Owen Morris is a Senior Fire Protection Specialist at AkzoNobel, focused on passive fire protection solutions for the energy and infrastructure sectors. He brings more than 15 years of experience across the coatings industry, with a career spanning research and development, product innovation and customer-focused roles supporting global energy sectors. Owen began his career developing advanced fire safety technologies and has since held specialist and advisory roles across the UK and Japan. He is an active industry contributor, regularly supporting technical conferences, fire testing programmes and standards development initiatives. Owen also holds several patents relating to passive fire protection technologies.