Jim Myers focuses on challenges associated with the development of natural resources, infrastructure and the related impact on human health and welfare. He spends much of his time on project implementation in the developing world. He has worked extensively on energy, water and food-systems development in post-conflict environments in southeastern Europe.

In 1998, Myers led the implementation of academic programs at the American College of Management and Technology—an RIT affiliate—in Dubrovnik, Croatia. In 2002, he helped establish the American University in Kosovo and continues to lead the RIT programs at American University in Kosovo. He is a consultant to the World Bank’s Western Balkans Energy Efficiency Assessment team and has worked on numerous development projects in the Western Balkans. He also conducts research in Haiti and serves on the board of Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa (H.O.P.E), a non-profit organization that provides health care and basic infrastructure in Borgne, Haiti.

Myers teaches courses in natural resource economics, environmental accounting and finance, infrastructure development and appropriate technology. Since 2002, he has received grants, contracts and foundation awards totaling more than million. He is currently director of the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies and Global Outreach Education at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he supports RIT global initiatives in Southeastern Europe, Dubai and the Caribbean. He also serves as director of the Center for Energy and Natural Resource Development at the American University in Kosovo. He earned his Ph.D. in natural resource economics from Michigan State University and his M.S. and B.S. degrees from RIT.

James Winebrake conducts research to determine the environmental impacts of transportation and energy use in society. He applies quantitative models to assess environmental impacts primarily related to air quality and global climate change.

Winebrake is an expert on energy technology, global warming, transportation and energy and environmental policy.

At RIT, he is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and co-director of the Lab for Environmental Computing and Decision Making. Winebrake is also director of the National Parks Service's University-National Park Energy Partnership Program.

Winebrake is the author of The Alternative Energy Reference Book and Dynamic Modeling of Environmental Systems, as well as numerous articles on transportation, energy and the environment.

Winebrake earned his B.S. in Physics from Lafayette College, his M.S. in Technology and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.