Terry Collins is the Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University where he directs the Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Professor Collins earned his B.Sc. (1974), M.Sc. (1975) and Ph.D. (1978) degrees from the University of Auckland where his graduate advisor was Warren R. Roper. After postdoctoral work at Stanford University with Jim Collman, he joined the faculty of Caltech in 1980 and the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University in 1987. Among his research awards are the 1998 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the 1997 Award of the Japanese Society for Pure and Applied Coordination Chemistry, a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. Professor Collins has written and lectured widely on the possibilities before chemists to develop vibrant new economies to promote sustainability. His research program is focused on greening oxidation technologies by designing nontoxic catalysts for activating the natural oxidants, hydrogen peroxide and oxygen, for nonpolluting oxidations. Professor Collins is currently the Associate Editor for the Americas of the journal Green Chemistry. He currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of C&E News. His catalyst design work has overlapped with the design of molecular magnetic compounds.