Johana Dunlop is Head of Membership at the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers. She worked with Schlumberger for twenty seven years and has served on the SPEI Board of Directors as Technical Director HSES & Sustainability from 2017 to 2020. Johana is deeply interested in the relationship between the oil and gas industry and “society”.
Her education background draws on business, risk management and the liberal arts with an A.I.R.M from the Institute of Risk Management in the UK, an M. Sc. Management from Boston University and a B.A. Honors in French and Classics from Trinity College in Dublin.
After a career in Risk Management in the oil and gas industry, 1997 was a turning point year in which she took a sabbatical year to volunteer in post-Soviet Armenia with a grassroots Franco-Armenian aid agency called Solidarité Protestante France-Armenie. Her return to Schlumberger where she had previously been a Risk Manager for the Seismic and Wireline businesses, took her formally in to a field in which she had long had an informal interest – the impact of business on society. For six years from 1998 she lived in New York and held management responsibilities for the company’s first global community outreach program - SEED - covering many aspects of the program, including implementation, development and promotion, internal and external communications, development of peer relationships, and incubation support of other outreach activities.
In 2004, she returned to Paris to take on a dual role: – to transform the Schlumberger Foundation into a strategic philanthropic vehicle which resulted in a portfolio of programs out of which Faculty for the Future became the flagship program, funding and supporting women scientists from developing countries. The second role was to “materialize” the company’s societal profile. This resulted in a Global Citizenship framework focusing on the company’s activities having to do with sustainability solutions, social and environmental footprint as well as community outreach. For more than twenty years, she served as the internal thought leader on these topics as the company increasingly integrated sustainability factors into its core strategy, policies and practices
Her last role was as Director, Sustainability Integration focussing on equipping the customer facing roles in understanding the relevance of sustainability factors to Schlumberger and its customers and prioritizing them for attention as opportunities or risk factors.
Johana has been active for many years in a number of oil and gas industry professional societies in particular IPIECA and the Society of Petroleum Engineers [SPE]. She led the development of the SPE Sustainability strategy and served as the Founding Chair of the Sustainable Development Technical Section which has over 3,000 members and is home to the SPE Gaia program sharing knowledge about sustainable development as it pertains to oil and gas through Gaia Talks and Masterclasses as well as the Decarbonisation Congress and panels at flagship SPE conference and our Gaia on linked in community which hosts 2,000+ diverse from inside and outside the industry.
She is committed to the industry acknowledging and being recognized for its critical role in the quality of life on this planet whilst at the same time raising its standards of environmental and social performance to the point of fully integrating sustainability factors in decision-making, performance accountability and innovation for the future.