Vandana Gangaram Panday, Vice President of Staatsolie Hydrocarbon Institute, leads Staatsolie’s regulatory duties. 

She is tasked with promoting Suriname’s acreage to the international exploration and production (E&P) industry, concluding and managing petroleum agreements with international oil companies, and overseeing the management of all offshore data. 

Vandana has over 20 years of experience within Staatsolie’s value chain, with a strong track record in petroleum law and policy, strategy and corporate planning, contract negotiations and management, project economics, and regulatory affairs.  

Her academic background includes  

a M.Sc. in systems engineering, policy analysis and management from TU Delft, the Netherlands, a postgraduate in petroleum engineering from TNO/TU Delft, and a LL.M. in mineral law & policy from the University of Dundee, Scotland.