Lisa Houghton has spent 30 years in the communications and public relations field, primarily in the oil and gas industry. She is currently the senior communications consultant for a greenfield oil and gas project on Alaska’s North Slope.

Houghton began her career with Amoco at their Chicago headquarters as a media relations representative and then moved to the Whiting, Indiana, refinery as the public affairs representative where her crisis response experience began. After a brief stint with the chemicals division in Atlanta, Houghton worked in Russia for more than three years doing community/indigenous relations and media relations primarily in western Siberia. She then spent six months in China on a special assignment. Returning to the U.S., she supported several international business units including Venezuela and Bolivia.

Choosing to leave Amoco to start a family, Houghton began her first consulting business in 1999 working for a variety of firms from ExxonMobil to the Houston International Festival. She returned to the oil and gas industry in 2008 as BP’s lower 48 internal communications advisor in order to minimize travel away from her young family. In 2010 she served in the DWH oil spill response in Mississippi.

In 2014 she was named vice president of public and government affairs for BP’s onshore exploration and production business in the lower 48. In 2016 she took a leap to Alaska as the communications director for the company’s business unit. After BP sold its Alaska business in 2020, Houghton joined the Department of Justice as the PIO for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska where she gained significant insight into the law enforcement world.

Houghton received a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri- Columbia and will receive a Master of Strategic Communication (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Oklahoma in May 2024. Houghton is married to Jeff and is the proud mom of two adult children Trevor(24) and Elliott (20) both of whom reside in Georgia.