Mr Chris Hamlin FREng

Chris is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and also of the IChemE. His first degrees are in chemical engineering from Cambridge. He has an MBA from Durham Business School where he fostered a research interest in the application of complexity theory to innovation and the behaviour of economic systems as a Visiting Fellow. Today he is the co-founder and lead advisor at HancockHamlin, working at the intersection of the fields of digital transformation, sustainability and non-linear complex systems. He is also the Capability Development Leader for Seeq Corporation, responsible for delivering strategic programs that underpin on-going, long-term expansion, and workstream leader on the C-THRU Project providing business landscape expertise to the consortium investigating carbon emissions from the global petrochemicals industry. Prior to this Chris worked for Emerson as the EMEA consulting business leader with global domain leadership for production optimisation and sustainability. The early part of his career comprised nearly 20 years in various roles in petrochemicals and plastics manufacturing, working for companies including ICI, Huntsman and Sabic.