Raja Zeidan

Business Vice President, Feedstock & Hydrocarbons Risk Management
Dow Europe GmbH

Raja Zeidan is Business Vice President of Feedstock & Hydrocarbons Risk Management at Dow Europe GmbH. Raja joined Dow in 1982 and held various sales and marketing positions in the Middle East organization and worked in Kuwait, Dubai, U.A.E., Saudi Arabia and Dow’s Middle East/Africa’s headquarter in Geneva before he joined Hydrocarbons in 1987. Since then he has held various positions in Hydrocarbons in London, Calgary and Zurich.

Raja was instrumental in establishing the light hydrocarbon base for Dow in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. He was also instrumental in developing the commodity risk management program for Hydrocarbons. Raja has a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Manchester. He is a member of the board of EQUATE Petrochemical Company KSC and Equipolymers BV. Both ventures are with Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Total Refinery in the Netherlands.