Benjamin Afotey hails from Ghana, West Africa. He completed his secondary education at St. Peter’s Secondary School and Ghana National College. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology, with a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering in June 2000. During his final year, he worked as a student intern at Cocoa Processing Company, Ghana. Afotey completed his master’s in civil/environmental engineering from the University of Texas, Arlington, in Dec. 2003. During this period, he was appointed a Graduate Teaching Assistant by Dr. Ernest Crosby. In Jan. 2005, he began his doctoral degree in civil/environmental engineering, where he was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant by Dr. Melanie Sattler. The North Central Texas Council of Governments’ Aftermarket Technology and Fuel Additive Research Project was one of the research projects he worked on while completing the program. In December 2008, he graduated from the university with a doctorate degree in civil/environmental engineering, majoring in environmental engineering. He developed a micro-scale model to estimate exhaust emissions of light duty gasoline vehicles. He is currently employed as a senior lecturer at the Chemical Engineering Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Feasibility Studies and Training to Support Landfill Gas Recovery in Ghana was one of the U.S EPA funded research projects he was involved in since his appointment at the university. His research areas include pollution control technologies; emissions measurements and modelling; biofuel and biogas production technologies; energy systems and sustainable energy technologies; and water & wastewater treatment technologies.