Dr. Faye Gerard is the vice president of low carbon & sustainability at BPX energy, BP’s U.S. onshore oil and gas business. She is leading the U.S. efforts on progressing the company and world to net zero by 2050. She began her career at Marathon Oil Company in the early 1990’s as a process engineer and has held other roles, such as HSSE roles, diversity officer, projects, and public/community affairs director. Dr. Gerard has been in oil and gas for almost 30 years.

Dr. Gerard joined bp in 2007 as an upstream environmental engineer. Her past bp roles include onshore regulatory, compliance and environmental manager; performance lead for global projects & wells organizations; upstream global environmental & social technical authority; global senior environmental & social advisor; planning/finance lead; and environmental unit leader, spill response.

Dr. Gerard has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Tuskegee University, a MBA, and a DBA.

Dr. Gerard has three children. Faye’s interests are in philanthropy, volunteering, and traveling. She has served as chair of the LSU Diversity Engineering Advisory Board, University of Houston Women’s Leadership Advisory Board member, Stanford University Natural Gas Initiative advisory board, and board member of several community and civic organizations.