2023 IEF | GARP Global Energy Risk Forum

Khaled Al-Deyain is Assistant Undersecretary of Technical Affairs at the Ministry of Oil in Kuwait. He is responsible for the country’s oil field development and exploration departments to ensure the health and performance of the reservoir and fields. He also monitors the related drilling and production plan and actual operations, and regulates upstream activities involving the environment and

workplace safety.

Al-Deyain has written papers on automation and artificial intelligence for smart and digital oil fields and spoken at international conferences. He is a member of Climate Change Kuwait National Committee and holds a Bachelor’s in Petroleum Engineering from Kuwait University.

Dr. Yousef Alshammari is the CEO and Head of Oil Research at CMarkits, a global energy research consultancy. Gulf Intelligence lists him as one of the world’s top 50 global energy analysts. He often appears in global media to comment on OPEC+, energy markets, and climate issues, and has published more than 40 articles. Dr. Alshammari is also a Professor of Renewable Energy and Engineering Economics at Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Alshammari is a member of the Group of Experts on Sustainable Energy at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, where he advises on better strategies for cleaner use of fossil fuels. After receiving a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London, he was a researcher at the International Atomic Energy Agency, and later a research fellow at OPEC and the IEA Hydrogen Implementing Agreement, and a principal researcher at the University of Vienna. 

Richard Apostolik has led the world’s premiere association for risk professionals for 16 years. Previously with Bankers Trust’s (Deutsche Bank) strategic ventures group, Apostolik developed financial risk management initiatives designed to provide credit risk mitigation and management services to financial service companies. He also served as JPMorgan & Co.’s global head of energy brokerage activities and chief operating officer of its global listed product businesses. Apostolik ran his own consulting firm and was responsible for the start-up of SG Warburg & Co.’s North American futures and options business. He was an attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, practiced law with a private law firm in Chicago, and was the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s house counsel. Apostolik holds a BSBA, MBA, and JD from the University of Dayton.

NJ Ayuk is the Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber and CEO of pan-African corporate law conglomerate Centurion Law Group. Nj is author of “A Just Transition: Making Energy Poverty History With An Energy Mix” and “Big Barrels” “Billions at Play: The Future of African Energy and Doing Deals.” He has experience advising major companies and governments on energy issues and investment strategies. 

NJ holds a BA from the University of Maryland College Park and has received an MBA from the New York Institute of Technology and a Juris Doctor from William Mitchell College of Law.

Felipe Bayon is the former President and CEO of Ecopetrol Group, the largest oil and gas conglomerate in Colombia. He oversaw the upstream, midstream, downstream, technology, and engineering projects and marketing operations as well as the research and innovation areas.

For more than 20 years, Bayón worked at BP in Colombia and in international operations, most recently as Senior Vice President of BP America and Head of Global Deepwater Response. Prior to that he was Regional President of BP Southern Cone (South America), and was Chief of Staff to the Upstream CEO and Head of the Executive Office for Exploration and Production.

Bayón joined BP Colombia as a Project Engineer, where he held various positions, eventually becoming Vice President of Operations. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes, and has over 28 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.

Jean-Pascal Clemencon is Senior Vice President Strategy and Markets at TotalEnergies. He began his career in Gabon for the French Oil Independent Perenco before moving to Shell in Scotland. In 2002, Clemençon joined TotalEnergies, holding various positions in Paris, Dubai, Congo, Cairo, and Algiers, where he was

Country Chair and Managing Director.

Clemençon holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Chemical School of Nancy, a Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the IFP School Paris, and a Master of Business Administration from HEC Paris.

Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega joined IFRI’s Center for Energy and Climate as a Director in September 2017. Prior to joining IFRI, he spent six years at the International Energy Agency (IEA), notably as Russia and Sub-Saharan Africa Programme Manager where he conducted oil and gas market analyses and was responsible for institutional relations with these countries and regions.

Previously, he ran a Ukraine observatory at the Robert Schuman Foundation and holds a Ph.D in international relations from Sciences Po Paris.

Aude Filippi is Director for Business Development at European Energy Exchange (EEX). Aude is in charge of developing commodity trading at EEX, with a special focus on leading the business towards a more sustainable economy. This encompasses notably developing carbon markets, supporting the transition towards renewable energy and providing tools to reduce energy consumption. She joined EEX in 2010 and has been working in regulatory affairs on top of business development.

Harry R. Kamian became Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR) on September 7, 2021. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, rank of Minister Counselor. Harry most recently served as Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik, Iceland. Previously, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from August 2017 to August 2020. During the first two years, Harry served as Chargé d’Affaires and Acting Permanent Representative.

Harry served as Deputy Executive Secretary in the Department of State’s Executive Secretariat, where from 2015-2017 he worked with the Secretary’s staff, Bureau leadership and Chiefs of Mission to shape and execute overseas visits by the Secretary to advance U.S. policy goals. Prior to that, Harry served as the Director and Deputy Director of the Operations Center, the Department’s 24-hour crisis center.

Other overseas postings during Harry’s 29-year career include assignments in Vietnam, Chile, Turkey, Cuba and El Salvador. In Washington, DC, his assignments have included Deputy Director of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, as well as positions in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and on the staff of the Secretary of State in the Operations Center. Harry is the recipient of numerous Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor awards.

Harry received a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Relations and Spanish Language from the University of California, Davis.

Sobhet Karbuz is Director of Hydrocarbons and Energy Security Division at Mediterranean Observatory for Energy (OME), an energy industry association in Paris. Before joining the OME, he was with the International Energy Agency in Paris. Previously, he was a research associate and manager at several institutions and companies in Austria, Germany, and Turkey.

His main areas of interests are oil and natural gas markets, energy geopolitics, energy security, modeling, and scenario building. Karbuz has authored or coauthored numerous books, scientific articles, and book chapters. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the industrial engineering department of Istanbul Technical University, his Ph.D in natural sciences from the

Technical University of Vienna, and postgraduate diploma in economics from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.

Shah Karim is the Chief Executive Officer of SafeRock and advises Fortune 500 enterprises and investment groups worldwide on strategy, digital transformation, and M&A. Shah is also an Innovation Fellow at Columbia Business School, co-founder of the non-profit “Friends of Yale from Industry,” and Emeritus of both the Graduate School Advisory and the Alumni Board of Governors at Yale University. He serves on committees and boards at the University of Chicago, Penn State University, and the University of North Texas. Shah is also on the Board of Directors of the Chemical Marketing and Economics Association serving industrial companies.

Shah has been a guest or keynote speaker on leadership, megatrends, and value creation at numerous international conferences and has authored articles in peer-reviewed and industry publications. He is recognized as a “Top 100 Industry Influencer” by Retail Digest.

Christyan Malek is managing director, Global Energy Strategy lead, and head of EMEA Oil & Gas Equity Research for J.P. Morgan. Over the last 11 years his team has been consistently top-ranked energy analysts by Institutional Investor in European Exploration and Production, achieving the #1 rank in the 2020 & 2021 II Survey for Oil & Gas Exploration and Production in both the Developed Europe and Emerging EMEA categories. He is also the top-rated individual energy analyst. 

Malek has written extensively on European majors’ energy transition and disruption oil macro strategy and the supercycle thesis and has hosted industry thought leaders including Saudi Minister of Energy HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, OPEC Secretary General HE Mohammed Barkindo, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, and Executive Director of the IEA Fatih Birol. He graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in chemical engineering.

Joseph McMonigle is the the fifth Secretary General of the International Energy Forum

(IEF), the largest global organization of energy ministers. Previously he was President

and Co-Founder of The Abraham Group, a leading international energy sector

management consulting firm as well as a senior energy analyst for Hedgeye Risk

Management. McMonigle was Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Energy during

the first term of the George W. Bush Administration, as well as U.S. Co-Chair of the

U.S.-China Energy Working Group. He also served two years as the Vice Chairman

of the International Energy Agency, an organization of oil-consuming countries whose

core mission is to facilitate stable energy markets.

McMonigle is an attorney and was general counsel to a U.S. Senator. He received

his undergraduate degree from King’s College and his J.D. from Widener University

Commonwealth Law School, both in Pennsylvania.

Cornelia Meyer is a business consultant, macro-economist and energy expert as well as a media commentator. She is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MRL Corporation and Chairman and Chief Economist of LBV Asset Management. Ms. Meyer’s experience stretches over five continents on a vast range of assignments and projects as a financier, adviser, regulator, manufacturer and principal in the energy and other industries. Her particular focus are emerging markets. Cornelia has a strong media presence, as a commentator and guest presenter on various business and political TV news stations. These include: the BBC, CNN, CNBC Arabia, and Bloomberg. Cornelia regularly contributes her analysis to the BBC and was a regular contributor and identified as thought leader on emerging markets by CNN for their emerging markets programme. Cornelia writes regular columns and Op-Eds for various publications such as Arab News and “Finanz und Wirtschaft”. Cornelia also shares the major macroeconomic column on Swiss National Public Radio with the chief economist of UBS and the head of the Competition Authority of Switzerland. Ms. Meyer was educated at the St. Gallen University, the London School of Economics and Tokyo University.

Dr. Tatiana Mitrova is a Research Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy. She has 25 years of experience in Russian, FSU, and global energy markets, including production, transportation, demand, energy policy, pricing, and market restructuring. Previously she was Executive Director of the Energy Centre of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and Head of Research in the Oil and Gas Department at the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 

Dr. Mitrova has a bacherlor’s in economics from Moscow State University, is a visiting professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and a board member of global oil services company Schlumberger. She has published more than 200 articles in scientific and business journals and co-authored ten scientific books as well as the best-seller “The 8 and 1/2 Steps: How to Live, Love And Work At Full Capacity” (stories of women leaders).

Dr Carole Nakhle is an international authority on global energy issues, in particular in the fields of policy, finance, market development, governance, regulation, fiscal regimes and contractual arrangements. 

With a unique breadth of experience spanning different stakeholders in the energy industry all around the world, Dr Nakhle has worked with oil and gas companies (Eni and Statoil) at the executive level, governments and policy makers (including Special Parliamentary Advisor in the UK), international organisations, academic institutions and specialized think tanks on a global scale.

She is active on the Governing Board of the Natural Resource Governance Institute and Member of its Audit and Finance Committee, and Advisory Boards of the Middle East Institute and the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. She is a program advisor to the Washington based International Tax and Investment Centre and lead Energy Expert with the Geopolitical Intelligence Services. She is also involved in the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development and has contributed to the development of the organization’s Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts.

Dr Nakhle has lectured at leading academic institutions including: the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, University of Surrey in the UK, the European University Institute in Italy, Saint Joseph University in Lebanon, the National Defense University in the USA and Nato Strategic Direction South Hub in Naples.

She founded the not-for-profit organisation ‘Access for Women in Energy’ in 2007, with the aim of supporting the development of women in the energy sector, globally. She has also championed the development of similar initiatives in Ghana, Tunisia and the UAE, where she sits on ADIPEC’s Advisory Board for Inclusion and Diversity.

Ludmila Tones is Director, Communication, Sustainability, and Investor Relations at Nuclearelectrica, a Romanian nuclear energy company that is the country’s only producer of nuclear energy. She manages internal and external communications, investor relations, and ESG and sustainability projects.

Previously Ludmila was an entrepreneur in her own communications agency, where she offered integrated marketing and communications consulting to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial businesses. Before that, as Account Director within the McCann PR agency — the largest PR and crisis communications agency in Romania — Ludmila managed strategic, crisis, and issues communications for multinational companies.