Abdelilah CHATER is a Civil Engineer and graduate of EHTP, Morocco's leading engineering school, with over 16 years of experience in the cement industry. He currently serves as Technical Director at Novacim and hold a Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) from TBS Education. Over the course of his career, he has worked across the full value chain — industrial operations, plant management, purchasing, and quality — giving him a hands-on, field-tested perspective on alternative fuels, cement performance, and the operational realities of the energy transition.