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Speakers 
Mr Zoltan Aldott,
Executive Vice President, E&P,
MOL Hungarian Oil & Gas
Zoltán Áldott (38) has been the Executive Vice President of Exploration & Production at MOL Group.
He graduated from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1991 with a degree in Economics. From 1990 to 1991 he worked at Creditum Financial Consulting Ltd. From 1992 to 1995 he held various positions at Eurocorp Financial Consulting Ltd. From 1995 to 1997 he headed the Privatization department, from 1997 until 1999 he was the director of Capital Market department. Since 1999 Mr. Áldott served as Director of Strategy and Business Development. From November 2000 he acted as Chief Strategy Officer and, since June 2001 til September 2004 as Group Chief Strategy Officer.
He is the Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of INA d.d and member of the Board of Directors of the Budapest Stock Exchange.
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 Mr. Jamal A. Alnouri,
Managing Director, International Marketing,,
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Kuwait
Mr. Jamal Alnouri is a Kuwaiti national, married with four children. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Syracuse University, U.S.A which he completed in 1978.
In March 1979 he started his career with Kuwait National Petroleum Company – International Marketing until February 1981, when Kuwait Petroleum Corporation “KPC” was founded and he was transferred to KPC International Marketing.
During his working career with KPC, he has been involved in different areas of the Oil sector and has had great opportunities to gain vast experience in many aspects in the realm of the International Marketing in both operational and commercial sides. Also, as President and as Chairman of Kuwait Petroleum International, he gained vast experience in downstream Operations in Europe.
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 Fuad Al-Zayer,
Head, Data Services Department,
OPEC
Fuad Al-Zayer has a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master degree in Industrial Management in USA.
He worked for Saudi Aramco for 20 years in IT, Project Management and Corporate Planning Organizations, before joining OPEC as Head of its Data Services Department in 2005.
As Head of Data Services Department at OPEC, he is responsible to provide reliable, timely, up-to-date statistical data, on oil market and energy related issues to assist the Secretariat in its Research and analysis.
He is also OPEC’s Coordinator for the Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI) aiming at improving oil data transparency in the oil market working with the Six Partners (APEC, Eurostat, IEA, OLAD, and the UNSD) under the coordination of the International Energy Forum (IEFS). He is also a regular contributor of articles to some newspapers on JODI.
Mr. Al-Zayer is also responsible for publishing the Annual OPEC Statistical Bulletin that provides statistical account of oil and gas facilities of OPEC Member Countries and serves as a comprehensive account of the petroleum industry for the international community.
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He also plays a key role in representing the OPEC Secretariat in various international meetings, workshops, conferences, and summits.
Fuad is a Saudi National, married with three children.
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Mr Robert Arnott,
Head of the Advisory Board,
DNO A.K.A.
Robert Arnott is currently head of the Advisory Board for the exploration and production company DNO A.S.A and Executive Chairman of DNO (UK) Ltd where he manages international business development and corporate strategy. He is also a Senior Research Advisor to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies where he worked as a Fellow; his research focused on all aspects of mature oil and gas provinces, as well as the corporate strategies of the major energy companies, until March 2005. He has a strong background in all aspects of exploration and production and is recognised for his research on the upstream oil and gas industry. He worked as a geologist and economist with Royal Dutch Shell prior to entering the City in 1991, where he held senior positions as an oil and gas equity analyst for ten years in various investment banks including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
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 Mr. Almir Guilherme Barbassa,
Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Director,
Petrobras
Almir Guilherme Barbassa – Mr. Barbassa has been PETROBRAS's Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer since July 22, 2005. He joined PETROBRAS in 1974 and worked in several financial and planning capacities, among which the establishment of the first subsidiary of PETROBRAS outside Brazil (in Lybia). From August 1989 to September 1992 he was the Financial Manager of the American subsidiary in Houston, Texas, oversaw the establishment and consolidation of the company, which explores and produces oil and gas, trades oil products and does procurement world wide. From April 1993 he was the Finance Director of BRASPETRO, the international arm of PETROBRAS. From July 1999 to July 22, 2005 he was PETROBRAS’s corporate finance and treasury manager. He is ex-Chairman of PETROBRAS International Finance Co., PETROBRAS Finance Ltd, and PETROBRAS Netherlands BV, the companies that carry out PETROBRAS’s international financial activities. In addition, he was a professor in the economics department of the Petrópolis Catholic University and of the Faculdades Integradas Bennett from 1973 to 1979 and holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Getulio Vargas Foundation of Rio de Janeiro.
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 Dr Fatih Birol,
Chief Economist,
International Energy Agency
Fatih Birol is Chief Economist and Head of the Economic Analysis Division of the Paris-based International Energy Agency. He is organiser and director of the World Energy Outlook series, the IEA’s flagship publication. He is also responsible for briefing the Executive Office and Governing Board of the IEA on the economic impact of energy market and industry developments, such as the impact of higher oil prices on the world economy.
The World Energy Outlook series is widely recognised as the most authoritative source for world energy information and long-term energy projections. More than twenty IEA analysts contribute to the publication, which also benefits from the input of senior energy experts from around the world. In recent years, the World Energy Outlook has received a number of honours for analytical excellence. These have included awards from the Russian Academy of Sciences, the United States Department of Energy and numerous private organisations. The International Energy Agency publish the World Energy Outlook. With extensive statistics, detailed projections, analysis and advice, WEO 2006 equips policy-makers and the public to re-make the energy future. For further information visit www.worldenergyoutlook.org
A Turkish citizen, Dr. Birol was born in Ankara in 1958. He earned a BSc degree in power engineering from the Technical University of Istanbul. He received his MSc and PhD in energy economics from the Technical University of Vienna. He worked for six years in the secretariat of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, before joining the IEA in 1995. Apart from his principal job, Dr. Birol teaches energy economics at universities in Austria and Germany. He is a regular contributor of articles to technical journals on international energy analysis and policy and delivers numerous speeches around the world each year.
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 Mr. Øyvind Bratsberg ,
Senior Vice President,
Statoil
Øyvind has over 20 years experience in the upstream and downstream part of the petroleum industry. He has mainly been with Statoil, in a variety of roles in Stavanger, London, Bergen and Trondheim. For the last three years as Sr. vice president E&P Norway, Norwegian Sea area (responsible for assets Heidrun, Norne, Urd, Åsgard, Mikkel and Kristin). Prior to this he was Sr. vice president E&P for the Troll/Sleipner-area. Øyvind also spent 10 years in various commercial roles related to Natural Gas, both within Business Development and Marketing .
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 Mr. Raul Campos,
Investor Relations Executive Manager,
Petrobras
Mr. Raul Campos holds a bachelor’s degree from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and a master’s Degree from The American University in Washington D.C., both in Economics. He did further post-graduate studies at the George Washington University, also in Washington D.C., with specialization in finance and development.
His Professional career began as an economist at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) in the Economic Program Department and subsequently in the Central American and Caribbean regional Department.
He first joined the Petrobras in 1974 and worked in the financial and commercial areas of the Company and was appointed Executive Director of Petrobras’ trading subsidiary for two successive 3-year mandates.
In the private sector, Mr. Raul Campos was an Executive Director of the Brazilian branch of Gill & Duffus plc, in English trading concerns, and worked as a consultant for the IBRD, and other private enterprises.
He rejoined Petrobras in 1993, and has since worked in various capacities including Chief of Long and Short Term Finance Divisions, Deputy Manager of Corporate Finance, Executive Manager of Project Finance, Representative in London and Equity Investor Manager. Since January 2004 he occupies the position of Investor Relations Executive Manager.
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Jean-Matthieu Castellani,
Vice President,
Schlumberger Business Consulting
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 Dr. Fadhil Chalabi,
Executive Director,
Centre for Global Energy Studies
Fadhil Jafar Chalabi was born in Baghdad, Iraq in September 1929. After graduating with a BA in Law from Baghdad University in 1951, he took up a post with the Iraqi Ministry of National Economy, and between 1956 and 1958, he obtained two postgraduate diplomas in Political Economy from the Université de Poitiers in France. Between 1960 and 1962, he obtained a doctoral degree in Economics from the Paris University with a dissertation on oil economics.
His professional involvement in oil began early in 1968, when he was appointed Director of Oil Affairs at the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad. He was chosen for the office of Permanent Under-Secretary of Oil in 1973, leaving after three years to join OAPEC as Assistant Secretary General.
By 1978, Dr Chalabi held the office of Deputy Secretary General of OPEC in Vienna, acting for the Secretary General himself from July 1983 until June 1988. He finally departed in summer 1989 to assume his present position of Executive Director of the newly-established Centre for Global Energy Studies in London, founded and chaired by former Saudi Arabian Oil Minister, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani.
Fadhil Chalabi was charged with a variety of policy-making responsibilities during the time he spent in his native Iraq, many of which were oil related, and which included membership of the Board of Directors both of the Iraq National Oil Company (1968-76), and the Central Bank of Iraq (1971-1976). He also served on sundry Government boards and Commissions associated with oil finance, economics, etc.
He is the author of two books: OPEC and the International Oil Industry:
A Changing Structure (Oxford University Press 1980); and OPEC at the Crossroads (Pergamon 1989). In addition, he has written several articles on energy and oil economics, and is a worldwide speaker at numerous energy and oil seminars and colloquia.
Dr Chalabi received the British Institute of Energy Economics Award for Distinction in 1988.
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 Mr. Guilherme de Oliveira Estrella,
Exploration & Production Director,
Petrobras
Guilherme de Oliveira Estrella - Mr. Guilherme Estrella graduated in 1966, at the School of Geology of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. At Petrobras, he has been the Managing Director of Exploration and Production since 31st January, 2003. He worked at the company from 1965 to 1994, when he retired as a geologist of the Exploration Department. Before his retirement, he held several other positions, including: General Superintendent (1989-1993); Superintendent of Research and Development for exploration, drilling and production (1985-1989); Head of the Exploration Division (1981-1985); Head of the Organic Geochemistry Sector (1981); Head of the Brazilian East Coast Basin Interpretation Sector of the Exploration Department — DEPEX/RJ (1978-1981); and Exploration Manager of Petrobras Internacional S.A. — BRASPETRO for Iraq (1976-1978). Mr. Estrella had also been a member of the board of directors of the controlled companies in Argentina, Petrobras Energía Participaciones S.A. and Petrobras Energía S.A. up to 28th April, 2006. He had been Director of the Instituto Brasileiro de Petróleo e Gás (Brazilian Oil and Gas Institute), from 1993 – 1994, and since 2003, he is the Chairman of the Board.
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 Dr. Leo P. Drollas,
Deputy Executive Director and Chief Economist,
Centre for Global Energy Studies
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 Mr. Luis Giusti,
Former CEO,
PDVSA
Luis Giusti, a petroleum engineer and private consultant, has been is a senior adviser at CSIS since April 1999, principally in energy and Latin American affairs. In addition, he is a member of the advisory boards of Riverstone-Carlyle and the Stanford Financial Group. He is also a member of the board of governors and special adviser to the chairman of the Centre for Global Energy Studies in London. Between September 2000 and September 2005 he was a non-executive director of Royal Dutch Shell. In academia, he is a member of the advisory boards of the Institute for Latin American Studies at Babson College, The Energy Institute of the University of Houston, the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas , and the Institute of Global Studies at George Washington University. He was a member of the task force that issued Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century (Council on Foreign Relations and Institute of Energy of Rice University, 2001). Giusti began his career at Shell Corporation in Venezuela after which, in 1976, he joined Maraven, S.A., an operating affiliate of Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA). At PDVSA he held diverse positions related to exploration and production, refining, corporate planning, and marketing. In 1994 he was appointed chairman and CEO of the corporation, a job he held until March 1999. Under his leadership, the Venezuelan petroleum sector underwent major reform, which included an opening to private participation, with resulting estimated foreign direct investments of about $30 billion for the period 1995 to 2004. Over the last five years of his tenure at PDVSA, the company continued to consolidate its international downstream position by completing major deals with Mobil, Phillips, Chevron, and Amerada Hess. He graduated in 1966 from the University of Zulia, Venezuela, and received an M.S. in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1971. He is a member of the Advisory boards of Energy Intelligence Group (publisher of PIW, Oil Daily and Energy Compass) and the Inter American Dialog. He is a frequent speaker and publisher in the Oil&Gas circuit
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Mr. Cezar Gutierrez,
President,
PetroPeru
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Javier Gutierrez,
Chief Executive Officer,
Ecopetrol
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Mr Heinz Hilbrecht,
Director Conventional Sources of Energy,
European Commission
Heinz Hilbrecht, who is born in 1947 and holds a master’s degree in economics of Saarbrücken University, started his professional career in the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Transport of the Saarland. He joined the European Commission in Brussels in 1980 and has had a long and diversified career within the Commission services.
Mid April 2006 he took over his new job as Director for “Conventional Energy Sources” within the Directorate General Energy and Transport. His major task for the current year will be to draft the Commission’s Strategic Energy Review following the Energy Green Paper of last March.
Heinz Hilbrecht began his career within the Commission in 1980 already in the energy department, before taking over responsibilities in other policy areas: he worked from 1986 to 1990 at the EU embassy in Washington DC, and from 1990 to 1991 as assistant to the Commission’s Director General for Personnel and Administration in Brussels. He became a Head of Unit in the Directorate General for Transport in 1991 – first for five years in the aviation sector, where he helped to realise the liberalisation of the markets, and then from 1996 to 1999 for railway policy. At that time he was instrumental for the opening of the rail freight markets through the so-called ‘First Railway Package’.
From 1999 until the end of 2004 he was as Director for Land Transport responsible for the EU railway and road transport policies. In January 2005 he took over the management of the “Trans-European Networks” programme in energy and transport. In the past five years he was also in charge on the Commission side, of the GALILEO satellite navigation programme.
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 Ms. Carola Hoyos,
Chief Energy Correspondent,
Financial Times
Carola Hoyos is the Financial Times chief energy correspondent, joining the team in 2003. Previously, she had been the FT’s United Nations correspondent, based in New York, covering – among other things – the lead up to the Iraq war and the oil-for-food scandal.
Before joining in the FT in 1999 she was a reporter for Bridge News Service in Los Angeles and New York, writing primarily about energy.
In 2000, she was part of a team of FT journalists who won the UK’s Foreign Press Association award for best business and finance story for their investigative series on Africa’s blood diamonds crisis.
Carola graduated with honors from Tufts University in Massachusetts, taking degrees in economics and international relations
She appears regularly on television and radio and is frequently a speaker at conferences on energy.
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Mr Nasser Jaidah,
Director Oil & Gas Ventures,,
Qatar Petroleum
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 Engr. Funsho Kupolokun,
Group Managing Director,
NNPC
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 Mr. Helmut Langanger,
Executive Vice President, E&P,
OMV
Born on April 25th, 1950, married, two children.
1973: Final examination of his study of Petroleum
Engineering / Mining University in Leoben, Austria.
1974: Start in ÖMV as Reservoir Engineer.
1980: Final exam of his study of Economics / University of
Vienna.
1981 - 1985: in the Foreign Activities Department
responsible for the technical and economic evaluation of
international E&P ventures.
1985 - 1989: Head of Planing and Economics, responsible
for both E&P and gas projects.
1989 - 2001: Senior Vice President für International
Exploration & Production, since 1992 also responsible for
Austrian exploration & production.
Since January, 1st 2002: Executive Vice President of
OMV, responsible for Exploration and Production business.
Since July, 1st 2004: Additionally Managing Director of
OMV Exploration & Production GmbH.
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 Mr. Esteban Levin Balcells,
Chief Financial Officer,
Pemex
Esteban Levin was born on September 13, 1972, in México City.
In 1994 he graduated Magna Cum Laude as Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the Instituto Autónomo de México with the Thesis “Market Liberalization, Economic Growth and national Security in Mexico”. He attended the National Defense College of the Ministry of Defense in 1996 graduating Master of Arts in National Security and Defense, as well as John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1999, where he received a Master degree in Public Policy concentrating in finance and international security.
Esteban Levin has been advisor to the chief of staff of the President of México analyzing cabinet meeting policies concerning national security and economic policy and writing and editing speeches delivered by the President.
As an Associate - Engagement Manager at MCKINSEY & CO he formulated the strategic plan of a Natural Gas Trading company in the United States of America, led the team that developed a performance management system to evaluate production business units in a Mexican exploration and production company and was part of the team that elaborated the business plan for a Mexican oil company.
Since 2002 Levin has performed various functions in PEMEX:
As Acting Managing Director of Financial Information Systems he began the accounting consolidation project and reviewed the Form 20-F 2002 of PEMEX including the application of Mexican Bulletins B-10 (inflation), B12 (Statement of Changes in Financial Position), C9 (liabilities and contingent provisions), C15 (impairment of assets); and review of the methodology of successful efforts for hydrocarbon reserves valuation. From 2002 he was Investor Relations Officer and part of the team responsible for the reengineering of the corporate finance functions and the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) when working as Chief of Staff to the Chief Financial Officer.
As Managing Director of Finance and Treasury of PEMEX, he was responsible for the analysis of domestic and international markets for finance and treasury decisions, planning and execution of the PEMEX financing program and definition of strategies to obtain optimal financing conditions, as well as strategies for derivatives operations as well as responsible for investment policy of current assets and member of the Board of Directors of KOT Insurance Company, Ltd.
Mr. Levin was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Petróleos Mexicanos on October 27, 2006.
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Gonzalo Lopez Fanjul,
Deputy Director,
Repsol YPF
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Ally Macaskill,
Partner,
Ernst & Young
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 Mr Bob Maguire,
Co-Head, Global Energy Group,
Morgan Stanley
Mr Maguire is responsible for Morgan Stanley’s business in the oil and gas industry. He joined Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in 1986 after practicing law with the firm of White & Case in both New York and London. Mr Maguire began his career with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter as a generalist in the Corporate Finance Department. He then spent two years in the Firm’s Scandinavian Group before joining the Energy Group in 1990. He has had overall responsibility for the Energy practice since 2000. Mr Maguire has lived in London since 1984
Mr Maguire graduated from Princeton University in 1977 with an AB in Classics. He received an MA in Literae Humaniores from Oxford University in 1980 and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1983.
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 Ms Valerie Marcel,
Senior Researcher and Author,
RIIA
Dr Valerie Marcel, Principal Researcher on Energy at Chatham House.
Since arriving at Chatham House in 2002, she has led energy research at the institute and published on the politics of oil in the Middle East. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in the major oil producing countries of the region. Her new book, “Oil Titans; National Oil Companies in the Middle East” (The Brookings Institution, Chatham House, 2006), is based on over 120 in-depth interviews with the management of national oil companies and officials at the Ministries of Petroleum. Valerie Marcel is also leading a major initiative on “Good Governance of the National Petroleum Sector”, with the aim of working closely with the governments of oil and gas producing countries, their national oil companies and other stakeholders to establish principles of good governance and guidelines for best practice. Publications on this subject include “Good Governance of the National Oil Company” (Chatham House Report, March 2005). Her work at Chatham House previously focused on Iraq’s oil industry and the political issues affecting future prospects for the industry. Publications include: “Total in Iraq” (The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., August 2003); “Iraq's Oil Tomorrow” (RIIA Report, co-authored with John Mitchell, April 2003) and “The Future of Oil in Iraq” (RIIA Briefing Paper, December 2002). She was previously Adjunct Professor in International Relations at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and the University of Cairo.
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 Mr. John Mitchell,
Associate Fellow, Energy Environment and Development Programme,
RIIA
John Mitchell is an Associate Research Fellow at Chatham House and Senior Research Adviser at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. Recent publications include
New Era for Oil Prices (Chatham House Report, August 2006);
L’autre face de la dépendance énergétique (in politique étrangére,2:2006, IFRI);
The Economic Challenge [to National Oil companies] Chapter in Oil Titans by Valerie Marcel, ( Brookings/Chatham House, 2006
Producer-Consumer Dialogue (Chatham House Report, Nov. 2005);
Energy Investment, Quantity or Quality,(in Asia Pacific Review11:1, 2004);
Iraq’s Oil Tomorrow (with Valerie Marcel) RIIA 2003;
A New Political Economy of Oil (Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance :42 2002)
Mitchell retired in 1993 from British Petroleum where his posts included Special Adviser to the Managing Directors, Regional Co-ordinator for BP’s subsidiaries in the Western Hemisphere, and head of BP’s Policy Review Unit.
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David Morrison,
Chairman,
Wood Mackenzie
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 Mr. Ali Moshiri,
Chairman, Latin America,
Chevron Corporation
Ali Moshiri is the President of Chevron Latin America Upstream Business Unit, located in Caracas, Venezuela. He is responsible for Chevron’s upstream activities of the region specifically Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Trinidad, Mexico and Venezuela.
Ali Moshiri was born in 1952. He graduated from the University of Tulsa in Petroleum Engineering.
He joined Chevron in 1978 and since then has held positions of increasing responsibility in the oil and gas areas both in the U.S. and abroad.
Mr. Moshiri’s former positions have been Oil Engineering General Manager for Chevron’s International Operations and Strategic Planning General Manager. During his former assignment before his current position as President of Chevron Latin America Upstream, he served as General Manager and Advisor for the Vice President of the Board of Directors in California, company’s head office.
Mr. Moshiri has had extensive experience in oil and gas matters including planning, development and marketing in the Middle East, Kazakhstan, Russia, Europe, the Far East, Africa and Latin America.
Mr. Moshiri is the President of Chevron Latin America Upstream based in Caracas, Venezuela since 2001.
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 Mr. Nadhmi Nasr,
Vice President, Engineering Services,
Saudi Aramco
NADHMI A. AL-NASR is currently Vice President, Engineering Services (ES).
Nadhmi graduated in 1978 with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran. He joined Saudi Aramco the same year and spent his first three years in Engineering Services.
In 1981, Nadhmi began working on the execution of the Kingdom’s Master Gas System, a program to provide feedstock for the petrochemical industries of the two industrial cities at Jubail and Yanbu.
In 1986, he was promoted to Project Manager with responsibility for all Ghawar oil field capital programs. In 1991, he began managing the massive and aggressive crude expansion program in the Ghawar oilfield, ensuring the Kingdom’s ability to fill the production gap caused by the loss of oil output from Iraq and Kuwait during the Gulf War. This entire program was completed and commissioned in 1993.
Nadhmi was then promoted to Manager of Saudi Aramco’s oil and gas pipeline projects. He held that job till 1995, when he was promoted to Manager of the Shaybah Development Program. The Shaybah mega-project was commissioned in mid-1998.
Nadhmi then transferred to Corporate Planning as Manager of Long Range Planning Department, where he was responsible for preparing the Company Strategy and Business Plans.
In May 2003, he became Managing Director of Saudi Petroleum Overseas Ltd. (SPOL). This Saudi Aramco subsidiary provides international sales, marketing and shipping services for crude oil, LPG, petroleum products and sulfur destined for customers in Europe, Africa and South America.
Returning to Dhahran in October 2004, Nadhmi was named Executive Director of Community Services. Effective March 1st, 2006, Nadhmi was named Executive Director of Engineering Services, and on April 27, 2006, he was appointed as Vice President, Engineering Services.
During his 26 years with Saudi Aramco, Nadhmi has spent half of the time working with international engineering and consulting firms in the USA, UK, Netherlands and Japan. The other half of his career has been spent in Saudi Arabia, mainly in oil fields such as Ghawar, Safaniya and Shaybah.
Nadhmi has three daughters and one son. He also enjoys reading and sports.
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 Mr. B.S. Negi,
Director of Business Development,
GAIL (India) ltd
Shri B. S. Negi is a Graduate in Mechanical Engineering with honours from University of Allahabad in India. He has also completed Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management from Punjabi University, Patiala and Master of Engineering (Turbo Machinery) from South Gujarat University, Surat. He has 36 years of rich professional experience to his credit in the field of Oil Refineries, Fertilizer Plants, Gas Transmission, Gas Processing and LPG Transmission. Shri Negi joined GAIL (India) Limited on 1st November 1985. He has been with GAIL (India) Limited for last 21 years and has seen the transformation of the Company from a new born Public Sector Undertaking to a well diversified Navratna (Nine Starred) Company.
Shri Negi took over as Director (Planning) of GAIL (India) Limited on 1st January 2003, which was subsequently re-designated as Director (Business Development). In this role he is responsible for formulating and implementing strategies for GAIL in Planning Activities related to Natural Gas pipeline, LPG, Polymers etc. Further, he also leads the Business Development activities of the company. Before taking over as Director (Planning), Mr. Negi was responsible for project execution in the company. He has to his credit the construction and commissioning of the world's longest exclusive LPG Pipeline i.e. Jamnagar - Loni LPG Pipeline of GAIL four months ahead of schedule.
In addition to being Director (Business Development) of GAIL, he is GAIL’s nominee Director on its Joint Venture Petronet LNG Limited. He is also a nominated Director of GAIL on the Boards of Fayum Gas Company & Shell CNG, Egypt in which GAIL has acquired stake. Further, Shri Negi is also a Director on the Board of Ratnagiri Gas & Power Pvt Ltd (erstwhile Dabhol Power Corporation).
Shri Negi has traveled all over the world in connection with professional & business activities. He is also a member of many committees appointed by Govt of India for negotiations and discussions related to transnational pipelines.
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 Mr Mohamad Noor Hussen,
Head of Malaysian Operations,
Petronas Carigali
MOHD NOOR HUSSEN age 49, is currently the Head of Malaysian Operations, Petronas Carigali , PETRONAS accountable for the management of PETRONAS Carigali Malaysia Asset. He has served PETRONAS for 24 years in Engineering, Project Management, Business Development , JV management and Asset Management both in Malaysia and Overseas. Prior to joining PETRONAS, has also worked in ExxonMobil and Brown & Root as Mechanical Design Engineer.
During his tenure with PETRONAS, he has the opportunity to interface with a few NOCs (NIOC, NIGC, ONGC, PVEP) and to manage JV ventures with MNOC partners (EXXONMOBIL, SHELL, TOTAL, BHP) and IOCs (MURPHY, NEWFIELD, AMERADA HESS, TALISMAN) and Service Companies (Schlumberger, Helix) as Technology Service Provider Alliance Partner.
MOHD NOOR HUSSEN by disciple is a Mechanical Engineer graduating from Plymouth University, UK and is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Malaysia. He has also completed INSEAD management course and has attended several Harvard and Stanford leadership short courses.
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Cándido Nsue Okomo,
National Director,
GEPetrol
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 Mr. Peter O'Brien,
Chief Financial Officer,
Rosneft
Peter O'Brien currently serves as vice president of Rosneft, a position which he has held since April 2006. He is responsible for strategic investment projects, debt and equity raising, as well as business planning and monitoring.
Mr. O'Brien has 11 years of experience in the financial services sector, including six years at Morgan Stanley, where he was Co-Head of Investment Banking in Russia, working primarily with oil and gas companies in Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Born in 1969, Peter O'Brien graduated from Duke University with a bachelor's degree in Russian Studies. He also holds an MBA with distinction from Columbia University.
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Mr Cándido Nsue Okomo,
National Director,,
GEPetrol
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 Mr Willy Olsen,
Former Senior Advisor to the President & CEO of Statoil,
INTSOK
Willy H Olsen is an oil and gas advisor to the Norwegian Oil and Gas industry after retiring from Statoil. He is also an Associate Research Fellow at Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.
Willy H Olsen had a number of positions during his 23 years with Statoil, including Managing Director of Statoil UK Ltd and Senior Vice President for Statoil’s activities in the Caspian. He was for several years a senior advisor to the President& CEO of Statoil and was head of the President's Office before his retirement.
He is an educated economist and spent 15 years in journalism before joining Statoil in 1980.
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Mr Ahmet F. Oner,
Director of Exploration,
Turkish Petroleum Corporation
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 Mr. Juan Carlos Ortiz,
President,
YPFB (BOLIVIA)
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 Mr. Guy Outen,
Executive VP New Business,
Shell International Exploration and Production
Guy Outen was appointed Executive Vice President New Business in April 2005.
Guy has worked in various commercial and finance roles across all parts of Shell’s business.
Before his current role he was the Chief Financial Officer for Gas & Power with responsibility for Finance, Strategy, Planning, and M&A. Before that he was the Group Chief Internal Auditor, the CFO for Shell Development Australia and has also been responsible for Retail operating processes, split off and merged Shell Australia’s chemical operations into the Montell JV, and worked in Crude Oil Trading and a Coal JV.
Guy has an economics and commerce background, B.Com (Hons), M.Com, and is a Fellow CPA Australia.
Guy is married with three sons and enjoys junior rugby coaching, sport, music and motorcycling.
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Dr R K Pachauri,
Director General,
The Energy & Resources Institute, (TERI), New Delhi , India
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 Mr. David Peattie,
GVP Existing Profit Centres Exploration & Production,
BP
David was educated at Arnold School in Lancashire and at Dundee University where he graduated in Mechanical Engineering and Economics in 1976 and received the Cullwick prize for most outstanding student. He subsequently received a scholarship from the Canadian Government and spent one year at the Petroleum Engineering Department of Calgary University, Alberta, researching the thermal properties of the Athabasca Tar Sands.
He joined The British Petroleum Company plc in 1979 as a petroleum engineer.
Until 1987 he worked in various technical jobs, including oil and gas well logging and testing, sub-surface modelling and reservoir management in the North Sea, China, Australia and Papua New Guinea. From 1987 to 1989 David worked as a commercial analyst in London for BP Exploration’s entry into Venezuela and Angola.
From 1990 to 1992, he worked in BP Exploration’s headquarters with the executive management team and led the implementation of a culture change programme and other organisational developments in the business.
In 1993, he moved to Antwerp, Belgium where he negotiated the sale of BP Nutrition which realised $1.5 billion for the company.
Following a year in the headquarters implementing organisation changes in BP Exploration, he became business unit leader of the Algeria/Southern Europe Gas Business from May 1995 until July 1996. After this he became Executive Assistant to John Browne, BP’s Group Chief Executive, responsible for all aspects of running the CEO’s office.
David then spent 3½ years as Head of BP’s Investor Relations leading teams in London, Frankfurt and New York. He played a key role in the execution of the merger with Amoco and the acquisitions of ARCO and Burmah Castrol. He was voted UK IR Officer of the year in 1998 and his team won a variety of other prizes including the Grand Prix for best overall IR in the UK in 1999 and again in 2000.
From January 2001 to April 2003 David was appointed Group Vice President and Executive Committee member of BP’s Petrochemicals business. From the middle of 2001 his duties in the Petrochemicals segment included responsibility for BP’s petrochemicals business in Asia and he was Commercial Director for the segment, based in London.
In May 2003, David was appointed Group Vice President, Group Planning reporting to the Group Chief of Staff. He was responsible for proposing the direction of the Group within the context of the Group Strategy.
In April 2005 he moved back to Exploration and Production to cover the existing profit centres of Alaska, North Sea, North America Gas and Latin America. From a regional perspective, he has group responsibility for Canada, Central and South America.
He is a member of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is a Chartered Engineer. His business interests include coaching of teams and individuals.
Outside work he enjoys hill walking, running and the cinema.
He is married and has a son and a daughter.
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 Mr. Suwit Pitrchart,,
Senior Vice President, Business Development,,
PTTEP
MR. SUWIT PITRCHART has been in oil and gas industry about 30 years. Prior to join PTTEP he was with Petroleum Authority of Thailand which is now become PTT Company Limited. He moved to PTT Exploration and Production Public Company (PTTEP) in 1989 when the company was established. He was head of legal advisor provided professional consultation to senior management in early period. During he is with PTTEP, Mr. Suwit made indispensable contribution to PTTEP success such as excellent human resources management, smoothly managed joint venture operations projects and expanding its business overseas. Mr. Suwit is currently Executive Vice President of Business Development and International Division taking care of E&P investment expansion both domestic and international as well as PTTEP existing overseas projects e.g. Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Oman, Iran and Algeria. Before taking up this position he was in charge of Vice President Human Resources & Administration and E&P Investment division respectively.
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 Dr. Hasan Qabazard,
Director, Research Division,
OPEC
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Mr. Alvaro Rios,
Secretario Ejecutivo,
Organizacion LatinoAmericana de Energia
Alvaro Rios-Roca is the current Executive Secretary of the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), during 2006-2008. Ex Minister of Hydrocarbons of Bolivia, expert in areas related with the energy sector which have allowed him to work as advisor in several international energy projects, speaker in energy conferences, analyst and writer of several communication media in Latin America.
He has studied Chemical Engineering in United States.
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 Mr. Antoine Rostand,
Global Managing Director,
Schlumberger Business Consulting
Antoine Rostand, Global Managing Director, Schlumberger Business Consulting, is responsible for the Schlumberger division providing business consulting services to oil and gas companies worldwide. Prior to this, he was Vice President for SchlumbergerSema Consulting & System Integration, Europe, having returned to Schlumberger after serving as President of EDS France , Partner in the consulting firm AT Kearney and an earlier assignment with the strategy consulting firm ICME. He began his career as a wireline engineer with Schlumberger Oilfield Services. Antoine Rostand graduated from France’s Ecole Polytechnique and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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 Daniel A. Saba,
Chairman of the Board of Directors,
PETROPERU S.A
Daniel A. Saba, Industrial Engineer, graduated of National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru, Master in Business Administration, ESAN, Lima, Peru and Master in Business Administration with Major Field Economy in the University of Stanford, USA.
Mr. Saba has a broad carrer path as counselor of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in different countries of Latin America as Cuba, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, in subjects related to investment and development projects.
At the same time, he has worked as Main Counselor of the Congress of the Republic of Peru in the Consumer Defense Commission and also as Main Counselor of the second vice-presidency of the Parliament. Mr. Saba also worked as General Coordinator of the Privatization Committee for PETROPERU.
As professor, he has taught in the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru, he has been Visiting Professor in the University of la Habana, Cuba and he has also performed the position of Dean of the Faculty of Administration and International Business of Norbert Wiener University, Lima, Peru.
He is the author of a variety of publications, within which it is important to mention Reflexiones sobre el Proceso de Privatización de PETROPERU (Reflections of the Privatization Process of PETROPERU) in 1994 and Privatización y Política Económica (Privatization and Economic Policy) in 1996.
He has also been speaker in a series conferences. During this year he gave two important conferences for the hydrocarbon and mining sector in the National Parliament: The Issues of Gas in Peru and Evaluation of Mining Contribution to the Development of Peru.
At present, Mr. Saba is performing the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of PERUPETRO S.A. The state company in charge of promoting hydrocarbons investments in Peru.
Mr. Saba, is also Member of the Board of Directors of PETROPERU S.A., since August 23, 2006. PETROPERU S.A. is the state company in charge of refining and commercializing hydrocarbons in Peru.
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Mr Matthew Sagers,
Director, Energy Economics, Eurasia and Eastern Europe,,
CERA
Dr. Matthew J. Sagers, CERA Senior Director, Energy Economics, Eurasia and Eastern Europe, is a well-known expert on the energy and transportation systems, and regional development in the Former Soviet Union, including pipeline constraints and solutions in Eurasia, and is an authority on energy policy in the region. Dr. Sagers heads the Eurasian Transportation Forum, a platform for improving the transportation environment in the region. He is a key contributor to CERA’s Russian and Caspian Retainer Advisory Services as well as two unique enhancements: the Eurasian Oil Export Outlook and the Russian Domestic Oil Market. Dr. Sagers’ recent research reports provide analysis of the Russian domestic oil market, the long-term Russian oil production outlook, the role of smaller gas fields in Russia’s long-term gas outlook, the Russian oil refining sector’s chances for reform, oil refining and downstream oil markets in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, new pipeline projects in Russia and Europe, quality banking in Russian oil pipelines, and US-Russia energy relations, among other issues. Dr. Sagers also served on several World Bank missions, as well as various governmental study panels and advisory groups focused on oil pipelines in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. He also worked on the International Energy Agency’s surveys of the Russian and Ukrainian energy sectors.
Prior to joining CERA, Dr. Sagers was Director of the Energy Service at PlanEcon, Inc., where he led that company’s analysis of the energy sector in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Previously, Dr. Sagers was Chief of the Soviet Branch in the US Census Bureau's Center for International Research and was an economic advisor to the newly formed Federated States of Micronesia and a professor of geography at Weber State University and University of Virginia. He is the author of The Chemical Industry in the USSR: An Economic Geography and The Transportation of Soviet Energy Resources, as well as extensive articles, government reports, and other publications. Dr. Sagers holds a BS degree (magna cum laude) from Weber State University and MA and PhD degrees from Ohio State University.
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 Mr. R.S. Sharma,
Chairman and Managing Director,
ONGC
Mr. R.S. Sharma, presently holding the charge of C&MD, ONGC (w.e.f. 25.05.2006), is also the Director (Finance) of ONGC (w.e.f. 01.03.2002). Shri Sharma, aged 55 years, is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India and also an Associate Member of the Indian Institute of Bankers. He has also attended “Advanced International Program in Oil & Gas Financial Management” from University of Texas, Dallas (USA).
Mr. Sharma joined ONGC as Joint Director (Finance) in 1988. He has varied experience in project and corporate finance affairs of ONGC. Before taking charge of the post of Director (Finance), ONGC, w.e.f. 1st March, 2002, he functioned for a short duration as Director (Finance) of ONGC Videsh Ltd. – a wholly owned subsidiary of ONGC.
Prior to joining ONGC, Mr. Sharma had attained rich experience in Finance, Banking and Credit Appraisal, including overseas posting as Regional Finance Head of a PSU Construction Company during early eighties.
Presently, he is also a member on the Board of Directors of Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemical Ltd., ONGC Videsh Ltd., ONGC Mittal Energy Services Ltd., and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
Mr. Sharma has been conferred with “India CFO Award 2005 – Excellence in Finance in a PSU”, in Dec, 05 by International Market Assessment (IMA), in association with BNP Paribas, Sun Micro Systems and CNBC TV 18.
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Mr Peder Sortland,
Senior Vice President,
Statoil International E&P
Peder Sortland (43) has been with Statoil since 1992. He has a business education background with an MBA from the University of Wyoming. He worked on the commercial side of the natural gas business for 9 years with focus on commercial midstream and downstream issues, including a 3 year secondment for Statoil UK in London. Since 2001 he has worked in a variety of positions within the international E&P business area of Statoil. He currently holds the position as Senior Vice President and is part of the international E&P management team focusing on non-conventional oil business development.
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Dr. Paul Stevens,
Professor of Petroleum Policy,
University of Dundee
Educated as an economist and as a specialist on the Middle East at Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies; 1973-1979 teaching at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon interspersed with two years as an oil consultant; 1979-93 at the University of Surrey. Since 1993, Professor of Petroleum Policy and Economics at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, Scotland (for details see web page www.cepmlp.org) a chair created by BP. Professor Stevens has published extensively on energy economics, the international petroleum industry, economic development issues and the political economy of the Gulf. He also works as a consultant for many companies and governments.
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Martin Stewart-Smith,
Partner,
Simmons and Simmons
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 Mr Steve Trauber,
Global Head of Energy,
U B S
Mr. Trauber joined UBS Investment Bank in 2003 as a Vice Chairman and Global Head of Energy. Steve currently manages Wall Street’s largest global energy investment banking practices with over 60 professionals committed to energy. Mr. Trauber began his career with Credit Suisse First Boston (1988-1995) and subsequently managed Morgan Stanley’s Energy Group in Houston(1995-2003).
Steve has served as a financial advisor in many of the significant M&A transactions in the oilfield service, exploration and production, and refining and marketing sectors. Notable transactions include: Anadarko/Kerr McGee, Anadarko/Western Gas, Devon/Ocean, Devon/SantaFe, Devon/PennzEnergy, Devon/Anderson, Apache/BP Properties, Apache/Shell Oil Properties, Pride International/Marine Drilling, Global Marine/SantaFe, Camco/Schlumberger, EVI/Weatherford, Dawson/Key Energy, Pool/Nabors, Valero/Ultramar Diamond Shamrock, Valero/Premcor, R&B/Falcon, R&B Falcon/Transocean, Halliburton’s sale of Dresser Industries, Smith International/Wilson Supply, BJ Services/OSCA, Saipem/Bouygues Offshore, Weatherford/CiDRA, Halliburton/Landmark Graphics, Precision Drilling Divisions/Weatherford, Dresser Rand/First Reserve, Kinder Morgan/Terresen.
In addition, Steve has executed many of the largest and most important financings in these sectors. Notable financings include: two convertible offerings each for Nabors, Weatherford, Devon, Chesapeake and Cooper Cameron; convertible offerings for Valero, Toreador and Pride International; equity offerings for Weatherford, Apache, Devon, Premcor, Valero, Cal Dive, Diamond Offshore, Enterprise Products, and Chesapeake. Steve has played an integral role in the IPOs of Complete Production Services, Dresser Rand, Chart Industries, Dril-Quip, OSCA, W-H Energy, Wood Group, Stone Energy, Premcor, TODCO, Cooper Cameron and Dresser-Rand.
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 Mr Peter van der Veen,
Manager, Oil, Gas & Mining Policy Division,
The World Bank Group
Peter van der Veen, a Dutch national, joined the Bank in 1985. As a Manager in the Sustainable Development Network, he is responsible for the Bank’s activities in oil, gas and mining. The Department is a joint department of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) covering all World Bank and IFC activities, ranging from loans to governments, advisory services, equity investments in private transactions, and structured financing for investors. The focus of the Bank’s activities in these areas is to assist Governments to attract private investment through legal, regulatory reforms, restructuring, capacity building, to ensure that extractive industries contribute to sustainable development. The Department provides services in a global context, with operations and activities in all the regions.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. van der Veen worked with the Shell/Billiton group of companies for over 15 years, gaining broad professional and management experience. Responsibilities during that time included production and project management; strategic planning and evaluation, and business development, through a number of assignments both overseas and at headquarters, covering major mining operations in Surinam, Peru, Colombia, Brazil.
He is a graduate of Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands).
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 Mr David Waring,
Managing Director, Head of European Energy,,
U B S
David Waring joined UBS Investment Bank in 2005 and has spent his entire career advising in the oil and gas sector—primarily in Corporate Finance, as well as with Wood Mackenzie Consultants for over two years. David has advised many clients internationally in recent years including BP, Shell, TNK-BP, Chevron Texaco, ExxonMobil, OMV, Petro-Canada, Venture Petroleum, Statoil, and Nexen.
His recent upstream transaction execution experience includes advisory to TNK-BP on its c. US$3.5billion disposal of Udmurt to Sinopec, to Statoil on its US$2.0 billion acquisition of a package of GoM assets from EnCana, advising Nexen on its US$2.1 billion acquisition of EnCana (UK) Ltd, advising, Petro-Canada on its US$840 million acquisition of the Buzzard field in the UK, advising BP on its disposal of over US$3.0 billion of upstream and downstream assets globally in 2003, the disposal of Veba Oil & Gas GmbH to Petro-Canada for US$2.0 billion in 2002, as well as OMV’s acquisition of Preussag International in 2003. His downstream transaction experience includes advising Exxon Mobil on the sale of Ingolstadt, advising OMV on its US$2.0 billion acquisition of Petrom, advising BP on divestment of selected retail sites and stake in Bayern Oil refinery to OMV, advising BP on sale of its German retail stations to PKN Orlen.
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Mike Watts,
Director of Exploration and New Business,
Cairn Energy
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 Mr Vahan Zanoyan,
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Petroleum Finance Company (PFC)
Vahan Zanoyan is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PFC Energy International. PFC Energy is one of the most respected advisory firms in the global energy industry. Based in Washington and with offices in Paris, London, Houston, Kuala Lumpur and Lausanne, PFC Energy was established in 1984 and specializes in the commercial, politi-cal and strategic aspects of the global oil and gas business. It covers the international up-stream sector (exploration and production), downstream sector (refining and marketing), global gas, producing country politics and economics, global crude oil and product mar-kets, and competitive strategies of energy companies.
In 1987 Mr. Zanoyan founded PFC's Market Intelligence Service (MIS), which he headed until his appointment as CEO in 1996.
Prior to joining PFC, Mr. Zanoyan was a Managing Director at Wharton Econometric Fore-casting Associates. During his tenure at Wharton, he founded The Middle East Economic Service, and served as the company's resident expert on oil markets. He was also the Managing Director in charge of all economic consulting services that covered Latin Amer-ica, Asia, the Centrally Planned Economies, the Middle East and North and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mr. Zanoyan has served as a consultant to numerous international and national oil compa-nies, banks, and other private and public organizations throughout the United States, the Middle East, the Far East and Latin America. In addition, he serves as a senior economic and oil policy advisor to many oil producing governments. He has over twenty-five years of professional experience in analyzing energy markets, production and pricing strategies of oil and gas producing countries, and energy futures markets.
Educated at The American University in Beirut and at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Zanoyan has done pioneering work in applied analysis of the political economies of oil producing countries and their development process during the past two decades. He is a member of Council on Foreign Relations. He has also published many professional arti-cles in the specialized media on energy, and has given countless lectures and speeches at professional conferences on the same subject.
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