GLOBAL HSE 2022 SPEAKER'S PROFILE
Shakeel H. Kadri
Executive Director & CEO, CCPS
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
As a world leader in process safety, Shakeel Kadri, Executive Director and CEO of the Chemical Process Safety Center [CCPS®], brings nearly 40 years of broad industry experience, with a strong focus on improving process safety. Shakeel came to CCPS in January 2015 as their Executive Director. CCPS is part of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers [AIChE]. In the last 7 years at CCPS, Shakeel has been expanding CCPS globally and driving the CCPS Mission to minimize significant process safety incidents globally. Before this role, Shakeel spent 36 years at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. In his most recent role there as Director of Global Process Safety and Risk Management, Shakeel was instrumental in improving company’s process safety risk awareness and management globally. Shakeel is a Fellow of AIChE and a Fellow of CCPS. He has a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering and an MBA in Finance.
Abstract:
As a leader of any company – whether you are a Board Director, CEO, business leader, operations leader, or functional leader – that handles or produces hazardous materials, you must continually evaluate and enhance process safety leadership across your organization; even if you believe your organization has already achieved excellence. My keynote topic – Process Safety Leadership Excellence from the Boardroom to the Frontline” – will touch on process safety leadership and specifically Leaders’ role in executing the process safety management system to achieve process safety excellence. The ultimate goal in achieving such excellence is to minimize or eliminate process safety incidents. The keynote will highlight on your role, as a leader, expand on process safety leadership and its attributes, take a deeper dive on a few key attributes and then discuss their needed alignment at all levels of leadership to answer a key question – to manage my process safety risk, what my leaders and I need to do to ensure that proper barriers are installed, these barriers are always working and they are maintained and being verified that they are working, to eliminate any loss of containment.