Brett Read

Brett Read is the creator of 4D Safety®, a leadership App that drives safety performance to create injury free operations. 4D Safety enables organizations to measure, monitor and develop safety leadership capabilities. Brett understands risk and human factors and what it takes to safely lead operations in high risk environments. His experience spans leadership roles in the Australian SAS, as a qualified senior sky-diving instructor responsible for running drop zone operations, and as a qualified wreck and deep diver, diving on wartime wrecks in the Pacific. Today Brett competes in various levels of Motorsport including tarmac rally and is also an accredited Motorsport Event Commander and Competition Manager. Prior to consulting Brett had 15 years’ experience in operations management working for multi-national Corporations and in the Australian Army where he served in the SAS Regiment as a Major. Brett’s experience has enabled him to develop a detailed understanding of the leadership practices required to create injury free operations in hazardous work environments.

Brett Read

Managing Director and Principal Consultant of Safety Leaders Group.

Wamiq Bokhari

Syed Wamiq Bokhari joined Pakistan Petroleum Limited as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer on March 16, 2015. He is director on the board of PPL’s wholly-owned subsidiaries PPL Asia E&P B.V. and PPL Europe E&P Limited. He is also member of the Board Finance, Human Resource and Enterprise Risk Committees. A seasoned oil and gas professional, Mr. Bokhari has over 31 years of experience, mainly with three international majors: Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation), Eni S.p.A. and Atlantic Richfield Company, USA.

Wamiq Bokhari

MD & CEO, Pakistan Petroleum Limited

Bilal Syed

Bilal is an accomplished and seasoned professional Leader with international experience in Europe/ EU, Middle East, SE Asia, and Australia. He has worked in the Oil &Gas Exploration, Energy, LNG Operations, Construction, Production & Terminal Facilities, Mining/ Mineral Resources, and the Chemicals sector. Has had over 30 years’ experience, both in HSE, technical and management positions. He recently managed the largest public sector waste management company in Pakistan. He headed the environment portfolio at the World Bank in Pakistan.

Bilal Syed

(MD), Lahore Waste Company

Jehangir Piracha

Jahangir Piracha is currently working as Chief Executive Officer of Engro Vopak Terminal Limited and Engro Elengy Terminal Limited. He was previously the Chief Executive Officer for Engro Powergen Qadirpur Limited. Prior to this he was Vice President – Manufacturing at Engro Polymer & Chemicals Ltd. He has previously worked as General Manager Human Resource & Corporate Services, also with the same company. His previous assignments with Engro were, as the Production Manager and HSE Manager at Engro Fertilizer Limited. Prior to joining Engro, he has worked for ICI Pakistan Ltd. Jahangir has 25 years of corporate experience in functions like Manufacturing, Human Resource and Procurement. He received his bachelors’ degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. He is a director on the board of EPQL.

Jehangir Piracha

Engro Powergen

Badar Alam

Accomplished senior leader with +25 years of progressive practical experience in multitude of functions, roles, and cultures— driving improvements in operations, capital projects, overall quality, and safety. Collaborative insightful leader, making vision come alive by developing strategy, engaging and empowering team members at all levels with the energy and creativity to realize defined goals. High achiever—blending rich professional expertise with confident leadership style and unmatched work ethic to consistently rank among DuPont’s top 5% echelon for performance.

Badar Alam

(Dupont) Benjemin Stevie Country Manager (GE)

Khalid Mansoor

Mr. Khalid Mansoor is a Graduate in Chemical Engineering with distinction and honors. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of Hubco, the first and largest Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Pakistan, since May 20, 2013. The Company generates approximately 10% of the Country’s electricity and is a leading private sector player in addressing the energy crisis currently being faced by Pakistan. Mr. Mansoor initiated the process of transformation of Hubco on becoming the CEO in May 2013. Major refurbishments have been carried out in Hub Plant, DuPont HRM and GE’s Predictive Enhancement and Performance Improvement (PEPI) has been initiated in all three plants of Hubco to enhance safety, reliability, availability and efficiency.

Khalid Mansoor

Chief Executive HUBCO

Faisal Akhtar

Heading Pakistan operations of largest Fortune 500 chemical company with substantial local manufacturing and sales set up. Over 23 years of experience working in multinational company environment. Managing high-profile executive role in a large multinational blue chip Company responsible for strategic Business Planning, decision making and overall management of the Company. Experience of devising and implementing Business Strategy with consistent record of delivering extraordinary results in growth revenue, operational performance and profitability.

Faisal Akhtar

Managing Director BASF Chemicals & Polymers Pakistan (Private) Ltd.

Shakeel Mapara

Mr. Shakeel Mapara is the Director Human Resources, Training & OD at sanofi-aventis Pakistan limited since the last 11 years. Prior to joining Sanofi he worked as Head of Human Resources, at American Express (Bank & Travel, Karachi). He started off his career as a Sales Officer in Engro Chemical in the Sales & Marketing Department before moving to Human Resources. He has a Master’s degree in Business Administration and has various certification on Leadership & Management Training from American Express and Sanofi. He has conducted various development programs such as on leadership, coaching & mentoring, building & transforming cultures for business growth and working around values & competencies. He is a visiting faculty at the IBA

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Shakeel Mapara

HR Head – Sanofi

Khawaja Muhammad Aniq

In July 2013, Prof. Dr. S. Sohail H. Naqvi joined LUMS as the fourth Vice Chancellor of the University. Prior to joining LUMS he has served as a consultant on higher education to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and served as the Executive Director of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for 8 years. At HEC, Dr. Naqvi was deeply involved from the first day with the transformation of the University Grants Commission of Pakistan to an autonomous ministerial level Higher Education Commission spearheading higher education reforms in Pakistan. He helped develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for the revival of the university education sector of Pakistan. He is a visionary team builder who leads from the front in achieving ambitious targets. With an internationally recognized successful track record of change management of the national system of higher education, he led the Higher Education Commission with an annual budget of Rs. 50 Billion and was responsible for all matter relating to higher education in Pakistan including, higher education policy, quality assurance, degree recognition, development of new institutions and uplifting of existing institutions as well as operational funding of public sector universities.

Khawaja Muhammad Aniq

Vice Chancellor (LUMS)

Farrukh Qureshi

Corporate HSE Manager, Engro Polymer & Chemicals Limited

Ahmad Rafay Alam

Ahmad Rafay Alam is a Pakistani environment lawyer and activist. After a decade of practice, ending as Senior Associate to Dr. Parvez Hassan (YLS 1963), in 2013 Rafay merged his experience in civil, corporate and constitutional law with his passion for public interest environment litigation and co-founded Saleem, Alam & Co., a law firm that specializes in energy, water, natural resources, and urban infrastructure. Rafay is a regular op-ed columnist on environment, local government and urban issues and has contributed to The News, The Express Tribune, and The Friday Times and has been published in Dawn, The Nation, The Daily Times, Tehlka, Vogue India and Libas International.

Ahmad Rafay Alam

Lawyer and Partner, Saleem & Alam Company

Rina Saeed Khan

Ms. Khan is an award winning environment journalist and communications consultant based in Islamabad. She writes extensively about climate change and won the Earth Journalism Award in Copenhagen in 2009 for her report on climate change impacts on Pakistan’s coastal areas. She is currently working as a consultant for WWF-Pakistan, UNDP-Pakistan and LEAD-Pakistan. She is also writing a bi monthly column on the environment for DAWN, Pakistan’s largest English daily, as well as contributing features to Reuters Alert Net.

Rina Saeed Khan

Environmental Journalist