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| PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Dr. Öktem is a Senior Fellow at the Risk Management and Decision Process Center and has served as an Adjunct Professor at the Operations and Information Management Department of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in ‘Near-Miss Management’. Dr. Öktem’s work has focused on defining and addressing near-misses across industries, particularly in chemical, petrochemical and financials. Her research in both ‘personal’ and ‘process’ near-misses for the chemical industry has appeared in numerous journals and publications, including the Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment and Analysis (John Wiley and Sons). Dr. Oktem is also the Managing Partner of Near-Miss Management LLC, which provides unique and dynamic process risk management solutions. She currently oversees product development and operations. Dr. Öktem’s interests and experience include Environmental Sustainability and Value Creation. She developed and taught courses in this field using innovative formats at both the Wharton School, Philadelphia, and Bahçesehir University, İstanbul. Prior to joining Wharton, Dr. Öktem was an Adjunct Professor at the Drexel University, Engineering Management Department, where she taught “Engineering Management” and “Safety, Health and Environment for Engineers”. She also started a consulting firm providing Safety, Health and Environmental training services to Fortune 500 companies. The economic advancement of underprivileged women in developing countries is one of the critical issues that interest Dr. Öktem. She established the Sustainable Development platform for the Marmara Group Foundation in Istanbul. The prototype study, ‘Development of Women Entrepreneurs’, has been completed with a focus on improving self-employment opportunities for women. Previously, Dr. Öktem was with Rohm and Haas Company, where she managed large-scale product development and manufacturing processes in agricultural chemicals. She also led corporate safety, health and environmental policy development, as well as corporate SH&E restructuring. Dr. Öktem began her career as an Associate Director of the Chemical Division of The Marmara Research Institute of Scientific and Technical Research. There she established an environmental research group and worked with manufacturers and government authorities to set new standards. Dr. Oktem holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. AREAS OF INTEREST
RECENT PUBLICATIONS A. Pariyani, W. D. Seider, U. Oktem, and M. Soroush, “Dynamic Risk Analysis using Alarm Databases to Improve Safety and Quality: Part II – Bayesian Analysis,” AIChE J., in press. A. Pariyani, W. D. Seider, U. Oktem, and M. Soroush, “Dynamic Risk Analysis using Alarm Databases to Improve Safety and Quality: Part I – Data Compaction,” AIChE J., in press. U. Oktem, R. Wong, C. Oktem, "Near-Miss Management: Managing the Bottom of the Risk Pyramid", “Risk & Regulation” Special Issue on Close Calls, Near-Misses and Early Warnings, LSE publication, pp. 12-13, July 2010. A. Pariyani, W. D. Seider, U. Oktem, and M. Soroush, “Incidents Investigation and Dynamic Analysis of Large Alarm Databases in Chemical Plants: A Fluidized-Catalytic-Cracking Unit Case Study,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 49, 8062-8079, 2010. A. Pariyani, W. D. Seider, U. Oktem, and M. Soroush, “Improving process safety and product quality using large databases,” 20th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) , 28, 175-180, 2010. U. Oktem, A. Meel, "Near-Miss Management: A Participative Approach to Improving System Reliability," Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment and Analysis, Melnick, E., and Everitt, B. (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester, UK, pp 1154-1163, 2008. A. Meel, W. D. Seider, and U. Oktem, "Analysis of Management Actions, Human Behavior, and Process Reliability in Chemical Plants. I. Near-Miss Management System Selection," Proc. Safety Prog., 27, 2, 139-144, 2008. A. Meel, W. D. Seider, and U. Oktem, "Analysis of Management Actions, Human Behavior, and Process Reliability in Chemical Plants. I. Impact of Management Actions," Proc. Safety Prog., 27, 1, 7-14, 2008. A. Meel, L. M. ONeill, W. D. Seider, U. Oktem, and N. Keren, “Operational Risk Assessment of Chemical Industries by Exploiting Accident Databases,” J. Loss Preven. Proc. Indust, 20, 113-127, 2007. A. Meel, L.M. ONeill, W.D. Seider, U. Oktem, N. Keren, “Frequency and Consequence Modeling of Rare Events Using Accident Databases”, AIChE National Symposium, 2006. U. Oktem, F. Karakaya, “Sustainable Tourism: Cirali Case Study”, The New Social Entrepreneurship, Edited by F. Perrini, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006. P. Kleindorfer, U. Oktem, “Assessment of Environmentally Sustainable Technologies as if Individuals Matter: And They Do!”, presented at The Fist UN Global Compact Academic Conference, June 2004 U. Oktem, P. Lewis, D.Donovan, J. Hagan, T. Pace EMS and Sustainable Development: A Model and Comparative Studies of Integration, Greener Management International, Vol. 46, pp.11-28, 2004 U. Oktem, “Near-Miss: A Tool for Integrated Safety, Health, Environmental and Security Management, 37th Annual AIChE Loss prevention Symposium, March 30 - April 3 2003. J. Phimister, U. G. Oktem, P. Kleindorfer, H. Kunrether, “ Near-Miss Incident Management in the Chemical Process Industry, Risk Analysis, Vol. 23, No 3, pp.445-459, 2003 A. Muermann, U. Oktem, “The Near-Miss Management of Operational Risk”, The Journal of Risk Finance, Fall 2002, pp. 25-36. Oktem, G. Ulku, “Using Interactive Multimedia Training in TQEM systems and applications”, Total Quality Environmental Management, Spring 1996, pp. 89-99. CONTACT DETAILS
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