Executive Committee

Abdalla Hussain Al-Shamsi
President 

Jorge Salgado Gomes
Vice President/Treasurer/Sponsorship Secretary

• 30+ years industry + academic experience.
• Worked for EDMA, BP Minerals, HOT Engineering AG, PARTEX Oil & Gas, QP, ADCO, Khalifa University (former Petroleum Institute).
• Currently Head of GeoSciences (ADNOC Group)
• BSc, MSc in Geology from Oporto University (Portugal) & MEng & PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, UK

 

Henry Ewart Edwards
Fieldtrip Secretary

 

Christoph Lehmann
Fieldtrip Secretary

• Carbonate Geology Expert in Subsurface Technology BU in ADMA
• ADMA, seconded from BP. Previously Rumaila Field, Iraq. Wide experience in Exploration and Carbonate Field Development
• PhD in Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy from University of California

 

Shraddha Chatterjee
Program Secretary

 

Lian Hou
Membership Secretary

 

Muhammad Asim Iqbal
IT Secretary

• 12+ years industry and academic experience.
• Worked for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), CosmoSeis Petroleum Services.
• Currently Working in Khalifa University UAE (former Petroleum Institute).
• MSc in Geophysics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
 

Hesham Shebl
Board Member of the Society

• More than 30 years of oil field experience in sedimentology, petrography and reservoir characterization related activities. In addition to around 8 years’ academic experience with King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran and United Arab Emirates Universities. He is a member of AAPG, SPE, and SCA.
• Employed by Core Laboratories, ADNOC Offshore (ZADCO).
• Currently in ADNOC Upstream.
• B.Sc. degree from Ain Shames University, Cairo, in 1980 and a M.Sc. from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 1989.
 

David Brown
Board Member of the Society  

Rhona Ayyoub
Board Member of the Society

 

Matthieu Deville de Periere
Board Member of the Society