Ceri Michele Powell (born July 1963)[1] is a Welsh geologist and businesswoman who worked for Royal Dutch Shell from 1990 to 2020.
Education
The daughter of a manager at Milford Haven oil refinery (and chairman of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority),[2] Powell grew up in Pembrokeshire and trained as a geologist.[3] Inspired by the example of Dame May Ogilvie Gordon, one of the first female geologists,[4] Powell studied for a BSc in geology at the University of Liverpool and then pursued a PhD (awarded in 1990), sponsored by Shell, at Cardiff University, studying inversion tectonics and the reactivation of extensional faults as Compressional thrusts.[2]