Dr. M. Sam Mannan, PE, CSP, DHC
Regents Professor and Director
Holder of the T. Michael O Connor Chair I
Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center
Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University, USA

Dr. M. Sam Mannan is Regents Professor and Director of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University. Dr. Mannan is a registered professional engineer in the states of Texas and Louisiana and a Certified Safety Professional. Dr. Mannan has published 160 peer-reviewed journal publications, several books and book chapters on inherently safer processes and delivered about 175 technical meeting presentations as invited and Keynote speaker. Dr. Mannan is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions from AIChE, TAMU, IChemE including the recent Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in Public Service.

     

Hirak Dutta,  Executive Director
Oil Industry Safety Directorate(OISD)

Currently heading Oil Industry Safety Directorate as Executive Director. Oversee Safety in the entire oil & gas industry organisations in the country through formulation of safety standards, safety audits, accident-incident investigations, knowledge sharing etc. He has more than three decades of varied experience in Petroleum Refining in operations, technical services, trouble shooting, project management and human resources management. Nearly 03 decades of varied experience in Petroleum Refining. Rich experience in Operations, TS, Trouble shooting, Project Management, Human Resources Management.

     


Dr. Hugo Vits
General Manager Bitumen Technology / Site & HSSE Manager
Shell Technology Center Bangalore


Hugo Vits is currently General Manager Bitumen Technology / Site & HSSE Manager at Shell Technology Center Bangalore. He looks after Innovation, Business Development, Restructuring, Commercial, Regulatory aspects of Shell India. Earlier he was Director of Petit Couronne R&D Facility, President of Global Solutions France at Shell, Vice-President at Transredes and BD manager at Shell. He pursued his education from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Universidad de Concepci.

     
     

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.

     

Prof S. A. Abbasi
Senior Professor and Head
Centre for Pollution Control and
Environmental Engineering (CPEE)
Pondicherry University.

Prof Abbasi has been chairman / member of numerous national and international expert committees and has been session chairman of international conferences at USA, Europe, Asia and Africa on several occasions since 1984. He has been Member, Editorial Board. International Journal of Energy-Environment-Economics, and International Journal of Green Energy published from the USA, Indian Chemical Engineer, Indian Journal of Chemical Technology, Chemical and Environmental Research, etc.He is on the panel of referees of over 15 prestigious international journals including Trans IChemE, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Environmental Monitoring & Assessment and Water Research. Prof Abbasi has published over 380 research papers in reputed international journals and has authored 35 books published by Oxford University Press, Prentice-Hall, Orient Longman.

     

Dr. Jayaraman Gopal
Advisor HSE,
Essar Oil Limited

Dr. Jayaraman is Advisor HSE of Essar Oil Ltd. He is responsible for health, safety, environment and fire protection in Essar Oil Refinery. Dr. Jayaraman implemented Process Safety Management 14 elements and associated in getting ISO 9001/14001/OSHAS 18001. He is specialized in QRA, risk assessment and OISD standards. Also he played crucial role for getting certification of ISO 50001 on Energy Management EN MS in Essar. Prior to Essar Oil, he was General Manager in Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd, Cohin and Senior Operations Specialist in Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), Oman.

     

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.

     

Dr Mimi Haryani Hassim
Senior Lecturer
Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Dr Mimi Haryani Hassim is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She is working in the area of inherent occupational health studies for more than 10 years. Her research studies also include inherent safety, multi-criteria decision making, and industrial hygiene. She is also a Chartered Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). She is a member of the Editorial board of the Process Safety and Environmental Protection journal.