Nabeel Mancheri is senior advisor at EIT RawMaterials. Before joining EIT, he was the coordinator of the project and founder of the Global Rare Earth Industry Association (REIA), where he served as the first secretary general of the association for the last five years.    

He was a senior researcher and project manager at the Department of Material Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium. Before joining KU Leuven in 2018, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Netherlands, where he worked on a Marie Curie project on REE Value Chain and Industrial EcoSystem in EU. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at The University of Tokyo. Prior to joining Tokyo University, he was an Assistant Professor at India's National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.