Ryan M. Lance

Ryan M. Lance is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Energy Advisory Council.

Lance has served as chairman and chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips, the world’s largest independent exploration and production company, since 2012.

Lance is a petroleum engineer with 39 years of oil and natural gas industry experience in senior management and technical positions with ConocoPhillips, predecessor Phillips Petroleum and various divisions of ARCO.

He is a board member of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and a trustee of both the George H.W. Bush Library 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 member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Lance holds a BS in petroleum engineering from Montana Technological University in Butte.