Shairizal Badzri

Shairizal has spent more than 20 years in the Oil & Gas industry within PETRONAS, managing various Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) technical and leadership roles across PETRONAS’ Upstream and Downstream businesses, Project & Construction as well as the Corporate sector. He was assigned to PETRONAS Carigali Iraq BV in 2014, managing Garraf Operations, where he led the team to be the first IOC collaboration with Iraq government in establishing Iraq’s National Hazardous Waste Facilities. Under his leadership, Garraf Operations demonstrated improved HSE management and performance and received various recognitions.

He has a broad range of technical capabilities including environmental management, technical design & engineering safety, HSE in construction, risk management, audit, emergency management, contractor management, culture transformation, digital transformation strategy and performance. His current position as Head, Strategy & Performance, PETRONAS Group HSE overlooks the HSE strategy development and management for continuous HSE value creation and sustainable HSE performance for the company.

He holds a B Eng in Chemical Process and Masters in Business Law. He is also an appointed Educational Panel Advisor for the National University of Malaysia and an Executive Member of SPE Middle East.