Meg O’ Neill

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director

Woodside Energy

Meg O’Neill has 28 years’ experience in the global oil and gas industry, with positions and responsibilities extending across North America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. Since being appointed Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Woodside Energy in 2021, Meg has overseen a merger that has transformed Woodside into the largest energy company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. The merger built on Woodside’s history as the pioneer of the LNG industry in Australia, delivering a geographically diverse portfolio of high-quality oil and gas assets. Meg joined Woodside in 2018 as Chief Operations Officer, responsible for all of the company’s producing assets. In 2019, Meg was appointed Executive Vice President Development, overseeing the delivery of Woodside’s major growth projects in Australia and Senegal. In 2020, she also assumed responsibility for Marketing. Prior to joining Woodside, Meg worked for ExxonMobil in a variety of technical, operational and leadership roles based in Houston, Indonesia, Canada and Norway, which included responsibility for major projects in Angola, Nigeria, Tanzania and Mozambique. Meg is Chair of the Australian energy industry peak body, Australian Energy Producers (AEP), and serves on the boards of Reconciliation Western Australia, and West Australian Symphony Orchestra. She is an honorary Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Australia, and a member of Chief Executive Women (CEW) and the University of Western Australia Business School Advisory Board. Meg is originally from Boulder, Colorado, and is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with degrees in Ocean and Chemical Engineering.

Mayank Gupta

Executive Director, Cleantech Coverage

Standard Chartered Bank

Mayank leads the investment banking coverage for clean energy sectors in multiple markets across APAC and Middle East for SCB. He has spent c. 12 years with SCB across Mumbai and Singapore offices covering corporate finance and investment banking across infrastructure and clean energy sector.

Julian Kettle

Senior Vice President, Vice Chair Metals and Mining

Wood Mackenzie

Julian brings 30 years of experience in the analysis of metals and mining to his current role as Senior Vice President, Vice Chair Metals and Mining, where he is responsible for senior stakeholder engagement and relationships. He is a recognised authority on the aluminium industry across the value chain from bauxite mining through to end-use analysis. His in-depth understanding of the key factors influencing the industry and issues that stakeholders face is of critical importance in his work providing strategic advice to clients. Since joining Wood Mackenzie, he has carried out the role of Manager – Metal Market Services, Global Head of Metals Research, and Global Head of Metals and Mining Research. Julian travels extensively and regularly presents to senior industry and financial community stakeholders on our analysis across the value chain of the metals and mining space, covering aluminium, copper, lead, nickel, zinc, iron ore, steel and coal. He also supports consulting assignments and specialises in market environment assessment, expert witness, raw materials sourcing, contract pricing, portfolio optimisation and strategic advisory relating to brownfield and greenfield investments in the metals and mining space. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Julian worked in British Aerospace Commercial Aircraft Division, where he was a development engineer responsible for the development and evaluation of advanced materials and processes for aerospace applications.

Nuomin Han

Head of Carbon Markets

Wood Mackenzie

Nuomin Han joined Wood Mackenzie’s in 2018 and is based in Beijing. She is part of the Carbon Research team, providing clients with insights into emissions and climate-related development. Her primary focus lies in the carbon market sector, leading the analysis of compliance carbon pricing mechanisms worldwide, and the voluntary carbon market, developing and expanding our offering on carbon market dynamics and future pricing trends, and serving clients with a better understanding of a transitioning carbon landscape. Prior to joining the Carbon Research team, Nuomin spent more than three years in our Coal Research team. In this role, she provided insight into market and policy development related to the coal supply of Asian countries.

Lucy Martin

General Manager (South América) and Principal Vice President, Mining and Metals

Bechtel

Lucy is a Principal Vice President and General Manager for Bechtel’s Mining & Metals (M&M) Global Business Unit’s (GBU) South America Region. Lucy is responsible for leading the M&M team in the region to grow the business while continuing to support our existing customers projects and studies, reporting to the GBU president, based in Santiago, Chile, Lucy was previously Chief Financial Officer for the M&M GBU, based in Australia. With more than 24 years of experience, Lucy has served in various roles within Bechtel including in Financial, Operations, Business Development and General Management primarily in the M&M GBU. She has worked in a variety of capacities on five (5) continents, in M&M, Energy and Infrastructure. She has also worked for Australian energy generator AGL, where she held the role of General Manager of Major Projects. In this role she was responsible for the development and execution of renewable energy projects including large scale wind and grid scale battery projects.

Yana Hryshko

Managing Consultant and Head of Global Solar Supply Chain Research

Wood Mackenzie

Yana is Managing consultant and Head of Global Solar Supply Chain Research. She supports the delivery of the solar component pricing forecast as well as overall solar industry analysis and development trend from the manufacturing side including the prospects of developing solar manufacturing industry, solar technology, feasibility of solar manufacturing development in different regions. ​ Yana has over 5 years’ experience in the solar energy industry in China and worked in solar module and storage sales and procurement sides as well as in supply chain consulting. Her working experience is mainly with solar manufacturers.​

Sushant Gupta

Research Director – Asia Pacific, Refining and Oils market

Wood Mackenzie

Sushant has over 15 years of experience in the energy industry with strong focus on refining, crude oil and chemicals industry. He established and grew Wood Mackenzie’s downstream oils/refining research practice in Asia. Sushant heads up the team in Asia which is responsible to pull together the analysis of the key trends and issues in the oils and refining market both regionally and globally. Sushant has authored a series of research and consulting reports, which creates great commercial value to the clients. Sushant is a recognized expert in refining and oils market and is often interviewed by Media such as CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal. He is regularly invited to deliver keynote speeches for many industrial conferences and discussion with senior clients. Sushant joined Wood Mackenzie in 2007 after working for five years with Singapore Refining Company where he gained extensive experience in crude evaluation and purchase, refinery production planning, refinery economics, and product supply planning. He also has over three years of experience with Schenectady International group – India, a leading petrochemicals manufacturer in India.

Andrew Harwood

Research Director, Corporate and Upstream Research

Wood Mackenzie

Andrew is responsible for Wood Mackenzie’s corporate coverage in Asia Pacific, providing in-depth analysis of the leading Asia-headquartered national and international oil companies. Andrew also contributes to Wood Mackenzie’s upstream oil and gas research in Asia Pacific, working closely with the analyst teams in Beijing, Delhi, Perth and Singapore. In addition to developing research content, providing insight and analysis, Andrew advises clients on corporate strategy and supports business development with key regional and global accounts. During his time with Wood Mackenzie, Andrew has supported several consultancy projects, including fiscal benchmarking, corporate strategy analysis, growth opportunity screening, portfolio valuation, and infrastructure studies. Based in Singapore since 2010, Andrew specializes in providing analysis and insight on global upstream investment themes, corporate strategy for national and international oil companies, merger and acquisition trends, exploration performance, and fiscal benchmarking.

Jom Madan

Senior Research Analyst, Scenarios & Technologies

Wood Mackenzie

Jom is a subject matter expert in energy scenarios and bioenergy for our Energy Transition Practice. He works on scenario modelling for country and global-level energy mixes across all major energy commodities, tracking transition policy and investments and analysing disruptive transition technologies. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Jom spent three years at Indorama Ventures (IVL) in Thailand leading global renewable energy procurement, carbon and plastic credit project development, sustainability-linked debt issuance, and decarbonisation data modelling. Prior to Indorama, Jom worked in the sustainable investments team at BNP Paribas Asset Management in Hong Kong.

Flor Lucia De la Cruz

Principal Analyst, Hydrogen and Derivatives

Wood Mackenzie

Flor is a subject matter expert in hydrogen and emerging technologies, working for our Energy Transition Practice. She models hydrogen markets, tracks deployments, policy, investments and technology trends, and analyses the adoption of hydrogen in industrial processes. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Flor led the innovation team at IDOM, developing low-carbon and circular economy projects. She also worked as a process engineer at IDOM on gas projects in Brazil, Colombia, Poland and Morocco. Flor worked as a researcher for the Strano Research Group while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Simon Flowers

Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Wood Mackenzie

Simon has a long history with Wood Mackenzie. He first joined the company in 1983, as a North-West Europe upstream analyst, later moving to Sydney to become an equity analyst covering the Australian oil, gas and mining sectors. On returning to the UK in 1992, Simon was a No.1 ranked oil analyst with NatWest Markets after which he took on the role of MD and head of Pan European Utilities Research with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. There he worked with the boards of many utility companies and was involved in most of the major European privatisations, including Enel, EdF and GdF. Simon re-joined Wood Mackenzie in 2010, bringing with him more than 20 years of experience across a breadth of commodities and sectors including oil and gas, utilities and mining. His experience makes him uniquely qualified to occupy the role of chief analyst and chairman, which sees him produce high-value content and thematic research. Simon’s views on the issues shaping the energy world are regularly sought by industry leaders as well as international media.

Rapheal Erasmus

Senior Advisor

Former Head of Citi’s Asia-Pacific Sustainability and Corporate Transitions team

Rapheal Erasmus is a senior banking professional with over two decades of financing and advisory experience across a multitude of roles within Citi Investment Banking and Capital Markets divisions in London and Singapore Until recently, Rapheal served as the Asia-Pacific Head of Citi’s Sustainability and Corporate Transitions team. She was responsible for advising Citi’s clients in the region on their transition strategies and providing related financing solutions to support their net zero transition. Prior to this role, Rapheal was a Managing Director in Citi’s EMEA Project and Infrastructure Finance team in London where she led numerous innovative and market-leading financings across the power, renewables and infrastructure sectors in both public and private markets. Having started her career at Citi London in the European Real Estate Investment Banking team, Rapheal also has experience in Structured Finance, Commercial Real Estate Finance, and Distressed Debt. Rapheal holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of Cambridge in Philosophy.

Gavin Thompson

Vice Chairman, Energy-Europe, Middle East & Africa

Wood Mackenzie

Gavin works as Vice Chairman for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Gavin joined Wood Mackenzie in 1997, managing the company's Asia Pacific Energy Markets team from 2000 - 2003. Between 2003-2014 Gavin was based in Beijing managing Wood Mackenzie's China Business and leading the company's energy research on China. Gavin relocated to Wood Mackenzie's Tokyo office in 2014 to head the Northeast research business. In January 2017 he took up the position of Head of Asia Pacific Research, based in Singapore with a team of over 100 analysts. In early 2019 he was appointed vice chairman for Wood Mackenzie's Asia Pacific business in 2003 before relocating to London for his current role.

Michael Baruffi

Managing Director, APAC Energy and Natural Resources

Morgan Stanley

Michael is a Managing Director in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division. He advises clients in the energy and natural resources sector on M&A, capital raisings and restructurings. Michael has been based in Singapore for almost six years, and prior to that was with Morgan Stanley in Sydney. Michael has spent more than 16 years in the investment banking sector, always covering energy and resources and has been based in Perth, Johannesburg, Sydney and now Singapore.

João Machado

Executive Director, Business Development and Mergers & Acquisitions

EDP Renewables APAC

João Machado serves as Executive Director overseeing M&A, Business, and Corporate Development at EDP Renewables APAC. Following his pivotal role in finalizing the acquisition of Sunseap, he transitioned to EDP Renewables APAC as Head of Strategy and M&A in February 2022. Today, João holds a senior leadership position, directing M&A activities and driving business growth initiatives within the APAC region, with particular focus on the Australian market. With over 15 years of experience in finance, João has held various significant roles encompassing business development, M&A, investor relations, and risk & energy trading within the energy and renewables sectors. João holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and a Master's Degree in International Management. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Robert Liew

Director, APAC Power and Renewables Research

Wood Mackenzie

Robert has more than 15 years of industry experience, having worked in research functions in New Zealand, Thailand, China and Singapore. He has expertise in market intelligence, strategy planning, analysis and forecasting in the renewable energy sector. He is responsible for market outlook reports and has completed numerous projects for supply chain companies, private equity and IPP/utilities with a focus on Asia Pacific markets.

Ken Lee

Head of Asia Pacific Power Research

Wood Mackenzie

Ken is the Head of Asia Pacific Power research in our Power & Renewables group. He has over 11 years of experience in power plant investments and gas/LNG sectors in Asia Pacific covering conventional fuels and renewable energy in model development, strategy, and core market fundamentals research. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Ken worked for an energy-focused research consultancy and was responsible for conducting strategic market studies for state-owned energy companies and private investors in gas/LNG-to-power, coal, and renewable energy in Asia Pacific. He has also run investment analysis and commercial due diligence for a major Southeast Asian power sector developer-investor.

Achal Sondhi

Head of Investment & Portfolio Management, APAC

Aquila Capital

Achal Sondhi is Head of Investment & Portfolio Management at Aquila Clean Energy Asia Pacific where he is responsible for driving and growing the company’s clean energy portfolio across the region. With more than 15 years’ experience in renewable energy and investment, Achal has broad sector expertise including enabling, advising, developing and investing in gigawatts of transactions around the world. Most recently, Achal had a significant role in supporting the growth of BESS uptake around APAC as General Manager of Australia and VP of Growth, APAC at Fluence. Prior to Fluence, he was the Vice President of Energy Financial Services at GE Capital, and he has also held key positions at AES and Symbior. Achal holds a BA in Economics, Statistics and Mathematics from Macalester College and an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Angus Rodger

Vice President, SME Upstream APAC & Middle East

Wood Mackenzie

Angus leads our benchmark analysis of global pre-FID delays and deep-water developments, including cost deflation and project evolution studies. Since joining Wood Mackenzie nine years ago, Angus has worked on a variety of upstream projects across Asia and Australasia. He has also been instrumental in devising our pre-FID project tracker which identifies major projects in development across the globe. An expert in deep-water analysis, he has advised both national and independent oil companies on new business development including stranded gas monetisation, exploration strategy, regional basin screening and country-entry strategies. Angus previously worked in London covering the North Sea and West African upstream sectors. With a background in finance, research and journalism, he is accustomed to drawing on a wide range of information sources and quickly getting to the crux of an issue. He is a regular speaker at leading regional conferences and frequently provides insight on industry trends to leading news channels. Education BA Hons, Politics with International Relations, University of Warwick

Jane Tay

Head of PPA Origination and Energy Offtake, APAC

IB Vogt

Jane heads the origination, structuring and negotiation of deals for PPAs and energy offtake at IB Vogt for APAC, including cross-border projects. She is currently focused on helping corporations to mitigate climate change with renewable energy and carbon-free solutions.

Kathy Wu

Regional President, bp gas & low carbon energy (G&LCE) – Asia Pacific

bp

Kathy has been with bp for 28 years. She has held senior leadership roles across strategy & planning, commercial, business development and general management in bp’s businesses in the US, UK, China, Australia, and Indonesia. Kathy is currently based in Jakarta, also serving as vice president of the Indonesia Petroleum Association (IPA) and on the board of ANGEA. Kathy was previously Managing Director of bp’s G&LCE business in Australia. Educated in China and the US, Kathy holds an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. Outside work, Kathy spends time with her family and friends, travelling and meeting new friends.

Montri Rawanchaikul

Chief Executive Officer

PTT Exploration and Production( PTTEP)

Montri Rawanchaikul is the Chief Executive Officer of PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP), Thailand's national oil and gas exploration and production company. With over three decades of experience in the industry, he is dedicated to driving the company towards sustainable growth. In recent years, Mr. Rawanchaikul has played a pivotal role in significant achievements for PTTEP, including establishing the company's presence in the Middle East, overseeing successful acquisitions, and strengthening the management of all producing assets to ensure long-term growth in Thailand and neighboring regions. Assuming the position of CEO in October 2021, Mr. Rawanchaikul is committed to leading PTTEP with a focus on reinforcing core exploration and production values while actively addressing the climate change agenda. He advocates for carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiatives, leveraging the company's upstream capabilities to contribute to global environmental betterment. Mr. Rawanchaikul holds a bachelor's degree in Physics from Chiang Mai University, Thailand, a master's degree in Exploration Geophysics from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and was recently conferred an honorary doctorate degree in Applied Geophysics from Chiang Mai University, Thailand. His career commenced in 1991 as a geophysicist at PTTEP.

Phoon Hee Joe

Singapore Digital Power – Smart PV CTO

Huawei International Pte. Ltd

Based in Singapore, Joe is Huawei Singapore Smart PV & ESS chief technical expert who has more than 10 years’ experience in solar PV and battery energy storage industry. He is a certified Project Management Professional and holds a Master of Business Administration of Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.

Hetal Gandhi

Lead-CCUS, APAC

Wood Mackenzie

Hetal leads CCUS research for APAC with a growing team of analysts to help clients in decision-making and business planning. She focuses on emerging trends across policy, potential demand, and supply-side dynamics for the CCUS value chain. The team delivers thought leadership content, monitors project-level dynamics and provides valuations for projects across key APAC geographies. She also contributes to cost estimations at the geography level for key hard-to-abate sectors with the potential for carbon capture. Before Wood Mac, Hetal worked with S&P as director, research tracking energy transition and key emerging technologies from an India and APAC perspective. She specialises in the application of energy transition technologies for key hard-to-abate sectors with a special focus on power, steel and cement. She led a team of analysts to evaluate the impact of government policy, cost trends and global demand-supply landscape on investment needs for decarbonisation for leading emission geographies like India and China against the availability of low-cost green finance.

Egon van der Hoeven

Vice President Business Development Asia Pacific

ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions

Egon joined ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions in Singapore in October 2023. In this role, Egon has responsibility for ExxonMobil’s business development activities in the low carbon solutions space in Asia with a focus on cross border Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) value chains. Previously, Egon held a variety of executive management positions in the US, Asia Pacific and Africa, including and recently SVP business development of ExxonMobil’s affiliate in Indonesia where he has been progressing carbon storage opportunities since 2021. Other assignments within ExxonMobil include exploration new ventures, opportunity origination, commercial negotiations, business planning and analyst roles. He has more than 25 years of oil and gas experience and has worked globally in upstream exploration, gas marketing, and midstream. Prior to joining ExxonMobil, Egon was a management consultant. Egon has an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and an MBA in strategic management and finance from the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States. He is active in the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN), and the SouthEast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

Mangesh Patankar

Vice President, Gas and LNG Consulting

Wood Mackenzie

With 14 years of experience in the gas, LNG and power industry, Mangesh has a deep understanding of both the consulting and corporate side of the sectors. Mangesh rejoined Wood Mackenzie in November 2017, having previously worked with the company from 2009-2015. During his tenure with Wood Mackenzie, he has been involved in due diligence on power and gas/LNG assets, LNG procurement engagements for Asian buyers, Lenders’ Market Advisory for LNG liquefaction and regas projects, economic modelling and financial feasibility studies for gas/LNG assets, and gas monetisation strategies in Asia and the Middle East. Most recently, he has worked with Galway Group and was involved in conceptualising floating regas terminal projects in India and the Philippines. He is a certified Energy Risk Professional (ERP) from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and an Associate Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has also cleared the examination conducted by the Institute of Costs & Works Accountants of India. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie in 2009, Mangesh worked with Shell’s LNG team in India for ~3 years as a business analyst covering the Indian gas market. Prior to that, he worked for CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory (an S&P company) in India as Manager – Fuels Practice.

Yanting Zhou

Principal Economist, APAC

Wood Mackenzie

Yanting leads our in-house macroeconomic research for Asian economies, working closely with commodity teams across the company to align macro views and commodity demand. She joined Wood Mackenzie in 2015 as a copper demand analyst and draws on her knowledge and experience of commodity end-use markets in China and major economies in Asia, which extends to the property, electrical network, transportation, machinery and appliance sectors. Yanting started her career in the natural resource industry in Rio Tinto‘s Economics and Markets team, where she focused on the economic outlook for China and long-term metals demand analysis.

Srinath Iyer

Senior Commercial Lead, Clean energy & Power, APAC

Google

Srinath leads renewable energy procurement and investments for Google in Asia Pacific. He has over 14 years of commercial and business development experience in the energy sector, having previously worked at BP Plc and JP Morgan Chase. He has successfully negotiated and executed PPAs, JV and investment agreements in the power, renewables and gas sectors across Australia, South East Asia, India and Brazil.

Jane Lee Ching Shen

Custodian, Upstream Research

PETRONAS

Alex Whitworth

Vice President, Power & Renewables Research

Wood Mackenzie

Alex is responsible for overall power and renewables research strategy in Asia. He supports solar, wind, storage and power analysts to develop insightful and high-impact analysis and reports, building team capabilities and research product strategy. Alex also engages with clients and industry leaders at key events and meetings. Alex has over 10 years’ experience in the energy industry in China and Asia, including roles at McKinsey, GE and IHS Markit. His work experience includes provincial-level modelling of China’s power, coal and gas markets, policy analysis, power and fuel price forecasting, power project feasibility studies, and product strategy for power equipment. Education: MA, Public and International Affairs, Princeton University MS, Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University BE/BCom, University of Auckland