Albert Hahn is Senior Partner of EcoPlan and is one of the founders of the Chemicals Research Group, which he currently directs. Has authored or led some fifty major team studies of various aspects of the chemical and related industries, mostly techno-economic reviews and planning studies. Has acted as high level business consultant and advisor to many major chemical, pharmaceuticals, plastics and packaging firms. Has served as technical consultant with various branches of the United Nations, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, World Bank and public sector institutions across Europe, Latin America, the Far East and North America.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• 1986-present: Senior Partner, EcoPlan CRG
• 1970-1986: Senior Consultant BEICIP, French Petroleum Institute
• 1972: Founding Partner, Ecoplan CRG
• 1967-1970: Director and Vice-President, Adelatec (Consulting affiliate of Adela Investment Bank)
• 1968-1970: Professor of International Economics of the Chemical Industry, Oswaldo. Cruz University, Sao Paulo
• 1964-1967: Head of Corporate Planning, Rhodia S.A. (Rhone Poulenc)
• 1963-1964: Professor of Economics, Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro
• 1958-1964: Process Engineer; later, Head of South American office, The Lummus Co.

PUBLICATIONS

• The Petrochemical Industry, McGraw Hill, 1970 (650 pp)
• "Brazil: The 'Alcohol Plan', reviewed" in International Economics and Financial Markets (The AMEX Bank Review Prize Essays), Oxford, 1989
• Numerous technical articles in: Hydrocarbon Processing, Chemical Engineering and Economy Review, Chem Tech, L'Industrie du Petrole, etc.

LECTURES

• ECMRA 1974 (Geneva), 1976 (Lisbon), 1985 (Berlin), 1991 (London)
• CPhI (Milano, 1991)
• Brazilian Petroleum Institute (several)
• Lecture series on Petrochemical Marketing (Salvador, Brazil, 1974)
• EPCA (1973)

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• M.Sc. in Economics - M.I.T. 1958
• M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering - M.I.T. 1956

LANGUAGES

• Portuguese. English. French. Spanish. German. Italian.

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