Keynote Speakers

Dr Mohammed Bashir is a Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Engineering at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Universiti, Kampar Perak, Malaysia. He will speak on ‘Emerging Pollutants in the Water Sources: Classification and Potential Risks’. According to Dr Bashir, the existence of contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, aromatic compounds, dyestuff, salts, and heavy metal ions in water streams poses a global environmental challenge. Most of them are highly harmful and mainly life-threatening for living organisms. Yet, conventional water treatment plants are not ready to deal with numerous ECs. Thus, there is a need to understand the critical health effect of emerging contaminants, sources, and potential treatments.

Dr. Babak Bahrani is a Fire Engineer in Arup based in San Francisco, California. He is specializing in performance-based design, wildfires, thermal response of materials, and fire modeling. His work ranges from a material response to elevated temperatures to building statistical models for wildfire spread mechanisms. Dr. Bahrani has over 5 years of experience applying fire models in support of scientific research and fire protection engineering design. 

Dr. Bahrani is an active member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, participating in various technical and non-technical committees such as Standard-Making Committee on Performance-Based Design, Fire Model Selection Task Group, and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Working Group Initiative. He has taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and North Carolina A&T State University.

Dr. Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan is a Chartered Manager and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute as well as a Fellow, Higher Education Academy, both in the United Kingdom. He was Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the University Teaching and Learning Center, MBA Coordinator, and Deputy Director of the Executive Development Center, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), where he also taught Communication courses, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, and Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness. Prior to his stint at UUM, he taught at West Visayas State University, Iloilo City, Philippines. Currently, he is the Head of the Department of Business Administration, College of Economics and Business Administration, University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Ibri, Oman.

Dr. Segumpan was a Delegate to the 2018 Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (Business and World Economy track) at Harvard University, USA, and was one of the Workshop Directors during the 2019 and 2022 Gulf Research Meeting at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Dr Tarek is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Petroleum & Chemical Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University. Muscat, Oman. He holds more than 27 years of experience in oil & gas field development planning, production forecasting, performance review, reservoir management and EOR studies and simulation. He is a specialist in oil and gas reservoir development planning, simulation, forecasting, monitoring, reserves estimation, and field problem mitigation issues. He is an expert in analysing and reviewing the performance of major fields for arresting the production decline and improving the recovery. He has advised and reviewed the Reservoir Management Plans for many oil and gas fields in domestic and international basins. He has also provided reservoir-engineering advice to the new field acquisition and prospect evaluation group. He possesses Professional skills and Extensive experience of more than 3 years in training centres and Visiting Lecturer at University.