Dirk Van Meirvenne, a Belgian national, serves as Head of the Advanced Industrial Intermediates business unit at Lanxess, a global specialty chemicals company in Cologne, Germany. Prior to this, he served in various senior management positions in R&D and technology at Bayer, in both Europe and Asia. Dirk has extensive manufacturing, operations, CAPEX project management and general management experience. He obtained a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Ghent, Belgium.
Peter Williams, a British national, serves as Group Technology Director and Head Of Investor Relations at global chemical company INEOS. Prior to this, he held various other senior R&D and technology leadership roles at INEOS, including being Chief Executive Officer of INEOS Technologies. Before joining INEOS, Peter worked for BP in the UK. He currently also serves as a non-executive director at hydrogen vehicle developer First Hydrogen and as non-executive director for V-Carbon. Peter Williams brings extensive experience of catalysis and technology licensing, as well as technology development and innovation in the chemicals and renewables industries. He obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the University of York, UK.
