Schlumberger Foundation

The Schlumberger Foundation is a non-profit organisation overseen by a Board of Directors and managed and administered by Schlumberger employees. It operates under two legal entities, the Schlumberger Foundation Inc., registered in 1954 in the US and the Schlumberger Stichting Fund registered in 1985 in the Netherlands. Since its inception the Foundation supports science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The Foundation’s flagship program is ‘Faculty for the Future’. This Program, which is currently the sole program funded by the Foundation, aims to address the gender gap in STEM disciplines by selecting the most talented female scientists, providing them with a unique opportunity to develop their skills, exposing them to vital international experience and networking, thereby training them to become future leaders, change agents and policy makers back in their home regions where they are ultimately expected to return. The Program is growing each year and has become a powerful community that today stands at 405 pioneering women scientists from 68 countries.