Dr Joseph Ishmael Khan has been appointed as the new chairman of the National Gas Company (NGC).
He will replace Conrad Enill who resigned as a director of the company in June.
Khan was appointed to NGC’s Board in February 2022.
Dr Lester Henry has also been appointed to the board.
Khan is an international project management practitioner with more than 20 years of consulting, facilitating and lecturing experience.
He commenced his career as a mechanical engineering technician and mechanical inspector with several industrial process plants in the Point Lisas Industrial Estate.
Khan presently leads and collaborates on development projects in T&T,, Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados, Belize, Bahamas, Grenada, Suriname and Germany, France and Spain for private and public sector organisations and international agencies such as the InterAmerican Development Bank Group (IDB), Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and Organisation of American States (OAS/CICAD), among others.
He is also intimately involved in the evaluation of renewable energy projects relating to geothermal, solar and wind energy sources in the Caribbean.
Khan is an adjunct faculty with the Project Management Department, Faculty of Engineering and Department of Creative and Festival Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of the West Indies, and the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business.
He holds a Doctoral Degree (DBA) in Management with the Australian School of Business, Adelaide, South Australia; a Master of Business Management degree and Post Graduate Diploma from the Henley Management College/University of Reading, UK; Certified Associate Welding Inspector (CAWI) with the American Welding Society; and the Mechanical Engineering Technician’s Diploma from the San Fernando Technical Institute.
Khan is also a Project Management Professional® (PMP®), Certified Project Consultant, Certified PROSCI Change Management Practitioner, and an active Certified Agile Scrum Master.
