Nancy Ryan Gray
(Director from 2003-Present)
Nancy Ryan Gray is the Director of the
Gordon Research Conferences.
Nancy received her B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 1981 and
her Ph.D. in Fuel Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University in 1985. She was a Scientific
Fellow at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
during 1984. Nancy has participated in and been an invited speaker at the Analytical Pyrolysis
Gordon Conference.
Prior to joining GRC, Nancy served as the Director of Membership at the American Chemical
Society (ACS). The Membership Division includes the Departments of Career Services, Membership
Activities, Meetings and Expositions, Awards and Divisional Activities, Local Section and Community
Activities, and Industry Member Programs. In addition to serving as Membership Director, Nancy was
the liaison to the Board Committee on Grants and Awards and the Council Committee on Nominations
and Elections and was responsible for stewarding the ACS national election process.
Prior to joining the ACS, Nancy spent nine years working as an industrial research chemist at
Exxon Production Research Company in Houston, Texas. Nancy served as Research Specialist in
Organic Chemistry working in the Environmental Conservation Section where she was responsible
for communicating chemical data and technical results to operations and field management personnel
at Exxon as well as to environmental compliance regulators and government representatives. Nancy
developed, organized, and presented technical training courses in oil and gas exploration and
production, petroleum geochemistry, and environmental site assessment and remediation.