President-Elect Candidate Biographies

Alfredo E. Guzman

Alfredo Eduardo Guzmán was born in Mexico City in 1947, where he lived until 1967.

In 1971 he obtained a bachelor’s of science degree and in 1973 a master’s of science degree, both in geology, from Texas Tech University. While at school he worked as a teaching assistant, and then for a year-and-a-half he worked at the Mexican Petroleum Institute as a research assistant doing carbonate diagenesis.

In 1974 he joined Pemex Exploración y Producción as an explorationist, with responsibilities that ranged from rig-sitting to field mapping and sedimentology projects in the different basins of northern México.

In 1994-1995 he led the Burgos Basin Project in northeastern México, which increased gas production from less than 200 mmcfd to over 1 bcfd today.

In 1995 he became exploration manager for the North Region of Pemex´s E&P, and in 1997 became planning manager for the same region. In 1999 Guzmán was named exploration strategies coordinator, the highest exploration position in the company.

Since 2002 he has been subdirector for all E&P operations of the North Region, being the first geologist ever to hold this position.