Consulting - our people

Aamir Malik

Vice President, Performance Improvement

Aamir works with international and national oil companies to improve financial, commercial and operational performance.

Andrés Weissfeld

Director, Downstream Consulting, Americas

Andrés has more than 20 years of international experience in the oil & gas, energy and steel sectors.

Latest articles by Andrés

• Opinion 27 九月 2019

  What does the electric vehicle revolution mean for Latin American refiners?

Bob Kubis

Director, Americas Gas and LNG Consulting

Bob Kubis focuses on delivering natural gas, NGL & LNG solutions

Chris Barry

Director, Downstream Consulting

Chris's consulting expertise spans the refining, chemicals and storage sectors where he has advised clients worldwide.

Latest articles by Chris

• Opinion 22 三月 2017

  European oil storage: Competitiveness is key to identifying sustainable investments

Chris Graham

Vice President – Energy Consulting, Asia Pacific

Chris leads business development for our Asia Pacific energy consulting practice.

Chris Hairel

Vice President, Head of Americas Downstream Consulting

An executive with 20 years of experience, Chris excels at addressing complex problems across the energy value chain.

Chris Heath

Vice President, Metals and Mining Consulting

Chris Sum

Vice President Consulting, Middle East

Chris advises governments and businesses in the Middle East on strategy, energy policy and development.

Claude Mourey

Director, Hydrogen and New Energies, EMEA

Claude is the Director of Wood Mackenzie’s Hydrogen and New Energies practice for MENA; she is based in Dubai.

Latest articles by Claude

• Opinion 16 三月 2022

  Can the Middle East become a global hydrogen player?

Costa Swift

Director, Upstream Consulting

Costa is an experienced upstream and business development consultant.

Daniel Bermudez

Senior Consultant

Daniel joined as a Senior Consultant at Wood Mackenzie in 2018 and he is based in the Mexico City office

Darren Smith

Head of Asia Pacific Consulting

Darren is an expert in strategy, due diligence, M&A, transaction support and commercial studies.

David Barrowman

Vice President, Fiscal Consulting

David leads our upstream fiscal service, drawing on more than 30 years' industry expertise.

David Parkinson

Vice President, Upstream Consulting

David leads our exploration strategy team and is also responsible for exploration consulting.

Latest articles by David

• Opinion 5 十二月 2022

  Can carbon offset crude move from idea to reality?

• Opinion 5 五月 2022

  What is the future of oil and gas exploration?

Dominic Tisdell

Head of Metals and Mining Consulting, Asia Pacific

Frank Harris

Head of Global LNG Consulting

Gavin Law

Head of Gas and Power Consulting

Gavin helps gas and power companies identify opportunities, and helps them develop successful strategies.

Latest articles by Gavin

• Opinion 3 十月 2019

  Carbon benchmarking study reveals a tale of two segments

• Opinion 25 一月 2018

  Is natural gas more emissions intensive than coal?

• Opinion 20 九月 2017

  Emissions intensity: portfolio composition is the key

Ian Kyle

Principal Consultant, Gas & LNG

Ian is a Principal Consultant with over 12 years experience in the gas and LNG industry.

Joel Chow

Vice President, APAC Consulting

Jose Brugada

Principal Consultant, Downstream Asia Pacific Consulting

Joshua Ngu

Head of Upstream Consulting, APAC

Joshua leads our upstream consulting practice in Asia Pacific, delivering integrated, holistic solutions.

Latest articles by Joshua

• Editorial 13 二月 2019

  Developing an effective licence round strategy

Kalpesh Ramwani

Principal Consultant

Kara McNutt

Vice President, Head of Americas Power and Renewables Consulting

Kara leads Wood Mackenzie’s Americas Power and Renewables Consulting team based in Boston.

Latest articles by Kara

• Opinion 14 三月 2023

  Green hydrogen: what the Inflation Reduction Act means for production economics and carbon intensity

• Opinion 26 三月 2020

  Will carbon policy push refiners to the brink?

Konrad Jar

Vice President, Asia-Pacific Downstream Consulting

Konrad is an expert in investment studies and transaction support throughout the downstream energy sector.

Kyla Schliebs

Managing Consultant, Gas & LNG

Kyla brings extensive knowledge of the gas & LNG industries, in particular upstream operations and the LNG supply chain

Lisa Gillespie

Principal Consultant, Energy Consulting

Lisa is an experienced project manager working across upstream and the energy transition.

Latest articles by Lisa

• Opinion 5 十二月 2022

  Can carbon offset crude move from idea to reality?

Malcolm Forbes-Cable

Vice President, Energy Consulting

Malcolm is an expert in designing international growth strategies, unconventional gas studies and portfolio reviews

Latest articles by Malcolm

• Opinion 17 八月 2021

  Scotland the brave: a Firth of Forth net zero hub for COP26?

• Opinion 4 二月 2021

  A £2.5 trillion transformation: the economic impact of a net-zero North Sea

• Opinion 5 一月 2021

  Is net zero oil and gas production possible?

• Opinion 24 十一月 2020

  Can the UK lead the world in carbon capture, utilisation and storage?

• Opinion 20 十月 2020

  Net zero North Sea: can hydrogen live up to its hype?

• Opinion 16 九月 2020

  Offshore wind propels the UK’s net zero ambitions

Mangesh Patankar

Director, Gas and LNG Consulting

With 14 years of experience in the gas/LNG and power industry, Mangesh has a deep understanding of client challenges.

Matthias Bloennigen

Director, Upstream Consulting

Matthias is the director of our upstream consulting team in the Americas.

Melany Vargas

Vice President, Head of Hydrogen Consulting

Melany has extensive experience solving strategic problems for clients across the global energy value chain.

Latest articles by Melany

• Opinion 14 三月 2023

  Green hydrogen: what the Inflation Reduction Act means for production economics and carbon intensity

Melvin Chen

Head of Energy Transition Consulting, Asia Pacific

Melvin focuses on commercial corporate planning, exploration strategies, due diligence, feasibility and market studies.

Neeraj Nandurdikar

Senior Vice President, Global Head of Power & Renewables Consulting and Head of Americas Consulting

Neeraj is Global Head of Power and Renewables Consulting in our Energy Transition Practice.

Nicole Papaioannou

Director, Gas and Power

Nicole is a seasoned technical and commercial advisor in the midstream LNG and downstream gas transportation.

Patrick Barnes

Director, Metals and Mining EMEARC Consulting

Patrick has over 10 years of experience helping foster development of stable and equitable mining sectors.

Paul Manley

Director, Metals and Mining Consulting

A geologist by training, Paul brings over 20 years of industry experience to our metals and mining consulting team.

Prashant Khorana

Director, Power & Renewables Consulting

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

Latest articles by Prashant

• Opinion 4 八月 2021

  Who will foot the bill for the energy transition in Asia-Pacific?

• Opinion 25 五月 2021

  How will Europe’s Green Deal shape renewable energy project finance?

• Opinion 21 四月 2021

  Investing in the energy transition

• Opinion 19 四月 2021

  Investing in the energy transition

• Opinion 15 十二月 2020

  Power purchase agreements: how will they support renewables growth?

• Opinion 20 三月 2019

  Is the electric vehicle revolution more hype than reality?

Renaud Brimont

Head of EMEARC Consulting

Renaud leads our upstream consulting practice in EMEARC and is an expert in business transformation.

Robert Burt

Head of Consulting Operations

Robert works with our Consulting Leadership Team, responsible for the group’s reporting, collaboration and processes.

Roslyn Cooke

Consultant

Shatha Alwardi

Director, EMEARC Consulting

An expert in long-term strategy development, Shatha advises on pricing, planning and market analysis.

Simon Anderson

Director, Performance Improvement, Sub-Saharan Africa

Simon works with energy and natural resources companies to improve financial, commercial and operational performance.

Latest articles by Simon

• Opinion 18 八月 2021

  Why investors may have Nigerian upstream assets in their sights

• Opinion 22 七月 2020

  Nigeria’s marginal field bid round – opportunities for investors?

• Opinion 28 五月 2020

  The impact of travel restrictions on oil and gas supply chains

Steve Jenkins

Vice President, Chemicals Consulting

Steve brings more than 30 years experience in chemical markets, and is a world expert in paraxylene.

Latest articles by Steve

• Opinion 21 十月 2020

  No silos allowed in the pursuit of a greener economy

• Opinion 9 一月 2018

  Is the outlook for China's petrochemicals market hanging in the balance?

• Editorial 9 一月 2018

  Is the outlook for China’s petrochemicals market hanging in the balance?

• Editorial 5 七月 2017

  PTT re-engages in South East Asia with new chemicals investments

• Opinion 5 七月 2017

  PTT re-engages in South East Asia with new chemicals investments

• Opinion 15 五月 2017

  ExxonMobil acquires Southeast Asia's Jurong Aromatics

Steven Knell

Vice President, Power & Renewables Consulting

Thanasis Kofinakos

Vice President, Head of Gas and LNG Consulting, Asia Pacific

Thanasis brings 15 years of experience and broad knowledge of all aspects of the gas and LNG supply chain to his role.

Tin Nguyen

Director, Chemicals Consulting

Yanghui Liu

Managing Consultant, Power & Renewables

Yanghui is an expert in wind industry market analysis, supply chain and products