Sonya Vial is currently the General Manager Process Development at Shell based in Houston. Originally from outside of New Orleans, she graduated with a chemical engineering degree from Tulane University and joined Shell shortly thereafter.

In her 25+ years with Shell, she has enjoyed a variety of assignments in process engineering, operations, process safety, technology and carbon management including an assignment in the Netherlands.

In her current role, she leads a team which de-risks and scales up innovative processes to drive down carbon emissions and deliver value. She has a passion for mentoring and coaching others, and has devoted significant time to developing others in her leadership roles and through the employee resource groups.