• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Ryan Lance

ConocoPhillips

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Ryan M. Lance has served as chairman and chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips, the world’s largest independent exploration and production company, since 2012. Ryan is a petroleum engineer with 40 years of oil and natural gas industry experience in senior management and technical positions with ConocoPhillips, predecessor Phillips Petroleum and various divisions of ARCO. His past ConocoPhillips executive assignments included responsibility for international exploration and production, regional responsibility at various times for Asia, Africa, the Middle East and North America, and responsibility for technology, major projects, downstream strategy, integration and specialty functions. Externally, Ryan is a board member of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and a trustee of both the George and Barbara Bush Foundation and PGA Reach. He is also an advocate for charities benefiting youth through his service on the board of Spindletop International. He is a former chairman of the American Petroleum Institute currently serving on its Executive Committee, and currently Vice Chair the National Petroleum Council and on the Business Roundtable Board. Ryan is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.  He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering from Montana Technological University in Butte in 1984.

Sessions With Ryan Lance

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 11:15am - 11:35am (CST) / 19/mar/2024 04:15 pm - 19/mar/2024 04:35 pm

    Leadership Dialogue

    Strategy and Business Models

    Conversation with Ryan Lance, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, ConocoPhillips, and Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, S&P Global.