Lindsay Leveen
Biography
Lindsay Leveen was born in Johannesburg South Africa in 1952. He received his college education in his hometown at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he read for a Bachelors of Chemical Engineering, and a Masters in Business Administration. In 1975 he was awarded a fellowship by the Monsanto Corporation to undertake further study in the USA, and gained his Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University of Science and Technology. His graduate work in thermodynamics was in the field of vapor - liquid equilibrium.
In 1977 he commenced working in industry at Air Products and Chemicals where he was involved in the design, construction, and operation of industrial gas producing facilities in the areas of liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, oxygen, and nitrogen. After six years with this company, he joined L’Air Liquide, and was responsible for developing large onsite supply systems for industrial gas plants. His last position with this company was as the Vice President of Planning in their Paris France headquarters.
In 1988 he changed careers, and
became involved in designing, and constructing fabrication facilities for
semiconductors, and other microelectronic devices. He was selected as the lead expert witness by AIG, and Lloyds
of London to represent them, and their reinsurers in the contribution, and
subrogation cases regarding the insurance claim for the half a billion US dollar
fire loss of the UMC fab in Taiwan.
Mr. Leveen has consulted to
major corporations in areas of energy deregulation, fuel cells,
telecommunication, alternate fuels, thin film deposition, power generation,
transmission and distribution, as well as a variety of other process based
technologies. He was manager of
sustainable development for Bechtel Telecom and Industrial, and also a global
development manager for this corporation.