Mr. Asif Iqbal is a well-experienced ‘Health Safety & Environment (HSE)’ professional and Corporate Trainer with more than 16 years of successful career length in the field of project, manufacturing and process industry that includes cement, pharmaceuticals, power generation & distribution and oil & gas industry. Currently he is holding the position of Country Head of EHS at Germany based global power generation & engineering company Siemens Bangladesh. Previously he also worked for some other world reputed top global/multinational companies in Bangladesh like US based oil & gas company Chevron Bangladesh, Switzerland based pharmaceutical company Novartis Bangladesh and Mexico based cement company CEMEX Bangladesh in the field of Engineering, Operations and HSE. During his long professional career, Mr. Asif availed the opportunity of getting extensive local and overseas professional training in several countries including USA, Germany, Austria, China, Singapore, Thailand, India, Malaysia, UAE etc. which enabled him to enhance his knowledge & expertise in his field as well as to largely contribute in promoting the overall corporate & industrial HSE culture and management system up to world-class standard in all those multinational companies he has worked for. He also played a key role as a member of audit team in several prestigious corporate HSE compliance audits in cement, pharmaceuticals and oil & gas industries at home and abroad.
Apart from his profession, being an efficient Training Consultant, Mr. Asif has been regularly facilitating training and awareness sessions on different HSE / Safety related topics at various renowned local and multinational organizations and reputed Training institutes in Bangladesh with a very well reputation for last several years.
After graduating as a Mechanical Engineer from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Mr. Asif Iqbal obtained his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from North South University, Dhaka. Later with a goal to accelerate his career growth in HSE, he also achieved some internationally recognized prestigious certifications like NEBOSH IGC (UK), OSHA General Industry (USA), IOSH Managing Safely (UK), Certified HSE Incident Investigator (Singapore) etc. He is also a certified Lead Auditor on ISO 45001:2018 (Occupational Health & Safety Management System) and ISO 14001:2015 (Environment Management System).