Keynote Speaker on Sunday, November 28, 2021 at 9:00

Chris Ballentine gained his PhD in isotope geochemistry at Cambridge and has worked at the University of Michigan, ETH-Zurich and the University of Manchester. He now holds the Chair of Geochemistry at the University of Oxford. He is an American Geophysical Union Fellow (AGU), awarded for advancing the science of Earth’s formation and geochemical evolution, and CIFAR Fellow (Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science). He holds a prestigious Eni industry award for the application of gas isotopic tracers in developing our understanding of oil and gas systems, carbon dioxide waste storage, groundwater security, and commercial helium accumulation. He has held major research contracts with multinationals such as ExxonMobil, Statoil and Total, as well as the UK, European and US governments. He has served as President of the European Union of Geochemistry and, until recently, was a Board member of the AGU with a membership >60,000. He is currently Head (Chair) of the Oxford University Department of Earth Sciences.

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