Our People

Fernanda Abarzúa

Senior Research Analyst, Carbon

Fernanda’s primary focus lies in the offset market sector.

Ahmed Jameel Abdullah

Research Analyst, European Power

Ahmed monitors power market trends across Europe.

Kate Abernethy

Senior Analyst, M&M, Copper Assets​

Kate has 9 years experience in the metals and mining industry with a focus on base and precious metals. ​​

Kate Adie

Research Associate, Subsurface

Latest articles by Kate

• The Edge 25 January 2024

  Low-carbon tech: is geothermal close to a breakthrough?

• Featured 16 January 2024

  Subsurface predictions: what to watch in exploration and discovered resources in 2024

• Opinion 8 January 2024

  Global exploration: 4 things to look for in 2024

Annick Adjei

Senior Research Analyst, CCUS Subsurface

Annick is focused on developing our CCUS subsurface offering as part of an integrated, source-to-sink market solution.

Latest articles by Annick

• Featured 9 January 2024

  CCUS: 5 things to look for in 2024

• Opinion 14 June 2023

  The UK’s first carbon storage bid round: how much capacity will it deliver?

Greig Aitken

Director, Corporate Research

With over 12 years of experience, Greig brings a holistic view of corporate activity to the upstream M&A research team.

Elham Akhavan

Senior Microgrid Research Analyst

Elham leads our microgrid and distribution automation research under the Grid Edge team

Peter Albin

Senior Research Analyst

Peter is part of the Carbon Research team which delivers intelligence, data and thought leadership pieces.

Amar Ali

Senior Research Analyst

Amar is a Senior Research Analyst at Wood Mackenzie and manages PET and RPET coverage across EMEA.

Krystal Alvarez

Senior Research Analyst, Upstream Supply Chain

Krystal focuses on our portfolio of subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) and marine construction products

Gail Anderson

Research Director, North Sea Upstream

Gail focuses on the Nigerian upstream industry and its gas and power sector.

Jason Anderson Raj

Principal Analyst – EO/EG & EODs

Jason is currently responsible for Asia and Middle East market and the development of the EO/EG Asset Benchmarking Tool.

Bruna Angel

Principal Analyst, Fibres

Alexandre Araman

Principal Analyst, Middle East Upstream

Alexandre has global experience in commercial research, upstream valuations and supply and demand analysis.

Ruben Arratia

Director, Base and Precious Metals

Ruben has more than 40 years of experience in the mining industry.

Hector Arreola

Principal Analyst, Hydrogen & Emerging Technologies

Fernando Augusto Dorand

Research Associate

Fernando specialises in power market models, tracking market dynamics and devising strategic business approaches.

Marina Azevedo

Senior Power Analyst

Marina focuses on market developments, business strategies, energy modelling, and scenario forecasting.

Nikhil Babu

Research Associate, Asia Pacific Power & Renewables

Nikhil works on Asia Pacific power modelling, data collection, market intelligence and analysis.

Nikhil Babu

Research Associate, Asia Pacific Power & Renewables

Guy Bailey

Head of Intermediates and Applications

Guy leads a team of analysts focused on plastics, fibres and sustainability in the chemicals value chain.

Amanda Bandeira

Research Analyst, Latin America Upstream

Amanda is an expert in valuing individual upstream onshore and offshore assets in the Latin America region.

Chris Bandmann

Senior Research Analyst, Steel & Raw Materials Markets

Aaron Barr

Global Head, Onshore Wind Energy Research

Latest articles by Aaron

• Opinion 19 March 2024

  EU wind pledges: a little overblown?

• Featured 25 January 2024

  Wind 2024 outlook

• Opinion 25 January 2024

  Onshore wind energy: what to look for in 2024

• Opinion 22 November 2023

  Supply shortages and an inflexible market give rise to high power transformer lead times

• Opinion 5 October 2023

  IRA set to increase cumulative US wind energy installations by over 50% in the next five years

• Opinion 2 October 2023

  The Inflation Reduction Act and its impact so far

Diego Alviso Becerril

Research Manager, Global Analyst Upstream Team

Diego is focused on upstream research and the modeling of America’s upstream operations.

Alex Beeker

Research Director, Corporate Research

Alex is a research director on our Corporate Research team, focused on the Majors and US Independents.

Elena Belletti

Global Head of Carbon Research

Elena's research supports decision-making on emissions, decarbonisation, carbon markets and carbon prices.

Latest articles by Elena

• Opinion 12 March 2024

  Carbon management frequently asked questions part 2: offsets

• The Edge 14 December 2023

  COP28 key takeaways

• Opinion 27 November 2023

  What could COP28 mean for Article 6?

• The Edge 23 November 2023

  COP28 preview: five things to look for

• Opinion 30 January 2023

  Debut of the first EU carbon border tax

• Opinion 7 March 2022

  How are oil and gas companies using carbon offsets to decarbonise?

Sam Berman

Principal Analyst, Power & Renewables

Sam has extensive experience in production cost modelling and energy market analysis.

Natalie Biggs

Global Head, Base Metals Markets

Natalie is the global head of our thermal coal markets research for the Metals and Mining group.

Prateek Biswas

Research Analyst, Transport and Materials

Prateek specialises in EV policy drivers, automaker electrification strategies and battery supply chain trends.

Mark Bononi

Principal Analyst, Global Gas & LNG asset research

Mark brings more than two decades of broad and deep experience as a global energy investor and analyst.

Neivan Boroujerdi

Research Director, Upstream Oil and Gas

Neivan is a research director with particular expertise in North Sea development costs, exploration and M&A. 

Latest articles by Neivan

• Opinion 19 January 2024

  ADNOC acquires 10.1% stake in CCUS player Storegga

• Opinion 10 November 2023

  The challenges and opportunities in Europe’s oil & gas, CCUS and hydrogen sectors

• Opinion 24 October 2023

  Are NOCs prepared for the energy transition?

• Opinion 13 July 2023

  The future of European upstream oil and gas

• Opinion 29 June 2023

  Global upstream update: a review of key industry themes

• Opinion 8 June 2023

  Harbour and Talos in merger discussions – what are the drivers?

Benjamin Boucher

Senior Analyst

Ben is focused on supply chain research within the utility and renewables space.

Greig Boulstridge

Research Associate

Greig is responsible for market tracking and ensuring data quality in Wood Mackenzie’s Lens Hydrogen platform.

Matthew Boyda

Senior Vice President, Global Power & Renewables

Matthew brings more than two decades of power industry experience to his role.

Mark Broadbent

Research Director, North America Oils

Mark leads our North America oils team in analysing crude and product markets.

Andrew Brown

Head of Plastics and Recycling

Andrew is responsible for integrating our sustainability and recycling views across chemical value chains.

David Brown

Director, Energy Transition Practice

David is a key author of our Energy Transition Outlook and Accelerated Energy Transition Scenarios.

Latest articles by David

• Opinion 18 March 2024

  Energy transition outlook: Americas

• The Edge 14 March 2024

  Nuclear’s massive net zero growth opportunity

• The Edge 14 December 2023

  COP28 key takeaways

• The Edge 21 September 2023

  How the world gets onto a 1.5 °C pathway

• Opinion 7 June 2023

  Energy transition in the Americas: three key questions

• Opinion 23 May 2023

  How Colombia could lead Latin America through the energy transition

David Buckby

Senior Analyst, Films & Flexible Packaging

David has almost a decade of experience in strategic market research and consultancy.

David Cachot

Research Director – Iron ore market research (Metals and Mining)​

David has more than 15 years of experience in market research and trading across bulk commodities.

Raul Calzada

Senior Analyst, Refining Assets, Oils & Chemicals Research

Raul's focuses in North American refinery modeling & PetroPlan software optimization at Wood Mackenzie.

Matthew Campbell

Senior Research Analyst, European Power Markets

Matthew is a senior research analyst with our Energy Transition Practice, focused on power market trends across Europe.

Yanqi Cao

Research Analyst, Power & Renewables Research, APAC

Yanqi focuses on APAC power markets.

Fraser Carson

Senior Research Analyst, Global LNG

Fraser has extensive research and project management experience across the LNG value chain.

Kane Carty

Senior Research Analyst, Cathodes and Precursors

Daniel Carvalho

Global Research Director, Metals and Mining Processing

Daniel is a global operations, process and technology leader in the iron and steel industry.

Maggie Cashman

Research Manager, ISONE, NYISO and PJM

Maggie manages the ISONE, NYISO and PJM short-term power teams.

Ixchel Castro

Vice President - Head of Gas & LNG Markets

Ixchel leads our research on downstream markets in North and Latin America.

Matthew Chadwick

Senior Vice President, Head of Oils and Chemicals

Matthew is an expert in analysing strategic and commercial issues for petchems and related businesses.

Marcus Chan

Research Analyst, Asia Pacific Power Research

Steve Chappell

Vice President, Head of Subsurface Research

With more than 30 years' of global experience, Steve leads the delivery of world-class exploration research.

Isha Chaudhary

Global Head of Steel, Raw Materials and Alloys Markets

With 15 years of experience in metals and mining, Isha drives research and analytics for the ferrous space.

Akif Chaudhry

Research Director, Corporate Strategy and Analytics

Akif focuses on strategy, benchmarking and valuation analysis related to power and renewables within company portfolios.

Mauro Chavez

Head of European Gas and LNG markets

Mauro has more than 14 years of experience and is a recognised specialist in the natural gas and LNG industry.

Harindra Cherukuri

Market Associate, ERCOT

Stephanie Chiang

Research Analyst, CCUS

Stephanie provides insight and analysis on CCUS to project developers, technology providers, investors and governments.

Kai Sen Chong

Research Analyst, Asia Chemicals

Kai Sen is responsible for the short-term and long-term analysis of Asian olefins and benzene markets.

Sagar Chopra

Senior Research Analyst, Solar

Sagar focuses on PV system pricing for US and LATAM regions.

Jack Christian

Research Analyst, US Lower 48

Jessalyn Chuang

Lead Analyst, Power Market Intelligence

Jessalyn is a wholesale power industry analyst with a focus on the Midwestern US region.

David Clark

Vice President, Corporate Research

Finlay Clark

Senior Research Analyst, Global Offshore Wind

Kevin Clarke

Principal Analyst, Lead

Robert Clarke

Vice President, Upstream Research

Robert leads our US onshore research, with a particular focus on the evolution of the tight oil sector.

John Coleman

Principal Analyst, North American Crude Markets

John leads our North American Crude Markets Service, delivering regular market outlooks and analysis

Randall Collum

Senior Vice President, Commodity Trading Data and Analytics

Randall is an experienced analyst with more than 20 years of experience in natural gas and oil production analytics.

Amanda Colombo

Research Associate, US Solar

Amanda’s areas of focus include commercial solar policy and public company financial landscape analyses.

Caitlin Connelly

Research Associate, Distributed Solar

Leslie Cook

Principal Analyst, Upstream Supply Chain

Leslie is a principal analyst and project manager for Wood Mackenzie's portfolio of drilling and rig products.

Santiago Correa

Market Analyst, ERCOT Lead

Ed Crooks

Vice-Chair, Americas

Ed examines the forces shaping the energy industry globally

Latest articles by Ed

• Opinion 19 April 2024

  Deals show the enduring appeal of US gas

• Opinion 16 April 2024

  2024 is a year of elections. What will they mean for clean energy?

• Opinion 15 April 2024

  Home energy storage booms in the US

• Opinion 5 April 2024

  China’s solar growth sends module prices plummeting

• Opinion 2 April 2024

  Everyone is worrying about rising demand for electricity. Do Microsoft and Google have an answer?

• Opinion 22 March 2024

  Chinese manufacturers represent both promise and threat in the EV future

Rebekah Crouch

Head of Market Intelligence, Power Markets Research

Rebekah oversees our Short-term Market Intelligence Team for North America.

Kelly Cui

Principal Analyst, Petrochemicals

Kelly is an expert in the coal-to-olefins (CTO) and methanol-to-olefins (MTO) sector.

Lucy Cullen

Research Director, APAC Gas & LNG Research

Lucy is primarily focused on supply, demand, contract and price analysis for the Northeast Asian markets.

Chris DaCosta

Research Manager, CAISO Desk, Short-term Analytics

Chris is a power industry expert with a focus on the dynamic western US region.

Ying Dai

Principal Consultant, Metals & Mining

Ying specialises in zinc research, with a particular focus on the Chinese market and smelter costing analysis.

Anna Darmani

Lead Analyst, Energy Storage

Anna is a lead analyst focused on the European, Middle East and African storage markets.

Michelle Davis

Head of Global Solar

Michelle leads our solar research, identifying emerging industry themes and cultivating a team of solar thought leaders.

Latest articles by Michelle

• Opinion 6 March 2024

  US solar shattered records in 2023, but will this continue in 2024?

• Featured 17 January 2024

  Solar 2024 outlook

• Opinion 7 December 2023

  US solar to end the year with 55% more capacity than 2022

• Opinion 16 October 2023

  Western Europe will drive 46% of the continent’s solar in the next ten years

• Opinion 5 October 2023

  Learnings from RE+: A sunny outlook for US solar and storage

• Opinion 2 October 2023

  The Inflation Reduction Act and its impact so far

Brandon Davis

Research Director, Head of Corporate Analytics

Brandon leads the development and use of advanced analytics across the Corporate Research platform.

Quentin De Carvalho

Head of Nylon / Polyamide

Quentin has over 30 years’ experience in the chemical industry with a focus on polyamide nylon.

Flor Lucia De la Cruz

Principal Analyst, Hydrogen and Derivatives 

Flor is a subject matter expert in hydrogen and emerging technologies, working for our Energy Transition Practice.

Latest articles by Flor Lucia

• The Edge 7 March 2024

  Hydrogen: how carbon intensity rules can muddy the waters

• Opinion 12 July 2023

  Australia’s energy revolution: the promise of battery storage and hydrogen

• Opinion 23 February 2023

  Tracking the hydrogen market: from policy to project pipeline

• Opinion 4 July 2022

  Decoding the hydrogen rainbow

• Opinion 6 April 2022

  Hydrogen: the US$600 billion investment opportunity

• Featured 31 January 2022

  Will CCUS and hydrogen live up to the hype in 2022? | 2022 Outlook

Felix Delgado

Senior Analyst, Solar PV

Felix is focused on market developments, trends and growth scenarios around the Latin America region.

Massimo Di Odoardo

Vice President, Gas and LNG Research

Massimo brings extensive knowledge of the entire gas industry value chain to his role leading gas and LNG consulting.

Chenyuan Diao

Managing Consultant, Power and Renewables Research

Chenyuan is an expert in wind data analysis covering Asia Pacific excluding China

Tyler Dickerson

Senior Product Specialist Manager, Commodities

Tyler is a senior manager for our product specialist team, focused on commodities.

Malcolm Dickson

Research Director, Europe Upstream Oil and Gas

Malcolm leads our research coverage of the European Upstream sector.

Rohan Dighe

Research Analyst, CCUS

Rohan focuses on developing financial models of North American CCUS projects, analysing market and regulatory trends.

Jordan Domin

Research Analyst

Jordan works with the North American Gas team, delivering analysis on all aspects of the natural gas value chain.

Cathy Dong

Research Associate, Power and Renewables, APAC

Cathy focuses on the solar PV market in China.

Kai Dong

Managing Consultant, APAC Gas & LNG Research

Kai focuses on China's gas market, covering market fundamentals, gas supply/demand balance and regional market analysis

Murray Douglas

Vice President, Hydrogen and Ammonia Research

Murray is responsible for Wood Mackenzie’s Global coverage across the hydrogen value chain.

Latest articles by Murray

• Opinion 6 February 2024

  Big ambitions but slow progress: global hydrogen market developments in Q4 2023

• Featured 11 January 2024

  Hydrogen 2024 outlook

• Opinion 10 November 2023

  The challenges and opportunities in Europe’s oil & gas, CCUS and hydrogen sectors

• Opinion 2 October 2023

  Exploring the long-term outlook for hydrogen and ammonia

• The Edge 28 September 2023

  What's on CEOs' minds

• Opinion 27 September 2023

  Our top takeaways from the Hydrogen Conference 2023

Ryan Duman

Director, Americas Upstream

Ryan specialises in supply forecasting, basin characterisation, upstream decarbonisation and economic modeling.

Dan Eager

Research Director, Europe Power & Renewables

Dan is a specialist in power market investment and dispatch modelling.

Michael Egbuna

Research Analyst, Subsurface

Michael focuses on developing discovered resource intelligence and insights.

Tom Ellacott

Senior Vice President, Corporate Research

Tom leads our corporate thought leadership, drawing on more than 20 years' industry knowledge.

Ross Embleton

Senior Analyst, Metals & Mining, Rare Earths

Ross focuses on supply, demand and pricing analysis for our Rare Earths Service

Latest articles by Ross

• Opinion 25 January 2024

  Rare earths: 5 things to look for in 2024

Timothy Ennis

Market Analyst, PJM

Timothy is an analyst on our North America Short-Term Power team, with a particular focus on the PJM market.

Lindsey Entwistle

Senior Research Analyst, Energy Transition

Lindsey provides analysis and insights into global policy, regulations and disruptive technologies.

Mhairidh Evans

Head of CCUS Research

Mhairidh leads our global research on carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).

Erik Fabry

Senior Product Manager, Gas & LNG Commodities

Eris is focused on driving strategic innovation for our gas and LNG products.

Amanda Fairfax

Senior Analyst, Downstream Oil, Short-term Analytics

Giles Farrer

Head of Gas and LNG Asset Research

Giles heads our LNG and gas asset research and manages our market-leading LNG Service & Tool and LNG Corporate Service.

Sharon Feng

Managing Consultant, China Power Market

Sharon leads Wood Mackenzie's research coverage for China power and renewables.

Ana Fernández García

Senior Research Analyst, Southern Europe Wind

Ana focuses on market analysis of wind power in Southern Europe.

Latest articles by Ana

• Opinion 19 March 2024

  EU wind pledges: a little overblown?

Kateryna Filippenko

Research Director, Global Gas Markets

Principal Analyst with a focus on the European gas market and the development of alternative scenarios.

Peter Findlay

Director of CCUS Economics

Peter leads the economics and project valuation function for CCUS projects globally.

Patrick Finn

Senior Analyst, North America Power Markets

Patrick focuses primarily on the PJM market, as well as short-term analysis and transmission.

Joshua Firestone

Principal Petroleum Economist

Joshua is a principal economist with our Fiscal Service.

Simon Flowers

Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Simon is our Chief Analyst; he provides thought leadership on the trends and innovations shaping the energy industry.

Latest articles by Simon

• The Edge 18 April 2024

  Is net zero by 2050 at risk?

• The Edge 11 April 2024

  Can emissions taxes decarbonise the LNG industry?

• The Edge 3 April 2024

  Why the transition needs smart upstream taxes

• The Edge 21 March 2024

  Can carbon offsets deliver for oil and gas companies?

• Featured 19 March 2024

  Wood Mackenzie 2023 Research Excellence Awards

• The Edge 14 March 2024

  Nuclear’s massive net zero growth opportunity

Anne Forbes

Senior Research Analyst, Upstream

Anne focuses on upstream assets updates at the intersection of our upstream and geology research

Kevin Fowkes

Research Director, Steel Alloy Markets​

Kevin has worked as an economist and consultant in the ferroalloy industry since 1998

Emma Fox

Senior Research Analyst

Emma is a Senior Analyst in the oils and chems research team.

Graham Freedman

Principal Analyst, European Gas

As a principal analyst, Graham develops our view on natural gas supply, demand and pricing across Europe.

Kaitlin Fung

Research Analyst, North America Utility-Scale Solar

Kaitlin's focuses on market dynamics, project financing and sustainability of utility-scale solar projects.

Sholpan Gabbassova

Senior Research Analyst, Thermal Coal Markets

Shoplan is responsible for analysing and forecasting trends in Northeast and Southeast Asian thermal coal markets.

Hetal Gandhi

Lead – CCUS, APAC

Hetal leads CCUS for APAC with a growing team of analysts to help clients in decision-making and business planning.

Aiyana Ganesh

Market Associate

Aiyana's primary focus is on ERCOT.

Leila Garcia da Fonseca

Research Director, Wind and Solar O&M

Leila is responsible for our wind and solar operations and maintenance market research for the Americas region.

Adrian Gardner

Principal Analyst, Nickel Markets

Adrian is a principal research analyst with our Nickel Metal Service, providing a global view of the industry.

Zoë Gaston

Principal Analyst, US Distributed Solar

Zoë's areas of focus include residential solar policy and project finance

Latest articles by Zoë

• Opinion 17 January 2024

  US distributed solar: four predictions for 2024

• Opinion 1 November 2023

  High interest rates impede the US residential solar market boom

• Opinion 5 October 2023

  Learnings from RE+: A sunny outlook for US solar and storage

• Opinion 26 April 2023

  A new era for US residential solar finance

• Opinion 26 October 2022

  Will rising interest rates curb the dominance of the US residential solar loan market?

Brian Gaylord

Principal Analyst, Global Power & Renewables

Brian produces analysis across power and renewables technologies and regions.

Alan Gelder

VP Refining, Chemicals & Oil Markets

Alan is responsible for formulating our research outlook and cross-sector perspectives on the global downstream sector.

Latest articles by Alan

• Opinion 11 March 2024

  Assessing the refineries at risk of closure

• Featured 11 January 2024

  Oils & chemicals 2024 outlook

• The Edge 30 November 2023

  Big Oil’s opportunity for M&A in the petrochemicals downturn

• Opinion 16 November 2023

  Survival of the fittest refineries

• Opinion 23 October 2023

  Will international shipping be net zero by 2050?

• Opinion 11 October 2023

  Are APAC’s retail markets full of Eastern promise for oil majors?

Edgardo Gelsomino

Research Director - Aluminium​

Wood Mackenzie's director of aluminium research has over 30 years' experience along the value chain.

Tyson Gervais

Research Analyst

Tyson's primary focus is on gas production in the western Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.

John Gibb

Research Director, Australasia Upstream

John brings more than 25 years of international oil and gas industry experience to his role.

Rob Gilfillan

Head of Polymer & Fibres

Rob leads our research into regional and global markets for fibres, films and flexible packaging.

Isabelle Gilks

Principal Analyst, Retail Fuels

Isabelle is part of the Refining and Oil Products research team and manages the company’s Retail Fuels Service.

Zoe Grainge

Principal Analyst, Northern and Western European Wind

Latest articles by Zoe

• Opinion 19 March 2024

  EU wind pledges: a little overblown?

Lindsay Grant

Vice President, Head of M&M Markets Research

Lindsay has deep expertise in Upstream Oil & Gas and has covered the sector since joining us in 2008.

Robin Griffin

Vice President, Metals and Mining Research

An integral part of the research team since 2007, Robin leads our analysis across metals and mining markets.

Latest articles by Robin

• Opinion 15 April 2024

  Future Facing Commodities Forum 2024: your questions answered

• Opinion 20 March 2024

  Ebook | Navigating the cross-commodity metals and mining landscape in 2024

• Featured 30 January 2024

  Metals and mining 2024 outlook

• The Edge 14 December 2023

  COP28 key takeaways

• Opinion 4 December 2023

  COP28: a metals and mining stocktake

• Opinion 12 September 2023

  Our top takeaways from the Coal Forum 2023

Alex Griffiths

Principal Analyst

Alex draws on his experience as a Resource Geologist to analyse and forecast global steel and iron ore markets.

Sushant Gupta

Research Director – Asia Pacific, Refining and oils market

Sushant has over 15 years of experience with strong focus on refining, crude oil and chemicals industry.

Sohan Gwalani

Research Associate, Energy Transition Practice

Sohan primarily covers the solar PV and onshore wind markets in Africa and the Middle East.

Nuomin Han

Head of Carbon Markets

Nuomin provides clients with insights into emissions and climate-related development.

Latest articles by Nuomin

• Opinion 15 April 2024

  New rules and frameworks in global carbon policies

• Opinion 27 March 2024

  How will the EU’s CBAM impact global iron and steel?

• The Edge 21 March 2024

  Can carbon offsets deliver for oil and gas companies?

• Opinion 22 February 2024

  2024’s carbon policy so far: four key takeaways

• Opinion 9 February 2024

  Carbon offsets: key considerations for corporates

• Featured 24 January 2024

  Carbon markets: 5 things to look for in 2024

Zheng Han

Consultant, Power & Renewables Research

Zheng provides analysis covering China’s wind market

Sean Harrison

Research Analyst, Gas & LNG

Sean specialises in North America LNG research, focusing on assets analysis, project economics and LNG contracting.

Andrew Harwood

Research Director, Corporate and Upstream Research

Andrew is responsible for Wood Mackenzie’s corporate coverage in Asia Pacific.

Latest articles by Andrew

• Opinion 8 January 2024

  Asia Pacific upstream: 5 things to look for in 2024

• Opinion 18 December 2023

  Size matters: which International E&Ps are best positioned to ride out industry consolidation?

• Opinion 24 October 2023

  Are NOCs prepared for the energy transition?

• Opinion 22 June 2022

  Will COP27 be a turning point for oil and gas funding?

• Opinion 19 March 2020

  How hard will the oil price crash hit APAC upstream investment?

• Editorial 14 January 2019

  Will Asia-Pacific's O&G sector join the global recovery in 2019?

Luiz Hayum

Upstream Research Principal Analyst, Latin America

Luiz's expertise lies in valuing upstream assets in Latin America.

Oliver Heathman​

Head of Metals Assets, Metals & Mining Research​

Oliver has over 15 years of experience in the metals & mining sector across research, consulting and leadership.

Ian Heming

Research Analyst, Short-term US LNG

Ian’s work currently focuses on LNG facility maintenance and shipping patterns.

Iszac Henig

Market Associate, ERCOT

Iszac is responsible for forecasting short-term wholesale power prices and providing insights on market trends.

Ben Hertz-Shargel

Global Head of Grid Edge

Ben leads research across electrification and grid technologies, drawing on a decade of executive experience.

Ann-Louise Hittle

Vice President, Oil Markets

Ann-Louise directs our Macro Oils Service and is a frequent contributor to numerous industry publications.

Tra Ho

Senior Research Analyst, Upstream Research

Tra Ho is a Senior Analyst covering Sub-Saharan Africa upstream research, based in England.

Benjamin Hoog

Market Analyst, PJM

Benji focuses on power price forecasting, congestion analysis and consulting.

Tristan Hope

Research Associate – Copper Markets, Metal & Mining

Tristan is responsible for the Nickel Industry Cost Service, a report that covers 96% of the world's nickel production.

Rui Hou

Consultant, Asia Pacific Refining

Rui Hou specialises in oil products supply for Asia Pacific region.

Emma Howsham

Research Analyst, Short-Term Refining and Oils Markets

Emma specialises in short-term refining markets for both Europe and Russia markets.

Yana Hryshko

Managing Consultant and Head of Global Solar Supply Chain Research.

Linda Htein

Head of Emissions Research

Linda leads our global emissions research across an array of sectors in the energy and natural resources industries.

Yuqi Hu

Managing Consultant, Corporate Research

Yuqi is a Senior Consultant on the Corporate Research team. She has worked at Sinopec, Aramco and Clariant.

Miaoru Huang

Research Director, Asia Pacific Gas and LNG

Miaoru leads our Northeast Asia gas research.

Patrick Huang

Research Analyst, North America Power Service

Patrick is a Research Analyst on Wood Mackenzie’s North America Power Service team.

Adebimpe Isafiade

Lead Analyst, Power Market Intelligence

Adebimpe is a wholesale power industry analyst with a focus on the western US region.

Max Issokson

Research Analyst, US Distributed Solar

Max supports research and data collection for our US Distributed Solar practice.

Cameron Jack

Head of Platform Transformation

Cameron works with the consulting leadership team, supports collaboration and manages the group's internal reporting.

Sarah Jameson

Lead Data Analyst, Scenarios and Technologies

Sarah is the technical expert for our energy transition outlook scenario modelling

Ozzy Jegunma

Senior Research Analyst, Oils & Chemicals

Ozzy's team covers regulatory structures, investment, supply, demand and pricing for fuels and feedstocks.

Yuhan Jiang

Research Associate, Power & Renewables Research, APAC

Yuhan is responsible for the energy storage research in the Asia Pacific region.

Eleni Joannides

Research Director, Copper

Eleni brings more than 30 years' experience in the metals and mining sector to her role on our copper team.

Latest articles by Eleni

• Opinion 25 January 2024

  Copper: things to look for in 2024

Harris Jones

Senior Research Analyst

Harris covers global carbon capture & storage and hydrogen project valuations.

Adam Jordan

Product Director – Power Analytics, Short-term Analytics

Adam is product director for PowerIQ and PowerBuyer Analytics, delivering daily insight and analysis.

Sagar Kalra

Senior Analyst, Gold

Sagar has more than a decade of experience analysing companies across a breadth of commodities within metals and mining.

Harshul Kanwar

Research Associate, Asia Pacific Solar

Yamato Kawamata

Principal Analyst, Asia Pacific Power & Renewables Research

Yamato is an expert in power and renewables in Asia Pacific with a focus on Japan

Fahimeh Kazempour

Head, Grid Modernisation

Fahimeh heads our grid modernisation research under the Grid Edge team.

Graham Kellas

Senior Vice President, Global Fiscal Research

Over 30 years, Graham has advised on taxation matters and supported complex fiscal negotiations.

Ben Kellison

Director of Grid Edge Research

Ben is an expert on grid edge policy evolution, technology innovation, competition and project economics.

Martin Kelly

Global Head, Curated Service, Energy & Natural Resources Research

Martin oversees our Curated Service offering, working across our energy and natural resource coverage

Julian Kettle

Senior Vice President, Vice Chair Metals and Mining

Latest articles by Julian

• Opinion 12 February 2024

  Metals investment: the darkest hour is just before the dawn

• Opinion 17 January 2024

  Ebook | How can the Super Region enable the energy transition?

• The Edge 13 July 2023

  Can battery innovation accelerate the energy transition?

• Featured 12 July 2022

  Have miners missed the boat to invest and get ahead of the energy transition?

• Featured 7 June 2022

  Why the energy transition will be powered by metals

• Featured 23 May 2022

  Could Big Energy and miners join forces to deliver a faster transition?

Amaiya Khardenavis

Analyst, EV Charging Infrastructure

Amaiya focuses on electric vehicle charging infrastructure for the Grid Edge practice

Prashant Khorana

Director, Power & Renewables Consulting

Prashant is Director, Data Product Owner – Asset Valuations within Wood Mackenzie's research and data organisation.

Eugene Kim

Research Director, Americas Gas

Eugene Kim is a Research Director on Wood Mackenzie’s Americas Gas Research team.

Lucy King

Senior Research Analyst, CCUS

Lucy provides insight and strategic analysis of the CCUS landscape.

Anthony Knutson

Global Head, Thermal Coal Markets

Anthony is the global head of our thermal coal markets research for the Metals and Mining group.

Munish Kumar

Senior Research Analyst, APAC Upstream

Dr Munish Kumar provides insight and analysis of the industry across the region.

Punit Kumar

Senior Analyst, M&M, Copper Assets

Punit possesses over a decade of diverse experience across the global mining sector.

Mukesh Kumar ​

Principal Analyst, Metallurgical Coal

Mukesh is responsible for demand-supply analysis, short-term views and price forecasting for metallurgical coal.

Ashis Kumar Pradhan

Senior Research Analyst, Thermal Coal Markets

Ashis is responsible for analysing the coal industry performance, demand-supply forecasting and price forecasting.

Adrian Lara

Principal Analyst, Upstream Latin America

Søren Lassen

Head of Offshore Wind Research

Søren tracks, analyses and forecasts value chain dynamics, technological advancements and the market outlook.

Andrew Latham

Senior Vice President, Energy Research

With his extensive exploration expertise Andrew shapes portfolio development for international oil and gas companies.

Latest articles by Andrew

• Opinion 4 March 2024

  Geothermal energy: the hottest low-carbon solution?

• The Edge 25 January 2024

  Low-carbon tech: is geothermal close to a breakthrough?

• Opinion 10 August 2023

  Can Asia Pacific’s upstream adapt for a more sustainable future?

• The Edge 8 June 2023

  Does the bull market in oil rigs signal a slower transition?

• Opinion 5 May 2022

  What is the future of oil and gas exploration?

• Featured 12 January 2021

  Proceed with caution: exploration’s watchword for 2021

Bhavya Laul

Senior Research Analyst, Base Metals Markets, Metals & Mining

Bhavya monitors and forecasts both short- and long-term demand fundamentals, trends and indicators.

Victor Laurent

Head of Power Solutions

Victor brings a decade of experience in European power and renewables markets to his role.

Latest articles by Victor

• Opinion 27 April 2021

  The rise of renewables and real-time trading decisions

Kuan Hui Lee

Research Manager

Kuan Hui is responsible for short and long-term oil supply and demand market fundamentals for Southeast Asia.

Kyeongho (Ken) Lee

Head of Asia Pacific Power Research

Ken is a principal analyst in our Power & Renewables group.

Salmon Aidan Lee

Global Head of Polyesters

Salmon watches the Asian polyester chain from paraxylene to downstream markets in the Chinese- speaking world.

Jonathan Leng

Principal Analyst, Zinc Markets

Jonathan brings an in-depth perspective to his analysis of zinc markets.

Jasman Adam Leong

Senior Research Analyst, Southeast Asia Upstream

Jasman specialises in analysing upstream activities and trends in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Malaysia.

Luke Lewandowski

Vice President, Global Renewables Research

Luke heads our Global Renewables Research team, which includes wind, solar and energy storage.

Latest articles by Luke

• Opinion 11 April 2024

  Distributed solar and storage: a beacon of security and hope

• The Edge 14 December 2023

  COP28 key takeaways

• Opinion 24 April 2023

  The power of the sun: supporting energy security in Puerto Rico

• Opinion 3 October 2022

  Inflation Reduction Act propels the global wind outlook

• Opinion 25 April 2022

  China remains the global wind powerhouse

• Editorial 1 April 2022

  Let's Share the Sun: broadening energy access

Sylvia Leyva Martinez

Principal Analyst, North America Utility-Scale Solar

Sylvia researches market dynamics, business models, market developments and financial strategies of solar PV projects

Yulin Li

Research Associate, Gas & LNG

Yulin specialises in gas demand modelling, regional gas market trends and dynamics analysis.

Xiaoyang Li

Director, APAC Power & Renewables Research

Xiaoyang focuses on analysis of China’s renewables power market

Endri Lico

Principal Analyst, Global Wind Supply Chain and Technology

Latest articles by Endri

• Opinion 7 February 2024

  Wind turbine technology evolution is diverging quickly between China and the rest of the world

• Opinion 13 September 2023

  Western wind turbine manufacturers are prioritising profit over volume, opening the door for Chinese market share growth

• Opinion 8 May 2023

  Goldwind captures the top spot for global wind turbine supply

• Opinion 2 March 2023

  The wind energy industry paradox: short-term headwinds and long-term optimism

• Opinion 9 August 2022

  Wind industry faces a perfect storm of profit pressures

Robert Liew

Director, APAC Power and Renewables Research

Market specialist with over 15 years of power and renewables research experience.

Clay Lightfoot

Director, Americas Gas Research

Clay has more than a decade of energy industry experience and a particular expertise in political and regulatory issues.

Jia Liang Lim

Research Analyst, Asia Pacific Power & Renewables

Jia Liang Lim works on Asia Pacific power modelling and market analysis including covering Southeast Asian markets.

Frank Lin

Principal Analyst, Natural Gas

Frank spearheads in our gas equity research covering a wide range of E&Ps and midstream companies.

Emma Liu

Senior Consultant and Research Analyst, Fibres

Emma focuses on the Asian fibres market, where she closely follows prices and dynamics. 

Giles Lloyd

Principal Analyst, Lead & Zinc

Olivia Loa

Research Analyst, Global Chemicals

Olivia has experience across the energy value chain, from upstream oil and gas to chemicals and renewables.

Adele Long

Head of APAC Upstream

Ying Lu

Principal Analyst, Cobalt

Ying is a cobalt analyst based in London.

Arthur Luo

Consultant, Chemicals

Arthur joined our Shanghai office in 2017 as an analyst covering the polyester chain in East Asia.

Taoxuan Luo

Market Associate, ERCOT

Samuel Lussac

Vice President, Head of the Commodities Global Analyst Team

Sam has led teams and delivered projects in the oil & gas, chemicals and metals and mining research teams.

Derryn Maade

Head of Metals and Mining Markets

Derryn leads a team of analysts providing insight into steel, iron ore, metallurgical and thermal coal.

Cicero Machado

Senior Manager of Bulks Assets​

Cicero leads our global asset coverage of coal, iron ore and steel.

Jom Madan

Senior Research Analyst, Scenarios & Technologies

Jom works on scenario modelling for country and global-level energy mixes across all major energy commodities

Latest articles by Jom

• Opinion 5 April 2024

  How the MENA region and its NOCs are diversifying into new energies

• Opinion 29 February 2024

  Bioenergy: a US$500 billion market opportunity

• Opinion 21 February 2024

  Energy transition outlook: Asia Pacific

• The Edge 21 September 2023

  How the world gets onto a 1.5 °C pathway

• The Edge 20 July 2023

  Breakthrough technologies for the energy transition

• Opinion 1 May 2023

  Could energy recovery solve the mounting problem of global waste?

Jack Mageau

Research Analyst, CCUS

Jack focuses on developing financial models of North American CCUS projects and analysing global policy environments.

Latest articles by Jack

• Featured 9 January 2024

  CCUS: 5 things to look for in 2024

Sohaib Malik

Principal Analyst, Energy Transition Practice

Latest articles by Sohaib

• Opinion 9 December 2021

  Germany's ‘traffic light’ coalition greenlights a faster energy transition

• Opinion 26 July 2021

  Sustaining the onshore wind boom in the Nordics

• Opinion 11 March 2019

  Russian onshore wind market reaches crossroads

Alvaro Mangado

Research Analyst, Refining and Oil Products

Alavro participates in the developing of our outlook through refinery models, refining services and market insights.

Georgina Marchorst​

Principal Analyst, Lead and Zinc Mine Costs​

Georgina has 25 years of experience in metals and mining, primarily in the base metals and aluminium industries.​

Peter Martin

Head of Economics, Macroeconomics

Peter is responsible for producing our macroeconomic outlook to 2050.

Raghav Mathur

Senior Research Analyst, Gas & LNG

Raghav Mathur leads the South Asia, gas and LNG research at Wood Mackenzie

Rory Mccarthy

Director, Power & Renewables Consulting EMEA

Rory is a Director in the Power & Renewables Consulting division for Europe, the Middle East and African markets.

Latest articles by Rory

• The Edge 29 February 2024

  Re-thinking energy transition supply chains

• Opinion 12 February 2024

  Not made in China: the US$6 trillion cost of shifting the world’s clean-tech manufacturing hub

• Opinion 25 January 2024

  2023: the year the European renewables bubble burst

• Opinion 24 March 2021

  Will renewable auctions underpin Europe’s net zero ambitions?

• Featured 7 January 2021

  Will 2021 be a record-breaking year for renewables auctions in Europe?

• Opinion 9 November 2020

  Three reasons why Europe is set to lose the energy storage race

Max McDermott

Market Associate, ISONE

Max works on market analytics and price forecasting at the ISO-NE desk.

Samantha McGarvey

Research Associate, US Distributed Solar

Samantha McGarvey is a Research Associate at Wood Mackenzie on the US Distributed Solar team.

Ross McGavin​

Senior Research Analyst, Continental Europe​ Upstream

Eric McGuire

Director of Natural Gas and LNG Analytics

Eric is a Director of Research, overseeing Wood Mackenzie’s North America S&D team.

Brian McIntosh

Research Director, Power and Renewables

Brian brings more than fifteen years of power industry experience to his role.

Fraser McKay

Head of Upstream Analysis

As head of upstream research, Fraser maximises the quality and impact of our analysis of key global upstream themes.

Latest articles by Fraser

• Opinion 18 March 2024

  Is upstream oil and gas delivering on decarbonisation?

• Opinion 6 March 2024

  The biggest topics in global upstream

• The Edge 22 February 2024

  Is consolidation changing upstream’s appetite for investment?

• Featured 10 January 2024

  Upstream oil & gas: region-by-region predictions for 2024

• Opinion 10 January 2024

  Global upstream: four current key themes

• Opinion 31 October 2023

  What does the Chevron-Hess deal mean for oil and gas?

Craig McMahon

Senior Vice President, Head of Upstream Research & President of Wood Mackenzie Americas

Craig's remit is to grow the Wood Mackenzie brand in the US and Canada and support clients across the region.

Gordon McManus

Research Director, EMEARC Oils and Refining

Gordon is responsible for leading our global coverage of the long term oil products markets.

Emma McRae

Research Analyst, Global Oil Supply

Emma develops long and short-term liquid supply outlooks, mainly focusing on Europe and Africa.

Latest articles by Emma

• Opinion 6 November 2023

  Libya: the two-million-barrel question

Sakshi Mehra

Research Analyst, Electric Vehicles & Battery Supply Chain Service

As a research analyst with our Electric Vehicles & Battery Supply Chain Service

Ashna Mehta

Upstream Research Analyst

Prachi Mehta

Principal Analyst

Prachi leads our short-term and long-term NGL service.

Rachna Mehta,

Principal Analyst, Steel and Raw Materials

Rachna has over 15 years’ experience in economic and commodity sector analysis and forecasting

Latest articles by Rachna

• Opinion 25 January 2024

  Steel: 5 things to look for in 2024

Irina Melkonyan

Senior Analyst, Lithium Assets and Metals & Mining Sustainability 

Irina supports the Lithium Cost Service and covers sustainability topics across the battery supply chain.

Joe Midgley

Executive Vice President, Head of Upstream, Corporate and Carbon Solutions

Joe helps clients by bringing together Wood Mackenzie's deep industry knowledge and world class advice.

Erik Mielke

Senior Vice President, Corporate Research

Erik manages our corporate service, leading data-driven analysis and insight into strategies, performance and outlook.

Latest articles by Erik

• Opinion 19 March 2024

  Beyond ESG: measuring corporate sustainability in an uncertain world

Andrew Mitchell

Director, Nickel Research

Specialising in nickel for over 20 years, Andrew has a deep understanding of the metals and mining industry.

Erin Moffat

Principal Analyst, Upstream Supply Chain

Erin brings 15 years of industry experience to her role in our Upstream Supply Chain team.

Farid Wajdi Mohamad Isa

Senior Research Analyst, Upstream

Farid primarily oversees Asia Pacific upstream market activities and initiatives.

Mansur Mohammed

Head of West Africa Upstream Content, Sub-Saharan Africa Oil & Gas

Mansur is the Head of West Africa Upstream Content, Sub-Saharan Africa Oil & Gas.

Juan Monge

Principal Analyst, Distributed Solar, Europe

Juan covers distributed solar market developments across Europe.

Latest articles by Juan

• Opinion 19 March 2024

  Global solar PV installed capacity will more than triple in the next ten years

• Opinion 11 December 2023

  Global solar forecast gets an upgrade

• Opinion 1 November 2023

  Chinese state-owned enterprises are the largest owners of solar assets

• Opinion 16 October 2023

  Western Europe will drive 46% of the continent’s solar in the next ten years

• Opinion 12 October 2023

  Global solar capacity to increase 32% compared to 2022

• Opinion 31 July 2023

  Record solar buildout expected in all regions this year

Vinicius Moraes

Research Analyst, Latin America Upstream

Vinicius specialises in coverage of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Trinidad & Tobago.

Mariana Santos Moreira

Principal Research Analyst, Chemicals of the Energy Transition

Mariana's research focuses on regional and global markets for ammonia and methanol.

Glenn Morrall

Research Analyst, North Sea Upstream

Glenn's research focuses particularly on the UK upstream sector.

Iain Mowat

Principal Analyst, EMEARC Refining and Oil Product Markets

Iain brings extensive knowledge of global energy markets to his analysis of energy and petroleum demand.

Michael Moynihan

Research Director, Russia Upstream Oil and Gas

As a research director in our upstream team, Michael analyses developments in the upstream industry in Russia.

Sean Mulshaw

Research Director, Nickel Markets

Sean is an expert in global nickel, stainless steel and molybdenum markets.

Martijn Murphy

Principal Analyst, North Africa Upstream

Latest articles by Martijn

• Opinion 10 January 2024

  Middle East and North Africa upstream: 5 things to look for in 2024

• Opinion 6 November 2023

  Libya: the two-million-barrel question

• Opinion 21 June 2023

  Africa upstream oil and gas: one last hurrah?

Daniel Myers

Senior Research Analyst, North America Gas

Daniel delivers short-term fundamental modelling and regional market analysis.

Roshna N

Research Analyst, Energy Transition

Roshna N specialises in integrated energy and emission models for Asia-Pacific and African markets.

Shrey Nagpal

Research Associate – Copper Markets, Metal & Mining

Shrey specialises in the copper demand side market with a key focus on copper demand trends.

Sooraj Narayan

Senior Research Analyst, APAC Power & Renewables

Sooraj specialises in power and renewables modelling and analytical research, focusing on the Indian power market.

Nathan Nemeth

Principal Analyst, Global Unconventional Plays

Nathan is focused on Canadian and Lower 48 unconventional plays research.

Kendrick Ng

Senior Analyst, Assets Benchmarking & Valuation, Oils & Chemicals

Kendrick leads the development of the Refinery Evaluation Model service as a product manager.

Scott Norlin

Research Manager, L48 Upstream

Scott leads a team of upstream analysts focused on L48 upstream.

Mark Oberstoetter

Head of Americas (non-L48) Upstream Research

Mark has extensively covered the North Slope, deepwater, oil sands and unconventional sectors.

Eunji Oh

Senior Research Analyst, North America Gas

Eunji’s research focuses on gas demand forecasting and regional market analysis.

Peter Osbaldstone

Research Director, Europe Power

Peter is a research director with more than a decade’s experience in European power and renewables markets.

Femi Oso

Research Director, Middle East & Africa Upstream

Femi leads a team of 30 analysts covering energy markets and corporate activity in Africa.

Juan Pablo Londoño-Agudelo

Principal Analyst, North America's Power Markets

Juan is a Principal Analyst in the North Americas Power team, specialising in long-term forecasting and market research.

Rohit Panchabhai

Research Associate

Rohit supports chromium cost service and steel alloys markets team.

Luke Parker

Vice President, Corporate Research

Luke is Vice President of Corporate Research with a specific focus on the Supermajors.

Latest articles by Luke

• Opinion 19 March 2024

  Beyond ESG: measuring corporate sustainability in an uncertain world

• The Edge 26 October 2023

  Big Oil: upstream M&A gets serious

• Opinion 24 October 2023

  Are NOCs prepared for the energy transition?

• The Edge 12 October 2023

  How NOCs compare with IOCs on energy transition strategy

• Featured 28 August 2019

  How can Big Oil stay investible through the energy transition?

Guillermo Parra

Senior Research Analyst, Copper Smelting & Refining

Guillermo has over 8 years experience in the metals and mining industry, and delivers customised analyses for clients.

Uday Patel

Senior Research Manager, Global Aluminium Markets

Uday has over 30 years of experience in the metals & mining sector and is focused on global aluminium markets.

Golak Patnaik

Principal Analyst, Asia Pacific Upstream

Golak has more than 20 years of experience in the upstream oil & gas industry.

Harry Paton

Senior Research Analyst, Oil Supply

Harry is a member of four oil supply research team. His focus is developing oil price models and benchmarking assets.

Saipriya Patro

Research Associate, North America Gas Markets

Saipriya covers short-term and long-term market analysis and outlooks for supply, demand and pricing.

Natalia Patterson

Senior Research Analyst, Americas Gas and LNG Research

Maria Peacock

Research Director, US Lower 48

Maria develops thought leadership, data analytics and products focused on the US Lower 48.

Andrew Pearson

Head of Gas and LNG

Scott Pearson

Director, Corporate Research

Scott manages a team of analysts who deliver industry-leading data, analysis and opinion.

Allan Pedersen

Principal Analyst, Lithium

Allyson Pellicci

Senior Research Manager, Global Gas Modelling

Allyson brings 15 years of industry experience to her role on our Global Gas Modelling team

Noble Pendergrass

Principal Economist, Americas

Noble Pendergrass is the Principal Economist covering Wood Mackenzie’s Americas upstream research

Iván Pérez

Research Analyst, Carbon Research

Iván provides comprehensive, actionable carbon data and analytics.

Nick Pickens

Research Director, Global Mining

Nick has over 20 years of experience in the metals and mining sector across base, bulk and precious metals.

Latest articles by Nick

• Featured 30 January 2024

  Metals and mining 2024 outlook

• The Edge 14 December 2023

  COP28 key takeaways

• Opinion 4 December 2023

  COP28: a metals and mining stocktake

• Opinion 3 November 2023

  Our top 5 takeaways from the LME forum 2023

• Opinion 26 June 2023

  Why scrap metal is an opportunity too good to waste

• Opinion 28 February 2023

  The role of African mining in the energy transition

Elissa Pierce

Research Associate, Solar Module Technology and Markets

Fiona Piggott

Research Analyst, CCUS Subsurface

Fiona works on insights and analysis for CCUS subsurface in the US Gulf of Mexico, US Gulf Coast and Latin America.

Latest articles by Fiona

• Featured 9 January 2024

  CCUS: 5 things to look for in 2024

Robert Polk

Principal Analyst, Corporate Research

Robert is a principal analyst with our US Corporate Research team, covering Lower 48 independents.

Adam Pollard

Principal Analyst, Upstream Emissions

Adam is a principal research analyst leading Wood Mackenzie’s upstream emissions initiative.

Raphael Portela

Principal Research Analyst, Corporate Analysis

Raphael focuses on Latin America and its national oil companies as a senior analyst on our Corporate Research team.

Kárys Prado

Research Analyst, LATAM Wind

Kárys leads Wood Mackenzie’s wind power analysis for Latin America.

Egor Prokhodtsev

Senior Research Analyst, Transportation & Mobility

Egor is a senior research analyst responsible for battery raw materials demand modelling.

Mark Pyman

Research Associate, EMEA Power & Renewables

Mark monitors power market trends across Europe.

Jodi Quinnell

Manager, Crude Oil Analytics and Forecasting, Short-term Analytics

Jodi has over a decade of energy market experience and in-depth understanding of the North American crude oil market.

Błażej Radomski

Principal Analyst, Europe and Japan Power Markets

April Read

Senior Analyst, Subsurface Research

April manages our Global Unconventional Play Service.

Lucas Rego

Research Analyst

Lucas Rego has 6 years of experience in the Gas & Power industry.

James Reid

Senior Research Analyst, North Sea Upstream​

James focuses on North Sea Upstream

Max Reid

Principal Analyst, Electric Vehicles & Battery Supply Chain Service

Max tracks supply chain developments, technological innovations and progressions in battery demand sectors.

Amir Rejvani

Senior Research Analyst, LNG and Intrastate Storage

Yuan Ren

Managing Consultant, China Wind Power Research

Yuan provides analysis covering China’s wind market

Jonah Resnick

Senior Research Analyst, Canada Upstream

Jonah focuses on analysing the energy landscape of E&P operators across Canada.

Latest articles by Jonah

• Opinion 10 January 2024

  Canada upstream: 4 things to look for in 2024

James Robertson

Research Analyst, Europe Power

James focuses on power market trends across Europe.

Greg Roddick

Principal Analyst, Upstream

Greg has almost 15 years of industry experience, focused on corporate strategy, fiscal modelling and economic analysis.

Angus Rodger

Vice President, SME Upstream APAC & Middle East

Angus leads our benchmark analysis of global Pre-FID delays, and deep water developments.

Latest articles by Angus

• Opinion 8 January 2024

  Asia Pacific upstream: 5 things to look for in 2024

• Opinion 26 July 2023

  Can Australia create energy super basins?

• Opinion 12 April 2023

  Japan pulls no punches on risks to Australian LNG exports

• Opinion 24 November 2022

  Global deepwater production to increase 60%

• Opinion 23 November 2021

  Can Asia avert a gas supply crisis?

• Opinion 25 August 2021

  COP26: the future of upstream is in governments' hands

Daniel Rogers

Senior Oil and Gas Analyst

Daniel Rogers is a senior analyst at Wood Mackenzie

Rodrigo Rosas

Senior Analyst, Americas Gas Research

Rodrigo has a strong background in oil and gas market analysis, appraisal projects and scenario modelling.

Zoltán Ruzsbaczky

Research Analyst, Oils

Zoltán is responsible for analysing trends and strategies in the global retail fuels market

Stephen Ryan

Power Market Analyst

Stephen leads on the NYISO short-term power team forecasting power prices and analysing congestion patterns.

Fauzi Said

Senior Research Analyst, Subsurface/Carbon Management – APAC

Fauzi focuses on integrated research and analysis for CCUS and subsurface offerings in Asia Pacific.

Dalia Salem

Senior Research Analyst, Middle East Upstream

Dalia is responsible for upstream research with a focus on UAE and Oman.

Srinivasan Santhakumar

Senior Research Analyst, Offshore Wind

Srinivasan is a senior analyst with a particular focus on asset valuation, LCOE forecasts and market research.

Glauce Santos

Senior Analyst, Latin America Upstream

Victoria Santos

Research Associate, Wind

Victoria oversees wind research in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Caspian region.

Craig Saunders

Research Analyst, Caspian & Central Asia Upstream

Rachel Schelble

Head of Corporate Carbon Management and Infrastructure, Corporate Service

Rachel leads the development of our corporate midstream research service.

Lucas Schmitt

Principal Analyst, Short-Term LNG

Lucas provides clients with data and insight on short-term gas and LNG markets.

Stephanie Scollard

Product Analyst, Subsurface

Stephanie is a subsurface product analyst focused on Lower 48 well and production data.

Hazel Seftor

Senior Research Analyst, Global Oil Supply

Hazel is a senior research analyst with our oil supply team, covering the Middle East and North Africa.

Avanpal Sehmi Singh

Research Analyst, Oils and Chemicals

Avanpal is focused on refinery evaluation modelling and long-term outlooks for Europe and FSU.

Chris Seiple

Vice Chairman, Energy Transition and Power & Renewables

Chris brings more than 30 years of global power industry experience to his role.

Eduardo Seraphim

Research Analyst

Eduardo has 2 years of experience in the energy industry and is currently working in the Cone gas and power team.

Todd Sercombe

Principal Analyst Thermal Coal Markets

Kashish Shah

Senior Research Analyst, Energy Storage APAC

Kashish focuses on market developments, future scenarios and supply chain dynamics across the value chain.

Kevin Shang

Senior Research Analyst, Energy Storage Technology and Supply Chain

Kevin Shang is a senior analyst on our Global Energy Storage team.

Prakash Sharma

Vice President, Scenarios and Technologies

Latest articles by Prakash

• The Edge 18 April 2024

  Is net zero by 2050 at risk?

• Opinion 4 March 2024

  Geothermal energy: the hottest low-carbon solution?

• Opinion 22 February 2024

  Energy transition outlook: EU

• Opinion 21 February 2024

  Energy transition outlook: Asia Pacific

• Opinion 12 February 2024

  Energy transition outlook: Africa

• The Edge 1 February 2024

  Diverging views on the role of gas in the energy transition

Jake Sharp

Lead Product Specialist

Jake is a lead product specialist in the Customer Organization team.

Benjamin Shattuck

Research Director, Americas Upstream Oil & Gas

Benjamin leads our US upstream analysis and specialises in the Lower 48.

Caitlin Shaw

Research Director, Upstream Supply Chain

Caitlin Shaw is a research director of upstream supply chain.

Suzanne Shaw

Head of Energy Transition & Battery Raw Materials

Suzanne specialises in commodities including cathode and precursor, lithium, cobalt, graphite, rare earths and lead.

Scott Sherwood

Director of Engineering

Scott works closely with our product and engineering teams to deliver well designed, commercially relevant products.

Ami Shivkar

Principal Analyst, Aluminium Markets

Ami has more than a decade of experience in the metals industry, specialising in aluminium and alumina markets.

Rishab Shrestha

Principal Analyst, Europe Power

Rishab is a principal analyst at Wood Mackenzie, focusing on European power and renewables markets.

Rory Simington

Principal Analyst APAC Thermal Coal Research

Rory Simington is a research analyst with over twenty years' experience in the Australian mining industry.

Luke Simpson

Research Analyst, Australasia Upstream

Luke focuses on analysis of upstream project economics and greenhouse gas emissions across Australasia.

Lovepreet Singh

Senior Research Analyst

Lovepreet is a Senior Research Analyst in the upstream team.

Matt Slutzker

Senior Analyst, PET/RPET

Matt covers PET and RPET in the Americas, analysing dynamic regional markets.

Sofia Solis

Research Analyst, Latin America Power & Renewables

Sofia’s research focuses on wind, energy storage and solar technologies for Latin America.

Brent Spalding

Principal Analyst, Coal Research

Brent is based in Brisbane with primary responsibility for APAC metallurgical coal research.

Vidhya Sreelalan

Principal Analyst, Gold

Vidhya has over 10 years’ experience analysing the metals markets from both research and equities perspectives.

Shashank Sriram

Senior Research Analyst

Shanshank has 10 years of Aluminium industry experience within technical and management roles.

Lucas Stavole

Senior Analyst – North America Wind

Lucas is responsible for wind market research and analysis in North America

Elyse Steiner​

Principal Analyst – Coal Markets​

Elyse focuses on United States thermal coal assets, markets and policy analysis.

Johnny Stewart

Principal Analyst, Downstream, Midstream and Chemicals

Johnny focuses on refinery supply, infrastructure and investments across the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

Latest articles by Johnny

• Opinion 22 November 2023

  Part 5: unlocking the value of refinery-petrochemicals integration

• Opinion 10 November 2021

  Will carbon costs destroy the added value from refinery-petrochemical integration?​

• Opinion 23 August 2021

  Onsan refinery case study: how much value will greater refinery-petrochemical integration add for S-Oil?

Jonathan Sultoon

Head of Markets & Transitions, Energy Transition Practice

Jonathan has over 18 years’ experience leading analysis for global energy markets

Alex Sun

Research Associate, North America Gas

Alex focuses on demand forecasting, natural gas vehicles and industrial development opportunities.

Huaiyan Sun

Senior Research Analyst, Power & Renewables Research, APAC

Huaiyan focuses on the Asia Pacific solar technology trends and supply chain dynamics.

Karoline Sun

Senior Consultant, Nickel Cost and Metals & Mining Sustainability​

Karoline covers global nickel cost analysis and conducts research in sustainability for metals and mining.

Zoë Sutherland

Principal Analyst

Zoë is a principal analyst with more than 15 years of industry experience.

Kevin Swann

Senior Research analyst

Kevin is an expert in UK upstream research and has extensive experience working across the sector.

Ryan Sweezey

Principal Analyst, North America Power & Renewables

Ryan focuses on coverage of North America power markets, producing forecasts of power, capacity and REC prices.

Latest articles by Ryan

• Opinion 15 February 2024

  North American power markets: navigating a trickier path to decarbonisation

• Opinion 2 October 2023

  The Inflation Reduction Act and its impact so far

• Opinion 4 August 2023

  The Inflation Reduction Act one year on

• Opinion 8 March 2023

  The indefinite Inflation Reduction Act: will tax credits for renewables be around for decades?

• Opinion 4 October 2022

  Can Maryland make net zero work?

• Opinion 28 April 2021

  Winter reliability and the road to net zero

Zach Szumloz

Lead Meteorologist, North American Short-Term Power

Zach’s primary focus is on how weather impacts electricity consumption and renewable generation.

Catherine Tan

Principal Analyst, Asia Olefins

Catherine is responsible for Wood Mackenzie's ethylene and propylene analysis in Asia.

Tarcisio Tavares

Research Analyst

Tarcisio has 5 years of experience in the natural gas industry.

Jamie Taylor

Principal Product Specialist, Lens (Asia Pacific)

Jamie is a senior product manager who brings in-depth upstream sector knowledge and regional expertise to his role.

Juliana Teixeira

Latin America Upstream Senior Research Manager

Juliana helps lead our coverage of Brazil's offshore upstream construction, operations and costs.

Ian Thom

Research Director, Upstream

Ian brings 18 years of experience to his role as head of regional analysis for Europe, Russian, Caspian and Africa

Latest articles by Ian

• Opinion 22 March 2024

  Navigating Nigeria’s changing oil and gas landscape

• Opinion 8 January 2024

  Sub Saharan Africa upstream: 5 things to look for in 2024

• Opinion 22 November 2023

  Will Namibia become a major deepwater oil producer?

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Andrew Thomas

Head of Zinc Market Research

Andrew is responsible for forecasting the supply and demand of refined zinc.

Rhodri Thomas

Senior Vice President, Head of EMEARC Research

Rhodri's specialism is upstream and midstream oil and gas and commodity marketing.