Stéphanie Orvoine-Couvrette is AIChE’s Associate Director of Program Development, a role she assumed on May 1, 2021. In this role, she leads the Program Development team – where she oversees the overall program and project management of the Annual Meeting, the Spring Meeting, and several additional conferences, as well as AIChE’s participation in the Offshore Technology Conference, the Event Production & Logistics group – in which she manages the logistics and production needs of AIChE’s large events, and Program Coordination – where conference collaborations and co-sponsorships with external organizations are reviewed and developed.
Stéphanie joined AIChE in February 2012 as a Project Associate and was promoted to Engineering Specialist and Senior Engineering Specialist. During this time, she managed conferences such as the AIChE Annual Meeting, the Frontiers in Particle Science & Technology Conference, the 8th World Congress on Particle Technology, the Southwest Process Technology Conference, and the Process Development Symposium, working with engineers, academics, and executives in a wide range of industries globally to coordinate volunteer efforts and speaking opportunities. Stéphanie has also managed CCPS’s Middle East Process Safety Conference and Latin American Conference on Process Safety and collaborated on conferences run by SPE and ASME. In 2017, Orvoine-Couvrette assumed the role of Manager of Program Development, expanding her role to oversight of the Program Development team as well as the AIChE Spring Meeting.
Stéphanie has a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.