Roy M. Huffington

Roy M. Huffington is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Roy M. Huffington, Inc., an independent, international oil and gas company located in Houston, Texas.

He received a B.S. degree from Southern Methodist University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology from Harvard University. He subsequently served from Ensign to Lt. Commander with the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945, receiving a Bronze Star with Combat V, and Presidential Unit Citation for his participation with Task Force 58 in the Pacific.

In 1946, he joined Humble Oil & Refining Company as a field geologist, leaving in 1956 to set up his own oil and gas exploration company.

Roy M. Huffington, Inc., as an independent, worked mostly in Texas and Louisiana until 1968, when Mr. Huffington secured a production-sharing contract with the Government of Indonesia. Discoveries in East Kalimantan led to the development of a multi-billion dollar LNG export project between Indonesia and Japan. In 1985, he received the Gold Medallion Oil Pioneer Award from the Government of Indonesia for meritorious services to the oil and gas industry in that country. In 1990, the overseas properties of the company were sold to the Chinese Petroleum Corporation of Taiwan.

From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Huffington served as the U.S. Ambassador to Austria, where he worked to open up business opportunities between the newly-accessible Eastern Block countries and their Western counterparts. He sponsered two annual, highly-successful business seminars in Vienna and was awarded the 1992 Ambassador of the Year award form the Diplomatic Club of Vienna. In 1997, he was awarded the "Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeichen" ("Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold") for services to the Republic of Austria.

Among the honors and awards Mr. Huffington has received from business, civic, professional and academic groups, are the Alumni Achievment Award from the Harward Business School and the Distinguished Alumnus Award and a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Southern Methodist University. He has also been elected into the Texas Business Hall of Fame.

Mr. Huffington has published geological articles in various professional journals. He has also been a director or trustee of numerous professional, civic, cultural, medical and educational institutions troughout the United States and in several other parts of the world.