Hold BSc. in Chemistry, MSc. and PhD in Environment and Sustainable Development. I worked in the Supreme Council for Environment for over 16 years, Head of the Waste Recycling and Treatment Unit, responsible for industrial, healthcare, chemicals, and hazardous waste management in Bahrain. Also, the project technical manager
for the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM). An active organizer, speaker and participant in many workshops, seminars, and short courses in environmental management organized by the University of Bahrain, UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO, and other regional and local organizations in Bahrain. A registered trainer in the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH – UK) and the National Examination Board in Occupation Safety and Health (nebosh – UK) and a registered trainer and tutor in the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA). Member of the national reports:
Bahrain Environmental Strategy, State of Environment Report (SOE), and a team leader for updating (2nd edition) Bahrain National Profile to Assess the National Infrastructure for Chemical Safety. Further, contributing author in the Six Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6), and a review team member of (The Role of Business in Moving from Linear to Circular Economies) and (The Role of Business in Transforming Food Systems) and (The Synthesis Report (SYR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) synthesises the state of scientific knowledge related to the changing climate and its observed impacts, future risks and options for mitigation, adaptation and risk management). Member of UNIDO Global Forum of Best Available Technology and Best Environmental Practice (BAT/BEP). Holds three diploma certificates in the environment from the United Nations Environmental Law and Conventions Portal (InforMEA).
Eur.Ing. Namir George MSc. CEng. MIChemE, CFIOSH
Namir George is a registered European Engineer and was educated at Aston University in Birmingham UK. He graduated with a BSc. in Chemical Engineering in 1979 and an MSc in Occupational Health and Safety in 1981. He is currently employed as an Area Manager for the International Safety Council, a global subsidiary of the National Safety Council, USA.
He has 25 years’ experience in the field of Safety and Loss prevention gained in various industry sectors. He worked at various positions for blue chip organizations such GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft Food International Honeywell and Dailycer. In addition he worked for several safety consultancies and undertook several projects including chemical, petrochemical, food and drink, automotive, utilities, as well as pharmaceuticals such as Shell, Total oil Marine, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Masterfoods, EON, VDO, Florette, etc.
He is a Chartered Chemical Engineer, Chartered Fellow of the Institution of Occupational Safety, member of American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and an affiliate member of Institution of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). In addition he is a member of the Birmingham Health, Safety and Environmental Association (BHSEA).
Dr. Alaa Zidan is full time safety trainer & consultant at Al Mashreq Training. Alaa has 31 years of experience in emergency care, trauma care and orthopedics and more than 10 years of teaching experience as a senior lecturer in medical college. His master’s degree is in degree in orthopedics and trauma, he had his fellowship in trauma and fracture treatment from the Association of the study of internal fixation of fractures from the university hospital Freiburg, Germany.
Alaa is an Advanced and Basic Cardiac Life Support (ACLS & BLS) instructor. He taught many of ACLS and BLS courses with the American Heart Association as well as advanced first aid courses. He is providing train the trainers for emergency care on behalf of the NSC and he recently became a certified Principles of Occupational Safety And Health (POSH) and Safety Management Techniques (SMT) instructor.
Dr. Scott, a retired military officer has over 30 years-experience in the engineering, environmental, biomedical, industrial hygiene and occupational safety and health fields. Dr. Scott has managed consulting projects in many different countries around the world and is a Registered Professional Engineer, ISO 14001 Lead Auditor,
ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001 Internal Auditor, Certified Safety Professional, Certified Industrial Hygienist
Dr. Scott has worked with the National Safety Council (USA), US Army, The Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency, The Center for Intelligence and Smith Klein Medical Laboratories. He currently serves as the President and CEO of Global EHSS Leadership Solutions. Dr. Scott has been appointed by the US Secretary of Labor to serve on the NACOSH Committee with his term ending in 2018.
Dr Zsuzsanna Gyenes is very experienced with process hazards in a variety of industries and countries; she has a real-world experience and insights to share, particularly from the viewpoint of different industries. Her experience from the regulator side as former inspector of high hazardous industries and from working in different regions of the globe guarantees a very deep and wide knowledge of the topic.
Her more than ten years’ of experience as a process industry trainer in hazard identification, process safety fundamentals and process safety management systems makes her a very good speaker, who has relevant exceptional experience in speaking at major international conferences and facilitating technical workshops and professional trainings.
She is the founder and director of the Global Industrial Safety Solutions Ltd which offers a variety of training programmes around hazard studies and lessons learned from past incidents.
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.