Our Team

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Name: Farooq Ali Khan

Designation: Director

Specialty: Environmentalist

Experience: 20 Years

Qualification: M.S Environment, M.Sc Petroleum and HSE Engineering Diploma

Certification: NEBOSH- IGC, IOSH MS, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 9001:2015

Brief about work:

Experience in infrastructure (Roads, Pipeline and buildings), Non-Renewable Projects like Oil &Gas, Coal, Thermal, Renewable Projects (Wind, Solar and Hydro) in Pakistan and Middle-East. Having vast experience in due diligence process and further developing and managing Environmental and Social Management System, Policy making, Stakeholder Consultation, Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, Compliance in Legal & other requirements and Occupational Health and Safety Management System. He has expertise to develop, maintain and monitor the client E&S and OHS management system as per the applicable laws & standers and financer requirements.

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Name: Sarwar Bhatti

Designation: Environmental Technical Officer (ETO)

Specialty: Socio- Environmentalist

Experience: 11 Years

Qualification: B.E and PGD in Energy and Environment

Certification: NEBOSH- IGC, IOSH MS, OSHA, ISO 14001:2015

Brief about work:

Involve in Project assessment process and development, implementation and compliance of project related requirements / documents as per national/ local bodies Pak -EPA regulations and laws, local lenders and internal investment bodies and to follow the good international industrial practices. Having hand on experience in development, implementation and supervision of overall EHS Management system, Managing legislative issues, Internal and External Audits and conducting ESIA.  Experienced in renewable sector (Wind, Solar) and Non-Renewable Sector (Oil & Gas)

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Name: Tasneem Maqbool

Designation: Gender Expert

Specialty: Sociologist

Experience: 25 Years

Qualification: M.Sc Rural Development, MBA Marketing & Finance, 

Certification: Certificate from West Sussex (UK) on social work

Brief about work:

Expertise in social due diligence, Gender Impact Assessment associated to Project activities and developing Gender Management Plan to mitigate risk. The professional experience involve in conducting Social Surveys, Stakeholder Consultation, Public meetings, Focus Group Discussion and Social baseline. The implementation of CSR activities, Community Development Programs, GRM and Community Health and Safety management is the core value in the Profile. Her extensive experience covers Renewable Sector (Wind, Solar and Hydro Projects), Non Renewable Sector (Oil, Gas, Thermal and Coal Projects), Irrigation Projects and Community based Projects.  She  have been involved in preparing ESIA to manage social gender part.

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Name: Abdul Razzaq

Designation: Wildlife (Ornithologist)

Specialty: Wildlife Specialist

Experience: 33 Years

Qualification: B.Sc. Karachi University 

Certification: Wildlife “Camera Trapping Technique” by Pakistan National Museum in 2014

Brief about work:

The area of expertise involve in research and surveys of wildlife, water birds and wetlands. He has worked on various biodiversity and conservation projects for protected areas, coastal and inland wetlands as well as mangrove areas all over Pakistan. He is well acquainted with different wildlife survey methods including rapid biodiversity surveys, camera-trapping, line-transect censuses and habitat analysis. He has collaborated with several national and international organizations working on biodiversity conservation, particularly in protected areas (National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuaries and Game Reserves) and also participated in waterfowl census for birds in different seasons of Pakistan. He has also imparted training to different government departments on bird census techniques, bird identification, bird topography, optical aides, data recording/compilation organized by WWF. He has acquired vast experience working at seismic, construction and drilling sites with several Oil & Gas companies operating in Pakistan.

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Name: Sahir Odhano

Designation: Lead Ecologist

Specialty: Marine Biology

Experience: 05 Years

Qualification: Ph.D., University of Karachi 

Previous Work and Researches:

•  Lecturer, PakTurk Maarif International Colleges,

•  Lecturer, Department of Zoology, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology,

•  Research Associate, HEC Funded Project

Brief about work:

The area of expertise involve Biology, Zoology, Marine Biology, Computational evolutionary biology and ecology; bioinformatics; sequence alignment; phylogenetic; spatial analysis and statistics; landscape genetics; genomics; fiddler crab biology and evolution; meta-analysis; geometric morphometric

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Name: Altaf Hussain Narejo

Designation: Bird Expert

Specialty: Marine Biology, Wildlife and Fisheries, Biochemistry and Physiology

Experience: 07 Years

Qualification: M. Phil. Leading to Ph.D. (Marine Biology) 

Professional Workshops:

·         11th Training Workshop on Wetland Management-2013

·         12th Training Workshop on Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem of Pak-2013

·         Regional Training Program on “Environmental Assessment and Ecosystem Management”-2013,

·         1st Training Workshop on Zoo and Safari Park Management -2015

·         Biosafety Training workshop for Young Scientists

·         Training Workshop on “Research Tools and Techniques” SPSS & Research Methodology

·         Participated in Bioinformatics

Brief about work:

The area of expertise involve Bio resource Research on Bear Baiting, Field Information Collector, Zoologist/ Biologist, Avifauna Monitoring Expert and field data analysis. The skill enhancement involve in Biodiversity (Zoology and Botany), Taxonomy, Systematics & Phylogeny, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Effects Evaluation, Environmental Management, Field Surveys (Wildlife, Marine, Environment, & Plant Ecology), Ornithology (Bird Monitoring and census), Conservation and Management of Diversity, National Parks Heritages and Molecular Phylogeny.

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Name: Jahangir Qadir

Designation: Environmentalist

Specialty: Water and Wastewater Management Expert

Experience: 12 Years

Qualification: B.E Chemical Engineering

Certification:

·         IOSH (Managing Safely) UK certification

·         Global OSHA USA certification

·         HSE management certification from Skill Development Council Karachi

Brief about work:

Expert in wastewater treatment to meet all applicable regulatory and client requirement, develop and implements the techniques and methods of process control of treatment, effluent quality limit management as per SEQS permissible limit (BOD, COD, TSS, PH and Temperature). Meanwhile, having expertise to monitor the Project Site activities to ensure the environmental parameters are laying under permissible limits that includes, smoke emission, air and noise monitoring. Development of Environmental Impact Assessment to assess the impact on air, water and soil at Project site.

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Name: Kifayatullah

Designation: Environmentalist

Specialty: E&S Compliance Monitoring

Experience: 9 Years

Qualification: (B.E) Energy & Environment Engineer (PEC Reg. No: ENVIRO/277)

Certification: IOSH MS

Brief about work:

The area of expertise involve but not limited to;

·         Ensure compliances of IFC Performance Standards

·         Develop, maintain and record the social and environmental checklists

·         Ensure compliances of SEPA

·         Comply with the legal and other requirements

·         Prepare Health Safety & Environment Management Plans for construction sites.

·         Implement policies, procedures and programs that comply with National and international regulations.

·         Coordination with client, consultant and govt. organizations in respect to meet compliance requirements.

·         Close coordination with the project IMC to fulfill social requirements (i.e. Stakeholder meetings, Grievance redress, CSR) of the project.

·         To liaise with EPC HSE department and representatives in the implementation of company’s Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS);

·         To review and help EPC HSE department in development of CSR reports.

·         Take part in grievance investigation and reporting to the relevant authorities.

·         Maintain management information systems that identify the location of hazardous sites, chemical inventories, and complaint investigations.

·         Develop and recommend solutions to eliminate pollution and environmental hazards.

·         Design and implement effective employee training programs.

·         Collect and analyze test samples of food, soil, water, and air.

·         Arrange training programs for management and staff on safety in the workplace.

·         As a Community Mobilizer focus on gets things moving, bringing people together, building trust between stakeholders, encouraging participants, facilitating discussion and decision-making, assistance in community mobilization process;

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Name: Insaf Ali

Designation: Environmentalist

Specialty: Compliance Monitoring as per IFC PS

Experience: 8 Years

Qualification: Bachelor of Engineering (BE): Environmental Engineering – 2014 MUET

PEC. Reg No. ENVIRO/01069

  Certification: IOSH MS and HABC Fire Safety. NEBOSH-IGC (In Progress)

Brief about work:

The area of expertise involve but not limited to;

·         Ensure compliances of IFC Performance Standards

·         Develop, maintain and record the social and environmental checklists

·         Ensure compliances of SEPA

·         Comply with the legal and other requirements

·         Comply with the Wind Energy Guideline and Local E&S standards guideline applicable to the Project

·         Conduct Periodic Inspections and Internal Audits

·         Reviews documents of sub-contractors and advise to align with applicable standards

·         Oversee the HR compliance to meet the labour and working conditions as per IFC PS

·         Complies the requirement of ESMMP

·         Ensure compliances of ESAP queries applied to the Project

·         Involve in stakeholder consultations especially focused on the sensitive receptors impacted by the Project activities

·         Comply with the Workers and Community Grievance Redress Mechanism

·         Develop and comply with the CSR activities at Project

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Name: Sohail Raza

Designation: Environmentalist

Specialty: E&S Compliance Monitoring as per national and IFC Performance Standard

Experience: 5 Years

Qualification: MS Environmental Engineering, BE Environmental Engineering

Certification: Internship with IUCN

Brief about work:

The area of expertise involve but not limited to;

·         Meeting the action items of Environmental and Social Action Plan

·         Ensure compliances of IFC Performance Standards

·         Implementation other plans significant at Project like Waste management plan, Chemical handling and hazardous waste management plan, soil management plan, Grievance Redressal Mechanism, Stakeholder consultation plan, Water management Plan

·         Ensuring the implementation of the procedures and plans on site

·         Conducting stakeholder consultation meeting monthly and submitting report to the management

·         Ensure compliances of SEPA

·         Comply with the legal and other requirements

·         Comply with the Wind Energy Guideline and Local E&S standards guideline applicable to the Project

·         Conduct Periodic Inspections and Internal Audits

·         Reviews documents of sub-contractors and advise to align with applicable standards

·         Oversee the HR compliance to meet the labour and working conditions as per IFC PS

·         Complies the requirement of ESMMP

·         Participated in visits/audits to determine overall health of project social and environmental aspects

·         Comply with the Workers and Community Grievance Redress Mechanism

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Name: Yasir Ali

Designation: HSE Engineer

Specialty: Socio-Environmentalist

Experience: 07 Years

Qualification: B.E Energy and Environment 

Conferences and seminar attended:           

·         Solar Energy Installation & Commissioning of Solar Plates. Apolo Ampex Solar Energy Faisalabad.

·         Cost Reduction Through Energy Audits (September 28, 2010)

·         4th International Conference on Alternative Energy-2010

·         Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment (attended August 30,2012)

·         NVQ Occupational Safety & Health Qualifications & IOSH Membership Workshop (attended August 30,2012)

·         Training course on General Health Safety and Environment (dated: May 08-09,2017)

·         Energy & Environment, Role of Energy resources & Sustainability of Environment.

Brief about work:

·         Managing sustainable environmental impacts, social and work organizational hazard issues;

·         HSE practices at site and ensure safer operations;

·         Participate in the project team meetings and provide guidance in all social and environment activities and supervise all social activities at site;

·         To liaise with EPC HSE department and representatives in the implementation of company’s Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS);

·         To review and help EPC HSE department in development of CSR reports.

·         As a Community Mobilizer focus on gets things moving, bringing people together, building trust between stakeholders, encouraging participants, facilitating discussion and decision-making, assistance in community mobilization process;

·         Arrange meetings with internal stakeholders to discuss and resolve raised grievances/ needs of local communities;

·         Resolving grievances regarding availability of water, land issues and local/service road transportation etc. occurred with local community;

·         Take part in grievance investigation and reporting to the relevant authorities.

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Name: Mumtaz Ali

Designation: Community Liaison Officer

Specialty: Sociologist

Experience: 08 Years

Qualification: M.A Sociology 

Certification: Diploma in CIT form Orion Institute, MS Office from Ami Apex Institute of IT Education, Diploma in English Language from TAC The American Centr

Brief about work:

Performed worked as community liaison officer to participate in stakeholder consultation, assessing the community’s needs, involved in vulnerability assessment, social surveys, receptor mapping and to identify the direct and indirect impact of Project Activities on the communities. The expertise involve in the data matrix, analysis and assessment of PAPs and to propose the management actions to mitigate the potential impacts of Project activities.

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Name: Osama Zulqarnain

Designation: OHS Manager, Internal Auditor and Trainer

Specialty: Occupational Health Safety Specialist

Experience: 14 Years

Qualification: M.Sc Petroleum and B.Sc (Math)

Certification: Level-6 Diploma in OHS (Accepted by IOSH for GradIOSH membership), ISO 9001:2015, OSHA and IOSH MS

Brief about work:

Expertise in risk management, policy, program development and strategic planning. The extensive experience involve in internal/supplier audits, calibration, document control/records management, and training systems. Capabilities to develop policies and procedures to meet SLR/SLA for customers, regulators and other international certification bodies. The process involve improvements, regulatory initiatives and External audits (GDP, GWT, GWP, CSR, URSA, SMETA 4 pillar, TAPA, ISO series etc.

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Name: Adnan Ali Khan

Designation: Finance Controller

Specialty: HR and Finance

Experience: 10 Years

Qualification: B.Com, LLB from UK (In Progress)

Certification: CMA

Brief about work:

The area of expertise in HR Management and finance control. He is well verse in managing the financial flow, direct and indirect tax, liabilities, legal implications and human resource as per labour laws.