Bjørn Thorleif Gunnar Wandås
Athens 2007 Technical Programme Co-Chair, 1952-2007

Just two weeks after returning home to Norway from Athens where he guided the assembly of the conference’s excellent technical programme, Bjørn Wandås died while on a ski trip on 3 March. He will be profoundly missed by colleagues not only on the Organising and Steering Committees but throughout the geoscience community. He will be remembered for his creative thinking (which helped lead to the discovery of the Goliath Field offshore Norway), his keen interest in making older geological data available and accessible and his tireless volunteering that led to the immense impact he made on the programme you will enjoy and learn from this November.

Conference Committees

Organising Committee

General Chairman
Geir Lunde
General Vice Chairman
Gerry Lourantos
Technical Programme Chairman
Vlastimila Dvorakova
Oral Sessions Chairman
Keith Gerdes
Poster Sessions Chairman
Fredrik Bokkelie
Management Forum Chairman
Pinar O. Yilmaz
Sponsorship Chairman
Mark Spencer Jones
Exhibition Marketing Chairman
Charles Speh
Short Courses Chairman
Vlastimila Dvorakova
Field Trips Chairman
Nikolaos Roussos
Field Trips Co-Chairman
Mary Ford
Student Participation Chairman
Rudy Swennen
Social Programme Chairman
Gerry Lourantos
Opening Ceremony Chairman
John Brooks
Closing Ceremony Chairman
István Bérczi

Steering Committee

President AAPG European Region
John Brooks, Brookwood Petroleum Advisors
President-Elect AAPG European Region
Dr. István Bérczi, MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas plc
Past President AAPG European Region
Sigrunn Johnsen, RWE Dea AS, Norway
AAPG European Region Conference Chairman
Geir Lunde, Concedo AS, Norway
Middle East Representative
Abdulkader Afifi, Saudi Aramco
North Africa Representative
Ahmed El-Barkooky, Cairo University and Shell Egypt
Russia Representative
Mars Khasanov, Rosneft
Special Steering Committee Liaison
Dirk van der Wel, SAGEX Petroleum AS, Norway
Member
Nikolaos Roussos, Hellenic Petroleum SA
Member
Nahum Schneidermann, Chevron
Member
Pinar O. Yilmaz, ExxonMobil

European Region Conference Manager

Bruce Lemmon

AAPG Personnel

Director of Global Development and Conventions
Alan Wegener
International Conference Manager
Dana Patterson Free
International Conference Coordinator
Theresa Curry
Exhibitions Manager
Steph Benton
Exhibitions Coordinator
Marvetta McNeel
Registration Supervisor
Kim Van Delft
Technical Program/Abstracts Coordinator
Terri Duncan
Publications Coordinator
Kyle Walker
Accounting Manager
Bryan Haws
Staging/Production Manager
Vern Stefanic
Web Site Editor
Janet Brister