Glen Burridge
Glen Burridge is Executive Director of European Federation of Geologists, the representative body for the continent’s professional geological associations.
EFG is currently heavily involved in responding to the new opportunities and threats for the geological profession in Europe as it enters a period of significant change in how, where and why it operates.
Our promotion of the profession’s value for sustainable resourcing and protecting the public from environmental hazards involves building relationships with our key “customers” among EU and national policymakers, industry decision-makers, engineers and peer sectors, as well as the media and the public at large.
We do this through participation in multiple EU Horizon Programme projects, promotion of excellence in the application of geoscience and setting of international standards, dedicated Expert Panels and Working Groups on the most important topics of concern as well as a wide production of events and media content.
EFG’s federation of associations represents over 45,000 individual professional geoscientists from 27 countries and we have longstanding relationships with peer organisations across the world.
Glen’s work with EFG draws on over 20 years of global experience spanning a broad range of organisations and cultures. This includes as a front-line project geoscientist and, ultimately, management advisor on large oil & gas projects, where he became a trusted voice on technical assurance, project governance and capability development.
As a keynote speaker and workshop organiser, he has tackled topics as diverse as novel ways of viewing resource exploration risk and the future of geomechanics as a discipline, to the human factor in geomodelling and the importance of intercultural competence in management.
He has also driven several cross-industry efforts concerning the handling of risk and the use of geological models, including several pioneering conferences for the Geological Society of London.
Glen holds a Bachelors of Science in Geophysics from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and a Masters of Science and Diplôme d’ingénieur in Petroleum Geoscience from IFP’s Ecole du Pétrole et des Moteurs in Paris.
He is a member of the Institute of Directors, Chatham House, European Society of Association Executives, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Geological Society and Platinum member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers.