The World Affairs Council of Austin and the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance at St. Edward’s University host a series of Forums on Global Investment, Finance, Emerging Markets and Geopolitical Risk. Our next Forum on global challenges in carbon footprint will be moderated by John Bretz and will feature Dr. Dhabia M. Al-Mohannadi.
To mitigate the risks of global climate change, the world has undertaken an unprecedented effort to transition its energy supply towards low carbon energy sources. This journey requires an effective energy transformation that accounts for sustainable economic growth, affordability, accessibility, and security. When coupled with the need to reduce emissions, the challenges ahead of energy transition are immense. This talk will look into sustainable energy transition for hydrocarbon including the role of renewable energy and carbon capture utilization and storage technology.
Dr. Al-Mohannadi’s work focuses on the systematic design of sustainable industrial parks under carbon dioxide limits, resource management, and climate policies evaluation. Her work deals with multidisciplinary problems that involves different decision-making processes, engineering and economics. Her research leads to developing analytical tools that can assess flexibility, robustness, reliability of process systems at the design and operational level.
Research Interests
Process system engineering
Process integration, modeling and optimization
Sustainable design and operation of eco-industrial parks
Carbon dioxide mitigation and natural resource management
Inter-disciplinary approaches to decision-making and problem solving
Strategic planning and techno-economic modeling
Experience
- 2018-Current — Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Texas A&M University at Qatar
- June 2018 — Visiting graduate student at Imperial College of London
- 2015-2018 — Visiting Scholar at Texas A&M University at Qatar
- 2013-2018 — Graduate Fellow, Qatar Research Leadership program (QRLP), Qatar Foundation
About the Moderator: John is the former Country Manager for Anadarko Mozambique Lda, and led in-country operations and administration in Maputo, Mozambique for development of Mozambique’s first onshore greenfield US $20B+ world scale Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) development. He previously served as Vice President Anadarko Energy Services Company leading the crude, natural gas liquids and natural gas marketing and operations teams. In addition, he served as various VPs for commodity marketing activities for Anadarko and was involved in operations for Anadarko midstream activities and ownership development.
John has also held numerous managerial, operations and engineering roles and responsibilities for Duke Energy, Union Pacific Resources, Chevron and others. John has a MBA and Chemical Engineering degree both from Tulane University and is on the Advisory Board of the Austin Texas World Affairs council, the Board of the Tulane University Business School Energy Institute, member of Society of Petroleum Engineers and former Chairman of the Board of the World Affairs Council of Houston Texas.
The Kozmetsky Forums will be held on Zoom during the fall of 2021.
