Mircea Grigoriu is professor within the University Politehnica of Bucharest and director of the Romanian Cleaner Production Center (RCPC). He is doctor in Hydro-energetic and is an experienced specialist in environment and energy equipment and in waste and energy savings. He designed the center as an open network of organizations and persons sharing the same objective, to implement Cleaner Production/Best Available Technologies in Romania.

Mircea Grigoriu is representing Romania in the European Prepare network for innovation and research in Cleaner Production and in the Asia-Pacific Roundtable for Cleaner Production. Also, he is member of the Romanian Association of Hydrological Science and member of the Technical Experts Body within the Ministry of Justice.

Mircea Grigoriu has a scientific and practical background in pumps and pumping systems design and maintenance, working within the main Romanian pumps producer, Aversa S.A., developing several researches within the University and teaching specific courses for the students of Power Department of the University.

Between his last achievements are: putting forward the concept of Cleaner Production as a tool for Climate Change Abatement [1], coordination of the project "Training and Accrediting International Environmental Auditors for the CEE Region" , under the Leonardo da Vinci II Program, 2001-2002, elaboration of a program for human resources improvement in environmental sector, in cooperation with the Ministry of Work and Social Solidarity.

Some of his last works are:

• "Energy Efficiency in Cleaner Production Activities", Asia Pacific Cleaner Production roundtable, Manila, Philippines, Febr.-March 2001 (co-author);

• "Kyoto mechanisms in the Romanian context" - The VIII-th Symposium for "Technologies, Installations and Equipment for Environmental Quality Rehabilitation", Bucharest, Romania, November 1999 (co-author);

• "The concept of Cleaner Production and Climate Changes" - The VIII-th Symposium for "Technologies, Installations and Equipment for Environmental Quality Rehabilitation", Bucharest, Romania, November 1999 (co-author);

• "Romanian Sustainable Production Programme for Waste Minimisation Joint Initiative" - Presented in the Summer Course on Design, Establishment and Maintenance of Regional and City Based Sustainable Production Activities, organised by the Institute of Sustainable techniques and Systems, Frohnleiten, Austria, September 1999, (co-author);

• "Study with regard to the Plasma Installation for Terating Domestic Municipal Waste", for the company PWC Co., 2000 (co-author);

• "The Evaluation of the Small Hydropower Plants Impact on the Environment" - Research for Hydropower Studies and Design Institute, 1998;

• "Evaluation of the Third Section for mitigation options in the National Country Study for Climate Change" , Institute for Power Studies and Design, 1998 (co-author).