Spring 2018 PEG

FOR EXECUTIVE George Eynon, P.Geo., FGC, FEC (Hon.)

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• Extensive regulatory, board, and governance education and experience • Six years of current experience on Council • Strong belief in maintaining our self-regulatory privilege We need to continue improving APEGA’s regulatory functions and maintain our self-regulatory privilege, manage a serious difference of opinion with the Association of Science and Engineering Professionals of Alberta (ASET), and revise and renew our enabling legislation, the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act. Given our public safety and public interest mandate, maintaining the self-regulatory privilege granted by the government is a paramount issue. APEGA’s professional members are the best equipped to manage our affairs. That's why our regulatory focus is on the investigation, compliance, enforcement, and discipline functions; together they demon- strate and validate our self-regulatory status and reputation. Revising and renewing our Act is one of our most important tasks, but there is a significant divergence of positions between APEGA and ASET within the one Act, two associations arrangement. ASET’s demand for an independent scope of practice is something we must resolve. These matters require oversight and direction by Council as a whole, but it’s the executive that provides Council leadership and continuity of oversight and direction for management and staff in the months between Council meetings. The Executive Committee needs hands-on, board-level education and experience to work effectively on behalf of APEGA members—I have that, as well as current experience at the Council table. APEGA ACTIVITIES I have six years’ current experience on Council and four years as our Geoscientists Canada Director (President, 2015–2016). I serve on Council’s Governance Committee and its bylaws subcommittee. I served on the Practice Review Board as both a Member and Chair in the past, and performed a number of other volunteer tasks over the years. PERSONAL INFORMATION I came to Canada in 1970, after earning a B.Sc. (London) and teaching high school, to study at McMaster. After earning an M.Sc., I moved to Calgary in 1972 to begin a career in oil and gas. Joyce (a teacher) and I married in 1972; we have two adult daughters and three grandchildren.

Currently, I am the principal of geos • eynon & associates, providing consulting services on energy-related matters (regulatory issues, community and stakeholder relations, board and governance functions). Clients span a spectrum of organizations—governments at all levels, industry companies and associations, and the

public. I do some work with the School of Public Policy, and provide energy literacy short courses for industry, governments, and the public. I also serve on the board of directors of Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources. As well, I have taught at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business for the last five years. In 2008, cabinet appointed me to the board of the Energy Resources Conservation Board—Alberta’s oil and gas industry regulator. I served through 2013, for the last six months as a hearing commissioner with the Alberta Energy Regulator. For the prior 15 years I provided energy resources consulting and research services with GEOS Energy Consulting, Ziff Energy, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, and the Canadian Energy Research Institute. I spent 20 or so years in oil and gas exploration and development in Canada and internationally, moving through increasingly senior technical, management, and executive positions with a broad spectrum of companies—an international major, and Canadian and U.S. independents and small juniors. This provided me with worldwide experience—in Western Canada, the U.S., the North Sea, Pakistan, Indonesia, and several other countries. AFFILIATIONS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE • Fellow of Geoscientists Canada, and Honorary Fellow of Engineers Canada • Honorary Member of both the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Served on numerous CSPG committees, and as President; and on numerous AAPG committees, as Chair of the House of Delegates, and on the executive committee. • Volunteer at Calgary’s Drop-in Centre, serving meals to clients for over 10 years.

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