Strategic Conference Speakers
Gastech convenes leading minds in energy every year. From Ministers and policymakers to global CEOs in government, industry, finance, and technology sectors to set new agendas for the energy industry and advance the critical discussions on global energy security and energy transitions.
2023 Global business leaders included:
H.E. Dr Tan See Leng
Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry
Singapore
H.E. George Papanastasiou
Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry
Cyprus
H.E. Daler Juma
Minister of Energy and Water Resources
Republic of Tajikistan
Willie L. Phillips
Chairman
US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
H.E. Bapak Tutuka Ariadji
Deputy Minister, Director General of Oil and Gas, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources
Government of Indonesia
H.E. Osama Mobarez
Secretary General
East Mediterranean Gas Forum
Csaba Marosvari
Deputy State Secretary for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Hungary
Joseph McMonigle
Secretary General
International Energy Forum (IEF)
Lorenzo Simonelli
Chairman and CEO
Baker Hughes
Yukio Kani
Global CEO & Chairman of the Board
JERA Co., Inc.
Meg O’Neill
CEO & Managing Director
Woodside Energy
Shri Sandeep Kumar Gupta
Chairman and Managing Director
GAIL (India) limited
Peter Clarke
Senior Vice President - Global LNG
ExxonMobil
Alan Heng
Group CEO
Pavilion Energy
Musabbeh Al Kaabi
Executive Director of Low Carbon Solutions & International Growth
ADNOC
Takayuki Ueda
President and CEO
INPEX
Russell Hardy
CEO
Vitol
Michael Lewis
CEO
Uniper
Akshay Kumar Singh
Managing Director and CEO
Petronet LNG
Ahmed Mohamed Alebri
CEO
ADNOC Gas
Paul Everingham
CEO
Asia Natural Gas & Energy Association (ANGEA)
Alessandro Puliti
CEO
Saipem
Guido Brusco
COO– Natural Resources
Eni
Maria Rita Galli
CEO
DESFA
Iqbal Z Ahmed
Chairman
Pakistan Gasport Consortium Ltd
M.L. Peekthong Thongyai
Senior Executive Vice President, Gas Business Unit
PTT
Giulia Ferrini
OGMP 2.0 Manager
UNEP
Paul Varello
Founder and Executive Chairman
Commonwealth LNG
Andree Stracke
CEO
RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
Dr Zheng Hongtao
President and Executive Chairman
ENN Natural Gas Co., Ltd., and ENN Energy Holdings Limited
Yoshinori Kanehana
Chairman of the Board
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Arnaud Pieton
CEO
Technip Energies
Yaoyu Zhang
Global Head of LNG & New Energies
PetroChina International Company Limited (PCI)
Freeman Shaheen
President
Chevron Global Gas
Wee Seng Lim
Group Head of Energy Renewables and Infrastructure, Institutional Banking Group
DBS Bank
Osamu Ono
President / Senior Vice President, Chief Regional Officer, Asia Pacific & India
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd / Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Don Dimitrievich
Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for Energy Infrastructure Credit
Nuveen
Jonathan Westby
Senior Vice President, LNG
JERA Global Markets
Cederic Cremers
Executive Vice President LNG
Shell
Atsunori Takeuchi
Executive Officer - Senior General Manager of LNG Business Department & Energy Trading Department
Tokyo Gas
Dr. Philip Mshelbila
Managing Director and CEO
Nigeria LNG Limited
Hironobu Watanabe
Managing Executive Officer, Chief Executive of Energy Division
NYK Line
Annalisa Muccioli
CEO
EniProgetti S.p.A.
Jillian Evanko
CEO
Chart Industries, Inc
Marco Alverà
CEO
TES
Toshiro Kudama
CEO
JERA Asia Pte. Ltd.
Andrew Barry
Vice President Global LNG Marketing
ExxonMobil
Martin Houston
Vice Chairman
Tellurian
Austin Knight
Vice President, Hydrogen
Chevron New Energies
Cécile Previeu
Executive Vice President, in charge of Networks Activities
ENGIE
Jane Liao
Vice President
CPC Taiwan
Charlotte Wolff-Bye
Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer
PETRONAS
Justin Murphy
Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development
ADNOC
Sarah Bairstow
CEO
Mexico Pacific
Didier Holleaux
Executive Vice President and President
ENGIE and Eurogas
Andrew Elliot
President
ExxonMobil LNG Asia Pacific (EMLAP)
Masood Nabi
CEO
Government Holdings (Private) Ltd (GHPL)
John Panikar
CEO - Asia Pacific and Executive Vice President
Linde
Rashid Al Mazrouei
Senior Vice President Marketing
ADNOC Gas
Clay Neff
President
Chevron International Exploration and Production
Irtiza H. Sayyed
President, Low Carbon Solutions
ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Ltd.
Dr. Samir J. Serhan
COO
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc
Tze San Koh
President, China Gas Marketing
ExxonMobil
Paddy Padmanathan
Co-Founder & Vice Chairman
Zhero
Colin E. Parfitt
President, Midstream
Chevron
Anne-Laure de Chammard
Member of the Executive Board
Siemens Energy
Irene Rummelhoff
Executive Vice President, Marketing, Midstream & Processing (MMP)
Equinor
Jérôme Malka
Member of the Executive Committee
ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales
Laura Leonard
Group President, Technology Solutions
Worley
Wooi Leong Tan
Managing Director, Energy & Industrial Division
Surbana Jurong Group
Thomas Thorkildsen
Chief Commercial Officer
Höegh LNG
Paul Marsden
President - Energy
Bechtel
Mark Brownstein
Senior Vice President
Environmental Defense Fund
Olalekan Ogunleye
Deputy Managing Director
Nigeria LNG Limited
Jane Toogood
Chief Executive of Catalyst Technologies, National Hydrogen Champion
Johnson Matthey, UK Government
Dr. Katan Hirachand
CEO and Chief Country Officer
Societe Generale India
Alessandra Pasini
Co-Founder & President
Zhero
Mario Azar
Chairman and CEO
Black & Veatch
Ken West
President and CEO
Honeywell UOP
Gavin Rennick
President - New Energy
SLB
Kevin Gallagher
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Santos
Daniel Bustos
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
Excelerate Energy
Oystein M. Kalleklev
CEO
Flex LNG and Avance Gas
Cristian Signoretto
Director, Global Gas & Lng Portfolio and Deputy COO, Natural Resources
Eni
Samir Karoum
Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer
Technip Energies
John Kent
Chief Energy Transition Officer
Kent plc
Fernando Moura Alves
Director
National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels of Brazil (ANP)
Abdellatif Bardach
President / Chairman
MEDREG / Moroccan National Electricity Regulation Authority (ANRE)
Valérie Ruiz- Domingo
Group Hydrogen Vice President
ENGIE
Kazuhiro Takahashi
Executive Officer - Marine Fuel GX Division
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
Wilbur W. Mok
President, Asia
Air Products
Roberto Furian Ardenghy
CEO
Brazilian Petroleum & Gas Institute (IBP)
Michèle Azalbert
Chief Hydrogen Officer
Gentari
Jens Schmidt
CTO
TES
Sanjay Kumar
Director (Marketing)
GAIL (India) Limited
Dr Sanjay C Kuttan
CTO
Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation
Simon Flowers
Chairman and Chief Analyst
Wood Mackenzie
Eirik Wærness
Senior Vice President, Chief Economist and Head of Global External Analysis
Equinor
Thorbjörn Fors
Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Asia Pacific
Siemens Energy
Alessandro Bresciani
Senior Vice President, Climate Technology Solutions
Baker Hughes
Ryoichi Abe
Chief Representative – Singapore
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
Brett Henkel
Co-Founder and Senior VP, Strategic Accounts & Government Affairs
Svante Inc.
Viorel Peca
Head of Unit – Transition and Business Acceleration Services
European Innovation Council
European Commission
Daryl Wilson
Executive Director
Hydrogen Council
Alisa Newman Hood
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Excelerate Energy
Toshiyuki Sakamoto
Board Member, Director
The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ)
Cesar E. Canals
Senior Vice President of CB&I Storage Solutions
McDermott
Antoine Halff
Co-founder and Chief Analyst
Kayrros
Melanie Kenderdine
Principal, Executive Vice President
Energy Futures Initiative
Richard Holtum
Global Head of Gas and Power
Trafigura Group Pte Ltd
Pablo Galante Escobar
Head of LNG, EMEA Gas & Power
Vitol
Camille Levy
President of Asia Pacific and India
Chart Industries
Narsingh Chaudhary
President, Asia Pacific and India
Black & Veatch
Jason Bennett
Department Chair, Global Projects Practice
Baker Botts
Ed Crooks
Vice-Chair, Americas
Wood Mackenzie
Gregor Pett
CCO Global Analytics and Digital and Chief Analyst
Uniper
Sharon Paul
Chief People Officer
Kent plc
Damien Eyriès
CEO Elect/Vice President, Green Hydrogen
Rely/Technip Energies
Pavan Chilukuri
Vice President and Global Head of CCUS
Holcim Group Services Ltd
Hyung Chul Lee
Vice President – Head of Hydrogen Solutions Division
POSCO International
Dr David Burns
VP, Clean Energy
Linde
Ravikrishnan Srinivasan
Vice President and General Manager for Emissions Management
Honeywell
Derek Wong
Vice President, Government Relations and Public Affairs
Excelerate Energy, Inc.
Panos Koutsourakis
Vice President of Global Sustainability
ABS
Margaux Moore
Head of Energy Transition Research and Venture Investments
Trafigura
Philip Haydn Jones
COO
InterContinental Energy
Jason Crusan
Vice President New Energy Solutions
Woodside Energy
Angela McKane
Venture Partner
Colbridge Ventures
Eng. Dr. Michael Nkambo Mugerwa, PhD CEng CSci FIChemE MUIPE
General Manager
Uganda Refinery Holding Company Ltd.
Ryo Chishiro
Senior Manager - Hydrogen Strategy Division
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Ryan Mattson
Vice President Oil & Gas
GHGSat Inc.
Hassana Mbeirick
Founder & CEO
Meen&Meen
Molly Iliffe
Global Head of Hydrogen
Baringa
Jiang Xuefeng
Executive VP
CNPC ETRI
Asheesh Sastry
Managing Director & Senior Partner Singapore
Boston Consulting Group
Deepak Gupta
Director (Projects)
GAIL (India) Limited
Harshit Agrawal
Senior Gas Specialist
World Bank
Vinay Khurana
VP - Hydrogen Market
Technip Energies
Alberto Litta Modignani
Hydrogen, Vice President
NextChem (MAIRE Sustainable Technology Solutions)
Eberechukwu Oji
Managing Director and CEO
ND Western
Dr Aaron Padilla
Vice President of Corporate Policy
American Petroleum Institute (API)
Samantha Gross
Director – Energy Security and Climate Initiative, and Fellow – Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative
Brookings
Ayush Gupta
Director (HR)
GAIL (India) Limited
Sophie Smith
Group Chief Human Resources Officer
BW Group
Yoshi Saito
Director, New Energy – Asia Pacific
SLB
Genevieve (Jenny) Solomon
VP Portfolio Governance & Analysis
Woodside Energy
Jurriaan Kamp
Journalist, author and broadcaster
Gonzalo Cabrera
Co-Lead of the Hydrogen Taskforce
The Association of International Energy Negotiators
Sri Jegarajah
Senior Correspondent
CNBC
Rodrigo Vilanova
Energy Management of the Executive Committee and Member of the Board of Directors
Galp
Tiffany Pitts
VP Gas Technology Services IET
Baker Hughes