Dr. Osman Aboul-Nasr is a Technical Director and Senior Fellow at the Chemical Technology Center of Fluor, working with clients in Russia, China, the Middle East and Europe. He has over forty years’ experience in academic and industrial research; and process and project development and management. His present interests include technology transfer; licensing; and process economics and technical evaluation of petrochemical projects. He has developed software for the economic evaluation of petrochemical complexes, technology selection, and life cycle cost. Osman has over 40 publications, including 12 in the process economics area, and nine patents in polymer processes. Before joining Fluor in 1995, Osman worked for Amoco and Nova, and taught at the Universities of Waterloo, and Western Ontario in Canada. He is a Silver Life Master Bridge Player.