• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Chris Hamlin

Emerson

Director Operational Certainty Consulting

Chris Hamlin is director for operational certainty consulting at Emerson Automation Solutions. He is responsible for all consulting business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and has a global responsibility for production optimization. Hamlin joined Emerson in 2008, initially as a chemical industry business consultant. Prior to joining Emerson he spent nearly 20 years in various roles in the petrochemicals industry, mainly in the UK. He is a chemical engineer by training, and initially started work as a site control engineer for ICI Petrochemicals. He spent two years seconded to the UK government in London, where he was responsible for the policy and funding of engineering and science research in academia. He then returned to ICI as a business planner, which developed into a role in business strategy. Hamlin returned to automation as the manager of process control and manufacturing systems engineering for Huntsman Corporation, which acquired ICI. Hamlin holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Cambridge University and an MBA from Durham Business School. At Durham, he was a Visiting Fellow researching the application of complexity theory to innovation and the behavior of economic systems.

Sessions With Chris Hamlin

Monday, 11 March

Tuesday, 12 March

Wednesday, 13 March