Henrik O. Madsen speaks at Delhi Sustainable Development Summit

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Dr. Madsen has a PhD in Civil and Structural Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, where he later held a position as Professor of Structural Mechanics, and now holds a position as Adjunct Professor. Dr. Madsen began his career in DNV GL, at the time DNV, in Oslo in 1982 as Chief Scientist in Structural Reliability Analysis. During the 1980’s, he led a major industry initiative to introduce structural reliability methods in the oil and gas industry’s standard setting. In acknowledgment of this work, Dr. Madsen was recognised as an Offshore Pioneer in the US Offshore Energy Centre’s Technology Hall of Fame in 2002. He has published several books and more than 80 papers on his fields of expertise. Dr. Madsen has headed all DNV’s major business areas and the Research Division.