Dr Vikram M Pattarkine, CEO of PEACE USA, is a chemical-environmental engineer with three decades of international experience covering consulting, research, technology development, technology transfer, and training. He has been recognized by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services as an Alien of Extraordinary Ability.
Pattarkine has served on STAC as a wastewater management expert since 2006 and has been a member of its Executive Board since 2010. He has been a member of the Water Environment Federation's Municipal Wastewater Treatment Design Committee since the Committee's inception in 2004, providing inputs related to nutrient management, energy conservation, and renewable energy. He has authored chapters in manuals, peer-reviewed papers, and made technical presentations at conferences worldwide.
Pattarkine has held several leadership positions including Chief Technology Officer of OriginOil, Inc, a renewable energy technology development company; Senior Vice President of Brinjac Engineering, an engineering design and consulting firm; and Director of Process Engineering of Environmental Dynamics Inc, an equipment design and manufacturing firm. During the 1990s he led the Environment and Natural Resources Management consulting practice of Tata Consultancy Services, Asia’s largest consulting firm. Prior to this, he worked on energy-environment interface issues at TERI, India's premier think-tank.
Pattarkine holds a PhD in environmental engineering from Virginia Tech and a Master of Technology in chemical engineering from Nagpur University, India. He is an adjunct professor of environmental engineering at the University of Missouri and has also taught graduate students at Pennsylvania State University.