Speakers
Alexander Koshi
Senior Works Manager
Arabian Gulf Cement Company (A ETA _STAR Cement Group)
Mr. Alexander Koshi has more than 34 years experience in cement industry with production about 25 million tonnes of cement in India, Saudi Arabia, UAE, presently in Bahrain. Prior to joining Star Cement Arabian Gulf Cement Company, he was working with MNCs FLS, India; UBE, Japan.
He introduced multi fuel firing in natural gas, fuel oil, petroleum coke & coal ., first bag filter de dusting technology in UAE, sourcing all other countries in Middle East to follow suit, created an environmental revolution in cement industry and achieve -ISO9001&ISO14001 certification in UAE.
Mr. Koshi is an active member Emirates Environment & Dubai Quality Group, Coordinator, Bahrain counselors forum, Students wing, YMCA-Teens, - Passion for human resources, health & safety in cement industry & green initiatives. Member Stochkolm protocol implementation committee, Bahrain environmental directorate.
Mr. Koshi is a regular speaker in conferences and has his paper case study waste oil 2nd world war from Bahrain utilization in UAE during Gulf war was nominated for 2008 Global Alternate Fuel utilization Award .
Dr. Andrius Plepys
Associate Professor
The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, Sweden
Andrius Plepys is an assistant professor at Lund University in Sweden. For the last ten years he has been active as researcher, project manager and university lector with international coverage. His main expertise is in systems’ analysis (e.g. product/service systems, industrial processes, municipal services) and their environmental optimization. Andrius is particularly interested in studying the environmental implications of IT as well as
decision-making support in the areas of waste management.
Caroline May
Partner
Norton Rose
Caroline May is the head of Norton Rose’s environment, safety, and planning practice. She is specialist environment and health and safety lawyer who is based in London. She is recognised as a leading expert by Legal 500, the
Chambers Directory and the Guide to the World’s Leading
Environmental Lawyers. Caroline has extensive experience of both
contentious and non-contentious environmental law. In particular, she has great experience in urban regeneration and brownfield site
projects. She has been involved in two of the largest pieces of toxic tort litigation in the UK involving dioxin emissions from chemical waste incineration and methane emissions from landfill waste sites. She
advises trade and industry groups on larger projects including waste PFI, renewable energy and CHP projects. She has been involved in a number of harbourside and city centre regeneration projects. Her work has involved liaison with Government, relevant regulatory authorities, NGO’s and Lobby Groups. She has a specialism in environmental
indemnity insurance and all aspects of health and safety law.
Dr. Chen Sau Soon
Senior General Manager - Environmental & Bioprocess Technology
SIRIM Berhad (Malaysia)
Dr. Chen has been attached to SIRIM for the past 25 years and worked on a number of technology areas covering metalworking, chemical technology and for the last twelve years, in environment and energy. In the field of environmental and energy management technology, she has implemented and managed a range of industrial, government and collaborative international R&D projects (more than 50 research and consulting projects) related to
environmental risk management, hazardous waste treatment, chemical safety management, waste and odour treatment, photocatalytic treatment, biofuel generation, life cycle assessment and green supply chain. She has served/ is serving as chairman/ member for a number of technical committees under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and Ministry of Trade and Industry covering issues of national and international
interests.
Dr. Christopher Drew
Department Manager
Sustainability Masdar
Dr Christopher Drew is the sustainability Manager for Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City Development. Masdar will be a mixed use city, home to approximately 50,000 residents and a destination for a further 50,000 commuters and visitors. It is the world’s first truly sustainable city – meeting all its energy demands from on-site renewable power generation, with no fossil fuel use (even by cars) within the city and complete waste diversion away from landfill. Beyond this it will be
carbon neutral following construction – through selection for material with low embodied energy, reduced energy cost of construction and offsetting.Prior to working at Masdar, Chris was the environment and
sustainability manager for the Abu Dhabi Airport Expansion
Programme, where he worked for two years on this landmark 7 billion dollar project. For the eight year prior to this Chris worked as environmental projects manager for the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, where he was responsible for carrying out baseline environmental surveys in the empty quarter desert of Abu Dhabi.
Christopher’s PhD thesis was entitled “Aspects of the ecology and management of the Desert hare Lepus capensis in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates” and he received his Doctorate from the University of Stirling, Scotland in 2005. Whilst he considers an ecological background (rather than an engineering or architectural background) unusual for a sustainability manager, Chris likes to think that understanding how animals – not just humans and desert hares – manage to survive within their own environments and how environmental pressures (such as global warming, pollution and habitat loss) can dramatically affect their survival, puts things very clearly into perspective and helps drive him toward developing and implementing sustainable solutions.
David Mosey
Head of Projects and
Construction
Trowers & Hamlins
David is head of the Projects and Construction group at law firm Trowers & Hamlins. He is described as a " partnering guru " (Chambers, 2005) and is author of the PPC International and SPC International standard partnering contract forms as well as their UK counterparts PPC2000 and SPC2000.
David has worked extensively in the Arabian Gulf since qualifying in 1980, including four years resident in the Kingdom of Bahrain and three years resident in the Sultanate of Oman. He currently advises on a range of major projects in the region, including the Bahrain Bay Development and the University Hospital Dubai project. He is advising several clients in the UAE on the use of PPC International to secure early contractor appointments and to achieve added value through the use of a partnering approach.
David is also a specialist in the field of asset management and sustainability in procurement, and is advising UK and international clients on the use of term partnering, multi party alliances, supply chain frameworks and joint ventures to secure whole life costing benefits and to support asset management strategies.
Dominique Bernard
SVP Industrial Ecology
Lafarge SA
Dominique Bernard is currently Head of Industrial Ecology in the Lafarge Cement Division. Industrial Ecology at
Lafarge hosts the Alternative Fuels and Alternative Raw Materials Program. Dominique Bernard leads this program throughout the Cement Division and covers all the related issues (regulation, strategy, marketing, techniques, EHS). He is also the
Sustainable Development coordinator for the Cement Division. Dominique Bernard is graduate in Chemical Engineering and has a
Master Degree in Organic Chemistry (Fatty Products). Previously he worked with SITA, the Waste Management Division of the Suez Group, as C.E.O. of Teris (Hazardous Wastes Activities) then Country Manager in Holland, while being the SITA Group Supervisor for Strategy and EQS. He founded Scori in 1979 and, as such, has been involved from the early beginning in the development of the recovery of waste products in cement kiln. Prior to Scori, he worked with SERI Renault Engineering where he performed many studies for the French Minister of
Environment, for Water Agencies and for the European Commission. He is also President of the French Association of Environmental Engineers (AFITE), President of the European Association for Co-Processing and Vice-President of the European Federation of Associations of
Environmental Professionals.
Giovanni Terranova
Senior Manager
FORTIS – Merchant Banking – Global Energy Group
Giovanni is a power engineer with MBA from Luiss
University in Rome (Italy). He has got several years of
experience in energy and telecommunications in Italy, UK and Greece. He has several years of experience in the energy industry with special focus on renewable energy. Currently he is working as senior Manager / Associate Director at the Global Energy Group In the Merchant Bank of Fortis where he has been involved in several project financing including solar, wind, waste to energy,
combined heat and power and conventional power for a cumulated capacity of over 3 GW. Prior to Fortis he worked for the Italian Agency for Energy and Environment and as financial advisor/consultant in KPMG UK and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has been invited as lecturer in a number of conferences and masters on renewable energy and
project finance.
Lina Chaaban
EnviroCare Manager
Tadweer Waste Treatment LLC
Ms. Lina Chaaban has been involved in the environment business since the early of 2000’s. She joined an
environment consult firm as an Environment Manager. She was appointed as Environment Com Marketing
Director to be in charge of handling the inquiries of clients as far as the environment auditing , carrying out all pre Audit process, promoting the consultants services in all environmental related issues in UAE. In 2005 Ms. Chaaban Joined Tadweer waste treatment LLC as EnviroCare Manager. Ms. Chaaban established the EnviroCare Department within Tadweer and some of the major responsibilities include handling the environmental requisitions within the plant & following up with the respective governmental sector for implementing environmental
standards at the plant, following up & monitoring health & safety
procedures, responsible for developing, implementing the company’s awareness recycling programs for corporate & public organizations related to waste management and undertaking the necessary
environment, waste management & recycling.
Dr. Michael Ohadi
Provost & Acting President
The Petroleum Institute
Dr. MICHAEL M. OHADI is a Professor of mechanical engineering and the Provost and Acting President at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi. Previously he served at the University of Maryland as a professor of mechanical engineering and co-director of Center for Environmental Energy Engineering. His filed of expertise is thermal and fluid systems with applications to design and analysis of advanced/smart energy systems. He has conducted many research projects for both industry and the government agencies in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He led two industrial consortia dealing with research and technology development and conducted research for more than 35 sponsors including international companies in U.S., Japan, Korea, Denmark, Finland, Taiwan, and France. In 2002 he was featured in Washington Post for his efforts involving technology transfer. He is a fellow member of both ASME and ASHRAE and has won numerous awards from both societies.
Mohanned Awad
Business Development Director
Corodex
Mr. Mohanned Awad drives both the Marketing and Sales functions within the group. Since 2003 Awad has been spearheading the group’s intelligence and research effort to assist with business development, product
development, formulation of yearly business plans, and review of
market position of both Corodex Industries and Corodex
Electromechanic, the companies within the group responsible for the product and service offering that includes Desalination Technology, Vacuum Sewerage, and Sewage Treatment Plants.In his five years with the Concorde-Corodex group, Awad has researched and compiled the market intelligence portfolio of all major projects in the field of water purification in the region, along with initiating the company’s
participation in key global exhibitions and conferences. Awad was
instrumental, along with his executive team, in developing a market brand that was attuned to the local market conditions yet able to
compete at a global level. This role was facilitated by Awad’s
educational background in the field of Chemical Engineering and his two bachelor degrees Chemical Engineering Science and Environmental Science from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Prior to
Concorde-Corodex, Awad spent more than a year at IBM Corporation and has a proven track record in marketing research and marke
planning. He developed, validated and coordinated market intelligence reports for the IBM middleware family of software products, which have been instrumental in product development and competitive analysis.
Prakash S. Parab
General Manager – Waste Management Services
Dulsco LLC
Mr Prakash is currently the General Manager –Waste Management services, for Dulsco, a company involved in waste management and transportation for last 14 years. Dulsco is one of the leading companies in the waste
management sector Dubai. He is a mechanical engineer by profession and has more than 21 years of experience in various industries at managerial level. He has worked at different levels in construction, transportation and logistics related businesses.
Robert Marshall
Principal Programme Manager
CH2M HILL
Robert Marshall has been the Programme Manager for the STEP since CH2M HILL was appointed as Programme Manager in February 2008. Prior to moving to Abu Dhabi, Robert spent 7 years in Singapore where he was the
Project Director for the CH2M Hill and Parsons Brinckerhoff joint
venture who provided programme management for the deep tunnels portion of the Singapore Deep Tunnel Sewerage System programme. Robert, a CH2M Hill employee, has over three decades of experience in the programme management, design and construction of hard and soft rock tunnels worldwide. He was formerly Head of Tunnelling at Brown and Root, UK. His past project involvements include the Singapore DTSS, UK Channel Tunnel, various Hong Kong tunnels and the Dinorwic Pumped Storage Scheme in the UK. Robert is a UK Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Tareq Emtairah
Research Engineer/Senior Consultant
International Institute for Industrial Environmental
Economics, Lund University
Tareq works as Research Engineer and Senior Consultant at the international institute for industrial environmental economics, a non-governmental think tank on
environmental management and policy. His training background
includes Materials Engineering from The States, Technology
management from Japan and Environmental management and policy from Sweden. Tareq is also active in the Middle East region working on
projects in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Dubai in the area of green
buildings, waste minimization in industry and corporate social
responsibility.
Ubaidallah S. Alghamdi
President
Arabian Fuels Technology Center
Mr. Alghamdi has been involved in petroleum products manufacturing, distribution, engineering, and technical support services for 32+ years. Before his early
retirement, he was employed by the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) where his various responsibilities included automotive and aviation fuels operations, technical management,
engineering and technical support services for supplying fuels to all automotive and aviation applications. He chaired the Petroluem
Products Specification Committee for several years. Mr. Alghamdi is active in many aviation fuels industry technical organisations including ASTM D02, the CRC Aviation Fuels Committe, IATA Aviation Fuels
Working Group, IASH-the International Association for Stability,
Handling and Use of Liquid Fuels, UK EI-Energy Institute, UK Aviation Fuels Committee, SAE, SCE – Saudi Council of Engineers, and other
industry activities related to automotive & aviation furls specification and quality assurance and control. He chaired the AACO (Arab Airlines Carriers Organisation) Aviation Fuels Technical Committee (2001-2005). He is the Founder & Chairman of the AFIG – Aviation Fuels International Group, which is responsible for the coordination and administration of the “Arabian Jet A-1 Plus” Specifications.
Eng. Waddah S. Ghanem
BEng (Hons), DipEM, DipSM, MSc (Dist), MBA
Group EHSQ Compliance Manager
Emirates National Oil Company Ltd.
Mr. Waddah is the Chief EHSQ Compliance Officer for ENOC group. He is a Environmental Engineer graduate from University of Wales, College Cardiff. He started his career as a consultant before moving into the Oil & Gas Industry. He joined ENOC Processing Company LLC, the first Oil Refinery in Dubai, during the Construction and Pre-commissioning phases. After
commissioning, Mr. Waddah was appointed the EHS Supervisor/Coordinator and was in charge of all Environmental Health and Safety functions. He has varied base of experience and working knowledge of environmental management systems pollution control; fire and safety compliance and design reviews; occupational health management
systems development and administration; EHS Management Systems Auditing; Job Safety Task Analysis; TQM and other HSE specificities. To date, he has presented more than 50 presentations and technical
papers at various local, regional and international conferences and
forums.
He chairs and is a member of various EHSQ based committees. In 2004, he was appointed to be in charge of Group Quality Compliance. Mr. Waddah is an executive committee member of the Emirates Safety Group, an advisor on the HCT Environmental Sciences Program
Committee and is also a member of the Petroleum and Lube
specification Committee for the Government of the UAE. He also
recently became a member of the Dubai CSR Committee. He has built a team of fully functional integrated EHS Compliance Department for the Emirates National Oil Company in only 6 years. Mr. Waddah recently completed an Executive MBA through Bradford University in the UK in which he specialized in organizational safety behavior.
Amyn S. Dahya, P.Eng.
Chief Executive Officer
UtilEco-ICP Group of Companies
Mr. Dahya is a Chief Executive Officer and Technical Specialist with a strong background in technology development, design, engineering, construction and plant operation in the waste management,
environmental protection and mineral processing industries,
internationally. Mr. Dahya has developed and commercialized a
number of advanced technologies for purification of drinking water, as well as, decontamination of wastewater and polluted soils. He also provides specialist consulting services to global industrial clientele on compliance with environmental regulatory standards.
Mr. Dahya has led the implementation of projects involving design, engineering, installation and operation of sewage treatment plants, agricultural waste treatment plants, golf course water recycling
systems, waste water treatment plants for decomposition of oils and hydrocarbons from ports, oil terminals and refineries; and treatment of landfill leachates from waste disposal sites. In addition, Mr. Dahya has also developed and implemented projects involving clean‐up of sewage contaminated rivers and oils spills in water and on land.
Mr. Dahya graduated in 1979, with a First Class Honours Degree (B.Sc.) in Chemical Engineering from Aston University in Birmingham, UK. He is also a fully licensed Professional Engineer with the Association of
Professional Engineers, Ontario, Canada. (since 1981).
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Dr. Mohammad Albeldawi
Head of Environmental Engineering Section
Ras Laffan Industrial City ( RLC ) - Qatar Petroleum
Dr. Albeldawi received his B.Sc. (Civil Engineering) from Mosul
University, Iraq in 1976, and M. Sc. (Environmental Engineering) from Baghdad University, Iraq in 1978. He received his Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering System) from McMaster University, Ontario Canada in 1993.
He has over 30 years of experience in teaching, research and providing environmental engineering and management services in oil and gas industries.
Dr. Albeldawi’s has the Canadian research, teaching and environmental services provider experience. He worked with the Water Technology International, Burlington, Ontario. One of his achievements during his employment developed the protocol criteria for the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) program (funded by the Ministry of
Environment-Ontario).
Dr. Mohammad Albeldawi worked for Qatargas Company at the
capacity of Senior Environmental Engineer for more than six years (August 1998 -December 2004). He is currently working at the capacity of Head of Environmental Engineer, managing the environmental
engineering department since he joined Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLC) on January 2005. His responsibility includes RLC waste management (solid wastes and liquid wastes), air quality and air emissions
inventories, environmental monitoring and reporting, ensuring EIA completion and liaison with the City’s stakeholder and Ministry of
Environment to secure environmental compliance and permit is achieved. He has over 15 years of intensive industrial experience in environmental related projects.
As part of his responsibilities Dr. Albeldawi is the team leader of RLC Greenhouse working group, the RLC focal point with both Qatar
Foundation (National Research Priorities) and Ministry of Environment (Qatar Environmental Initiative Award), HSE Department focal point for both port reception facility and hazardous waste management study projects. He is the EMS (ISO 14001) management representative. Dr. Albeldawi’s also leading the environmental compensation, monitoring and implementation program for RLC port expansion project.
Andrew Marris
CEO
dcarbon8 Ltd
A founding director of dcarbon8, Andrew has a successful academic background in civil engineering with degrees from the University of Bath and Imperial College, London. He has worked in the financial
markets in the City of London for nearly 20 years. From building a strong business in retail financial services consulting with Merchant Investors, Providence Capitol and Old Mutual, he worked as a
stockbroker with Prudential Bache and subsequently built a successful business at Sunrise Brokers, an
inter-dealer derivative trading boutique. He has a successful track record and extensive experience in all aspects of retail and institutional sales and broking with particular experience in the field of equity derivatives and other complex financial instruments.
Since the advent of the Kyoto Protocol and the emergence of carbon as a tradable commodity, he has been able to combine his strategic
business, technical and markets skills with his passion for the
environment and has been particularly responsible in the design and management of the carbon exchange and the award winning dcarbon8 Supply Chain Network. He has been invited to speak at numerous
conferences on the subject of carbon, both in the UK and abroad.
dcarbon8 is a multi award winning business and works globally with many of the world’s leading companies including Lend Lease, Land
Securities, ProLogis, Sainsbury’s, MASDAR, Haworth and Development Securities.
Dr. Eng. Sadek Almahdy
Advisor
Ministry of Water & Environment Yemen
Dr. Eng. Sadek Almahdy is a waste management advisor for the Water & Environment Ministry and Social Development Fund and Engineering Offices in Yemen. He is an advisor in the field of preparation, conducting and evaluation of environmental studies particularly in energy and waste management. Dr. Sadek lectures on environment and waste management at the Sana’a University. He is a member of the National Strategy for Waste Management in the team of the National Strategy of the clean foul in Yemen.
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