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SPE Executive Director

Mark Rubin

Mark Rubin was appointed as executive director for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) in August 2001. Prior to this appointment, he served as upstream general manager for the American Petroleum Institute (API) in Washington, D.C.

Rubin holds a BS in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA, and an MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. A member of SPE since 1979, Rubin held petroleum engineering positions for Unocal Corp. in Houston and East Texas from 1981 to 1987 and for Buttes Resources Co. in Dallas from 1987 to 1988.

Rubin joined API in 1988 and held a series of positions working on federal regulatory and legislative matters as well as technical standards development. His responsibilities at API included presenting testimony on behalf of industry before the US Congress and serving as API’s key media spokesperson on E&P issues. Beginning in 1998, he served as general manager of API’s Upstream Segment, which focuses on advocacy on access, royalty management, environmental, and drilling and production operations issues.

Rubin is a member of the National Petroleum Council, the American Society of Association Executives, and the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives. He has been a member of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, and served on President George W. Bush’s Interior Department Transition Advisory Team.

At SPE, Rubin is responsible for staff operations in the society's five offices – Dallas, Houston, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai and London.

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