Indian-American to head US Center for Chemical Process

Indian-American Shakeel Kadri has been appointed as executive director of the US Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), an organisation of chemical engineers.
Currently director, global process safety and risk management, for Air Products and Chemicals, Kadri will replace Scott Berger, who is retiring at the end of January 2015, announced CCPS of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) yesterday.
Founded in 1908, the AIChE is a non-profit organisation providing leadership to the chemical engineering profession representing 45,000 members in industry, academia, and government.
A graduate in chemical engineering from Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology of Gujarat University, Kadri this year was honored by his alma mater as the inaugural Pioneer Role Model of the University.

He earned his master's degree in chemical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, as well as an MBA at La Salle University.
Making the announcement, AIChE's executive director June Wispelwey said that Kadri's 36 years of experience at Air Products, provides "the hands-on experience and expertise that have made CCPS's series of guidelines and conferences the world standard in process safety knowledge."
"His broad engagement with the industry has raised the company's process safety leadership profile. He has developed a strong global process safety team, and has revitalised process safety performance measurement culture in the company," a media release said.

Kadri has been actively involved with CCPS activities, with a special focus on risk-based process safety and on developing a process safety culture within companies.