The Case for Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with Leland Jourdan

A Conversation with Leland Jourdan
(Chief Diversity Officer, Chevron Corporation)

A co-sponsored online event between ACS and AWIS
The event will include a presentation followed by a Q&A session.

Zoom or Webex link to be shared with attendees the day of the event.

Leland (Lee) T. Jourdan graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1978. Serving his five-year post graduate military commitment, he reached the rank of Captain while serving as a logistics officer and paratrooper in the 18th Airborne Corps. He currently serves as Chief Diversity Officer, Global Diversity and Ombuds Center of Expertise with Chevron. Prior assignments in Chevron include Vice President, Commercial, Chevron IndoAsia Business Unit, which included commercial and business development covering Indonesia and the Philippines, and GM Commercial and Business Development for Chevron’s Asia South Business Unit which includes Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Jourdan has been in the energy industry since 1983, a career that spans the regulated and deregulated landscape of energy commodities, including US domestic trading, transportation and LNG, as well as energy acquisition and divestiture projects. After nine years living in Thailand and Indonesia, Jourdan now resides in Houston, TX, with Diane, his wife of 37 years. They have three children and two grandchildren. Jourdan is an avid golfer, a published author, and serves on the advisory board of SEARCH Homeless Services in Houston.