Gordon Ballard is Executive Director of the International Association of Oil & Gas producers (IOGP) on 15 January, 2016.
 
He spent the previous 30 years working with Schlumberger where, after assignments that took him to four continents, he became the Company’s UK Chair in 2005.
 
Gordon has also served as Chair of the UK’s Oil and Gas Industry Council and of OPITO International, the upstream oil & gas skills organization.  He was Co-Chair of Oil & Gas UK.
 
He graduated from the University of Glasgow with a B.SC. Hons in Civil Engineering and holds a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University.