Speakers

Roland N. Horne is the Thomas Davis Barrow Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Geothermal Program. He was the Chairman of the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Stanford from 1995 to 2006.  He served on the International Geothermal Association (IGA) Board and was the 2010-2013 President of IGA.  He was Technical Program Chairman of the World Geothermal Congress 2005 in Turkey, 2010 in Bali, Melbourne in 2015, and in Iceland in 2020-2021. 

Horne is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.  He is also a Fellow of the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo and an Honorary Professor of China University of Petroleum – East China.