Medhat (Med) M. Kamal is a Chevron Fellow Emeritus, and an Honorary Member of SPE (current SPE President, 2022-2023). Kamal has over 45 years of industry experience in well testing, reservoir description, and production and reservoir engineering. He is the lead author and editor of SPE Monograph 23 “Transient Well Testing”, and has published over 35 technical papers.

He holds B.Sc. degree from Cairo University in Petroleum Engineering and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University in Petroleum Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. He served on the boards of Mid-continent, Gulf Coast, Dallas and Golden Gate sections of SPE. He also served on the SPE International Board of Directors (2007-2009) as Regional Director of Western North America. He has won several SPE awards including the Cedric K. Ferguson Medal, the Formation Evaluation Award, the Distinguished Service Award, North and East Texas Regional Service Award and the Texas Petroleum Engineer of the Year Award.

Catalina Leal Isaza is a visionary leader with over 15 years of experience specializing in Engineering, Operations, Project Management, Strategy management and Quality Management. Most recently she has acted as the product quality director for Oilfield and Industrial Chemicals at Baker Hughes where she has championed the planning and implementation of improvement initiatives for the product line. Catalina is passionate about corporate social responsibility, sustainability and utilizing both financial and non-financial factors as part of overall company strategies. She started her career in the Oil and Gas industry as a field engineer in Colombia and has had the opportunity to lead multi-functional teams in a variety of geographical locations, which has made her appreciate the value of diversity. Catalina holds a B.S in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), an MBA from University of St. Thomas (Houston) and is a certified six sigma black belt.

Emily Turkel works on Government and Regulatory Affairs at Calpine, with a focus on carbon capture and storage, integrating environmental justice concerns into project development, and market design and regulatory policy, particularly as it pertains to generation resource planning and resource adequacy. Previously, she evaluated land-based carbon removal solutions with Carbon180 and conducted research on various legal and environmental issues impacting farmers and ranchers. She holds a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies from UC Berkeley, class of 2021.

Patricia E. Carreras is the general director of the energy consulting company Blue Moon Strategies. She has more than 25 years of international experience leading and advising majors and independent energy companies on field development planning leveraging reservoir simulation. Additionally, she is a public speaker, mentor, and coach on topics of sustainable development, leadership, diversity and inclusion, and cross-cultural effectiveness. Carreras has worked based in the USA, Mexico and Argentina.

She is an active member of SPE, currently serving as 2022–2023 chair for the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Committee. She is a past member of the SPE Business Management and Leadership Committee (BMLC). She is the chair of the SPE Gulf Coast Section (GCS) Continuing Education Committee, which received the 2021–2022 SPE GCS Outstanding Committee award under her tenure. Carreras received the 2020–2021 SPE GCS Exemplary Volunteer award. She volunteers as a mentor for different organizations.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and a master’s degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University. She successfully completed the Business Sustainability Management training from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) in 2022.