Ismaeel has more 20 years of experience in safety and occupational hygiene management, organisational culture, process safety, vocational training, training assessment, training quality and marine engineering.

He participated as a speaker, panel discussion moderator and conference steering committee member in more than 70 national and international conferences. His research interests include human and organisational performance, organising, culture studies, chronic unease, sensemaking and normalising of deviance.

Ismaeel is a marine engineer graduated from Southampton Solent University, holds a Master Degree in environment, health and safety from Sunderland University and a Doctorate Degree from Bradford Business School, University of Bradford.
Ismaeel is currently the Senior Health and Safety Manager at the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) and will assume a new position as Group VP HSSE at Bapco Energies at the end of 2025.