Stephen Dunn, Senior Consultant with Hatch Ltd., is a world authority on the development of innovative process technologies for both the metallurgical and petroleum industries. His achievements have led to new and advanced processes based on targeted pilot test-work and data interpretations that provide confident commercial scale-up. These development programs have successfully enabled substantial energy savings, major reductions in environmental pollution and improvements in the clients' product quality. Over a 25-year period, Dr. Dunn has pioneered enormous contributions to the development of novel solvent-based processes for the in- situ recovery of bitumen from Alberta oil sands. He is a devoted supporter of engineering education and recently founded the James W. Smith Scholarship at the University of Toronto.