Agenda

Christophe Malet is Senior Vice President Upstream and Midstream LNG at Hanas, a Chinese independent energy company focusing on Renewables and LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas); and Managing Director of Hanas LNG Pte. Ltd., Hanas’ Singapore-based LNG procurement and marketing entity.

Christophe's experience in the LNG Industry over the last 14 years with Hanas, Yamal LNG, Excelerate Energy and Shell covers short-term trading, long-term LNG marketing and LNG business development.

With an engineering degree and a MBA as academic background, he has over 20 years of commercial experience.

Earl Burns Jr. is a leading Energy Executive with more than 30 years of experience in the energy sector serving in various operating, financial, trading and supply roles. Burns was previously manager, Americas Distillate Trading in the Commercial organization. Prior to that, he resided in London and held the role of manager, Crude Trading Europe, Africa and Russia for Phillips 66 Limited, where he was responsible for all crude trading and supply activities. He began his career with Mobil Oil Corporation in a variety of positions in the U.S., Africa and Latin America inclusive of financial trading, logistics and sales positions. Previously, Burns served as the crude trading manager for BP in Chicago as well as manager, Global Strategy and Commercial Development (Commercial Marine) at ConocoPhillips. Prior to his time at ConocoPhillips, Burns spent five years in the U.S. Naval Reserve, receiving an honorable discharge as Lieutenant.   

Earl is a proud member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC); the most elite organization advancing the cause of Black Executives globally, an active board member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Energy Oversight Committee, as well as being an incoming (2020) board member and director of the United States Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point) Alumni Foundation.

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.

An experienced individual with proven leadership qualities and management styles in both public and private sectors, Laurence is recognized in the industry as subject matter expert in the areas of electricity and integration to Electricity Market in Singapore and Asia Pacific. He has amassed years of senior managerial experience in a variety of corporate sectors across a wide industry spectrum.

In addition, Laurence was one of the pioneers in implementing Demand Response solution in Singapore with Energy Market Authority back in 2007/08.

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 &,Renewable Energy Market Analysis: GCC 2019 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.

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.

Maryam writes for international media outlets and has been a speaker for the Energy Industries Council, the Derasat Foundation, EnergyRisk, Enuit, and others. She is a Gold Medallist in Mass Media & Mass Communication from the University of Delhi, and the recipient of the Dubai International Academic City (DIAC) Academic Excellence Award in recognition of graduating summa cum laude as a Master of International Studies from the University of Wollongong in Dubai, with specialisation in Middle East energy security and foreign policy.

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

Monika Mangla is passionate about driving business transformation leveraging technology.  She has >25 years’ experience in advising C-suite in digital strategy, governance and finance innovation and has delivered finance transformation at global scale, including leading global finance transformation program at Chevron that aimed to transform finance globally, leveraging SAP S/4HANA and Central Finance. 

Monika received a master’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland - College Park and is a Charter Financial Analyst (CFA). She started her career with KPMG in economics and statistical advisory and moved to Accenture as Senior Manager supporting both outsourcing and strategic business consulting.  Monika joined Chevon in 2008 as senior advisor in Upstream Finance and has since held a variety of roles in corporate functions and in operations, with time in the Gulf of Mexico, US Deepwater and Thailand. Monika joined Deloitte as a Managing Director in 2022 leading efforts building technology led finance transformation practice.  Currently, Monika is teaching as a guest professor at the University of Houston, School of business and focusing on growing BreaktheTide.org, a non-profit that focuses on empowering underprivileged communities through technology.  She lives in Houston with her family and enjoys reading and traveling in her free time. 

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.

Pat Roberts is an independent consultant running LNG-Worldwide Ltd

Pat has been an independent consultant for 19 years working with Governments,IOCs, utility companies and new entrants to the LNG business. Her advice and practical experience cover the full LNG supply chain from strategy and market fundamental analysis to assisting with front-line negotiations for joint development agreements, sales and purchase agreements and terminal use agreements.

Looking to the future, she also provides advice and a pragmatic rationale for the role of gas and LNG in Energy Transitions.

Prior to consulting, Pat worked for 24 years for the Shell Group of companies in both the oil trading divisions and gas divisions of Shell. From 1998-2004 she worked in the Shell Global LNG group, where she was General Manager for Shell's Global LNG business activities in the Atlantic Basin.

Spyros Maragos has more than eighteen years' worth of experience as an energy executive.  He has held quantitative, structuring, risk management and fundamental analysis positions.  He worked in energy marketing, consulting, for an oil major as well as energy hedge funds.  Currently, he is Manager, Market Risk Analytics at ExxonMobil.

Spyros has a Ph.D. from M.I.T. where he studied Management, Operations Research and Finance.

Yi Jean Chow is an Investment Principal at Future Energy Ventures, the venture and collaboration platform of E.ON, a multinational European utility. Prior to FEV, she worked in strategy consulting, and at energy start-ups focused on industrial efficiency, building energy management, machine learning, and blockchain technologies. Yi Jean has lived in London, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle; and holds a BA in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University, and an MSc in Economics and Policy of Energy & Environment from UCL.​

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.

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.

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.