Trustees

Colin has been the resident General Manager of DNO Yemen AS since 2001.  He was one of the original supporters of the Yemen Smile project.  DNO Yemen AS is a subsidiary of DNO ASA, a Norwegian oil and gas company which is registered on the Oslo stock exchange.  Colin has a wealth of international experience, having lived and worked in many developed and developing countries during his 20 year career with Shell International and six years in the Royal Norwegian Navy.  He graduated from the Royal Norwegian Navy Academy in 1968 and from the University of Trondheim, Norway with a Masters Degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1975.  He is married and has two grown up children.

André is a mining engineer who graduated in 1974 from Ecoles des Mines d`Ales in France. From 1976 - 1982 he worked as a civil servant in France before joining Elf Aquitaine. He was Safety and Environment Manager in France from 1982 to 1990, Environment Manager in Gabon, Africa from 1991 to 1995 before, in 1996, moving to Paris as Oil Spill Preparedness and Response Manager at the company headquarters. In 2001 after the company merged with Total he moved to Damascus as Health, Safety, Environment, and Security Manager for Total EP, Syria. In 2005 he became Health, Safety, Environmental, Security and Sustainable Development Manager for Total EP, Yemen based in Sana ́a. He and his wife Elisabeth have two children and two grand daughters.