Joel Tickner
Director
Change Chemistry (formerly Green Chemistry & Commerce Council)
Joel Tickner is a leading researcher and strategist on policies, collaborations, and practice to advance safer, more sustainable chemicals, processes, and product. He founded and is executive director of Change Chemistry, formerly Green Chemistry and Commerce Council (GC3), a powerful network of more than 100 companies, bringing together the entire value chain from chemical producers to major brands and retailers. The GC3 is highly credible convener that drives commercialization, adoption, and scale of green chemistry solutions across sectors and supply chains. He is also a professor of public health at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he leads the Sustainable Chemistry Catalyst at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production which undertakes research, analysis, and strategy to make chemistry safer for people and the planet. He is the founding executive director of the Association for the Advancement of Alternatives Assessment, a professional association dedicated to advancing the science, practice, and policy of alternatives assessment and informed substitution.