William F. (Bill) Lawson General Chair 16th Improved Oil Recovery Symposium

William F. (Bill) Lawson became the director of technology commercialization at the University of Tulsa in September 2007, where he champions the identification, development, and marketing of the university's intellectual property. He is also engaged in consulting on energy and management issues through his Tulsa-based company, Mountaineer International LLC. In 2006-2007, he taught courses on energy and environment at the University of Oklahoma in the Price School of Business and the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy. Dr. Lawson spent over 31 years at the US Department of Energy, most recently as the Director of the Strategic Center for Natural Gas and Oil at the National Energy Technology Laboratory from 2002 until his retirement in January 2006. There he oversaw the natural gas and oil research and development implementation activities for DOE's Office of Fossil Energy. During 1998-2002, he served as director of DOE's National Petroleum Technology Office in Tulsa. Prior to this appointment, Lawson was part of DOE's research and management team in a wide variety of other assignments at the National Energy Technology Center and its precursors. An applied physicist educated at West Virginia University, Lawson has published 24 professional papers. Lawson is current chair (2007-10) and Oklahoma delegate to the Energy Resources and Technology Committee of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (2006-present). He also is general chair of the 2008 SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium. Lawson is currently a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and American Association of Petroleum Geologists.