistry technologies. His inventions include switchable solvents, more environmentally-friendly paints, and a low-energy method for purifying wastewater. Switchable Solutions Inc. and Forward Water Technologies Inc. are spin-off companies based upon Dr. Jessop's technologies.
