Mr. Ovez Agayev is a Legal Counsel and Contracts Manager with Schlumberger Logelco Inc. in Turkmenistan. He is responsible for legal compliance, identifying and managing legal risks, conducting operation assurance reviews and trainings, drafting and negotiating contracts for oilfield services and products, providing overall contractual advice to management, and is involved in business plans, strategies and operations as part of the management team. Mr. Agayev has more than a decade of experience working for multinational auditing and consulting companies including Deloitte and Arthur Andersen in the areas of legal and tax consulting, advising multinational oil and gas, energy, service, construction and other companies, and participating in audits of companies in the banking, oil and gas, and manufacturing sectors. Mr. Agayev holds an LLM in Asian and Comparative Law from the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, Washington (2007), and a BS in Economics and Law from the Turkmen Institute of National Economy (2000).