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Koheila Molazemi Product Line Director, Plant As a young woman, Koheila Molazemi decided to study engineering over medicine despite her family’s traditional line of work. Having said that, she is not a typical engineer. That is unless most engineers love discussing philosophy at the dinner table and listening to a wide range of music, from jazz and blues to rock and heavy metal. “I come from a family of doctors and surgeons,” says Koheila. Her family would have loved for her to continue the family line of work in medicine. “But I liked mathematics and logic, so I chose to become an engineer,” she says. After high school, she managed to get accepted to the prestigious Sharif University of Technology, the country’s leading institution for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, located in Tehran. She majored in industrial engineering and during her career pivoted torisk management and health, safety and environment.
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Koheila is very passionate about her work and proud to have chosen a career where she can practice ‘medicine of the industry.’ She believes working in safety and HSE is about safeguarding life, not saving one life at a time, but by the hundreds or thousands. UNITED NATIONS PROJECT Working as an HSE consultant in Iran, she came to learn about a very interesting United Nations environmental project in a rural area north of Iran, and she ended up volunteering for the UN. The project was to build biogas units, using domestic
