Meet our Instructors


Highly qualified environmental consultant and regulatory experts, as well as certified Occupational health and safety

Nancy Papathanasopoulou


Papathanasopoulou is an environmental law and management expert. She has been working on sea turtle conservation and environmental research for twenty years, in several capacities (volunteer, student, lawyer, legal consultant, and project manager) and in several countries. Since 2003 she is mainly working on biodiversity, ecosystems and their conservation needs in the Gulf Area as a project manager. Before that, she has worked in France and in Greece, in law offices, International organizations and the Ministry of Environment in Greece. She was the project manager for the books Birds of Kuwait and Coral Reefs of Kuwait, published in 2012 and 2015 respectively. She also coordinated and managed the projects for the first two smartphone applications regarding local biodiversity, Kuwait Sea Base and Birds of Kuwait. She currently divides her professional life between Europe and the Gulf.

Mr. Saleh Katbeh


Mr. Katbeh is Certified occupational health professional from ABIH (CIH), with over 24 total years in the area of Occupational/Industrial Hygiene and its link to other HSE disciplines.Well-known in building effective teams resulting in highly productive work environment. Creates a culture of continuous improvement and work excellence. Specialties: Risk Assessment (RA), Occupational Health Risk Assessment (OHRA), Respiratory Protection (RPP), Hearing Conservation (HCP), Applied Ergonomics, Heat Stress & Heat Strain, Environmental Health suchlike Food Safety (HACCP), Pest Control (IPM), Indoor Air Quality ( IAQ), Healthy-Life Style Promotion...

Mr. Brian Erik Vibenholt


Mr. Vibenholt is Environment, Quality, Health & Safety and Strategy management Consultant. He has the experience in Consulting and lecturing in sustainable solutions, Lecturing at private institutions and tutoring of private Msc students in Environmental engineering, environmental impacts and QHSE Management systems and teaching problem solving technics. Mr. Vibenholt is the author of Quality booklets on 8D, FMEA, valuating audit, SPC and continuous improvement. He has over 25 years’ experience in the ISO standardization, as international lead auditor, and as Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and with work experience from 16 different countries around the world, from China over the Middle East to USA. He proved that if you control your constrains and your processes you minimize waste, simply optimize your output under the circumstance you are working under it can happen