Board of Trustees

Raffaella Ocone

President

Raffaella graduated in Chemical Engineering from the Università di Napoli, Italy and obtained her MA and PhD from Princeton University, US. She has held the Chair of Chemical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, UK, since 1999.

Ollie Folayan

Deputy President

Ollie is head of process engineering at Costain Group, with over 20 years’ experience in the energy sector.

Mark Apsey

Immediate Past President

Mark is Senior Vice President for leading energy services company Ameresco in the UK. Mark has been actively involved in volunteering for IChemE since joining as an undergraduate.

Liz Hallifax

Treasurer

Liz is a Chartered Engineer with cross-industry and global governance and executive experience.

Joan Cordiner

Vice President - Learned Society

Joan moved to academia in 2020 from a 30+ year career in ICI, Astra Zeneca and Syngenta, latterly as a Technology Manager and Global Risk Manager for Manufacturing.

Alan Harper

Vice President (Qualifications)

Alan started in chemical engineering as Research Associate at Edinburgh moving to ICI as a process engineer, mainly on batch processes.

Andrea Hosey

Vice President - Member Engagement

Andrea has over thirty years' experience in process design and project delivery in the energy, chemicals and water market sectors throughout the UK, Australia and South East Asia (Thailand/Vietnam).

Paul McLaughlin

Ordinary Member

Paul has over twenty years of professional engineering experience. Much of this time has been spent working on high hazard chemical plants in Teesside, and in design and operations support to hydrogen and syngas plants around the world.

Tawana Muchatuta

Ordinary Regional Member – Rest of World seat

Tawana is pursuing an MBA at Imperial College London and an MSc in Renewable Energy at Loughborough University, where he earned his BEng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering.

Helen Ramsay

Ordinary Member

Helen has over twenty years of executive experience in engineering roles in steel manufacturing, water management and in senior leadership roles in the Life Sciences manufacturing sector.

Adriana Vargas-Colwill

Ordinary Member

Adriana is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with over ten years’ experience in the roles of process safety, process safety engineering and project management in the private and public sectors in the UK. She currently works as Senior Consultant for Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) where she is responsible for managing projects in the renewables sector.

Tom Whateley

Regional/Ordinary Member (UK seat)

Tom has worked across a broad range of industries including pharmaceutical, petrochemical, refining, and oil and gas production.