As the Director for the Americas, Wafik promotes IOGP’s good practices in upstream operations and in the low-carbon energy transition to IOGP Members, regional industry associations, governments, and other stakeholders in region. Wafik first worked as a geophysicist with Atlantic Richfield in Texas. He then held various roles in TotalEnergies, including Area Exploration Manager for the “Golden Block” 17 in Angola, Research and Technology Business Development Manager, global Geophysical Operations and Technologies Manager in France, President & CEO TotalEnergies Research & Technology USA LLC in Houston, R&D Division Manager at ADNOC in Abu Dhabi, and General Manager and Country Chair for TotalEnergies in Kuwait. He was Chairman of OTC (2018-2019). Wafik has a Master’s and a PhD in Geophysics from MIT. He is a member of SEG, SPE, EAGE, AAPG, AGU, and Sigma Xi, and has over 100 publications and communications.