Bio

Vis Viswanathan brings over 35 years of oil and gas, coal, and chemical industry experience with leading companies such as ConocoPhillips, Akzo-Nobel, Nexant, and Lummus in roles spanning corporate strategy, technology assessments, innovation and R&D, and process economics and modeling. He is renowned for his deep expertise and broad experience in shale gas and unconventional resources, natural gas processing and monetization, coal gasification and utilization, biofuels and bioenergy, chemicals, and materials. Viswanathan holds two degrees in chemical engineering — a PhD from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai — and has published and patented extensively and has presented at a number of leading industry conferences.