Tahmid Mizan

Tahmid Mizan joined Carbon Measures in April 2026, bringing more than three decades of experience spanning strategic technology planning, fuels and energy research, and regulatory policy. He brings deep institutional knowledge of the industrial value chain, and a clear sense of where precise measurement will have the most immediate impact. At Carbon Measures, he leads the analysis and modeling work foundational to the organization's technical framework, translating rigorous science into policy design underpinned by credible, verifiable carbon accounting standards.

‍

His experience spans the policy, academic, and corporate sectors. At ExxonMobil, he held senior leadership roles including Manager of Global Regulatory Affairs, Strategy and Planning, and Senior Technology Advisor for Corporate Strategic Planning. In these positions, he led global teams responsible for the company’s corporate strategic R&D portfolio and for regulatory strategy and policy planning. Tahmid developed firsthand knowledge of what it takes to drive techno-economic analysis and modeling of the impact of policy design choices on industrial value chains.

‍

Tahmid's technical foundation is rooted in computational chemistry, molecular dynamics, reaction engineering, and refinery process modeling. Earlier in his career, he led multidisciplinary research teams developing molecule-based refinery models, clean-fuel products technologies, and energy-efficiency solutions at the University of Delaware and Exxon Mobil. He holds inventor credits on several U.S. patents spanning biofuels, waste-heat utilization, and hydrodesulfurization, and has chaired intellectual property committees supporting clean fuels and lubricant technologies.

‍

Tahmid has contributed to national-level advisory work, including a study on the future of transportation prepared for the U.S. Secretary of Energy and a National Academy of Sciences study on Heavy Industry Decarbonization. He served on the Advisory Council of the Asia Pacific Sustainable Aviation Centre and participated in the U.S. Department of Energy's U.S. Drive Joint Operations Group. He has also served on the University of Michigan Chemical Engineering Alumni Advisory Board and the Board of Advisors of the UC Riverside Center for Environmental Research and Technology.

‍

Tahmid holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, along with degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. For Tahmid, the path to scalable carbon policies underpinned by credible accounting is clear: the same standards of measurement and modeling that have long been applied to complex chemical and engineering problems are exactly what this challenge demands.