Victor Bell is a Certified Packaging Professional with more than 25 years of experience with environmental issues associated with packaging and products. In 1998, Victor founded Environmental Packaging International (EPI), a consultancy that advises global brand owners, retailers, and all segments of the packaging industry on a wide range of environmental compliance, product stewardship and sustainability issues related to packaging and products. He is a member of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) Executive Committee, a co-chair of the effort to integrate the GPPS metrics into the Data Synchronisation Network, was a member of the Consumer Goods Forum GPPS project team, and served on the US delegation for the development of the ISO standards. Victor received his MMA (Marine Affairs) and BS (Natural Resource) degrees from the University of Rhode Island and an MS (Urban and Environmental Studies) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.