Presentations

Stephane Rousselet has more than 10 years of experience in strategy consulting, international cross-functional project management, operational excellence and business development in Industrial Goods & Services, Energy and Governmental sectors with a constant focus on delivering value to his internal & external clients. He has worked for global leading organizations such as Bain & Company, TOTAL E&P or the World Petroleum Council, to solve complex issues with multicultural teams. He currently chairs the World Petroleum Council's Young Professionals Committee and oversees international and interdisciplinary projects focused on energy education, collaboration, and sharing the perspectives of the young professionals of the petroleum industry.

Tamara Seres Claivaz is Member of the World Petroleum Council Young Professionals Committee from Serbia and Co-Lead of the WPC Global Youth Survey Project on "Youth Perception of the Oil and Gas industry: Attracting and Retaining Talent", a flagship initiative of the WPC Young Professionals. Since this year she is based in NYC and is engaged in network development for Crowdhelix, a pan-European open innovation network for international research and innovation. She has previously worked for 8 years in NIS Gazprom Neft (one of the largest energy companies in South East Europe) in a number of positions related to corporate communications, international research and innovation projects & partnerships management, as well as international government affairs. Before engaging in the energy industry, she served as a civil servant in the Foreign Policy Team of the President of Serbia. She graduated in International Affairs of Belgrade University and from the Diplomatic Academy of Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Adi Akheramka leads the Carbon Management & Sustainability team at Independent Project Analysis, Inc. (IPA) and is based in Virginia, USA. His focus is on improving the sustainability performance of individual capital projects and project delivery systems through effective benchmarking and adoption of industry best practices. He works with several Fortune 500 and other clients across energy, chemicals, and mining sectors, and helps them progress their emissions reduction, water management, and waste management agenda. Before joining IPA, Adi worked with Reliance Industries Limited as an Operations Engineer at their Gas Cracker Unit.

Adi has a M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from the Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, India.

Julian Chenin is passionate leader and geoscientist who is now quantitatively optimizing machine learning algorithms for various geoscience applications at Bluware. He recently completed his MSc in Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma where his thesis work used unsupervised machine learning techniques to better image gas in the subsurface. Julian serves on the AAPG Sustainable Development Committee, the GEO2021 Young Professionals Committee (YPC), and as the incoming alternate USA member of the World Petroleum Council’s YPC for the 2021 – 2023 cycle.

David Lankford-Bravo is the current USA member of the World Petroleum Council’s Young Professionals Committee where he supports international and interdisciplinary projects focused on energy education, collaboration, and sharing the perspectives of the young professionals of the petroleum industry. He also is the Chair of the 23rd World Petroleum Congress’ Young Professional Program which will occur during the 23rd World Petroleum Congress in Houston December 5th – 9th 2021. He is finishing his PhD in geosciences at the University of Texas at El Paso where he focuses on salt tectonics and sedimentology and uses open source programs, drones, and traditional field methods to document halokinetic processes at the Onion Creek Diapir near Moab, Utah.