Oil Markets 2009: Speakers
Oil Markets 2009
30 Pavilion Road, London SW1 - 22 April 2009
 Francisco Blanch - Merrill LynchFrancisco Blanch is Managing Director and Head of Global Commodity Research at Merrill Lynch. He joined Merrill Lynch in April 2005 and his role focuses on the analysis of commodity prices and derivatives. He publishes the Commodity Strategist, the Energy Strategist, the Global Energy Weekly, and Commodity Derivatives Insights, a set of tactical publications widely followed by Merrill’s corporate and investor clients. Since May 2006, Dr. Blanch sits on Merrill Lynch’s Research Investment Committee, a group that advises Merrill Lynch’s Global Private Client (GPC) arm with nearly $2 trillion in client assets. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Dr. Blanch was an energy economist focusing on global oil & gas in the Commodity Research group at Goldman Sachs & Co. and consulted for the European Commission and other public and private organisations. |
 Julian Lee - Centre for Global Energy StudiesJulian Lee is Senior Energy Analyst at CGES and a specialist in oil market analysis, Russia, the Caspian Sea and West Africa, producing major studies on the oil and gas industries of these regions. Julian is also Deputy Editor of the Global Oil Report. Julian holds an MSc degree in operational Research from the London School of Economics. |
Tim Guinness - Guinness Atkinson Tim Guinness is Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Guinness Asset Management Ltd, the investment sub-manager of the $1.5bn, offshore, Investec GSF Global Energy Fund. Tim has one of the most distinguished careers in asset management, spanning in excess of 30 years. By the end of 2001, the Fund was the best-performing offshore Energy Sector fund in the world and remains the top performer producing an annualised return of 26.07%. |
 Eduardo Lopez - International Energy Agency Eduardo Lopez is a senior analyst in charge of global oil product demand at the Paris-based International Energy Agency. With over ten years of experience in the oil industry, he has worked for six years as a Latin American country risk analyst and oil & gas consultant within a leading energy consultancy, PFC Energy, in both the US and France. |
 John Robinson- University of Nottingham Dr John Robinson is a lecturer in chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Nottingham. His research interests encompass novel separation and processing techniques using microwave technologies and membrane separations with advanced materials, which promise a technological step-change for the oil & gas industry. |
 Mamdouh G Salameh - International Oil Economist & World Bank Consultant Dr Mamdouh Salameh is an International Oil Economist, consultant to the World Bank and a Technical Expert for the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). |
 Chris Skrebowski - Peak Oil Consulting Chris Skrebowski has nearly 40 years experience in the Oil Industry, starting work in 1970 as a long-term planner for BP. He was senior analyst for the Saudi Oil Ministry in London (1985-1994), editor of Petroleum Economist (1994-97) and editor of Petroleum Review (1997-current), the magazine of the UK Energy Institute, and is the founding director of Peak Oil Consulting. Chris is also a founding member of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and sits on the board of the Oil Depletion and Analysis Centre. He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute and advises the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas. |
