Mr. G.Vishwanathan
Former Deputy General Manager (Technology),
Indian Petrochemicals Corporation, (now RIL) Vadodara

Mr. Vishwanathan has more than three decades of Operation and Technical Services experience in Petrochemicals in IPCL and Synthetic Fibre plants. He has also acquired Engineering and HSE experience for 10 years while working with L&T, L&T Chiyoda and Technip along with his association as a Risk & Safety Consultant with Germanischer Lloyd and MS Chola Risk Services on HAZOP, HAZID, SIL, and other safety studies. He has about 10 years of experience in handling highly toxic Acrylonitrile plant which produces lethal Hydrogen Cyanide as byproduct. Sri. Vishwanathan is currently associated with Tebodin, Middle East as Associate Principal Consultant (Risk & Safety).

     

Dr. Rajagopalan Srinivasan
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
IIT Gandhinagar

Dr. Rajagopalan Srinivasan is currently Professor at IIT Gandhinagar. He was Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He serves as the President of the AIChE Singapore section and an Editor of the IChemE journal - Process Safety & Environmental Protection. Inherent safety and inherently safer design is one of his major research areas. He has authored or co-authored over 320 international peer-reviewed publications with several books and patents. He received his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Madras and PhD from Purdue University.