Agenda

Sid is a research director 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 an 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.

Mark is the Global Brand Director at Chartis and has over 30 years’ experience in global capital markets, consulting and associated technologies focusing on risk management, front and middle office platforms and data management. Prior to Chartis he has held executive roles in large global financial institutions, consultancies and FinTechs in various positions including platform and software development, solution architecture, large scale program management, vendor selection and implementation and strategy development and execution. With a background covering front, middle and back office Mark brings a holistic view of business, technology and regulatory issues across the enterprise and how these issues can be addressed by leveraging appropriate technology solutions.  His primary focus has been risk technology and includes leading the global teams for risk technology at RBS Capital Markets and AIG, Middle office and front office technology teams at Barclays Capital, extensive consulting experience with major consulting organizations including EY and Deloitte together with extensive vendor experience including time at both Algorithmics and Misys (now Finastra). Mark has an MA from Oxford University and is Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

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.

Latif heads the energy trading and strategy for industrial and commercial customers at Norther Gas and Power; overseeing 33TWh of energy undermanagement. He has over 10 years’ experience in energy trading and services, including the development of international carbon projects and integrating energy generation into supply contracts. He has previously worked for Orsted and Engie.

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.

Cristiano is a Machine Learning specialist in bp's Digital Science discipline. He explores emerging trends in AI and Machine Learning, identifying disruptive technologies that could transform the industry. Having specialised Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, he is passionate about using frontier technologies to drive innovation in energy.

Louis focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, private investment funds and capital markets. He has experience with private and public mergers and acquisitions, co-investments, secondary transactions, fund formation and asset management company structures. He represents clients in energy and infrastructure (including renewable and sustainable technologies), high-tech industrials and manufacturing, and technology, media, and telecommunications sectors.

Prior to joining the firm, he worked in private practice in Hong Kong and Beijing.

Răzvan is a seasoned risk management professional, entrepreneur and also former journalist. But before all these, he has been, is and remains a communicator and a very inquisitive storyteller.

Răzvan has a vast experience in various industries as a risk management professional such as commodity exchanges, oil & gas, insurance and for the last 7 years only in energy. Most recent experiences are with Hidroelectrica (biggest hydro-power producer in Romania) and Electrica, double listed energy company (on LSE and BSE) acting in distribution, supply, production and services. During 2022 he was also a board member for the energy supply subsidiary of Electrica.

He is currently acting as a Risk management & KYC Director for the Electrica Group.

Over the last years, he presented over 100 dedicated trainings and discourses, in extremely varied fields such as: Financial Risk Management, Risk Management Fundamentals, Introduction to Risk Management, Trading of Derivatives (the options), Enterprise Risk Management, ISO 31000, ISO 27001.

Răzvan is also a member of the Technical committee of the ESG Exchange, an international initiative for how-to deliver decision-useful sustainability information, no matter the area of regulation.

Chikako Ishiguro is Senior Researcher and Analyst at Osaka Gas.  As a member of the Energy Resources and International Business Unit of the company, Chikako heads up energy market research and analysis activities of the company where she has worked for over 10 years. Throughout her career, Ishiguro has pursued in-depth global market analysis in key energy sectors, particularly in LNG.  Previously, she was Head of Market Research Division of Osaka Gas International Transport, a subsidiary of Osaka Gas.  She is a co-author of OIES papers; Pricing and Demand for LNG in China (2006), A New Paradigm for Natural Gas Pricing in Asia: A Perspective on Market (2009), A Realistic Perspective on Japan’s LNG Demand after Fukushima (2012) and The Outlook for Natural Gas and LNG in China in the War against Air Pollution (2018).

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.

Maryam is a Senior Research Specialist at Chartis, focusing on quantitative methods in financial risk management – including Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. Maryam has been the lead analyst and author of a variety of industry and thought leadership reports, including insurance risk systems, asset and liability management and credit risk analytics. She also works on risk-aware accounting and governance risk and compliance (GRC) – focusing on model risk management (MRM). Maryam has been involved with a variety of Business - Technology strategy projects and other types of consulting work. Maryam has experience using statistical software, machine learning libraries, Python and MATLAB. She also specializes in graphics production and visualizations. Maryam holds a first-class BA Honours from the London School of Economics and an MSc in computation and cognition with distinction from Birkbeck, University of London. Maryam also has a certificate in Risk in Financial Services from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Other areas of interest include computer vision research, rule-based symbol systems, neural computation and cognitive modeling.

Navin (Nav) is a senior executive holding 20+ years experience across Financial, Corporate, and Professional Services institutions. As a leader & practitioner, Nav operates in portfolio roles across a suite of companies, where he advises on Sustainability, Capital Markets, and Risk Management. His competencies are focused on strategy, governance, training, and implementation - driven by prudential & principled regulation across ESG, Climate Risk, Carbon Markets, Sustainable Financing, and Net Zero for financials and real economy sectors.

His corporate experience spans companies such as Tata Group, HSBC Group, Credit Suisse, and Commerzbank. Nav's Front Office, CRO, COO, and Programme Management experience assists in building diverse and international teams.

Externally, Nav sits on a number of government & private industry committees, developing & influencing public policy on Sustainability standards. He supports the financial markets community via mentoring of professionals and serving as the Co-Chair of the PRMIA ESG Working Group & PRMIA SteerCo.

Nav is a regular speaker and chair at conferences, as well as a frequent commentator & author to the media on financial market regulations, including a regular column on Sustainability for the financial press.

With over 6 years working for TotalEnergies, Lucie has gained expertise in key account management and commercialization of electricity and gas. For the past year, she has leveraged her technical and negotiation skills to develop and sell PPA across Europe & globally. Her career is marked by a strong international profile, enabling her to navigate diverse markets and cultures effectively