Profile for Dr Keith Walker

• Group Director of R&D Programmes in Corus, a large international steelmaking company
• Director of Corus Consulting, an international steel industry consultancy
  
• Head of Technology in Corus' Long Products division across two integrated and two EAF sites
  
• Chief Metallurgist covering shapes, plate, coil plate, re-rolling products and rods
  
• Technical Manager for BOS, Slab, Bloom and Billet casting
• Manager for site laboratories and test houses
  

• Board Member, Centre de Research Metallurgique (Belgium)
• Chairman of The Iron and Steel Society (a division of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK)
• Director, Lincolnshire Iron and Steel Institute, UK
• Liaison Officer for technical co-operation with a major Japanese steelmaker
  

• PhD Metallurgy, University of Leeds, UK
• MBA (Distinction), University of Warwick, UK
• BSc(Hons) Metallurgy, University of Leeds, UK
• Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)