MARIO G. CLERICI, Laurea in Chemistry, has over thirty-five years of industry experience working with organic synthesis and homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis in the ENI group. He also taught courses in the Department of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Turin, Italy, for eight years and served as a scientific expert on clean catalytic technologies at the International Centre for Science and High Technology, Trieste. A recipient of the Donald W. Breck Award, Dr. Clerici holds more than forty patents.

OXANA A. KHOLDEEVA, PhD, is Head of the Research Group for Heterogeneous Catalysis for Liquid-Phase Selective Oxidations at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Russia, and a visiting professor at several universities in Europe and the United States. As the author of over 100 articles and nine patents, she participated in the expert panel of the sixth World Congress on Oxidation Catalysis and is a member of the International Advisory Board for the International Symposium on Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous Catalytic Oxidation (ADHOC).