Dr. Vinay Mulgundmath is an Engineering Specialist within Saudi Aramco’s New Energies Engineering Division and a Strategic Planning Committee member at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Hydrogen Technologies and Carbon management. Prior to joining Aramco, Vinay held the role of Chief Technologist at the prestigious Oil & Gas Technology Centre (now NetZero Technology Centre) in Scotland, UK. He has been a Board member of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) and Scottish Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) chaired by Scotland’s First Minister. Vinay is a Non-Executive Advisor to Scottish Carbon capture and Storage (SCCS), Scotland’s Hydrogen Accelerator at University of St. Andrews. Vinay holds a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Canada and MSc degree in Process Engineering from France.