Shell CEO: Resource Overload, Earth’s Challenges in 2050

Marvin Odum

Marvin E. Odum is president of Shell Oil Company and director upstream of Royal Dutch Shell’s subsidiary companies in the Americas. He directs a broad portfolio, from traditional oil and gas development to emerging technologies in a wide range of areas, including heavy oil, onshore gas, light tight oil, deep water, wind, and biofuels. He holds positions of board leadership and participation in the Business Roundtable and the American Petroleum Institute. Odum is a member of the Dean’s Council of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the advisory board of the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves on the University Cancer Foundation Board of Visitors for MD Anderson Cancer Center. Odum began his Shell career as an engineer in 1982 and has since served in a number of management positions of increasing responsibility in both technical and commercial aspects of energy.