Confirmed Speakers:

Family name: Bahedh
First name: Abdul-Kareem Luaibi
Date of birth: 1959
Place of birth: Baghdad, Iraq
Marital status: Married, six children
Education: BSc in Petroleum Engineering, College of Engineering, Baghdad University, Iraq, 1982
Posts held: Assistant Engineer, South Oil Company, 1982–89
 Engineer, South Oil Company, 1989–93
 Senior Engineer, Midland Refineries Company, 1993–98
 Chief Engineer, Technical Department, Ministry of Oil, 1998–2004
 Director of Chemical Materials, Technical Department, Ministry of Oil, 2004–06
 Assistant Director General, Technical Department, Ministry of Oil, 2006–07
 Inspector General, Ministry of Oil, 2007–09
 Deputy Minister of Oil for Upstream Operations, 2009–10
 Minister of Oil, December 2010 to date

Family name: Naimi
First name: Ali Ibrahim
Date of birth: 2 August 1935
Place of birth: Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Education: International College, Beirut and American University, Beirut, Lebanon, 1956–63
BSc, Geology, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania (USA), 1962
MSc, Geology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (USA), 1963
Posts held: Worked with Aramco from 1947 onward as Foreman, Assistant Superintendent, Superintendent and Manager
Assistant Geologist, Aramco Exploration Department, 1953
Hydrologist, Geologist, Aramco, 1963–67
Economics and Public Relations Department and Abqaiq Producing Division, Aramco, 1967–69
Vice President, Aramco, 1975
Senior Vice President, Aramco, 1978
Elected Aramco Director in 1980
Executive Vice President, Operations, Aramco, 1982
Company President, 1984
Chief Executive Officer, Aramco, 1988
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, August 1995 to date

Family name: Ramirez
First name: Rafael D
Date of birth: 4 August 1963
Place of birth: Caracas, Venezuela
Marital status: Married, two children
Education: Graduated as Mechanical Engineer at Los Andes University, Mérida, Venezuela, 1989
Master’s Degree in Energy Studies, Central University of Venezuela, 1996
Posts held: Worked in INTEVEP, 1989–90
Project Engineer, OTEPI, 1990–93
Technical Co-ordinator, DIT Harris, 1993–96
Technical Manager, INELECTRA, 1996
President, national gas entity, Enagas, 2000–02
External Director, PDVSA, Februay 2002
Minister of Energy and Mines, July 2002–January 2005
President, PDVSA, November 2004 to date
Minister of Energy and Petroleum, January 2005 to date
Languages: Spanish and English

Family name: Al Hamli
First name: Mohamed bin Dhaen
Date of birth: 31 December 1952
Marital status: Married, seven children
Education: Higher National Diploma in Business Studies, 1976
Association of Certified Accountants, 1979
Advanced Management Programme, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) 1988
Posts held: Internal Auditor, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company, August 1980–July 1981
Controller, Internal Audit, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company, August 1981–July 1982
Manager, Management Research, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company, July 1982–January 1984
Manager, General Services, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company, January 1984–May 1988
Assistant General Manager (Administration), Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company, June 1988–February 1989
Director, Finance, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, February 1989–February 1990
Director, Marketing, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, February 1990–May 1992
Director, Personnel, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, May 1992–March 1997
General Manager, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company for Distribution, March 1997–October 1998
UAE Governor for OPEC, 1994–2002
Director, Marketing & Refining, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, October 1998–present
Minister of Energy, November 2004 to dateCurrent Company
Board Member of:
– ADNOC Distribution
– Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company
– International Petroleum Investment Company
– Abu Dhabi Retirement Pensions & Benefits Fund
– Higher Corporation for Specialised Economic Zones
– Hyundai Oilbank Co. Ltd., South Korea
Committee Member, Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC), UAE

Family name: Botelho de Vasconcelos
First name: José Maria
Country of birth: Technical Electrical Engineer, Industrial Technology Institute of Luanda, 1974
Posts held: Engineer Maintenance Technician, Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, 1974–76
Marketing of Derivatives of Petroleum, Belgium, 1976
Deputy Inspector of the Directorate of Technical Fina Petroleum, National Directorate of Petroleum
Marketing, 1977–79
Lubrication and Application of Lubricants, Shell France, 1981
Strategic Planning for Executives in the Oil Industry, London, England, 1998
Chairman of the Committee of SADC Ministers of Energy, SADC National Committee, 1999–2000
Minister of Petroleum, 1999–2002
Minister of Energy and Water, 2002–08
Minister of Petroleum, October 2008 to date

Family name: Alison-Madueke
First names: Diezani Kogbeni
Date of birth: 6 December 1960
Place of birth: Port-Harcourt, Rivers State
Marital status: Married with children
Education: BArch, Howard University, Washington, DC (USA)
MBA, Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, England, 2003
Posts held: Worked for Charles Szoradi Architects, Washington, DC
Project Engineer, American Interior Builders, Inc., Washington, DC
Design Coordinator, Furman Construction Management, Inc., Rockville, Maryland
Project Manager, Howard University, Washington, DC
Member of the Planning and Development Team, Howard University, Washington, DC
Head of Project Unit, Estate Development Division, Shell Petroleum Company, Lagos, Nigeria
Head of Corporate Issues Identification & Management Department, External Affairs Directorate, Shell
Petroleum Company, Lagos, Nigeria
Senior JV Relations Adviser for Strategy and Planning, Shell Petroleum Company, Lagos, Nigeria
Lead Ventures Relation Adviser, Shell Petroleum Company, Lagos, Nigeria
External Affairs Director, Board of Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited, 2006
Appointed Minister of Transportation, July 2007
Minister of Mines and Steel Development, December 2008
Minister of Petroleum Resources, April 2010
Chevening Scholarship, British and Foreign Commonwealth Office, England

Family name: Pástor-Morris
First name: Wilson
Date of birth: 23 January 1946
Marital status: Married, four children
Educations: Master in Energy Economics, University Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, France, 1970–71
Graduate School of Engineering Geology, Mines and Petroleum, Central University of Ecuador, 1964–68 and 1969–70
Posts held: Technical Director of the National Energy Institute, 1978
Planning Manager Assistant of CEPE, 1979–80
Advisor to the Chairman of the National Congress, Petroleum and Mining, 1981–83
Advisor to the Comptroller General of the State in Oil Contracts and external Merchandising, 1983–84
General Coordinator of the Oil Contract Unit, 1984–87
Consultant to the World Bank, 1987–88
Chief Financial Officer of Texaco, operator ECE-Texaco Consortium, 1988–90
General Manager of Petroamazonas, operator of the ECE-Texaco Consortium, 1990–92
General Coordinator of the petroleum procurement unit of the seventh round of bidding, 1993–95
General Manager of Ecuador Triton Energy, Inc. LLC, 1995–99
Executive President of Petroecuador, 1999–2000
Operations Manager of CPEB, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), 2001–07
General Manager of Block 15 and Petroamazonas Ecuador SA, 2007–10

“The Economic Implications of the Oil Contracts Between the State and Private Enterprise”, November 2005
“Oil Policy Proposals to Revive Production in Ecuador”, June 2003
“Cost-Benefit Study: Centre East Pipeline”, January 1995
“The Ecuadorian Energy Sector”, co-author, World Bank, 1990
“Servicing Agreements”, 1987
“Decision and Control in Times of Uncertainty, the Ecuadorian Oil Opening”, 1986
“Update Costs and Prices of Petroleum Products”, 1984
“External Marketing Agreement Between ECE and Coastal Oil”, 1984
“Limitations of the Oil Reserves of Ecuador”, 1984
“The Ecuadorian Oil Contracts: A Commitment of Interest Based on the Seriousness of Mutual Respect”, 1983
“For a Thorough Review of the Common External Marketing of Oil”, 1983
“There are Favourable Conditions for Foreign Oil Investment”, 1983
“Reforms to the Law of ECE, 1983
“The Reforms to the Hydrocarbons Law: Criticisms and Solutions”, 1981
Book: “ECE and Openness to External Capital”, co-author, 1979
“The Grant of Petroleum in Ecuador: Methodology and Calculation”, 1979

Honours: Graduate of the Radioactive Mineral Prospectors programme, Commissariat for Atomic Energy, France, 1969
Ranked second in class in Master of Energy Economics programme, University of Grenoble, France, 1971
Languages: Spanish, French, English

Family name: Yousfi
First name: Youcef
Date of birth: 1941
Education: PhD in Physics, University of Nancy, France
Chemical Engineer, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques, Nancy, France
Diploma in Economics
Posts held: Lecturer and then professor of chemical engineering, University of Algiers (USTHB), Algeria, 1973–78
Advisor, Ministry of Energy and Industry, 1973–78
Vice President in Charge of Marketing, National Oil Company, Sonatrach, Algeria, 1979
Director General (CEO), Sonatrach, 1985
President of the Board, State Holding for “Mines, Hydrocarbons et Hydraulics”, 1988
Director, Office of the President of the Republic, Republic of Algeria, 1996
Elected as Member of the National Popular Assembly (Parliament), 1997
Minister of Energy and Mines, 1997–99
President of the OPEC Conference, 1998–99
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1999–2000
Minister Delegate, Office of the Prime Minister, 2000–01
Ambassador to Ottawa, Canada, 2001–05
Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations, New York (USA), 2006–08
Ambassador to Tunis, Tunisia, 2008–10
Minister of Energy and Mines, June 2010 to date

Family name: Al-Sada
First name: Mohammed Bin Saleh
Marital status: Married, two daughters and three sons
Education: BSc in Marine Science and Geology, Qatar University
PhD, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK
Posts held: Vice-Chairman of the Board, Qatar Steel Company
Chairman of the Board of Qatar Chemicals Company, QatarGas, Qatar International Petroleum
Marketing Company Ltd., Qatar Petroleum International and ASTAD Project Management
Technical Director, Qatar Petroleum
Managing Director, RasGas Company Limited
Minister of State for Energy & Industry Affairs, April 2007–10
Minister of Energy & Industry, January 2011 to present
Managing Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Qatar Petroleum, February 2011 to present
Chairman of the Board of Directors, RasGas Company Limited, February 2011 to present
Other activities: Member, Permanent Constitution Preparation Committee
Member, Supreme Education Council
Member, National Committee for Human Rights
Chairman of the Joint Advisory Board, Texas A & M University in Qatar

Family name: Ghasemi
First name: Rostam
Date of birth: 22 May 1964
Education: Civil engineering
Posts held: Member, Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries & Mines
Member, Board of Directors, Industrial Development and Renovation Organization of IRAN (IDRO)
Chairman, Board of Directors, Iranian Marine Industrial Company (SADRA)
Chairman, Board of Directors, Khalij Fars Ship-building Complex (ISOICO)
Manager, Iran Sepah Marine Engineering Division
Managing Director, Khatam-Ul-Anbia Construction HQR (upstream and downstream oil, gas and petrochemical projects), 2006–2001
Minister of Petroleum, August 2011 to date

First name: Abdurahman
Date of birth: 3 June 1956
Place of birth: Tripoli, Libya
Marital status: Married, 4 children
Education: BSc, Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas, (US), 1979
Posts held: Production Engineer & Production Supervisor, Waha Oil Co., 1979–81
Drilling / Production Supervisor & Waha Field Superintendent, Waha Oil Co., 1982–88
Deputy Operations Manager, Waha Oil Co., 1988
Operations Manager, Waha Oil Co., 1989
Member of People’s Management Committee, Waha Oil Co., 1990–95
Supervision of Engineering Department & Planning & Reservoir Department, Waha Oil Co., 1995–2000
Member of Negotiating Committee for Mature Field Development, Libyan National Oil Corporation, 2000–01
Manager of Production & Reservoir Engineering Department, Libyan National Oil Corporation, 2001–03
Member of the Management Committee & General Manager of Joint Venture Department, Libyan National Oil Corporation, 2003–06
Chairman of the Management Committee & Executive Officer for Operations & Production, Eni Spa., October 2006–June 2007
Regional Vice President for Algeria, Tunis, Mali & Morocco, Eni Spa., 2008–11
Minister of Oil and Gas, November 2011 to date

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, United States, 1971
Process Engineer, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), 1972–77
Planning Manager, International Marketing, KNPC, 1977–80
Executive Assistant to the Managing Director of Marketing, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), 1980–90
Chairman and Managing Director of Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC), 1990–95
Managing Director of Marketing, KPC, 1995–98
Chairman and Managing Director, KNPC, 1998–2004
Chief Executive Officer, Deputy Managing Director, KPC, 2004–07
Secretary General, Kuwait Focal Point, Central Committee to supervise the implementation of
projects related to environmental remediation, Kuwait NFP, 2011–12
Board member in the State of Kuwait and abroad during service in the oil sector. Board memberships
included KPC, KNPC, PIC, Public Authority of Industry and Hoechst Company in Germany
Also participated as a board member in Ikarus Petroleum Company, Development Holding
Company, Bobyan Bank, and the Board of Trustees of the College of Engineering at Kuwait University
Minister of Oil, Chairman of the Board, KPC, February 2012 to date

First name: Abdalla
Family name: El-Badri
Date of birth: 25 May 1940
Place of birth: Ghamminis, Libya
Marital status: married, five children
Education: BS degree in Accounting and Business
Administration, Florida Southern, US
Advanced courses in Finance and Management, US and Libya
Posts held:
1965–77 Worked with Esso Standard
(now ExxonMobil)
• Assistant Accountant
• Coordinator Management Information
Systems (MIS)
• Assistant Controller
1977–80 Member of the Board of Directors, Umm Al-Jawabi Oil Company
(ex American Amoseas)
1980–83 Chairman, Waha Oil Company, a joint venture company between National Oil Corporation, Conoco (now ConocoPhilips), Amerada Hess and Marathon Oil
1983–90 Chairman, National Oil Corporation (NOC)
1990–92 Secretary of the People’s Committee for Petroleum — (Minister of Petroleum)
1993–2000 Secretary of the General People’s Committee for Energy —
(Minister of Oil & Electricity)
2000–04 Deputy Secretary of the General People’s Committee
(Deputy Prime Minister)
2004–06 Chairman, NOC
2007 – present Secretary General of OPEC
Additional positions held:
1987–90 Chairman (part-time), Board of Directors, Arab Petroleum Services (affiliate company of OAPEC)
1994 President of the OPEC Conference and Secretary General of OPEC
1996–97 President of the OPEC Conference
2005–06 Chairman of the Board of Libya Oil Invest
Other activities: Joined and headed some committees established by OPEC
Joined and headed various committees related to the re-organization of the Libyan oil industry
Undertook several studies concerning oil, gas and electricity in Libya
Attended international conferences as participant and/or speaker

Born in 1938 in Zaria, Nigeria, Dr Rilwanu Lukman holds a BSc in Mining Engineering from the Imperial College of Science & Technology, University of London. He also holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Mining & Mineral Exploration from the Institute of Prospecting and Mineral Deposits of the University of Mining & Metallurgy, Leoben, Austria. He studied Mineral Economics at the McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He was awarded a fellowship of the Imperial College, University of London in October 1987. He was awarded Doctorate Degrees in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Bologna, Italy; Doctor of Science, from the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria; Doctor of Science, from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Dr Lukman has worked as Assistant Mining Engineer at A B Statsgruvor, Sweden, Acting Assistant Chief Inspector, Federal Ministry of Mines & Power, General Manager of the Cement Company of Northern Nigeria Ltd, General Manager and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Mining Corporation. He also served his country as Minister of Mines, Power and Steel; Minister of Petroleum Resources; Minister of Foreign Affairs; Chairman, Board of Directors, National Electric Power Authority; Presidential Adviser on Petroleum
and Energy; Strategic Adviser on Energy before his present appointment as Minister of Petroleum Resources. Dr Lukman was President of the OPEC Conference from July 1986 to 1989 and in 2002 and Secretary General from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2000. He has also been honoured variously as Knight of the British Empire; Officer of the Legion d’Honneur of France; awarded the Order of the Liberator, First Class, Republic of Venezuela and received the Grand
Decoration of Honour for services to the Republic of Austria among others. He is married with three children.

HE Günther Oettinger
Commissioner for Energy, European Union
Günther H. Oettinger has been European Commissioner for Energy since 10 February 2010. In 2005–10, he was Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) and, since 1984, has been a member of the regional Parliament (“Landtag”). He was the leader of the CDU Landtag group from January 1991 to April 2005. A lawyer by training, he became actively involved in politics during his adolescence. He is a member of the Federal Executive Committee and of the Steering Committee of the CDU Deutschlands.

HE Abdul-Hussain Bin Ali Mirza
Minister of Energy, Bahrain
Mirza obtained his PhD in Management of Change from Middlesex University in London. He is currently Minister of Energy (in charge of oil, gas, electricity and water), a position he assumed on 24 February 2011. He is also Chairman of four Boards of Directors: the National Oil and Gas Authority, the Oil and Gas Holding Company, Bapco and Tatweer Petroleum. Dr Mirza is a member of the Board of Directors of the Economic Development Board, the Energy Supreme Committee, the Board of Trustees of the Bahrain Centre for Strategic, International and Energy Studies, the Supreme Civil Service Council, the Supreme Government IT and Communications Committee, the Civil Defence Council, the Ministerial Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, the Ministerial Committee for Legal Affairs, the Ministerial Committee for Facilities and Services Committee. Before his present duties, he held other Ministerial positions: Minister of State in 2002, Minister of Cabinet Affairs in 2004 and Minister of Oil and Gas Affairs in 2005. He was also Chairman of the Tender Board in 2003, a member of the Shura Council in 2001/2002 and was also on the Supreme Oil Council. He has worked with Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) and the oil industry for more than 49 years. He was the first Bahraini to be promoted to the position of Deputy Chief and Acting Chief Executive of Bapco in 1998.

HE Alexandr Novak
Minister of Energy, Russian Federation
Born in Avdeevka in  the Donetsk region of the Ukrainian SSR, Alexander Novak graduated from Norilsk Industrial University in 1993 with a degree in economics and management in metals and mining, and, in 2009, he obtained a degree in management from Moscow State University.  He started his career in 1988 at the Norilsk mining and smelting company na AP Zavenyagin (later — JSC “Norilsk mining and smelting company na AP Zavenyagin”).  During his 12 years there, he rose from operator-hydrometallurgist to Deputy HR Director and Head of Division at the Zapolyarny subsidiary of the company.  In 2000–02, Mr Novak held the position of Deputy Head of the Norilsk City Administration for Economy and Finance, before becoming First Deputy Head of Administration.  In 2002–08, he worked for the Krasnoyarsk regional administration as Deputy Governor and Head of the General Department of Finance; later, he became First Deputy Governor, then Deputy Governor and Head of the regional Cabinet of Ministers.  Starting in 2008, he was Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation and a Member of the Collegium of the Ministry (since October 2010).  Mr Novak was appointed Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation on 21 May 2012.

HE Jaipal Sudini Reddy
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, India
Jaipal Sudini Reddy has an MA (English), BJ. He was educated at Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, and is an agriculturist by profession. In 1965–71, he was President, Andhra Pradesh Youth Congress, and, in 1969-72, General Secretary, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee. He held four terms as a Member, Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, in 1969–84. He was a Member, National Executive, Janata Party, in 1979–88 and was elected to the Lok Sabha for five terms between 1984 and 2009. In 1985–88, he was General Secretary of the Janata Party and, in 1990–96 and 1997–98, he was a Member, Rajya Sabha. In 1991–92, he was Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha. In 1997–98, he was Union Cabinet Minister, Information and Broadcasting. In 1998–99, he was Member, Committee on Finance, Member, Committee on Provision of Computers to Members of Parliament and Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance. In 1999–2000, he was Chairman, Committee of Privileges, Member, Committee on Finance and Member, Joint Committee on Patents (Second Amendment) Bill, 1999. In 2000–04, he was a Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Power. In 2004–05, Mr Reddy was Union Cabinet Minister, Information and Broadcasting and Culture, and, in late-2005, he became Union Cabinet Minister, Urban Development and Culture. In early 2006, he became Union Cabinet Minister of Urban Development — Vice President, Parliamentary Forum on Water Conservation and Management. From 2009 to early 2011, he held the post of Union Cabinet Minister, Urban Development, and, on 19 January 2011, he was appointed Union Cabinet Minister, Petroleum and Natural Gas.

Alan Crain
Senior Vice President, Baker Hughes
Alan Crain has advised multinational companies regarding legal and business matters throughout the world for over 30 years. He began his career with a private law firm in Washington, DC, and has been a senior officer of three Fortune 500 multinationals. He is currently Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Baker Hughes Incorporated, where he has global responsibility for all legal affairs and government relations. Mr Crain served for five years on the Board of Directors of Mariner Energy, Inc. He is a recognized expert on corporate governance matters and other challenges facing boards of directors. He has been a speaker on strategic issues facing such boards for Stanford University, Rice University, the University of Texas, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and other forums. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Asia Society Texas Centre, the World Affairs Council of Houston and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. He is the longest-serving director of the World Affairs Council and the only person to have twice served as Chairman. He was an adjunct Professor of Law at the Law Centre of University of Houston for ten years. In addition to his law degree, Mr Crain holds BS and MS degrees in Engineering and an MBA.

Christophe de Margerie
Chairman and CEO, Total
Christophe de Margerie joined Total in 1974 after graduating from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, a French business school. He served in several positions in the group’s Finance Department and Exploration and Production (E&P) division. He became President of Total Middle East in 1995, before joining the group’s Executive Committee as President of the E&P division in May 1999. In 2000, he was appointed Senior Executive Vice President of the E&P division of the newly created TotalFinaElf group. In January 2002, he became President of the E&P division of TotalFinaElf, which became Total in 2003. Following the 12 May 2006 shareholders’ meeting, he was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of Total. On 14 February 2007, Dr de Margerie became Chief Executive Officer of Total, chairing its Executive Committee. He was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer by the Board of Directors of Total on 21 May 2010.

Christiana Figueres
Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Christiana Figueres was appointed Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on 17 May 2010. She has been involved in climate change negotiations since 1995. She was a member of the Costa Rican negotiating team and represented Latin America and the Caribbean on the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism in 2007, before being elected Vice President of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties in 2008–09. In 1995, she founded the Centre for Sustainable Development of the Americas, a non-profit think tank for climate change policy and capacity-building, which she directed until 2003. In 1994–96, she served as Director of the Technical Secretariat, Renewable Energy, in the Americas. Ms Figueres has served on several boards of non-governmental organizations involved in climate change issues, including the Voluntary Carbon Standard. She is also a widely published author on the design of climate solutions, and has been a frequent adviser to the private sector on how to play a leadership role in mitigation. She holds a Masters degree in Anthropology from the London School of Economics, and a certificate in Organizational Development from Georgetown University.

Aldo Flores-Quiroga
Secretary General, International Energy Forum
Aldo Flores-Quiroga has been Secretary General of the International Energy Forum since January 2012. He served in the Mexican Government as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Energy in 2007–11 and as Assistant Secretary for Bilateral Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2001–05. He also worked as an independent consultant on trade and industrial policy to the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Governments of Mexico and the Dominican Republic (2005–06). Before joining the Mexican Government, he was Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and Economics of the Claremont Graduate University in California, where he taught courses on international political economy, economics, public policy and economic development (1996–2001). Dr Flores-Quiroga studied Economics at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, in Mexico (1989), and obtained a PhD in Political Science-International Political Economy, with majors in economic theory and international political economy, at the University of California, Los Angeles (1997). He has published in English and Spanish on trade and exchange rate policy.

Ryan Lance
Chairman and CEO, ConocoPhillips
Ryan M. Lance is Chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips. A petroleum engineer, he has 28 years of oil and natural gas industry experience in senior management and technical positions with ConocoPhillips, its predecessor Phillips Petroleum and various divisions of ARCO. Before assuming the role of Chairman and CEO in May 2012, he had served as Senior Vice President, Exploration and Production – International, since May 2009. Before that, he was President, Exploration and Production – Asia, Africa, Middle East and Russian/Caspian. He was previously Senior Vice President of Technology, beginning in 2007, and of Technology and Major Projects, beginning in 2006. Hi prior assignments included appointments as: President of Downstream Strategy, Integration and Specialty Functions in 2005 and of Asia Pacific Exploration and Production in 2003; and as vice president of Lower 48 in 2002, upon the merger with Conoco. Mr Lance had previously served as General Manager of Lower 48 and Canadian Operations for Phillips since 2001. He spent 17 years with ARCO, ultimately becoming Vice President of Western North Slope operations in Alaska, which were acquired by Phillips in 2001. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering from Montana Tech in Butte in 1984.

Michael Lynch
President, Strategic Energy and Economic Research, Inc
Michael C. Lynch is President of Strategic Energy and Economic Research and a lecturer at Vienna University. He has combined SB-SM degrees in Political Science from MIT and has performed a variety of studies related to international energy matters, including forecasting of the world oil market, energy and security and corporate strategy in the energy industries, as well as analysis of oil and gas supply. He is best known for his work in two areas: analysing the forecasting of oil and gas markets, and studying the economics of petroleum supply. As part of that, he has demonstrated the source of the errors in the 1970s' oil forecasts and the shortcomings in oil supply models. Most recently, he has been noted for his analysis of peak oil ‘modelling’, which demonstrated that it is based on flawed methods and is essentially unscientific. He is a former Chief Energy Economist at DRI-WEFA, Inc, a leading economic consulting firm, and a past-President of the United States Association for Energy Economics. He was a Senior Fellow for the USAEE. His publications have appeared in seven languages, as well as English, and he serves on several editorial boards, including for the journal Energy Policy and Geopolitics of Energy.

Michael Masters
Chairman, Better Markets Inc
Michael W Masters is the founder and Managing Member of Masters Capital Management, an investment management firm. He is also a Partner in Masters Capital Nanotechnology, a venture capital fund. Mr Masters, an expert on the topic of commodities speculation and financial reform, has testified before many Congressional committees and government agencies, including the House Energy Subcommittee, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Recently, he participated in joint SEC-CFTC roundtable discussions on a variety of security-based swaps issues. Speaking out about the far-reaching harmful effects of unregulated commodities speculation and the need for financial reform, Mr Masters has made numerous appearances in media outlets around the world. He has also addressed consumer and corporate groups, and has served as an expert panellist before international and investor groups. He is the founder of Better Markets, a Washington, DC-based non-profit, non-partisan organization established to promote transparency and accountability in the financial markets for the public interest. He was the 2004 winner of the “Open Your Heart” award from Hedge Funds Care and is a 1989 graduate of the University of Tennessee.

Brad Page
CEO, Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute
As CEO of the Global CCS Institute, Brad Page brings extensive knowledge and experience of Australian and international climate and energy issues. Before the Institute, he served as CEO of the Energy Supply Association of Australia (esaa), the peak representative organisation of the electricity and downstream gas industry in that country, for over seven years. During this time, he acted as national spokesperson for these industries, and was also an active member of the Australian Government Business Roundtable on Climate Change, the CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship Advisory Committee and the Australian Government Energy White Paper High-Level Consultative Committee. During 2001 and 2002, he headed the secretariat for the Council of Australian Governments' Energy Market Review, recommending significant changes to the governance, regulation and policy development arrangements for electricity and gas markets. He also served as Chair of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s Energy and Transport Sector Advisory Council between November 2004 and January 2009. Before joining esaa, he enjoyed a long career in the Australian Public Service. He holds a BA (Administration) and, in 2009, studied the economics of climate change at Cambridge University.

Gerhard Roiss
CEO, OMV AG
Dr Gerhard Roiss, Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of OMV Aktiengesellschaft, studied economics at the Universities of Vienna, Linz and Stanford (USA). He started his professional career in 1990 as Head of Marketing at OMV. In 1997, he became CEO of the Board of PCD Polymere GmbH. In 1997, he was appointed to the Executive Board of the OMV Group, with responsibility for plastics and chemicals, and, in 2000, he assumed responsibility for the exploration and production business. In 2002–11, he was Deputy CEO of the OMV Group, with responsibility for refining and marketing, including petrochemicals, and, in April 2011, became CEO of OMV Aktiengesellschaft. He also holds the positions of Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Petrom SA, Bucharest, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Petrol Ofisi AŞ, Istanbul.

Urban Rusnák
Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat
Dr Rusnák, from Košice, Slovakia, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas in 1990 with an MSc and from the Institute of Social Sciences, Ankara University, in 1998 with a PhD. He started his career in 1990 as a researcher at the Geological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He then moved to the Political Department of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, in 1992, and, in 1993, joined the MFA, Slovak Republic. In 1994–98, he was Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Turkey. He returned to Bratislava in 1998 as a Department Analyst in the Department of Analysis and Planning and Editor in Chief of the International Issues journal. In 1999–2000, he was Director of the Slovak Institute for International Studies and, in 2000–03, he was Executive Director of the International Visegrad Fund. Between 2003 and 2005, he was Head of the Political Analysis Division at the MFA. He served as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to Ukraine in 2005–09, after which he returned to the MFA as Project Leader, External Energy Security of the Slovak Republic. Since 2012, he has been Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat.

Paolo Scaroni
CEO, Eni
Paolo Scaroni has been Chief Executive Officer of Eni since June 2005. He is currently Non-Executive Director of Assicurazioni Generali, Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of London Stock Exchange Group, Non-Executive Director of Veolia Environnement. Also, he is on the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School. After graduating in economics at the Università Luigi Bocconi, Milan, in 1969, he worked for three years at Chevron, before obtaining an MBA from Columbia University, New York, and continuing his career at McKinsey. In 1973, he joined Saint Gobain, where he held a series of managerial positions in Italy and abroad, until his appointment as Head of the Glass Division in Paris in 1984. From 1985 to 1996, he was Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Techint. In 1996, he moved to the UK and was Chief Executive Officer of Pilkington. From May 2002 to May 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Enel. From 2005 to July 2006, he was Chairman of Alliance Unichem. In May 2004, he was appointed Cavaliere del Lavoro of the Italian Republic.

Lars H Thunell
Executive Vice President and CEO, International Finance Corporation
Lars H. Thunell is Executive Vice President and CEO of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. He is leading IFC in its mission to promote sustainable private sector development. Since joining the corporation in January 2006, he has advanced the growth of IFC’s business and its mission to create opportunities in emerging markets and improve people’s lives. He has visited more than 90 countries, including over 60 developing countries, to see first-hand how the IFC can best help its clients with financing and advisory services. Mr Thunell joined IFC after a successful career in the financial services industry. Most recently, he was the Chief Executive Officer of SEB, a North European commercial and investment bank. In the 1990s, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Trygg-Hansa, a Swedish insurance company, and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Nordbanken. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Securum, an asset management company established by the Swedish government, he played a key role in the government’s strategy for resolving the country’s banking crisis of the 1990s. Mr Thunell graduated with a doctorate from the University of Stockholm and was a research fellow at the Harvard University Centre for International Affairs.

Peter Voser
CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc
Peter Voser became Chief Executive Officer on 1 July 2009. Before that, he had been Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and an Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell since 2004. He was CFO of the Royal Dutch/Shell group from October 2004 to July 2005. He was CFO and an Executive Committee Member of the Asea Brown Boveri group from March 2002 to September 2004. He joined Shell in 1982, after graduating in business administration from the University of Applied Sciences, Zürich. He went on to work in a number of finance and business roles in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Argentina and Chile. In 1999, he was appointed CFO of Shell Europe Oil Products. He became CFO of the Global Oil Products Business in early 2001. From 2004 until April 2006, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Aegon NV. He served on the Board of Directors of UBS AG from April 2005 to April 2010. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Auditor Oversight Authority from 2006 until December 2010. Since April 2010, he has been a director of Catalyst, a non-profit organisation which works to build inclusive environments and expand opportunities for women and business. In March 2011, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Roche.

Wang Dongjin
Vice President, China National Petroleum Corporation
Wang Dongjin is a Vice President of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). He is a professor-level senior engineer and holds a Master’s degree. He has nearly 30 years of working experience in China’s oil and gas industry. From July 1995, Mr Wang was the Deputy Director General of Jiangsu Oil Exploration Bureau. From December 1997, he worked as the Vice President of the China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Corp (CNODC). From December 2000, he worked concurrently as the President of CNPC International (Kazakhstan) Ltd and Aktobe Oil and Gas Co Ltd. From October 2002, he assumed the position of General Manager of CNODC. From January 2004, Mr Wang assumed the positions of Assistant to the President of CNPC and the Vice Chairman and President of CNODC. From September 2008, Mr Wang was appointed Vice President of CNPC and a Director of the company in May 2011.