Robert Salvin is a chemical engineer with over 40 years of experience in the chemical industry. He has been associated 35 of those years with LyondellBasell and its predecessor companies, Lyondell and ARCO Chemical. Throughout his career, Salvin has focused primarily on corporate development with responsibility for economic evaluation guidelines and methodology for the company worldwide. He has an MBA in finance with degrees from Drexel University and is the instructor of AIChE’s eLearning course “Economic Evaluation for Chemical Engineers” as well as several AIChE Academy Videos.