Ghazal Izadi

Dr. Ghazal Izadi is the Chief Growth Officer at XGS Energy, where she leads global resource exploration for the company’s breakthrough geothermal power solutions. With more than a decade of international experience across oil & gas, energy technology, and clean power, she is at the forefront of delivering scalable, dispatchable geothermal energy as a vital part of the future energy mix. Prior to joining XGS in 2022, Ghazal held senior technical and commercial leadership roles at Baker Hughes, where she managed reservoir services and technology deployment across North America, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. Her work spanned the entire energy value chain—from subsurface to surface facility integration—supporting both conventional and emerging energy systems.

Ghazal holds a Ph.D. from Penn State University. She has authored over 40 technical publications and continues to be an active voice in energy innovation.

Her contributions to the field have been recognized with the 2022 Geothermal Rising Henry J. Ramey, Jr. Reservoir Engineering Award, honoring outstanding achievement in subsurface geoscience and geothermal development, and she was recently named one of the 2025 Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. She has been selected as the winner of the 2025 C3E Entrepreneurship and/or Commercialization Award, On behalf of C3E—an initiative led by the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Initiative, and Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy.