Professor Chris Ryan is the Director of the National Key Centre for Design at RMIT in Melbourne Australia, a position he has held since the Centre's inception in 1989.

A physicist by background, he has worked for many years in science and technology policy, and environmental strategy. Among his many roles as Director, he is the principal investigator in EcoReDesign®, a major research program initiated by the Centre, which aims to improve the environmental performance of manufactured products.

Chris occupies the foundation Chair in Design and Environmental Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and is Adjunct Professor to the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology, Sydney. Chris has also served as a visiting Professor at the Environment Section of Industrial Design at the Technical University in Delft. Chris was a member of the EUREKA Expert Design Committee and the UNEP Working Party on Sustainable Product Development.

In November 1993 he was Chair of the O2 Event in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and is currently a member of the 'Info-Eco: Information Technology, Social Creativity and Sustainability' project, an international design project which is exploring the potential convergence between information and communications technologies and environmental sustainability.

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