Gulam (aka “Sam”) Samdani, PhD, is a scholar and engineer by education, and a management consultant by profession. Based in New Jersey, USA he enjoys the privilege of testing new strategic ideas while providing confidential advisory service to the top management of many multinational chemical, pharmaceutical and petroleum companies as well as government agencies and NGOs as an industry expert at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Yale University, USA, and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester, USA.