Public & Government Affairs Manager, ExxonMobil

Nicolás A. Medina recently retired as the Public & Government Affairs (P&GA) Manager for ExxonMobil Pipeline Company. A seasoned oil and gas executive with 30 years at ExxonMobil, Medina has worked in upstream, downstream, and midstream in Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Russia, Alaska, and the US. He had been in his position since March 29, 2013, when he served for nine months as the Public Information Officer for the Incident Command responding to the Mayflower spill in Arkansas. Previously, he worked in the Alaska Pipeline Project and before that was the Americas, Middle East, and Russia P&GA Manager for ExxonMobil Production Company. Previously, he was Global Speed pass Manager for ExxonMobil Fuels Marketing Company. Medina also managed the global franchise for ExxonMobil’s then 6,500 c-store chain, including its flagship the On the Run program. He is currently the vice chair of the Public Awareness Group at the American Petroleum Institute (API) and member of the communications and government relations committees at the Association of Oil Pipelines (AOPL). He is the current Chair of the Advisory Board of the Tapia Center at Rice University. At ExxonMobil he started its Hispanic employee resource group (GOAL) and served as its President. Medina has been a member of the board for the Latino Leadership Initiative at Harvard University; the Florida Caribbean Institute at FIU; Bread for the City in Washington, DC; the Hispanic Heritage Foundation; the Hispanic 360 Retail Summit (Nielsen Media), Vice Chair-Treasurer of AVANCE, Inc. in San Antonio; and Treasurer of NSHMBA. Nick holds a degree in Economics and International Relations from the American University in Washington, DC and a Master’s in Public Policy from the J.F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.