Past-Presidents

APEGA has existed for almost 100 years, and for every year of its existence, there has been a president of Council to uphold the pillars that APEGA stands for: integrity, accountability, innovation, and service. Through the decades of change and growth, the men and women listed below led APEGA’s Council.

They have worked across the globe, from Mississippi to Venezuela, but all settled their talents here in Alberta. Each came from different walks of life, from serving in the Second World War, to teaching aeronautics, to instigating first-time overseas ventures. This incredible group made its mark on the world and on APEGA.

All of these outstanding people helped make APEGA what it is today, and all were thanked for their service with an Honorary Life Membership award—a framed medallion memento—inducting them as life members of APEGA.

2010: Kim Farwell, P.Eng., MBA, FEC, FGC (Hon.)

APEGGA President Kim Farwell, P.Eng., MBA, FEC works for Syncrude Canada Ltd. as an Operations Support Leader for Extraction. She is respected as an industry expert in commercial bitumen extraction processes and has lived in Fort McMurray for the past 15 years.

Farwell was the chair of APEGGA’s Fort McMurray Branch from 2002 to 2003 and an APEGGA Councillor from 2002 to 2005 before returning as President-Elect in 2009 and then President in 2010. She has been a member and chair of numerous APEGGA committees and task forces, and is a recipient of an APEGGA Voluntary Service Award and the Early Accomplishment Summit Award®.

In June 2010 she was designated a fellow of Engineers Canada and in 2013 she was named an honorary fellow of Geoscientists Canada.