Maria de Lourdes Guinazu

Guinazu works as operation manager in Brent Energia y Servicios in Argentina. She has more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry holding roles of increasing responsibility in different countries and companies.

She is a professor for the petroleum engineering major and, consequently, an advocate of STEM education. She holds petroleum engineering and project manager degrees from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina) and a diploma in business leadership from IESE (Spain).

She has been a member of the SPE since she was a student and has volunteered in different committees and sections. Currently, she is the Chair for the SPE Patagonia Section (Argentina) and the 2023-2024 Chair for the SPEI D&I Standing Committee. In 2021 she received the SPE Regional Management award for Latin America and the Caribbean.