Elizabeth Matthews is a senior executive, general counsel, and board director with over 25 years of experience in complex global industries including energy, aviation, and infrastructure. Recognized for her strategic leadership, legal expertise, and governance acumen, she has advised boards and executive teams at Fortune 500 and multinational corporations and led legal, regulatory, and government affairs functions across multiple continents.

Currently, Matthews serves as senior vice president, general counsel, head of government affairs, and corporate secretary for Bristow Group (NYSE: VTOL), a global leader in vertical flight solutions. In this role, she is a member of the executive leadership team, overseeing global legal operations, board governance, international government relations, and risk and insurance. She leads a cross-border legal team and manages high-profile litigation, mergers and acquisitions activity, governance, and compliance.

Previously, Matthews held senior executive and legal leadership roles at TotalEnergies SE (NYSE: TTE), a $134 billion multinational energy company. As deputy managing director and general counsel for TotalEnergies U.S., she directed legal strategy for a diverse portfolio—including oil and gas, renewable energy, refining, chemicals, and trading—and managed legal support for transformative transactions such as the $9 billion acquisition of Anadarko’s African assets and the $250 million integration of SunPower’s commercial unit. She also chaired the U.S. ethics committee and spearheaded key diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Matthews’s earlier experience includes over a decade at Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), where she served in leadership roles across global technology as well as upstream legal operations. Matthews began her career in private practice at the law firms of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Dickstein Shapiro.

She currently serves on several nonprofit and advisory boards, including the National Petroleum Council, to which she was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy, the World Affairs Council of Houston, and the Institute for Energy Law. She also is a board member of the Texas General Counsel Forum and the American Hospital of Paris Foundation.

Matthews has been honored with numerous awards, including the Magna Stella Award for Best Corporate Counsel and the Houston Business Journal’s Best Corporate Counsel Award, and she has been recognized among the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Energy by the National Diversity Council.

She holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor of arts from Yale University and has completed executive education at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is conversant in French and has worked extensively across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.