Professor Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DL DEd) is the founding director of the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) and of the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP), holding professorial posts at the Hamburg University of Applied Science (Germany) and Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). Professor Leal Filho has over 30 years of editorial experience, and an excess of 500 publications to his credit.