Hydrogen Conference 2025

Murray Douglas

VP, Head of Hydrogen Research

Wood Mackenzie

Murray is responsible for Wood Mackenzie’s Global coverage across the hydrogen value chain. Murray brings more than 17 years of experience working in a variety of roles across the energy industry. Prior to his current role, Murray led Gas and LNG Research for the EMEA region at Wood Mackenzie. In this role he was regularly sought out to speak at industry-leading events for his expertise in European gas markets. Murray has also held positions leading Wood Mackenzie’s Global Supply and Modelling Research team and the Energy Markets Research team. These teams were responsible for developing the company’s long-term oil and gas supply outlooks, and global inter-fuel analysis. Prior to joining the Energy Markets team, Murray spent over five years covering the LNG industry where he relocated to Houston to establish Wood Mackenzie’s LNG practice in North America. Across his roles at Wood Mackenzie, Murray has provided expertise to a variety of consultancy projects advising on corporate strategy, resource monetisation, market fundamentals, project financing, asset valuations, opportunity screening and competitor intelligence.

Jonathan Sultoon

VP, Power & Renewables

Wood Mackenzie

Jonathan has over 20 years of experience leading analysis for global energy markets, including power, coal, gas, LNG, renewables, hydrogen and CCUS. He joined Wood Mackenzie in 2006 and leads a team of analysts designing research for the energy transition. The team extends across all segments, all markets and all fuels and technologies.

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.

Tommaso Pelligrinelli

Research Analyst

Wood Mackenzie

Tommaso is a research analyst at Wood Mackenzie, specializing in the ammonia market within the Power and Renewables segment. His responsibilities include providing long-term demand and supply outlooks, price forecasts, policy analysis, and market tracking for both low-carbon and conventional ammonia. He has expertise in traditional ammonia sectors such as fertilizers as well as new applications, including the shipping sector. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Tommaso worked as an R&D process engineer at Nuada in the UK. In this role, he focused on developing novel CCUS technologies for the biogas and cement sectors, from concept to pilot plants. Tommaso holds a PhD in chemical engineering from Queen’s University Belfast (UK), earned for his research on automotive emission control conducted in collaboration with Ford Motor Company.

Tyler Huckaby

Principal Consultant, Hydrogen Consulting

Wood Mackenzie

Tyler Huckaby is Principal Consultant for Wood Mackenzie’s Global Hydrogen Consulting practice, joining the team in 2023, bringing over 13 years of energy experience. In his time with Wood Mackenzie, he has supported and advised clients in market entry and commercial strategies, due diligence efforts, and developer loan application reports for private lenders and the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Tyler was with private equity backed Humble Midstream leading Business Development efforts, and spearheading Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance efforts. During his tenure, he led BD efforts for Humble Midstream’s world-scale hydrogen/ammonia facility on the United States Gulf Coast. This facility was sited with access to marine transport for global export of ammonia to Europe and Asia, for a nascent but rapidly developing ammonia and hydrogen power market. Further experience at Humble included working with stakeholders, regulatory and policy makers, and commercial counterparties around the world. Before this, Tyler spent over 8 years with privately held Anschutz Exploration Corporation in Land, performing A&D, greenfield leasing programs, and business development efforts across North America. This involved work across Federal, State, and Local governments. Tyler carries a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Denver, in Colorado, U.S.A.

Raj Lal

Director, Sales – Europe

Wood Mackenzie

Xizhou Zhou

EVP, Head of Power and Renewables

Wood Mackenzie

Xizhou Zhou oversees Wood Mackenzie’s Power and Renewables’ function. He's responsible for the content development and commercial growth of the business line, ranging from new product development to regional expansion.  His expertise is in electric power and clean energy market analysis and forecasting, power market design and policy analysis, renewable energy business models, and company strategies. Prior to Xizhou joining Wood Mackenzie in 2024, he was vice president leading S&P Global Commodity Insight’s power and renewables practice globally. In his capacity as Head of the Power, Gas, Coal, and Renewables division in the Asia Pacific region for IHS Markit before its merger with S&P Global, Xizhou played a pivotal role in the substantial expansion of the firm's reach by establishing new research and consulting teams in key locations including Beijing, Singapore, Penang, Delhi, Seoul, Tokyo, and Brisbane, fostering the growth of the company's energy business in the region. Before starting his career at S&P Global through one of its predecessor companies, Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), he worked as a consultant on regulatory economics for Industrial Economics, Inc. in Boston and as a research analyst at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. Xizhou holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Environmental Management, both from Yale University. He is based in Washington, D.C.

Mónica Trilho

Research Analyst - Hydrogen & Derivatives

Wood Mackenzie

Mónica is a hydrogen-focused research analyst for Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables department. She works on the long-term supply and demand outlook, tracking project deployments, policy, and technology trends and analysing hydrogen midstream costs. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Mónica worked as a cost estimator for industrial projects at Galp, in Portugal, including green hydrogen and hydrotreated vegetable oil. Prior to this role, she held analyst positions at Air Liquide, handling CO2 European Trading Scheme and energy management topics in the Benelux markets before switching to pricing and business analysis in Iberia. Mónica holds a MSc. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the Nova University of Lisbon (FCT-NOVA).

Bridget van Dorsten

Principal Research Analyst, Hydrogen & Derivatives

Wood Mackenzie

As a hydrogen-focused senior research analyst within Wood Mackenzie's Energy Transition Practice, Bridget leads the production, transportation and storage cost modelling for hydrogen research and plays a key role in global supply and demand forecasting. They have expertise in complex, top-down Excel models specific to green hydrogen technologies as well as development of bottom-up market forecasts for emerging hydrogen technologies. Prior to this role, Bridget consulted at Power Advocate specializing in hydrogen asset modelling, strategic sourcing and category management for energy utilities in North America. Their additional client experience has involved market research to determine savings potential, along with RFP sourcing, negotiation and execution, all within the energy industry. Before PowerAdvocate, Bridget worked within the H2Europe division of AirLiquide in Grenoble, France, overseeing optimization of H2 refueling processes. Bridget graduated from Brown University with an A.B.E.T. accredited B.S. in Environmental Engineering, pursuing the Renewable Energy track. Throughout their college education, Bridget worked on several initiatives with FirstElement Fuel, the largest H2 refueling station retail business in the US.

Prakash Sharma

VP, Head of Scenarios and Technologies

Wood Mackenzie

Prakash has over 20 years’ experience in energy, metals and mining, cleantech and climate change policy developments. He leads a team of analysts designing research for the energy transition. He joined Wood Mackenzie in 2009 and is currently based in London. He is responsible for global net zero scenario modeling, and leads discussions on hydrogen, ammonia, CCUS, next-gen nuclear and geothermal technologies. Previously, Prakash spent two years in Beijing as head of Wood Mackenzie’s China research, guiding a team of analysts on China’s energy and economic trends, including supply-side reforms, inter-fuel competition and commodity prices. He has also led global coal markets analysis for five years, delivering research on decarbonisation policies, the impact of renewables, alternative scenarios and evolving patterns of supply, demand and prices.

Melany Vargas

VP, 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.