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Sushma K. Bhan

Chief Data Officer Shell

Sushma K. Bhan, SPE, is Royal Dutch Shell’s chief data officer of subsurface and wells. She holds an MS degree from the University of Delhi and an executive MBA degree from the University of Houston. Bhan received the 2019 SPE Gulf Coast Management and Information Award and has recently been awarded the SPE Management and Information Award.

  • While digital-strategy implementation is at least superficially reliant on technical and architectural advances and vendor solutions, the narrow focus on technology has come at the expense of a data-centric digitalization approach.