Pete Rose (Ph. D., Geology, University of Texas, Austin) has been a professional geologist for 56 years, specializing in Carbonate Stratigraphy, Petroleum Geology, Basin Analysis, E&P Risk Assessment, and Mineral Economics. In 1998, he founded Rose & Associates, LLP. Pete retired in 2005; the Firm continues as the global standard among consulting companies in the field of E&P Risk Analysis.

His 2001 AAPG book, Risk Analysis and Management of Petroleum Exploration Ventures, now in its 7th printing, is widely considered to be the "Bible" in its field, and has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 published articles and over 300 presented papers on an extremely wide variety of topics (Micropaleontology to Petroleum Economics!). From 2001 to 2004 Pete wrote a regular column, "The Business Side of Geology", for The Explorer, AAPG’s monthly news magazine.

Pete received the coveted Parker Memorial Medal from the American Institute of Professional Geologists in 1998. In 2005 he became the 89th President of AAPG. He was co-chair of the 2007 Interdisciplinary Conference on Oil and Gas Reserves Definitions, held in Washington, D.C., which was instrumental in encouraging the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission to modernize its rules on oil and gas reserves reporting, as occurred the following year. This facilitated the investment component of the “shale revolution” in the U. S. during the 2008-2015 development period. In 2013 he became the first American recipient of the prestigious Petroleum Group Medal of the Geological Society of London, and in 2014 AAPG honored him with its Halbouty Outstanding Leadership Award.

His many years of experience, helping thousands of geoscientists to improve their geotechnical performance by detecting and reducing bias in their prospect and play evaluations, have prepared Pete Rose well to address the broader effects of cognitive bias in science and professional matters, the subject of his distinguished lecture, "Cognitive Bias, the Elephant in the Living Room of Science and Professionalism".