Telephone: +27 82 909 7981
Email: fred.goede@nwu.ac.za
An accomplished strategist and globally recognised specialist in sustainability solutions related to climate change and environment. Member of projects dealing with major changes to regulations related to climate change, air quality, water and waste in South Africa. Multi-lingual and approachable, communicates effectively at all levels, demonstrating a collaborative management style. Skilled at forging strategic internal and external relationships and at influencing company decisions. An inspiring coach and mentor that thrives in challenging environments.
Fred Goede worked for 25 years in the petroleum, chemicals, energy and mining sectors, mainly on operations and projects in Southern Africa and projects in the Middle East, North America and
Europe for divisions of Sasol (Pty) Ltd. His early career focussed on research and development, before he branched into operations support and corporate leadership roles. Fred worked for Sasol
Limited where he developed Sasol’s responses to the sustainable development agenda. As
General Manager Health and Environment, he had to integrate energy, environment, climate change, and health and sustainability objectives into both operations and corporate management.
He provided strategic direction and governance, set targets for emission and waste reduction, developed climate response strategies and implemented global roll-out plans for the organisation.
He reported performance and highlighted risks on a routine basis to boards, shareholders (Form
20F for the NYSE listing and others) and public forums and was a major contributor to the sustainable development report of Sasol since 1996, receiving multiple awards.
He provided key inputs in the positioning of coal-to-liquids technology in a climate and water constrained world, positioned the new gas-toliquids in the environmental context in the 1990’s and was instrumental in the design of a new energy business unit focussed on alternative energy. He presented papers at many of the world’s energy, climate, gas and oil conferences, in addition to the
United Nations international conferences on sustainability, chemicals and climate change. A registered natural scientist for more than 20 years, Fred contributed as a lead author to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2002 until 2006 and received recognition for his contribution to the Nobel Peace prize in 2007.
When his position as General Manager for Environment and Health became obsolete in 2014 following company restructuring, he decided to leave Sasol and further pursue opportunities in environmental leadership. Educational contributions most recently include spearheading the development of a comprehensive climate change management course at North West University for mid-career professionals in the field. In 2015 he registered Southern Cross Environmental (Pty) Ltd to manage projects on climate change, air quality, water, waste and energy. He continues to provide specialist support to governments and businesses, assisting with risk management and compliance challenges related to environment and sustainable development.
Since 1 September 2015, he joined the Centre for Applied Risk Management (UARM) of North
West University in the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Information Technology, Vaal Triangle campus. Focused on continuous education at postgraduate level in research and analyses for applied risk management. More information on UARM is available on http://www.nwu.ac.za/uarm/home .
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September 2015 – Present Senior lecturer Risk management, Centre for Applied Risk
Management (UARM), North West University, Vaal Triangle Campus
Sep 2014- Aug 2015 Director, Southern Cross Environmental (Pty) Ltd
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Management of projects on climate change, air quality, water, waste and energy
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Providing specialist support to government and business, dealing with risk management and compliance challenges related to environment and sustainable development
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Design and delivery of a comprehensive climate change management course at North-West
University
2006 – Aug 2014 General Manager - Health and Environment, Sasol Limited, Johannesburg
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Managing the Sasol Health and Environment portfolio in the petrochemical and mining sector
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Accountable for setting strategy, direction and targets for the Sasol Group internationally on health and environmental matters
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Ensuring alignment of employees with organizational objectives and ensuring that business units and projects implement required interventions to reduce company health and environmental risk
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Engaging with governments at all levels in South Africa and abroad, and handling investor analyst queries
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Monitoring trends in health and environmental developments with international bodies and responding accordingly
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Contributing substantially to the annual sustainable development report for external stakeholders
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Representing Sasol at various national and international forums, often chairing committees and guiding best practices in the field
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Serving as trained spokesperson on health and the environment including for media engagements
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Responsible for organization design to ensure effective and efficient health and environmental service delivery to Business Units globally
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Reporting quarterly to boards on environmental performance including the tracking of greenhouse gas and volatile organic compound emissions, environmental incidents and reporting of progress on negotiations with governments
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Member of major projects, dealing with climate change, air quality and waste regulations in
South Africa
1999 – 2005 Product Stewardship Advisor, Sasol Limited, Johannesburg
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Establishing first Product Stewardship team in Sasol from the SHE Centre, focused on product risk assessment (chemicals, fuels, additives, catalysts, biocides). Chaired Chemical and Allied
Industries’ Association product stewardship committees
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Reducing product risk, including risks of non-compliance to chemicals conventions such as drug trafficking, trade and chemical weapons through proper product classification in regulatory domains, resulting in asbestos and CFC phase-out
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Establishing SAP based Material Safety and Data Sheet (MSDS) system for all Sasol products marketed globally
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Successfully registering products including the Sasol-Chevron products which were eventually sold by ORYX GTL from Qatar
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Publishing several papers on the carbon intensity and environmental footprint of Gas to Liquids and with Life cycle assessments, positioning of GTL products in the market place
1990 – 1998 Principal Scientist, Research and Development, Sasol Technology,
Sasolburg
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Conducting investigations on cooling water, waste, fuel systems, oil systems and water treatment processes in Sasolburg and Secunda on refining, chemicals and mining operations
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Establishing soil contamination and remediation capabilities with a primary focus on problem
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solving with most of the time spent in operations
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Introducing and conducting life cycle assessment studies for Sasol to position CTL and GTL in the market place, including air emissions and greenhouse gas solutions
 Creating and conducting product biodegradability and toxicity testing for purposes of establishing new product ranges including detergent alcohols and GTL diesel which were subsequently commercialized
Global Executive Development Program , Gordon Institute Business Science, University Pretoria,
2006
Sasol Business Leadership Program , Graduate School of Business Leadership, UNISA, 1999
MSc , Master of Science, Microbiology, University of Pretoria, 1994. Microorganisms as an operating indicator for an activated sludge water treatment system treating petrochemical effluent.
BSc (Hons) , Bachelor of Science (Honours), Microbiology, Potchefstroom University for Christian
Higher Education, 1987
BSc , Bachelor of Science, Microbiology, Industrial Psychology, Geography, Potchefstroom
University for Christian Higher Education, 1986
Matric , subjects English, German, science, mathematics and biology, 1982
Registered scientist with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (400146/93).
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United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. Carbon Dioxide Capture and
Storage, 2005. Goede J.F. Lead Chapter Author, Working Group 3 Report.
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Goede J.F, Jordaan N. and Laurent, D. 2005. A streamlined life cycle assessment for gas to liquids with carbon capture and storage.
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Goede J.F. 2006. Gas-to-liquids life cycle assessment synthesis report. 18th World Petroleum
Congress, Johannesburg. Co-authored by Shell and Conoco Phillips.
 O’Rear, D and Goede J.F. 2007. Concepts for reduction in CO
2
in gas-to-liquids facilities.
Elsevier B.V.
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Goede, J.F. 11 March 2009. 7th Doha Gas Conference. Gas industry – rising to the global climate challenge. Life cycle analyses of Gas- To-Liquids.
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Germany, South Africa, USA
10 years (2005-2014)
Sasol Limited
Setting and tracking global targets for greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency and volatile organic compounds
The measurement, reporting and verification of emissions and energy use started in the late nineties, but culminated into targets set in 2005. Since then, projects were implemented to reach the targets and provide data quality and assurance
General Manager for Environment and Health. Accountable to report emissions and energy performance to the Board of Sasol and to stakeholders through Sustainable Development reporting and public forums
Qatar, Nigeria, South Africa, China, India, USA and Uzbekistan.
10 years (1996-2006)
Sasol Limited
Positioning Refining, Gas-to-liquids and Coal-to-liquids technologies in emerging markets
Ensure inherent safe design and cleaner production principles are incorporated into new facilities. Included optimization of energy efficiency, water use and waste minimization, air pollution abatement and carbon efficiency throughout the process, including life cycle
(cradle-to-grave) impacts. Conduct SHE corporate governance audits on global projects and operations
Environmental and Health specialist
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2012-2014
National Business Initiative
National Business Initiative (NBI) advisory Committee on
Climate Change – chair
Oversaw business input to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties 17 th meeting (COP17) in Durban, South Africa. Attended UNEP COP meetings for many years, often presenting results
Rome, Geneva
1999-2002
UNEP and FAO for the Rotterdam Convention
Interim Chemical Review Committee specialist
Panel that identifies new chemicals for addition to the list of restricted trade chemicals beyond DDT, PCB, TBTO
Scientific advisor on behalf of 14 SADC countries
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1996 -1999
Sasol
Name of Project: Management of Legionella risk in South Africa
Project description: Established Legionella Action Group in South Africa with multiple stakeholders from government, business, CSIR,
NDOH and SABS. Hosted conference in 1999 to create
Job Title: awareness about the water aerosol transmitted disease
Chair
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Sasolburg
1994
Sasol One
Implementation of ISO14001
Project description: First Sasol ISO14001 accredited environmental management
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Environmental specialist advisor
Qatar, Nigeria, South Africa and elsewhere
1990-2014
Sasol Limited
Environmental Impact Assessments and due diligence
Project description: Critical review of EIA studies for multiple growth projects in
South Africa and abroad. Motivate impacts associated with projects wrt climate change, water, waste, land management and feedstock selection
Environmental specialist sign-off on final reports to Board
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