Keynote Speakers

Shakeel Kadri
Affiliation : Center for Chemical Process Safety
Title : Executive Director
Lecture : Leaders’ Role in Eliminating Process Safety Incidents

Shakeel is a world leader in process safety. He brings over 40 years of broad industry experience, with a strong focus on improving process safety. He has been with CCPS for 8 years and has been expanding CCPS globally and driving the CCPS Mission. He is broadly connected in the industry and works tirelessly to develop “Responsible Collaborations” with related organizations. Before this role, Shakeel spent 36 years at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. In his most recent role, as Director of Global Process Safety and Risk Management, Shakeel was instrumental in building their global process safety team, raised company’s process safety risk awareness and focus globally, revitalized process safety performance measurement culture and developed a strong industry engagement. He is very engaged with the industry and its stakeholder. Shakeel has actively served on process safety committees of the American Chemistry Council, the American Petroleum Institute, the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, the International Council of Chemicals Associations, the Compressed Gas Association, the European Industrial Gases and Association, and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Association

Shakeel has a BS and MS in chemical Engineering and an MBA in Finance.

He is an AIChE Fellow and a CCPS Fellow.