Ahmed El-Banbi
Dr. Ahmed El-Banbi is currently a professor of Petroleum Engineering and chair of the department at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He has 25 years of diversified international experience in reservoir and petroleum engineering. He worked as an engineer, trainer, and a technology developer. Ahmed spent 12 years with Schlumberger where he held a variety of technical and managerial positions in 5 countries. He has considerable experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams and performing integrated reservoir studies. Previously, he had shorter assignments with a major oil company and a consulting company in addition to academic research and teaching experience. He authored and co-authored more than eighty technical papers, two book chapters, and holds one US patent. He has been on numerous SPE committees, program chair for the North Africa Technical Conference and Exhibition, and technical reviewer for the SPE Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation Journal and other journals. Ahmed holds BS and MS degrees from Cairo University, and an MS and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University; all in petroleum engineering.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Chair of the department at the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt.