Energy & Natural Resources Summit: Americas 2023

Alessandra Pasini

Co-Founder & President

Zhero

Co-founder & President of Zhero, a new company that develops renewable energy and green hydrogen at scale, including infrastructure and solutions to convey green electrons /molecules from optimum production location to demand centres, and long duration storage. Former CEO of Storage, Chief International and Business Development Officer and Group CFO at Snam (from 2016 to 2022). Alessandra played a key role in Snam’s repositioning and growth into an energy transition leader with an international footprint (including its storage activities) through a combination of organic and inorganic growth. Established what is today the largest Biomethane platform and the second largest energy service company in Italy. Led the acquisition of a 36% of De Nora from Blackstone, IPOed 1 year later at 3x value as part of a broader effort to around hydrogen started in 2018 Prior to Snam, she was Head of Investment Banking Italy at Barclays and leading banker at Citi before.

David Clark

Vice President, Head of Americas Corporate Research

Wood Mackenzie

David is a Vice President on the global Corporate Research team and heads up Americas Corporate Research. His focus is on large-cap and mid-cap US independent E&Ps, providing in depth data-driven analysis and strategic corporate insight. He has played a key role in developing corporate service product offerings, including the expansion of corporate financial data. He is based in New York City. David joined Wood Mackenzie in 2020 after an 18-year career as a sell-side research analyst, most recently as a Managing Director at Mizuho Securities USA. Prior to that he worked as a senior equity research analyst at Wolfe Research and Deutsche Bank, where he began his career and worked until 2014. Over the course of his energy research career he has focused on the global integrated majors, U.S. large- and mid-cap E&Ps, Canadian oil companies, US independent refiners and the oil market. David graduated with a B.A. degree in political science & economics from New York University, a J.D. from the University of Minnesota, and an M.B.A. from the NYU Stern School of Business. He is a CFA Charterholder.

Fraser McKay

Head of Upstream Analysis

Wood Mackenzie

Fraser McKay is an experienced Wood Mackenzie analyst, and research team leader. His focus as Head of Upstream Research is maximising the impact and quality of our research on key global upstream themes. Previous roles have included corporate development projects and research leadership. He has managed research teams focused on delivering in-depth, strategic corporate and upstream analysis. This included building-out Wood Mackenzie’s Americas upstream and corporate research capacity. In his senior roles, Fraser managed and contributed to a number of major strategic consulting projects, interacted with client executive teams and government entities at the most senior level, and presented upstream and corporate material to global audiences. Fraser joined Wood Mackenzie in 2003, initially in an upstream analyst role, whereupon he led the company’s offerings in Canada and Alaska. Fraser has played a key role in the development of Wood Mackenzie's suite of Corporate and other products, including the M&A Service, Corporate Benchmarking Tool and Mid-Cap Corporate Coverage. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Fraser worked for Schlumberger from 1995 until 2003, in various field and managerial positions and locations in the oilfield services sector.

Barbara S. de Marigny

Partner

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Barbara focuses her practice on tax structuring for transactions, with a particular emphasis on federal income tax issues arising in partnership, joint venture and alternative investment structures, including the use of partnership structures for strategic acquisitions by corporate groups, in IPOs, securities offerings and for tax equity financing. Her practice has an energy industry concentration, including transactions involving Fortune 50 corporations, master limited partnerships (MLPs), private equity investors and portfolio companies in all aspects of the energy industry, upstream, midstream, and downstream, oil field services and petrochemicals. Barbara has a particular focus on the taxation of climate and clean energy initiatives, such as the section 45Q federal tax credit for carbon capture, use and sequestration ("CCUS"), tax incentives for hydrogen energy, alternative fuel vehicles and carbon pricing proposals. She is a frequent speaker and author on section 45Q topics, including the provision of comments and testimony to the IRS on the proposed regulations and regularly advises clients on credit-maximizing structures.

Manu Parashar

Senior Product Director, Transmission

GE Digital

Manu Parashar has been with GE for 13 years and most recently been serving as the Senior Product Director for the Transmission Segment at GE Digital. Prior to this he was the Services Director managing the Applications Engineering team across WAMS, Market Applications and Generation. Before joining GE, Manu worked for a Los Angeles based consulting firm where he was responsible for coordinating R&D activities across utility stakeholders including ISOs, government labs, universities and the Department of Energy. Manu received his BS (summa cum laude), MS and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He has been active in various technical forums in North America such as the North American SynchroPhasor Initiative (NASPI) and IEEE Power Systems Relaying Committee (PSRC), and has numerous publications including a co-author of the "Wide Area Monitoring and Situational Awareness" chapter of the Electric Power Engineering handbook. Manu has been the recipient of the Gilbreth Lectureship by the National Academy of Engineering which established to recognize young outstanding engineers and voted the Seattle PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer for 2015

Megan Hays

Managing Director & Head of Sustainable Investment and Engagement

Kimmeridge

Megan Hays is a Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Investment and Engagement at Kimmeridge. She joined Kimmeridge following a 15-year career leading investor relations, strategic communications, M&A, capital markets and ESG within publicly and privately held oil and gas exploration companies. Prior to joining Kimmeridge, Ms. Hays served as the Vice President of Investor Relations at Cimarex Energy, where she led the company’s $19 billion merger with Cabot Oil & Gas. Previously, she was Vice President of Investor Relations and Public Affairs at Concho Resources, where she led investor relations in addition to developing and driving the company’s ESG strategy. During Ms. Hays’ tenure at Concho, she supported the company’s capital markets and A&D/M&A activities, including Concho's $9.5 billion acquisition of RSP Permian in 2018 and Concho's ultimate sale to ConocoPhillips for $10 billion in January 2021. Ms. Hays holds a certificate for the Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership Program from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She received a B.A. in Political Science (International Relations) from Texas Christian University, where she currently serves on the advisory board of the Ralph Lowe Energy Institute at the Neeley School of Business.

David Brown

Director, Energy Transition Practice

Wood Mackenzie

David is a Director, Energy Transition Pracitce. He began his career with Wood Mackenzie in 2011 as an analyst covering European markets. From 2014-2016, he was posted in Wood Mackenzie's Beijing office where he led the integration of our China energy research. He presented regularly on China’s macroeconomic outlook, gas and LNG markets, and coal to gas switching goals. Leveraging his global experience across multiple areas of the energy industry, David transitioned to Wood Mackenzie’s Houston office in 2016. He is a key author of Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition Outlook, Accelerated Energy Transition Scenarios, and emerging technology coverage. He regularly advises strategy groups, company leadership teams, and investors on major long-term questions facing energy markets.

Ben Hertz-Shargel

Global Head of Grid Edge

Wood Mackenzie

Exercising ten years of executive experience in clean technology, Ben leads research across electrification, grid digitisation and decentralisation, distributed energy resources, and demand flexibility. Before joining Wood Mackenzie in April 2021, Ben was with retail clean energy provider Rhythm, where he was Head of Data Science and Demand Management. Prior to Rhythm he was Vice President, Advanced Grid Services and Analytics at EnergyHub. Ben is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center and serves on the External Advisory Committee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Energy and Environment Program.

Sandhya Ganapathy

Chief Executive Officer

EDP Renewables North America

Sandhya Ganapathy is the Chief Executive Officer for EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) and a member of the Management Team of EDP Renewables (EDPR), the fourth largest renewable energy producer in the world. Sandhya joined EDPR in 2012 as Head of Investments and M&A North America. From 2017 to her CEO appointment in early 2022, she served as Global Head of Investments and M&A, responsible for M&A, investment and capital allocation decisions, and asset rotation for EDPR across all of its geographies. She was also a member of EDPR’s investment committee. Sandhya has extensive experience in renewable energy evaluations as well as leading acquisitions and evaluation of investments enabling geographical and asset class diversification. She ran EDPR’s asset rotation or self-financing strategy, thereby being at the helm of one of the company’s core income generators and critical enablers of future growth. Prior to joining EDPR, Sandhya worked as an investment banker for more than a decade with regional and global banks across multiple geographies. She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon and is a Chartered Accountant from India.

Fahimeh Kazempour

Head, Grid Modernization

Wood Mackenzie

Fahimeh is responsible for conducting research and analysis as well as developing high-impact insights on the broader topic area of utility and grid modernization. These include the grid impact of transportation electrification, distributed solar hosting capacity, distributed energy resource integration, microgrids, and utility distribution automation. As a senior member of the Grid Edge team, Fahimeh supports Grid Edge clients’ engagement at key events and meetings. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Fahimeh was the Head of Advanced Planning at the Green Energy and Technology Centre (GRE&T Centre), the innovation hub of Alectra Utilities. At Alectra, she oversaw multiple award-winning initiatives within the portfolios of Technical Solution Design, Utility Data Analytics, Market Intelligence, and Transportation Electrification. Fahimeh holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Energy Systems, from the University of Toronto, where she researched modeling, analysis, and design of control structures for virtual power plants.

Julie Wilson

Director of Energy Research

Wood Mackenzie

Julie has specialised in global exploration since January 2011, following 11 years at Wood Mackenzie split between the upstream consulting and research divisions. She has worked closely with clients advising on global and local industry issues, with a recent focus on exploration strategy and performance. Julie moved to Houston from the UK in November 2000 in an upstream consulting role. She helped build the Houston consulting practice and managed a wide variety of international consulting engagements, including corporate strategies, exploration and country entry strategies, competitor analysis, gas supply and market analysis. In 2006, she moved across to research and built the Houston-based team focusing on the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Julie worked in BP's upstream business for eight years in a variety of political, commercial and financial analysis roles, spanning international and domestic North Sea operations and exploration.

Sunaina Pai Ocalan

Sr. Director – Corporate Strategy and Climate Change

Hess Corporation

Sunaina Ocalan is Sr. Director of Corporate Strategy and Climate Change for Hess Corporation based in New York. In this role she works closely with the executive management team evaluating the opportunities and strategic issues affecting the company’s performance and future direction. In her role leading the climate change strategy, Ms. Ocalan is leading the company’s global efforts to integrate its sustainability objectives with the business strategy including defining the company’s path to achieve net zero emissions. As an integral part of this role, Ms. Ocalan is helping develop Hess’ position on voluntary carbon markets, and Hess’s decarbonization strategy for the long term. Prior to joining Hess Corporation, she was a consultant in the E&P industry working with CERA’s consulting group focused on strategy for energy clients. During her consulting career she has worked worldwide with many of the leading national and international oil companies on a broad variety of strategic projects. Much of her work, particularly with big oil companies, focused on country entry, portfolio strategy, and asset development strategy. Ms. Ocalan started her career with Schlumberger in Houston, TX, working as a wireline design engineer for the flagship MDT and coring tool. Ms. Ocalan has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Rice University.

Craig Glazer

Vice President-Federal Government Policy

PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.

Craig Glazer serves as the Vice President--Federal Government Policy for PJM Interconnection. In this capacity, Mr. Glazer coordinates all of PJM’s regulatory and legislative policies before Congress, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions, the United States Department of Energy and other federal agencies. PJM operates the largest competitive wholesale electricity market in the world and serves over 9% of the United States population. Mr. Glazer heads PJM’s Washington, D.C. office. Prior to coming to PJM, Mr. Glazer served as Commissioner and Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. As one of the longest-serving Chairs of the Ohio Commission in its history, Mr. Glazer oversaw Ohio’s move toward deregulation of its telephone, natural gas, transportation and electric industries. Mr. Glazer served as CEO of the agency which operated with over 300 employees and a budget of $25 million. He also chaired the state’s Siting Board and served as a member of the Governor’s Cabinet.

John Berger

CEO

Sunnova Energy

Mr. Berger founded Sunnova in 2012 and has since then served as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board. With more than two decades of experience in the electric power industry, Mr. Berger is an energy entrepreneur who has always supported free market competition, consumer choice and the advancement of energy technology to power energy independence. Before Sunnova, Mr. Berger served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer at SunCap Financial, a residential solar service provider. He also founded Standard Renewable Energy, a provider and installer of renewable energy and energy-efficient products and services. Mr. Berger received his Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and graduated cum laude from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering.

Violeta Rabanal

Senior Director - Head of Corporate Development

Mitsubishi Power Americas

Violeta Rabanal is the Senior Director – Head of Corporate Development at Mitsubishi Power, where she leads capital raises and M&A across Mitsubishi Power’s energy transition and core businesses. Violeta has 13 years of experience in M&A and investments with a focus on infrastructure and energy. Prior to Mitsubishi Power, she was part of the Infrastructure Credit team at Global Infrastructure Partners (“GIP”). Prior to GIP, Violeta was a Vice President in Evercore’s Corporate Advisory business with a focus on infrastructure, power, renewables, utilities, and transportation. Previously, she was an investment manager at Rimac, Peru’s largest insurance company, where she led the short-term fixed income strategy, and was also an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Universidad del Pacifico. Violeta holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, from Universidad del Pacifico. She is a CFA Charterholder.

Eugene Kim

Director, Americas Gas Research

Wood Mackenzie

Eugene Kim is a Research Director on Wood Mackenzie’s Americas Gas Research team, which covers short term and long-term market analysis and outlooks for supply, demand, pricing, and flows in North America and as part of the global gas market. Eugene previously worked at Citadel, Shell and with Millennium where he served as an oil and gas strategist managing fundamental supply-demand balances to generate trading recommendations. Prior to these commodity trading analytical roles, Eugene performed geological research for the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology and published various energy policy reviews and advocacy, oil and gas play analyses, reservoir characterizations, and carbon capture & underground sequestration (CCUS) feasibility studies. Eugene holds a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin and a B.S.E in Mineral and Petroleum Engineering from Seoul National University.

Ed Crooks

Vice-Chair Americas

Wood Mackenzie

Ed Crooks joined Wood Mackenzie in 2019 as Vice-Chair for the Americas region, based in New York. He is one of the leaders of the firm’s research into commodities, companies and global trends, with a particular focus on the Americas. He writes ‘Energy Pulse’, a weekly column on the latest developments in the business, finance, technology and politics of the industry, and hosts the podcast, ‘The Energy Gang’. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, he was an award-winning energy editor for the Financial Times, first in London and then in New York, where he wrote the popular ‘Energy Source’ newsletter. He joined the FT in 1999 as economics editor, and took over the energy team in 2006. From 1990-99 he worked for BBC News, starting as a researcher in the economics team and ending as a correspondent on radio and television. He began his career in journalism in 1988 as a reporter covering chemicals and oil companies for the Investors’ Chronicle, and also worked as an economic researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. His other roles have included membership of the UK government’s Sustainable Development Commission. He has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.

Dan R. Brouillette

President and CEO-elect

Edison Electric Institute (EEI)

John W. Ketchum

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

NextEra Energy

John Ketchum is chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE), a leading clean energy company. He was named president and CEO in March 2022 and became chairman of the board of directors in July 2022. Mr. Ketchum is also chairman of the company’s rate-regulated electric utility Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) as well as chairman and CEO of NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP), a growth-oriented limited partnership formed by NextEra Energy to acquire, manage and own contracted clean energy projects. Mr. Ketchum joined NextEra Energy in 2002. He has served as president and CEO of NextEra Energy Resources, a competitive clean energy supplier and the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a world leader in battery storage. He has also served as chief financial officer of NextEra Energy and as chief financial officer of FPL. His previous roles at NextEra Energy Partners include president and chief financial officer. Mr. Ketchum holds a Master of Laws degree in taxation and a Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, where he was managing editor of the Law Review. Mr. Ketchum earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and finance, graduating magna cum laude, from the University of Arizona. He has also completed the Emerging CFO – Strategic Financial Leadership Program at Stanford University.

Ann-Louise Hittle

Vice President, Oils Research

Wood Mackenzie

Ann-Louise Hittle brings to Wood Mackenzie over 25 years of experience in analysing global oil markets. Her career began with Gulf Oil, where she focused on OPEC and markets in Asia. She then worked as a Middle East/Oil Markets research associate with Kissinger Associates and a Senior Oil and Gas Futures Analyst with Shearson Lehman Brothers. During her decades in the industry, Ann-Louise established an international reputation for her analyses of short- to long-term oil markets. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Ann-Louise worked at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, where she was Research Head of the Upstream Oil Service with responsibility for world oil market analysis and writing long-term scenarios. After joining Wood Mackenzie in 2003, she directed the development of the Macro Oils Service, launched in April 2005, and led it until her promotion to Vice President. In addition to overseeing the oils research team, Ann-Louise is a frequent contributor to numerous industry publications and conferences, where she shares her trusted insights on the futures of oil markets. Ann-Louise's extensive experience and deep understanding of Middle East markets make her an invaluable member of the Wood Mackenzie team. With oil markets becoming more complex due to production cuts and the growth of renewables, her guidance helps our research team provide clients with timely, accurate market outlooks.

Sunday Shepherd

General Manager, Corporate Strategy

Chevron

Sunday Shepherd leads Chevron’s Corporate Strategy group, with accountability for corporate strategy development and alignment, enterprise risk management and investment governance. Sunday is passionate about building collaborative relationships within Chevron and across industry to ensure all voices are heard and to drive value. She chaired Chevron’s Executive Women’s Group in Houston from 2016-2019. Sunday’s passion for the arts and quality education for all has led her to represent Chevron on the Houston Ballet’s Board of Trustees and serve on OneGoal Houston’s Board of Directors. Sunday joined Chevron in 2000 as a geologist and has worked in exploration and reservoir management assignments in the United States, Venezuela and Singapore. Prior to her current role in Corporate Strategy, Sunday led Chevron’s MidContinent Applied Reservoir Management team. Sunday’s prior roles include Exploration and Regional Manager roles in US Gulf of Mexico, Exploration Advisor for Chevron’s Asia Pacific E&P headquarters in Singapore, Development Geologist in Chevron’s Latin America Business Unit on a heavy oil field in Venezuela, and Earth Scientist and Team Leader in Chevron’s Energy Technology Company consulting on reservoir issues on many global projects.

Hector Arreola

Principal Analyst, Hydrogen & Derivatives

Wood Mackenzie

Hector is a hydrogen-focused senior research analyst within Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition Practice. Hector is responsible for building asset valuation models, interpreting policies, developing long-term demand and supply outlooks, and conducting price analyses to enable the adoption of low-carbon technologies across different sectors and markets. Before his current role, Hector participated in and led numerous consulting projects across the energy spectrum with an extensive focus on Energy Transition and decarbonization strategies and initiatives. His project experience includes commercial due diligence for hydrogen production and infrastructure, energy transition scenarios and risk analysis, market studies and competitiveness analysis under different energy transition scenarios, and facilitating corporate strategies related to carbon emissions. Hector holds an MS in Energy Finance and Economics from The University of Texas at Austin and obtained his BS as Chemical Engineer from Tec de Monterrey (ITESM). He is based in Wood Mackenzie's Houston office and is fluent in both Spanish and English.

Chris Seiple

Vice Chairman, Power & Renewables

Wood Mackenzie

Chris is the Vice Chairman of Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables team. He ensures thought leadership across all its research teams, helps set the strategic direction of the business, and engages with senior stakeholder engagements and relationships. Chris brings to this role 30 years of global power industry experience. Early in his career he led strategy consulting work and research teams at Cambridge Energy Research Associates which later became part of IHS, including living in Europe and running CERA’s European and Russian divisions. He then joined GE Energy Financial Service where as the SVP of Investment Strategy he helped underwrite debt and equity investments in power assets, and ultimately moved into an operational role managing a 2,000 MW portfolio of gas and coal assets, as well as overseeing the development of one of the first merchant transmission projects in the country. Most recently, Chris was part of the senior management team of Genscape where he expanded Genscape’s real-time power monitoring business into analytics and software service business through both organic growth and acquisitions. Chris came to Wood Mackenzie through its acquisition of Genscape. Chris is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Muhlenberg College with degrees in Russian Studies and Political Science and also holds a Master of Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and the French Petroleum Institute. He has also completed executive leadership development programs at the University of Cambridge and at GE.

Melany Vargas

Global Head of Hydrogen Consulting

Wood Mackenzie

Melany leads the Global Hydrogen Consulting Practice at Wood Mackenzie. She has supported a number of established energy companies and new developers as they grow their footprint in or enter low-carbon H2 markets, including developing market entry strategies, screening for regions and opportunities, developing analysis and reports for policy and regulatory advocacy, and performing commercial due diligence and capital raise efforts across the hydrogen value chain. She has also supported the development of Wood Mackenzie’s proprietary hydrogen modelling capabilities across low-carbon hydrogen supply, demand and technoeconomic analysis. Melany has extensive experience solving strategic problems for clients across the energy value chain, including oilfield service companies, E&Ps, IOCs, gas and NGL infrastructure and logistics, chemicals, utilities and mining. Since 2015, she has focused her career on applying her deep expertise in fossil fuel value chains to solving Energy Transition issues, and supporting clients as they evaluate the technologies needed to achieve decarbonization targets. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie Melany worked in Accenture’s Energy Strategy practice in Houston. In 2016, she was selected to serve as the project manager and lead author for the World Energy Council’s World Energy Scenarios 2060 (published in 2016), a process that involved engagement with senior executives and policy stakeholders across all regions and parts of the energy value chain and evaluated a broad spectrum of potentially disruptive technologies. She is also currently working on a hydrogen study for the DOE on behalf of the National Petroleum Council, leading the Task Group on Integrative Economics and partnering with MIT on the modeling efforts required for all chapters of the study. Melany holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs with a specialty in Energy Management and Policy. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Maryland.

Colette Hirstius

Senior Vice President, Gulf of Mexico

Shell

Colette Hirstius is the Senior Vice President, Gulf of Mexico and leads Shell’s offshore Deepwater business in the Gulf of Mexico, including nine operating production hubs and a network of subsea infrastructure. Colette has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology from Tulane University and a MSc in Geology from the University of Colorado. She joined Shell in 2003 in the United States as a Production Geologist after starting her career with Mobil Oil and ExxonMobil. Over the course of her time with Shell, Colette has held a variety of assignments across many lines of business. That first role, as a Production Geologist in New Orleans, gave her an opportunity to work with mature and developing Gulf of Mexico fields before moving into project leadership positions. In 2014, she took an international role in the Netherlands as Strategy Adviser, working closely with Shell’s Executive Committee and the Board of Directors to develop Shell’s first Purpose led Strategy. Following the Shell-BG Combination in 2016, Colette leveraged her Strategy and Development experience with a role supporting an overall business turnaround for Shell’s Integrated Gas business in Trinidad and Tobago. Most recently, she was the VP of Exploration for Africa and the Middle East where she led one of the largest and most complex regions for Shell.

Amy Myers Jaffe

Director of the Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab

NYU

Amy Myers Jaffe serves as Director of the Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York University's School of Professional Studies and is a research professor who teaches graduate level courses examining global climate finance, energy and climate justice, and energy and climate policy. A leading expert on global energy policy, sustainability, and geopolitical risk, Jaffe is author of several books including her most recent book, “Energy’s Digital Future” published in 2021 by Columbia University Press. Jaffe is a regular contributor to the popular podcast “The Energy Gang” and a frequent media commentator in television and print media, including the New York Times, Financial Times of London, CNN International and the Wall Street Journal. A prolific author, Jaffe holds a career prize in energy economics from the US Association for Energy Economics and also served as the organization’s President in 2020. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations where she was a senior fellow for energy and environment from 2017 to 2020. Ms. Jaffe has advised numerous organizations on climate risk strategy and scenarios analysis including Ceres, the investor advocacy network, and major Fortune 500 companies. She is a frequent contributor to the Aspen Institute Congressional program and the World Economic Forum where she most recently served on the Global Future Council on Net Zero Transition. Ms. Jaffe is co-chair of the Women in Energy Initiative at Columbia University and is a non-resident senior fellow at the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University. From 2014 to 2017, Ms. Jaffe served as senior advisor on sustainability to the Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the University of California, Regents where she helped design the sustainable investing framework for the UC’s $140 billion in pension and endowment funds. She is a graduate of Princeton University with a bachelor of arts degree in Arabic language and history.

Rachel Schelble

Head of Corporate Carbon Management and Infrastructure

Wood Mackenzie

Rachel Schelble joined Wood Mackenzie’s corporate research team in 2021 as Head of Corporate Carbon Management and Infrastructure, working to develop new content offerings focused on corporate midstream and carbon management. Rachel works with oil and gas industry clients to understand the business models, emerging technologies and strategies driving the energy transition. Her research is focused on understanding the role of the evolving carbon markets, decarbonization strategies and technologies, and the unique ways that the oil and gas industry can develop low carbon solutions. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Rachel worked at ExxonMobil for 15 years where she held multiple positions in competitor analysis, commercial negotiation, value chain integration, infrastructure development, geoscience and resource evaluation.