Board members

IChemE in Australia is controlled and managed by the board.

Rhys Tucker

Rhys Tucker

Immediate Past Chair

Rhys has over 20 years of worldwide experience in the development of projects leveraging knowledge gained across a range of industries including renewable hydrogen / syngas, mining, chemicals, and fertilisers.

Lucas Bullen

Lucas Bullen

Western Australia representative

Lucas is a Chartered senior process engineer (CEng MIChemE) experienced in the design, operation, commissioning and optimisation of processing facilities in the mining, chemicals and resources industry.

Ewan Stewart

Ewan Stewart

Chair

Ewan Stewart is a Process Engineer at Kent Plc, supporting a major refinery upgrade. He has extensive experience in process design across the oil and gas, petrochemical, and water sectors. Ewan emphasises safety in his work, advocates for storytelling in safety communication, and currently chairs the IChemE Australia board.

George Wild

George Wild

Victoria Representative

George graduated from Birmingham University in the UK with a BSc (Hons). Since graduation, he has worked in the UK, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, Nigeria, and South Korea.

Emma King

Emma King

South Australia Representative

Emma is a process engineer with broad experience in production supervision, project management and technical support.

Tomas Beak

Tomas Beak

New South Wales Representative

Tom works as consultant in WSP’s Infrastructure Investment Decisions team where he creates business cases and provides policy, implementation, and technical guidance that develop robust and sustainable infrastructure solutions.

Richard Brice

Richard Brice

Technical Policy Advisor

Richards role involves replying to government policy review requests. This work follows our streamlined process and involves capturing the best of our local and international skill sets to help advise government on policy.

Gaurang Joshi

Gaurang Joshi

Queensland Representative

A self-motivated leader with proven experience in engineering, operations, maintenance and project management for more than 19 years, in the Australia and Asia Pacific region, in petrochemicals, oil refining, oil and gas and infrastructure sectors.