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Dr. Hassan Al Alawi has vast experience in the field of project management, portfolio and asset management, project finance and debt capital market, M&A (Merger & Acquisition), and corporate governance best practices in industry gained from various positions with several international parties. In addition to experience in executing full life cycle of projects using various contracting strategies. He has extensive experience in developing, implementing, and leading Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Crisis Management (CR) using international codes and standards. This is reflected via chairing and delivering speeches at various international conferences of risk and resilience management in the region, Asia, and Europe.

Dr Hassan has strong leadership and management skills with experience in research analysis and techniques and management of material resources. This is reflected through publishing a few management research books, in addition to chairing and participation in conferences and workshops, conducting online courses including assessment and evaluation, learning strategies & diverse coaching modalities.

Dr Hassan had his BSc/Honor in Chemical Engineering from King Saud University (Riyadh – KSA), MSc/Distinction in Risk Management from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburg – UK) and PhD/Distinction in Project Management from Columbia University in the City of New York (New York – USA). He is a member at various reputable international institutions in the region, Europe, and USA.

Christophe Malet is the founder and CEO of Astrava, a company focusing on the development of small-scale LNG supply and distribution into downstream markets in Asia and Africa, including LNG-to-Diesel switch strategies and the promotion of LNG as a fuel for heavy duty trucking, building on the successful Chinese business model.

In 2015, Christophe joined Hanas, a Chinese independent energy company operating renewables, gas, LNG and power, as Senior Vice President Upstream LNG, to support the development of Hanas’ LNG receiving terminal project in China and lead its LNG procurement and business development activities.

Christophe’s experience in the LNG Industry over the last 19 years with Hanas, Yamal LNG, Excelerate Energy and Shell covers short-term trading, long-term LNG marketing and LNG business and project development. Prior to his LNG experience, Christophe held various commercial and logistics roles in Shell’s Aviation and Bitumen businesses in Europe.

With an engineering degree and a MBA as academic background, he has over 25 years of commercial experience.

Peter is the senior digital science principal in the asia-pacific region for integrated energy company bp, he is part of a group that does technology scouting and research with a mission to bring frontier digital technology into bp. This wide remit covers bp businesses in trading, shipping, hydrogen, wind, undersea operations, geophysics, and more. The group has strong links to the bp incubation and ventures pipelines. Peter's background is in software engineering, which he has pursued in several countries and at several investment banks and trading organisations.

Maryam is Qamar Energy’s Senior Consultant for Middle East energy markets. She leads Qamar’s commercial and economic consulting portfolio in the oil and gas, renewables, and new energies sectors, and is a professional in strategy development and regulatory design for the sustainability and energy transformation segments. She is the co-author of Powering Iraq: Challenges Facing the Electricity Sector in Iraq for the Al Bayan Center for Planning & Studies, Renewable Energy Market Analysis: GCC 2019 for IRENA, Renewable Energy Markets: GCC 2023 for IRENA, and was a supporting author for the flagship report, The UAE’s Role in the Global Hydrogen Economy, prepared on behalf of ADNOC, Mubadala, ADQ, and the UAE Ministry of Energy & Infrastructure.

Maryam has led the development of proprietary gas, renewables, and hydrogen cost evolution models to 2050 with a focus on cross-sectoral decarbonisation solutions, and has been at the forefront of developing large-scale strategic projects to meet the region’s energy needs, including assessing LNG and gas imports, future hydrogen trade, and acquisitions of oil and gas assets in the region and surrounding countries. She has worked with the region’s energy leadership to advise on future energy policy and direction, and achieve action on the development of cross-border gas pipeline projects (Iraq, Turkey, Kurdistan), exploration, and major renewables and carbon capture, storage, and use developments.

Prior to joining Qamar, she was a journalist with the Times of Oman and the Al Rawahy Group of Companies in Oman, covering clientele including the Oman Chamber of Industry & Commerce, the Ministry of Tourism, the Oman India Fertiliser Company, the Oman Airports Management Company, and Jindal Shadeed. She initiated and spearhead efforts to widen industry coverage of energy capital markets, national and regional environmental legislation, and company-specific issues, and routinely competed with other local and national outlets to produce high-impact, authoritative information.

Maryam writes for international media outlets and has been a speaker for the Energy Industries Council, the Derasat Foundation, EnergyRisk, Rudaw, Enuit, and others. She is a Gold Medallist in Mass Media & Mass Communication from the University of Delhi, and a summa cum laude graduate from the University of Wollongong as a Master of International Studies, with specialisation in Middle East energy security and foreign policy.

She knows 5 languages, including Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, and French.

George Christoforou is the Head of Market Risk at Petrocas Energy Group, a vertically integrated petroleum products distributor and logistical service provider.

He is the product owner of a CTRM while also leading the whole spectrum of risk identification, risk processing, and risk design of the Group’s business activities.

Adept Mathematician with a First Class Bachelor from the University of the West of England and Certified Financial, Sustainability, and Climate Risk Manager from the Global Association of Risk Managers.

Latif Faiyaz, Head of Energy Trading & Strategy,Northern Gas and Power (NGP Ltd)

Latif has a wealth of experience from within the energy industry, currently at Northern Gas and Power, Latif heads the Trading department of six Traders and two Analysts, managing over 450 commercial customers with over 6TWh of energy under management. 

He has experience in developing carbon projects and trading carbon internationally. Latif has also worked at utilities; Engie and Orsted, implementing the integration of energy service offerings (PPAs, CHPs and Demand Management) into supply contracts. His experience is varied too. He’s worked ‘on the other side of the fence’ as an Energy Manager for the NHS, before returning back to energy trading for LG Energy and Yorkshire Energy.

Nima Safaian has extensive experience in the energy industry. He started as a nuclear engineer and later transitioned into commercial roles, where he built and scaled teams and capabilities in commercial optimization, asset strategy, market analytics, and risk management. Currently, he is a Partner at Quantim Intelligence, a commercial strategy consultancy. Nima has held senior positions at BP supply & trading, Scotiabank, and most recently served as the Vice President of Value Chain Optimization at Cenovus Energy. He holds degrees in nuclear engineering and an MBA, and he is passionate about learning new advanced analytics methods to enhance complex commercial decision-making.

Mario Dell’Era holds a MSc. in Theoretical Physics and PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Pisa, visiting PhD at Finance Institute of Lugano and also a Master in Data Science &Artificial Intelligence at Cambridge Spark UK, and he is actively involved in researches within Neuroscience and Generative AI field. Presently, he occupies the position of Head of Quant Risk front Office at Petroineos Ltd, London UK. He taught Quantitative Finance and Stochastic Processes at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, for PhD students and International Corporate Finance at Pisa University, where he was an External Professor and webinars on AI applications in Finance at Ca' Foscari in Venice. His research spans PDEs methods in Finance, Stochastic Calculus and AI.

Sid is the Chief Researcher at Chartis Research with more than 20 years of experience in the financial, energy and commodities markets in various functions across the trade and software development lifecycles. He has held various roles in product development, trading, risk management, software development and consulting in banks, hedge funds, and risk advisory and software firms, including Standard Chartered Bank, TCG Group, HCL and Cognizant.

Sid’s specific areas of interest and research include risk data, model risk management, quantitative models in illiquid markets, high-performance analytics, energy and commodity trading risk, market structure design, new computational models, and the use of innovative mathematical methods in various emerging areas of risk management .He has a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and is a qualified Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst CAIA, Financial Risk Manager (FRM) ,Energy Risk Professional (ERP), Member of GARP and CIPM from the CFA institute.