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Dr. Majeed Bin Mohsen Al Alawi, Minister of Labour, Kingdom
of Bahrain has a PhD in International Relations/UK. He is a
member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also
author of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Crises of Politics and
Legitimacy 1986 and The Military History of the Middle East 1940
- 2000 - 2001. Dr. Al Alawi was a free lance writer in a number
of daily newspapers: “Al Sharq Al Awsat” - London, “Al Hayat” –
London, “Al Ayam” – Bahrain, “Al Khaleej” – UAE and others.
Dr. Al Alawi worked previously in: Bapco, Batelco, Ministry of Labour
and Social Affairs, and Ministry of Electricity and Water. He held the
position of Assistant General-Secretary for the Bahrain Centre for
Studies and Researches, 2001-2002 and Minister of Labor and Social
Affairs Nov. 2002 – Jan. 2005. He is the Chairman of the Supreme
Council for Vocational Training and Chairman of the Labor Market
Regulatory Authority.
Mr. Homood Abdullah Al-Tuwaijri, Executive Vice President, Corporate Control
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)
In his current capacity as Executive Vice President of Corporate
Control, Mr. Al-Tuwaijri is responsible for SABIC Global Governance
and Compliance functions of Internal Audit, Environmental, Health,
Safety & Security, Legal and Enterprise Risk Management. Before
his present assignment, Mr. Al-Tuwaijri was Vice-President of
Petrochemicals Coordination; and prior to that he was
Vice-President of Corporate Finance.
Mr. Al-Tuwaijri graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology
with a master’s in industrial engineering in 1983.
Nina Wrightson is Chairman of the Trustees of the British Safety
Council. Nina has undertaken a wide range of roles and
responsibilities in Health, Safety and Risk Management over the
course of her career including as a Regulator, Senior Manager in the
private sector and Director of a major UK plc employing 23,000 staff.
Previously Nina served as President of the Institution of Occupational
Safety and Health (IOSH) and Chair of the Royal Society for Prevention
of Accidents (ROSPA) National Health and Safety Committee.
Nina currently serves as a Non-Executive Director with the NHS
Litigation Authority and the Yorkshire Ambulance NHS Trust.
Nina was awarded the OBE in 2005 for services to health and safety.
Mohammad G. Al-Zahrani earned his Bachelors degree in
Petroleum Engineering at the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette In 1985. In 1997 he became Operation Superintendent
in the Ras Tanura Producing Department. Between 2000 and 2005
he held a number of managerial positions in the Northern Area Oil
Operations. In May 2006 he was appointed President and CEO of
Saudi Aramco subsidiary Aramco Gulf Operations Co (AGOC) in
Khafji. Mr. Al-Zahrani was named general manager of Drilling in
September 2008 and more recently in May 2009 he was appointed
as Executive Director, Safety & Industrial Security.
Chris Patton , CSP is the current American Society of Safety
Engineers President. He is a Principal Safety, Health and
Environmental Engineer for Covidien in St. Louis, Missouri.
He provides corporate SH&E oversight and support for their
Pharmaceutical and Respiratory divisions, including 16 manufacturing
plants, 3 R&D Facilities, and 37 Nuclear Pharmacies. Patton has
held SH&E positions in manufacturing, utilities, environmental
remediation, and environmental regulatory agencies. He has been
in the SH&E field for over sixteen years. Chris holds the Certified
Safety Professional designation. Patton was twice awarded the Water
Environment Federation Safety Award. He was honored with the
Safety Professional of the Year award by his local ASSE chapter in
2004 and received the Charles V. Culbertson Award for outstanding
volunteer service to ASSE in 2007.
Dr. Leonard Yong (PhD; MEd; B.Sc; DAPA) is Senior Euromatech
Consultant. He taught for more than 20 years in the University
of Malaya before retiring as Professor in the Dept of Educational
Psychology & Counselling. Professor Yong has extensive cross-cultural
experience in consulting and research for agencies and companies
in the Middle East, Japan, Australia, and the Asian region. His clients
include Petronas, Maybank, Intel, Motorola, Malaysian Ministry
of Health, Malaysian Ministry of Women, Family & Community
Development, Saudi Arabia Government, Thai Reuters, Kuwait
Petroleum Company and Oman PDO. Professor Yong has gained
international recognition for his work on the creativity of Malaysians.
He was awarded the 1992 Fulbright-ACLS/MACEE Award to
undertake research on the creativity of Americans.
Mr. Bill Sims attended The University of South Carolina. He is the
President of the Bill Sims Company, Inc. For more than 40
years the Bill Sims Company has created behavior-based recognition
programs that have helped large and small companies to inspire
better, safer performance from their employees and increase profits.
More than 1,000 firms have benefitted from consulting with Mr.
Sims and he is currently writing a book based on these experiences.
He receives requests globally to speak on the subject of human
behavior change, garnering extremely high ratings as a keynote
speaker in the U.S., Canada, Australia, South Africa, Greece, Bahrain
and Saudi Arabia. In the past 12 months he has spoken at the Saudi
Council of Engineers in Saudi Arabia, IOSH in Scotland, ASSE, RMA
Rubber Manufacturing Association, and The WA Safety Conference
in Canada.
Dr. Mike Williamsen is a nationally recognized workplace safety
consultant with more than 25 years of safety and business
change management experience. His background includes serving
in Engineering, Operations, and Safety Manager positions for
companies such as Frito-Lay, Inc. and General Dynamics. In 1985,
Mike teamed with safety author Dr. Dan Petersen for three years
to develop and implement a nationwide safety accountability and
continuous improvement system that helped companies reduce
injuries at a rate of 80% within two years. Since that time Mike has
applied these and other high-impact safety approaches with similar
success to other Fortune 500 companies, such as General Dynamics,
Baxter Healthcare, Morton Salt, Rohm and Haas Co., and Smurfit
Stone Container Corporation.
David Moore is the President and CEO of the AcuTech
Consulting Group, a process safety and security
consulting firm based in Alexandria, VA. Mr. Moore was the
lead author of the AIChE CCPS® “Guidelines for Managing
and Analyzing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical
Sites,” the security guidelines for the American Petroleum
Institute (API), and the API/National Petrochemical and
Refiners Association Security Vulnerability Assessment
Methodology. He serves in various capacities to advise the
DHS on chemical security management and vulnerability
assessment, including new DHS Chemical Facility
Anti-Terrorism Standards.
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