Executive Committee

Abdulla Al-Shemsi
President
President

Volker Vahrenkamp, ADCO
Vice-President
Vice-President
- Carbonate Geology Expert / Exploration Manager
- ADCO, seconded from Shell. 28 years oil industry experience. Previously: Petroleum Development Oman; Sarawak Shell Berhad, Malaysia; Shell E&P Research, Netherlands
- PhD in Marine Geology & Geochemistry from Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami (1988)

Aldo Vesnaver
Sponsorship Secretary/Program Secretary
Sponsorship Secretary/Program Secretary
- KADOC Chair Professor at the Petroleum Institute (from 2014 to present)
- Master in Physics and PhD in Geophysics from the University of Trieste (Italy)

Jorge Salgado Gomes
Treasurer
Treasurer
- PARTEX Chaired Professor in Petroleum Engjneering and Petroleum GeoSciences, Petroleum Institute, UAE.)
- 30+ years oil industry experience. Previously: EDMA, BP Minerals, HOT Engineering AG, PARTEX (seconded to QP, Qatar; seconded to ADCO, Abu Dhabi)
- BSc, MSc in Geology from Oporto University (Portugal) & MEng & PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, UK

Ewart Edwards, ZADCO
Fieldtrip Secretary
Fieldtrip Secretary

Christoph Lehmann
Program Secretary/Fieldtrip Secretary
Program Secretary/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

David Brown
Membership Secretary
Membership Secretary
- Core Laboratories

Muhammad Asim Iqbal
IT Secretary
IT Secretary
- Geophysical Engineer, Petroleum Geosciences Department
- The Petroleum Institute since 2011
- M. Sc., Geophysics, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan

Mohamed M. Abdel Sattar
Northern UAE coordinator
Northern UAE coordinator
- General Manager- Exploration at Emirates National Oil Co. (ENOC)
- 40+ years oil industry experience. Previously: AMOCO Egypt, ADNOC, ADCO, Petroleum Institute, UAE
- BSc, MSc in Geology from Ain Shams University-Egypt
- PhD in Structural Geology from Al Azhar University-Egypt