KUALA LUMPUR: The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) said its chief operating officer (COO) Bakhtiar Talhah will assume the role of interim chief executive officer (CEO) effective Dec 3.
It said Bakhtiar joined the RSPO secretariat as the COO in January 2017 and has been instrumental in strengthening RSPO’s credibility through the establishment and management of RSPO’s Investigation and Monitoring Unit, the setting up of the Geographic Information System Unit and various other initiatives.
Prior to RSPO, he was the regional director at the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) based in Kuala Lumpur.
Bakhtiar has worked with various international advisory firms such as PFC Energy and Nexant specialising in downstream oil, after having started his career at Petronas.
He succeeds Datuk Darrel Webber and RSPO thanked Webber for helping realise RSPO’s shared vision of making sustainable palm oil the norm,” RSPO said. – Bernama
