ICIS Training:
Petrochemicals - Part I & II
Brussels Schedule
9th - 10th September 2008, Brussels
Petrochemicals - Part I & II
Brussels Schedule
9th - 10th September 2008, Brussels
Peter Taffe
Insight Editor
Insight Editor
ICIS News
Peter Taffe has 30 years of experience in technical and business publishing as well as industrial public relations. He is a chemical engineering graduate from the University of Leeds in Britain. He has worked as a journalist and an editor for Process Engineering, Chemical Age, Processing, Asian Chemical News and European Chemical News with his last position as Deputy Editor for ECN.
Peter Taffe has 30 years of experience in technical and business publishing as well as industrial public relations. He is a chemical engineering graduate from the University of Leeds in Britain. He has worked as a journalist and an editor for Process Engineering, Chemical Age, Processing, Asian Chemical News and European Chemical News with his last position as Deputy Editor for ECN.
Peter’s present position is Intelligence Editor for ICIS, a 24-hour news and information service delivered via the internet to the chemical industry. He is in charge of the database operations of ICIS including the Chemical and Company Intelligence reports. He is also responsible for third party content contained and offered by ICIS.
Nigel Davis
Insight Editor
ICIS
Nigel is Insight editor with ICIS news the 24-hour online chemicals news service and comments on a daily basis on the industry, on individual company strategies and the financial performance of the chemical majors. He is chemist by training, and has written about the chemical industry in many publications since 1979, including news and company magazines, encyclopaedias and specialist reports. For 13 years he wrote and edited Chemical Insight. Nigel talks regularly at industry conferences and other events and presents industry topics to the financial community. He helps European blue chip companies with their chemicals and petrochemicals training.
Nigel Davis
Insight Editor
ICIS
Nigel is Insight editor with ICIS news the 24-hour online chemicals news service and comments on a daily basis on the industry, on individual company strategies and the financial performance of the chemical majors. He is chemist by training, and has written about the chemical industry in many publications since 1979, including news and company magazines, encyclopaedias and specialist reports. For 13 years he wrote and edited Chemical Insight. Nigel talks regularly at industry conferences and other events and presents industry topics to the financial community. He helps European blue chip companies with their chemicals and petrochemicals training.
Nigel is a long-standing Council member of the European Chemical Marketing and Strategy Association (ECMSA) and was for four years until November 2002 ECMSA president. Currently, he is the association’s treasurer. As president, Nigel helped ECMSA establish and develop its far-reaching Scenarios 2010 project. Scenarios 2010 has looked into the future for the chemicals industry generally and latterly focused on scenarios building for petrochemicals, specialties and R&D.
Nigel sat on the Markets Group of the UK Chemicals Innovation and Growth Team (CIGT) in 2002 and on the on the Futures Group of the UK Chemistry Leadership Council. The CIGT was set up by the British government in December 2001 to provide a ‘road map’ for the sector. The Chemistry Leadership Council has most recently published a vision for the sustainable production and use of chemicals.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and through the RSA takes a general interest in industry and business matters.
Barbara Ortner
Head of Price Reporting Quality
ICIS Pricing
Barbara Ortner is Head of Price Reporting Quality at ICIS pricing, the market-leading on-line price reporting service for the petrochemical industry. She is responsible for ensuring ICIS's global price reporting consistently hits the highest quality benchmarks. She works on the development of the company's reporting methodology, and handles direct communication with the market on price reporting standards.
She was previously Managing Editor of the ICIS pricing London editorial team, and has reported on fertilizers, olefins, glycols, solvents and most recently aromatics in the European markets, and various chemicals in the Asian markets. As a Markets Editor she kept in weekly contact with key producers, consumers and traders in the European aromatics markets, writing daily and weekly pricing reports as well as news for the online ICIS news service. She travels in Europe and attends major conferences, and has given papers at industry courses and seminars. She has managed editorial teams in London and Singapore, and has organised major industry conferences in Europe, Asia and the US, including this year's 6th European Aromatics and Derivatives Conference. In September 2007 she launched the ICIS Chemicals Confidential blog.
Barbara has a degree in English and German from Kent and Vienna Universities. She previously worked in market analysis at British Plastics and British Sulphur Corporation, researching fast market information on global fertilizer markets.
Barbara is married with 2 teenage children, living in London.
Alastair Hensman
Marketing Manager - ChemSystems
ChemSystems Online
Alastair Hensman has 16 years experience in the chemical industry, working in both industry and consulting sectors. Alastair is currently responsible for managing the marketing and sales of Nexant’s ChemSystems programs, which provide data, training, analysis and forecasts for the global petrochemical industry. He has been with Nexant (previously ChemSystems) for ten years and has worked on a wide variety of engagements as well as supporting the development of the ChemSystems programs.
Alastair Hensman
Marketing Manager - ChemSystems
ChemSystems Online
Alastair Hensman has 16 years experience in the chemical industry, working in both industry and consulting sectors. Alastair is currently responsible for managing the marketing and sales of Nexant’s ChemSystems programs, which provide data, training, analysis and forecasts for the global petrochemical industry. He has been with Nexant (previously ChemSystems) for ten years and has worked on a wide variety of engagements as well as supporting the development of the ChemSystems programs.
Prior to working for Nexant he worked for BOC, designing and commissioning Air Separation Units as well as carrying out research at their Group Technical Center in New Jersey. He has experience working for ICI and Davy McKee during placements while studying for a degree in chemical engineering from Cambridge University.
