Professor Norman Billingham has served as a member of EPI’s International Scientific Advisory Board since August 16, 2001. Professor Billingham is a Professor of Chemistry and former Head of the Department of Chemistry, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He has over 40 years experience in polymer science and was awarded the RSC Industrial award for Macromolecules & Polymers (1994) with specific citation for work in polymer degradation and stabilization. Professor Billingham currently serves his second term as an elected member of the EPSRC Peer Review College for Structural Materials program and as a committee member of Macro Group UK (the joint RCS/SCI group representing all UK polymer science). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Polymer Degradation and Stability. Professor Billingham holds a PhD in Chemistry and has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, three books and numerous symposium papers, reviews and related publications. Professor Billingham is a director of the Oxo-biodegradable