Join us for a special luncheon with our guest speaker Chett Chaisson. Chett is the Executive Director of the Greater Lafourche Port Commission (GLPC),which runs Port Fourchon and the South Lafourche Leonard Miller, Jr. Airport.
Chett’s experience at the Port Commission over the past 19 years includes the marketing and leasing of port and airport properties as well as grant writing, management, and disaster recovery. His battle-tested leadership saw Port Fourchon through the aftermath of a direct hit from 2021’s Hurricane Ida, highlighting the port’s resilience and strength by opening forbusiness within nine days of landfall.
Since being named director in January 2010, Chett has played a leadership role in working toprotect Port Fourchon and Louisiana’s surrounding coast from devastating land loss while also stressing the importance of the energy industry for our local, state, and national economies and U.S. energy security. As Chairman of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) Board of Directors, he advocates for ports and port-forward policy on a national level. Chett has also had several opportunities to testify to the U.S. Congress regarding the economic importance of Port Fourchon and the energy industry and how industry and the environment can and do work together. He continues to champion that message with his appointments to the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Task Force and the Louisiana Climate Initiatives Task Force Transportation Committee. On the state level, Chett serves on the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration, and Conservation. In 2024, he was appointed by the Governor to the Louisiana Ports & Waterways Investment Commission as a deepwater port representative.
Chett is Chairman of the Board of the South Louisiana Economic Council (SLEC) and is also a member of the SLEC Emerging Energy Task Force. He is Chairman of the LA 1 Coalition Board of Directors, President of the Gulf Ports Association, Vice President of the Executive Board of Restore or Retreat, and a Fourchon Energy Association board member. Also, Chett is a past chairman of the Lafourche Chamber of Commerce and past president of the Ports Association of Louisiana (PAL), the South Central Industrial Association (SCIA), and the Bayou IndustrialGroup (BIG). He is a graduate of both Leadership Lafourche (2008) and Leadership Louisiana (2009), SCIA’s Tillman Esteve Outstanding Member Award Winner (2023), Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana’s Coastal Stewardship Award winner (2022), one of the Best of Lafourche’s Forty under Forty (2014), and the LSU Public Administration Institute’s 2015 Distinguished MPA Alumnus. Chett holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Master of Public Administration degree, both from LSU. Geaux Tigers.
We look forward to seeing you there register by February 5, 2025 to secure your spot.
