Acting upon recommendations from the membership, an executive committee was created to provide advice and consultation to the dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences. The committee recommends policy, goals and objectives, membership, and coordinates decision making for the forum.
Responsibilities
- Clarifying the purpose of the forum and aligning it with the needs of the membership
- Representing the interests of the membership
- Establishing the definition of membership in the forum
- Sharpening the focus of future meetings
- Revising the format of the meetings to foster more participation and effective use of the time
- Determining the location and venue of future meetings and establishing local organizing committees to assist with logistics
Committee Members
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Jorge Piñon, Chairman Associate Director, Latin American and Caribbean Program Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin |
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Sylvia M. Couto Anjos
General Manager of Geology, Petrobras Brazil |
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Alfredo Guzman
Petroleum Consultant, Mexico |
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Juan Mario Dary
President, Mesoamerica Committee, Guatemala |
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John Briceño
House of Representatives, Belize |
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Eugenio Figueroa
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chile Director, Center for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (CENRE), University of Chile |

















