Iain MacDougall’s career in the upstream petroleum exploration and production business spans more than 25 years, prior to which he worked in the nuclear power industry and in automotive powertrain research and development. He has extensive experience with international oilfield services company Schlumberger, with operational and management assignments in Australia, Asia, the UK North Sea, Europe, West Africa and the Middle East. For a decade, Mr MacDougall has been based in Australia, initially with independent Operator Stuart Petroleum as production and engineering manager and subsequently as acting chief executive prior to the takeover of Stuart Petroleum by Senex Energy. Following the takeover, he was chief operating officer at Bight Petroleum (a privately held independent exploration company) and a director of Barker Wentworth (a specialist oil and gas consulting company). Mr MacDougall is an alumnus of Manchester University in the UK and of the INSEAD Business School in France. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and an advisory board member of the Australian School of Petroleum at Adelaide University.
