Our people

Farid Ahmed

Principal Analyst, Lead Markets

Farid is an experienced metallurgist and technologist with extensive commercial, production and R&D exposure.

Greig Aitken

Director, M&A Research

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

Bruna Angel

Fibres Consultant

Asti Nuraini Asra

Principal Analyst - APAC Gas & LNG Research

Asti provides commercial insight into market dynamics in the APAC region

Benjamin Attia

Research Analyst, Solar

Benjamin leads Wood Mackenzie’s coverage of solar PV markets in Africa and the Middle East.

Neivan Boroujerdi

Principal Analyst, North Sea Upstream

Neivan is a principal analyst with expertise in North Sea upstream oil and gas.

Jessica Brewer

Principal Analyst, Middle East Upstream Oil and Gas

Jessica brings experience in both field and research roles to her analysis of the Middle East upstream industry.

David Brown

Head of Markets and Transitions, Americas

David is based in Houston and manages our gas, power and coal markets teams; he leads the Energy Markets Service.

Nicholas Browne

Director - Asian Gas & LNG Research

Nicholas manages our Asia Pacific LNG, gas, renewable and electricity markets from Singapore.

Andrew Buckland

Principal Analyst, LNG Shipping & Trade

Andrew brings more than 20 years of experience in LNG shipping research, consulting and analysis.

Jonathan Butcher

Principal Economist

Renate Cakule Featherstone

Principal Analyst, Steel Markets

Renate brings a holistic view of steel markets to our medium- and long-term steel forecasts.

Leandro Caputo

Director, Gas & Power, Latin America

Leandro is a skilled leader with extensive professional experience across the Latin American energy space.

Akif Chaudhry

Senior Research Analyst

Akif is a member of our Gas and LNG research team. His focus is predominantly on European markets.

Matthew Chadwick

Vice President, Global Head of Petrochemicals

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

Ashish Chitalia

Principal Analyst - Polyolefins

Ashish leads polyolefins research at Wood Mackenzie Chemicals

Robert Clarke

Research Director, Lower 48 Upstream

Robert analyses trends shaping E&P and studies the leading companies and projects.

Hadrien Collineau

Senior Research Analyst, EMEARC Commodity Analytics for Gas and LNG

EMEARC commodity analyst with a focus on gas and LNG

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.

Maria Cortez

Senior Research Manager

Maria is a senior research manager focused on Latin America's upstream sector.

Horacio Cuenca

Upstream Research Director, Latin America

Horacio specialises in the Southern Cone region as part of our Upstream Research team

Kelly Cui

Principal Analyst, Petrochemicals

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

Lucy Cullen

Senior Research Analyst

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

Anthony Damiano

Global Head, Power & Renewables Research

Anthony helps clients understand how the Energy Transition and power markets will impact their business.

Michelle Davis

Senior Analyst, Solar

Michelle Davis is a senior solar analyst with a focus on the downstream US distributed solar market

Quentin De Carvalho

Head of Nylon / Polyamide

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

Malcolm Dickson

Research Director, Europe Upstream Oil and Gas

Malcolm leads our research coverage of the European Upstream sector.

Massimo Di Odoardo

Vice President, Global Gas and LNG Research

Massimo is an expert in the global gas value chain and leads our worldwide research in natural gas and LNG.

Linda Doku

Senior Vice President, Head of Metals and Mining

Industry expert with 23 years' experience in commodity marketing, trading, market analysis and corporate strategy.

Murray Douglas

Research Director, Europe Gas

R.T. Dukes

Research Director, US Lower 48 Upstream

R.T. is widely recognised as a global leader in US unconventional oil and gas markets.

Tom Ellacott

Senior Vice President, Corporate Research

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

Mhairidh Evans

Principal Analyst, Upstream Supply Chain

Mhairidh’s understanding of both the contractor and operator perspective informs her analysis of upstream supply chain.

Giles Farrer

Research Director, Global Gas and LNG Supply

Giles is responsible for our LNG service, the global LNG markets tool together with our global gas market service.

Kateryna Filippenko

Principal Analyst, Global Gas Supply

Principal gas analyst responsible for our gas supply view with a specific focus on Russia, Central Asia and Europe

Simon Flowers

Chairman and Chief Analyst

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

Julie Francis

Principal Research Analyst, Lower 48 Upstream

Julie is a principal research analyst in the Lower 48 upstream team.

Paul Gaster

Director, Flexible Packaging

Paul has more than 40 years’ experience in the packaging industry in marketing services and corporate planning.

Alan Gelder

VP Refining, Chemicals & Oil Markets

Alan leads our global refining and oil marketing research; he manages our refining and chemicals outlook in EMEARC.

Edgardo Gelsomino

Head of Aluminium Research

Wood Mackenzie's head of aluminium research has over 23 years' experience along the value chain.

Rob Gilfillan

Research Analyst

Rob joined Wood Mackenzie in May 2017 as a Films & Flexible Packaging research analyst.

Edward Gomersall

Research Manager, Gas & LNG

Edward brings a deep understanding of the LNG value chain, including project development and trade flows.

Lindsay Grant

Research Director, Europe, Russia and Caspian Upstream Oil & Gas

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

Robin Griffin

Research Director, Metallurgical Coal Markets

Robin has undertaken global mine cost estimation and supply analysis for both coal and base metals.

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.

Gordon Haire

Head of Aromatics, Wood Mackenzie Chemicals

Gordon has a deep understanding of refining/petrochemicals optimisation and aromatics production economics.

Andrew Harwood

Research Director, Asia Pacific Upstream Oil & Gas

Andrew leads our upstream research coverage in Asia Pacific.

Luiz Hayum

Upstream Research Senior Analyst, Latin America

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

Nimmi Henderson

Director of Global Operations, Global Olefins & Derivatives

Richard Hewston

Global Content Lead, Environment and Climate Change, Verisk Maplecroft

Richard leads the development of Verisk Maplecroft’s environment and climate change research.

Ann-Louise Hittle

Vice President, Oils Research

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

Rui Hou

Consultant, Asia Pacific Refining

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

Stephen Kallir

Research Analyst, Upstream

Stephen covers the Canadian Upstream sector, analysing market trends and prominent companies within the industry.

Graham Kellas

Senior Vice President, Global Fiscal Research

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

Liam Kelleher

Gas and LNG Analyst

Liam combines his expertise in engineering, economics and finance in his role as gas and LNG analyst.

Martin Kelly

Head of Corporate Analysis

Martin oversees research into the world's leading oil and gas companies as head of our corporate and M&A team.

Rohan Kendall

Principal Analyst, Iron ore and steel costs

Rohan is the Principal Analyst for global iron ore and steel costs

Julian Kettle

Vice Chairman, Metals & Mining

Eugene Kim

Research Director, Americas Gas

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

Patrick Kirby

Principal Analyst - EMEARC Olefins

Patrick joined Wood Mackenzie in 2013 as an olefins analyst in the EMEARC region.

Kristy Kramer

Head of Americas Gas Research

Kristy leads our research on gas markets in the Americas.

Dr Valentina Kretzschmar

Director, Corporate Research

Valentina is part of our corporate research team, advising senior managers on strategy and financial analysis.

Søren Lassen

Senior Offshore Wind Analyst

Søren is a senior analyst covering the global offshore wind industry.

Andrew Latham

Vice President, Global Exploration

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

Jonathan Leitch

Research Director, EMEARC refining and oil products

Jonathan leads our coverage of the short term oil products markets.

Jonathan Leng

Principal Analyst, Zinc Markets

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

Clay Lightfoot

Upstream Research Manager, Gulf Coast, Mid-continent and GoM Shelf

Clay's research is focussed on the US Gulf Coast, Mid-Continent and Gulf of Mexico Shelf.

Lynn-Yuqian Lin

Research Analyst, Asia Pacific Gas and LNG

Lynn is our Asia Pacific gas and LNG analyst, based in Beijing.

Daniel Liu

Principal Analyst, Power and Renewables

Daniel's knowledge of technical, operational, and financial aspects of wind and solar power informs his research.

David Low

Senior Research Analyst, Australasia Upstream

Australasia upstream analyst with combined expertise in petroleum engineering and portfolio management.

Philip Marshall

Polyester Chain

Philip is responsible for Wood Mackenzie's research and analysis of the global polyester chain

Roy Martin

Senior Research Analyst, Corporate Analysis

For a deep insight into US upstream firms such as Devon and Encana, look to London-based analyst Roy.

Cicero Machado

Principal Iron Ore & Steel Analyst

Cicero leads our research into the cost drivers of coal, iron ore and steel in the Americas.

Sohaib Malik

Market Analyst, EMEARC Power & Renewables

Paul McConnell

Research Director, Global Trends

Paul drives the analytical agenda of the Global Trends Service, drawing on over 15 years' experience.

Helen McGeough

Senior Consultant, RPET Research, Chemicals, Polymers & Fibres

Helen brings 20 years experience of recycled PET, analysing the developing PET circular economy.

Mason McLean

Senior Research Analyst, North America Gas

Mason is a senior research analyst covering North America gas.

Craig McMahon

Senior Vice President, Head of Americas Research

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.

Joe Midgley

Executive Vice President, Research

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

Andrew Mitchell

Research Director, EMEARC Nickel Costs

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

Gavin Montgomery

Research Director, Battery Raw Materials

Gavin defines our research agenda and guides the analysis of raw materials markets.

Glenn Morrall

Research Analyst, North Sea Upstream

Glenn is research analyst in the North Sea upstream team.

Robert Morris

Senior Analyst, Caspian and Europe Upstream Oil and Gas

A senior upstream analysis who leads our coverage of the Caucasus and East Mediterranean

Simon Morris

Global Head of Metals

Simon is the global head of metals with a background in strategy, planning and risk management.

Iain Mowat

Senior Research Analyst

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

Principal Analyst, Global Nickel Markets

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

Alex Munton

Principal Analyst, Americas LNG

Alex brings a global perspective to his role as principal analyst for Americas LNG research.

Michael Murphy

Research Analyst, US Gulf of Mexico Upstream

Michael focuses on developing US Gulf of Mexico upstream asset valuations.

Kris Nicol

Senior Manager, Americas Corporate Research

Kris drives the corporate research agenda in the US and is focused on growing our client base.

Femi Oso

Research Director, Middle East & Africa Upstream

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

Uday Patel

Senior Research Manager, Global Aluminium Markets

Uday is a senior research manager focused on global aluminium markets.

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.

Donald Perreira

Director, Petroleum Economics

Nick Pickens

Research Director, Copper

Nick’s understanding of the sector’s complexities makes him a valuable member of our research team.

Bikal Pokharel

Research Director, Power and Renewables Research

Bikal leads the Power & Renewables market research for Asia Pacific at Wood Mackenzie.

Matt Preston

Research Director, North America Coal Markets

Matt Preston leads our Coal Market Service – North America, covering coal and emissions demand and pricing.

Maritza Ramirez

Senior Research Analyst

Maritza has over 20 years experience in Research, Development and Commercial roles in food and consumer goods packaging

Ed Rawle

Chief Economist, Global Research

Ed leads our global crude oil analysis and oversees our global macroeconomic outlook.

Angus Rodger

Research Director, Asia Pacific

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

Stephanie Scollard

Product Analyst, Subsurface

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

Prakash Sharma

Research Director, China

Benjamin Shattuck

Principal Analyst, 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.

Chris Shepley

Senior Vice President, Global Head of Commodity Analysis

Chris leads our consultancy team in refining, marketing and chemicals.

Ashley Sherman

Principal Research Analyst, Caspian & Europe Upstream

Ashley leads our analysis of the Caspian Upstream sector.

Rishab Shrestha

Analyst, Solar Markets, Power and Renewables Research

Solar analyst specialising in downstream photovoltaics markets.

Dan Shreve

Head of Global Wind Energy Research

Dan heads Wood Mackenzie’s global wind research practice.

Rory Simington

Principal Analyst, Asia Pacific Thermal Coal Research

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

Robert Sims

Director - APAC Gas & LNG Research

Robert heads Wood Mackenzie's APAC Gas and LNG research team. His expertise lie in market dynamics and analytics.

Vince Sinclair

Vice President Chemical Research

Vince has over 35 years' experience in chemical industry research and consulting.

Kevin Swann

Research analyst

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

Viktor Tanevski

Principal Analyst, Coal Research

Jacqueline Tao

Research Associate, Asia Gas & LNG

Jacqueline specialises in energy policy, and works with our Asia Gas and LNG team

Ian Thom

Research Director, Middle East Upstream

Ian is a research director focused on the Middle East upstream sector.

Rhodri Thomas

Senior Vice President, Head of EMEARC Research

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

Gavin Thompson

Vice Chairman, Energy – Asia Pacific

Gavin oversees our Asia Pacific research helping companies identify and build their international growth strategies.

Douglas Thyne

Senior Research Manager, Global Oil Supply

Douglas manages our global oil supply research and forecasts.

Daniel Toleman

Senior Research Analyst, Oceania Upstream

Daniel Toleman CPA produces in-depth analysis and market research on oil and gas markets in Oceania.

Janette Tourney

Senior Research Analyst, Copper Mine Costs

As part of Wood Mackenzie's metals cost team, Janette focuses on copper mining cost trends.

Rory Townsend

Head of Gold Research

With a deep understanding of metals and mining markets, Rory delivers holistic perspectives on global gold markets.

William Turner

Senior Research Analyst, US Gulf of Mexico Upstream Oil & Gas

William is a senior analyst in Wood Mackenzie's US Gulf of Mexico team.

Andrew Utz

Product Director, Lower 48 Data Analytics

Andrew Utz is a Product Director of Lower 48 Data Analytics.

Norman Valentine

Director, Corporate Research

Gerrit Venter

Senior Research Manager, Downstream Oil Service EMEARC

With a background in both industry and advisory roles, Gerrit brings a holistic perspective to our downstream research.

Otavio Veras

Research Analyst, Asia Pacific Gas & LNG

Otavio focused on Southeast Asian gas & LNG markets

Xueke Wang

Gas and LNG Consultant, China

Xueke covers China gas supply and infrastructure

Rachel Williams

Global Product Manager, Product Market Services

Rachel brings a comprehensive understanding of downstream value creation within the oil industry.

Adam Wilson

Senior Research Analyst

Adam is a senior contributor to our global exploration research.

Julie Wilson

Research Director, Global Exploration

Richard Wilson

Chairman of Metals and Mining

Richard is an expert in the field of metals supply economics with a particular focus on copper.

Meng Xu

Senior Product Manager, Global Fiscal Research

Meng is an international petroleum economist. She owns WoodMac's fiscal modelling.

Shimeng Yang

Offshore Wind Senior Research Analyst

Shimeng brings rich knowledge of offshore wind through project M&A execution, project evaluation and cost assessment.