GEISHA KOW­LESSAR-ALON­ZO

Dr Joseph Ish­mael Khan has been ap­point­ed as the new chair­man of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC).

He will re­place Con­rad Enill who re­signed as a di­rec­tor of the com­pa­ny in June.

Khan was ap­point­ed to NGC’s Board in Feb­ru­ary 2022.

Dr Lester Hen­ry has al­so been ap­point­ed to the board.

Khan is an in­ter­na­tion­al project man­age­ment prac­ti­tion­er with more than 20 years of con­sult­ing, fa­cil­i­tat­ing and lec­tur­ing ex­pe­ri­ence.

He com­menced his ca­reer as a me­chan­i­cal en­gi­neer­ing tech­ni­cian and me­chan­i­cal in­spec­tor with sev­er­al in­dus­tri­al process plants in the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

Khan present­ly leads and col­lab­o­rates on de­vel­op­ment projects in T&T,, Guyana, Ja­maica, Bar­ba­dos, Be­lize, Ba­hamas, Grena­da, Suri­name and Ger­many, France and Spain for pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tor or­gan­i­sa­tions and in­ter­na­tion­al agen­cies such as the In­ter­Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank Group (IDB), Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank (CDB) and Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS/CI­CAD), among oth­ers.

He is al­so in­ti­mate­ly in­volved in the eval­u­a­tion of re­new­able en­er­gy projects re­lat­ing to ge­ot­her­mal, so­lar and wind en­er­gy sources in the Caribbean.

Khan is an ad­junct fac­ul­ty with the Project Man­age­ment De­part­ment, Fac­ul­ty of En­gi­neer­ing and De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts, Fac­ul­ty of Hu­man­i­ties and Ed­u­ca­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, and the Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness.

He holds a Doc­tor­al De­gree (DBA) in Man­age­ment with the Aus­tralian School of Busi­ness, Ade­laide, South Aus­tralia; a Mas­ter of Busi­ness Man­age­ment de­gree and Post Grad­u­ate Diplo­ma from the Hen­ley Man­age­ment Col­lege/Uni­ver­si­ty of Read­ing, UK; Cer­ti­fied As­so­ciate Weld­ing In­spec­tor (CAWI) with the Amer­i­can Weld­ing So­ci­ety; and the Me­chan­i­cal En­gi­neer­ing Tech­ni­cian’s Diplo­ma from the San Fer­nan­do Tech­ni­cal In­sti­tute.

Khan is al­so a Project Man­age­ment Pro­fes­sion­al® (PMP®), Cer­ti­fied Project Con­sul­tant, Cer­ti­fied PROSCI Change Man­age­ment Prac­ti­tion­er, and an ac­tive Cer­ti­fied Ag­ile Scrum Mas­ter.