Conrad Allen

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Conrad Keene Allen (born in Marion, Illinois in 1968) is a geologist and former president of the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists. Allen is the youngest person to serve on the National Petroleum Council; he was first appointed in 2000 by Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson and reappointed in 2003 by Secretary Spencer Abraham. Allen established the Conrad & Deanna Allen Endowment at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Lymphoma and Myeloma Center; the Conrad & Deanna Allen Scholarship in the Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; and the Alonzo & Therese Allen Scholarship at Firelands College in Huron, Ohio.^[1]