June 2025 Commerce Club Luncheon

Join us at the Commerce Club luncheon on Thursday, June 12, 2025, guest speaker Michel Bechtel, President, Gulf Coast Protection District. 

Michel Bechtel of Morgan’s Point was appointed to the Gulf Coast Protection Board of Directors by Governor Greg Abbott in 2021. He was unanimously elected as Board president. He is the President of Bechtel Exploration Company, and currently serves as the Mayor of the City of Morgan’s Point and on the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Ports of Harris County. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the New Orleans Geological Society, member and past president of the Harris County Mayors and Council Association and a board member of the Bay Area Coastal Protection Alliance, Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership, and the Economic Alliance Houston Port Region. Additionally, he is a member of the Chambers County Mayors Coalition and Port of Houston Commissioners Community Advisory Council.

Bechtel received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Geophysics from Louisiana State University in New Orleans and a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Geology from the University of New Orleans.

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