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Andrew Adu Sally M. Benson Mark Caine is a commercial manager at joined Stanford University is special assistant for Ghana National Gas in 2007. She holds three energy and economy at the Company, with appointments at Stanford: African Union Commission. responsibility for the professor of energy He develops and planning and economics of resources engineering in implements strategies to gas commodity, and the service the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental accelerate Africa’s transition to flexible, commercialization of offshore gas. Prior to Sciences; co-director of the Precourt low-carbon energy systems and productive, joining Ghana Gas, Adu worked as a senior Institute for Energy, the campus-wide hub of inclusive economies. From 2014-2016, he was commercial analyst at Centrica/British Gas. energy research and education; and director a policy advisor at the U.K. Foreign Ministry He was also a project accountant for Verizon of the Global Climate and Energy Project. An office in San Francisco, where he managed Business and RWE/Thames Water in the UK. internationally recognized scientist, Benson the British government’s energy and climate Adu received a master’s in international is responsible for fostering cross-campus engagements across the western U.S. Caine business management from Surrey Business collaborations on energy and guiding the also worked at the London School of School at the University of Surrey (UK). growth and development of a diverse Economics, the British Royal Academy of research portfolio. Formerly, Benson was at Engineering and the Breakthrough Institute. George Amoako-Adjei Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, He received a master of philosophy degree is director of commercial where she held a variety of key positions, from the University of Cambridge. operations of the Ghana including Associate Director for Energy National Gas Company, with Sciences and director of the Earth Sciences Tom Campbell responsibility for the Division. A groundwater hydrologist and is a first-year MBA student commercialization of gas reservoir engineer, Benson is regarded as a at the Stanford University from the Jubilee/Tano basin offshore and leading authority on carbon capture and Graduate School of LNG. He is also a fellow of the Royal Statistical storage. She also uses energy systems Business. From 2014-2016, Society (UK). Amoako-Adjei was former analysis to help guide decisions about the he was director for global general manager for commercial & business most promising pathways for clean energy at Stratas Advisors, where he development of the West African Gas Pipeline development. oversaw the firm’s research and consulting Company, and senior manager of corporate activities in areas such as LNG, international finance of the Volta River Authority in Ghana. Ricky Buch natural gas pipelines, gas conversion/ He received an MBA in finance & operations is a senior strategy leader syngas, and natural gas as a transportation research from the University of Edinburgh at GE Power, where he fuel. Prior to Stratas, Campbell was head of Business School (Scotland), and graduated in identifies and validates analysis at Zeus Development, an energy statistics/economics from the University of new business opportunities research and consulting firm. He received a Ghana-Legon. for GE. He also leads efforts BA in history from Rice University. to develop new products and services for Morgan Bazilian emerging markets, with a primary focus on Jeremy Carl is lead energy specialist at off-grid electrification. Buch co-founded is a research fellow at the the World Bank. GE Current, a startup within GE that helps Hoover Institution at His academic affiliations businesses manage energy use more Stanford University, where include Columbia University, efficiently. He has also worked at Cisco he focuses on energy policy Cambridge University and Systems and Microsoft. Buch received an and U.S. politics. He is the the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden. MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross author or editor of several books, including A member of the World Economic Forum’s School of Business. Conversations about Energy: How the Experts Global Advisory Council on Energy, Bazilian See America’s Energy, and has written for the wrote the book, Analytical Methods for Energy New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Diversity and Security, and articles for Foreign National Review and other publications. Affairs, Nature Energy and other journals. He Carl has also been a policy advisor to several served as a deputy director of the U.S. national political figures on issues ranging National Renewable Energy Laboratory and from energy to electoral strategy. He as the European Union’s lead negotiator on received an MPA from the Kennedy School of low-carbon technology at the U.N. climate Government at Harvard University and did negotiations. He received a PhD in areas doctoral work at Stanford University. related to energy systems and markets from UNSW (Australia).

10 Natural Gas Initiative Speakers ngi.stanford.edu David Carroll Patrice de Vivies Paul Doucette is president and CEO of the as been senior gas adviser is a global public policy Gas Technology Institute at the World Bank since leader for GE Oil & Gas. (GTI) in Des Plaines, Illinois. 2015. His career at Total He is responsible for the He joined GTI in 2001 after spanned more than development and holding various technical 30 years and included key execution of growth and management positions with Praxair Inc., leadership positions, such as senior vice strategies relating to government policy, and Liquid Carbonic Industries and Air Products president for exploration production- for establishing collaborative research and Chemicals Inc. Carroll is president of the Europe, and president of global gas, power relationships with governments, universities International Gas Union, which will hold its and renewables. From 2002-2005, de Vivies and customers. He serves as the operating 2018 World Gas Conference in Washington, served as gas director of the French Energy agent for the IEA Gas & Oil Technologies D.C. He also serves on the board of the Regulatory Commission. He is a graduate of Collaboration Program, and as chairman of National Fuel Gas Company and the Stanford Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie, Ecole the board of the Research Partnership to Natural Gas Initiative. He received an MBA Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Secure Energy for America. Prior to joining from Lehigh University and completed the Commerciales, and Institut de Hautes Etudes GE, Doucette was an executive at Cornell executive program at Stanford University de Defense Nationale. He also received an Companies Inc., Star Enterprise and Texaco. Graduate School of Business. MBA from the Stanford University Graduate He also served with Strategic Air Command. School of Business. Doucette received an MBA from Nicholls Lauren Culver State University and is a graduate of the is a graduate student and Landon Derentz Advanced Executive Development Program Fellow in is an energy policy advisor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School Stanford University’s at the U.S. State of Business. Department of Department’s Bureau of Management Science & Energy Resources. Robin Dunnigan Engineering. Her research focuses on global His portfolio addresses has been deputy assistant gas markets and the role of natural gas in integrating the impact of global energy secretary for energy alleviating energy poverty, applying markets in U.S. foreign policy, including a diplomacy in the engineering techniques, such as focus on the growing role of liquefied natural Department of State’s probabilistic system modeling, to improve gas. Prior to joining the State Department, Bureau of Energy energy-policy design. From 2012-2014, Culver Derentz worked at the Department of Resources since August 2014. She oversees was an advisor to the U.S. State Department Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency & U.S. energy diplomacy to ensure that energy on energy markets and technologies. Renewable Energy and at the U.S. Air Force. resources are used to promote global From 2009-2012, she was a Presidential He received a JD from Pepperdine University economic growth and stability, and to Management Fellow at the U.S. Department School of Law and an MPP from the advance global integration of renewable and of Energy, where she counseled the under Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & cleaner energy sources in support of U.S. secretary for energy on innovation and Public Administration at George climate change goals. Since joining the State manufacturing. She received two MS Washington University. Department in 1992, Dunnigan has served in degrees from MIT in technology & policy and the U.S. and overseas. She received master in civil & environmental engineering. of science degrees from the National War College and Georgetown University.

2017 Symposium 11 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Anatol Feygin Christine Jojarth Ken Koyama is executive vice president is an affiliate of Stanford is chief economist and and chief commercial University’s Center on managing director at the officer of Cheniere Energy, Democracy, Development Japan Institute of Energy and a director of Cheniere & the Rule of Law and the Economics and a lecturer Energy Partners LP Program of Energy and at the Shibaura Institute of Holdings. Prior to joining Cheniere, he Sustainable Development. She advises Technology. His fields of expertise include worked with Loews Corporation developing governments and non-governmental economic and political analysis of global oil forecasts for Loews’ three energy platforms organizations on international policy issues and natural markets, and energy security (upstream, midstream and services), related to energy and development. and the geopolitics of energy. Koyama has identifying risks and making capital Her datasets and models have been used by served on several energy-policy advisory allocation decisions. Feygin has also worked industry and leading financial institutions, councils and committees of the Japanese as a senior analyst covering natural gas including the International Monetary Fund government. In 2016, he received the pipelines at Bank of America and at J.P. and the Federal Reserve. Jojarth also wrote BrandLaureate’s Brand Personality Award. Morgan Securities. He received an MBA in the award-winning book, Crime, War and He received a PhD from the University of finance from New York University’s Stern Global Trafficking. She received a PhD in Dundee (Scotland). School of Business. international political economy from the London School of Economics and Political Seth Levey Paula Gant Science. is a member of the public recently served as principal policy and stakeholder deputy assistant secretary Sunjoy Joshi relations teams at in the Department of is director of the Observer ExxonMobil Corporation. Energy’s Office of Research Foundation in Prior to joining Exxon in International Affairs. India. As a member of the 2015, he was an advisor at the Republican Her work focused on enhancing U.S. energy Indian Administrative Governors Public Policy Committee security and accelerating global adoption of Service for 25 years, he specializing in energy, environment, clean-energy technologies. From 2013 to acquired a broad range of experience in infrastructure and economic development 2015, she was DOE deputy assistant various energy sectors, including oil and gas policy. He has also worked for members of secretary for oil and natural gas, exploration and renewables. He continues to the Virginia state legislature and for former administering R&D programs and natural gas write and conduct research on India’s energy Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. Levey serves on import/export regulation. Before joining the needs and its interplay with development the board of directors of the National Civic DOE, Gant was an executive with the challenges and climate change. Joshi Art Society and the Concord 51 Political American Gas Association and Duke Energy, received a master’s in English literature from Action Committee. He received an MPA from and taught at Louisiana State University and Allahabad University (India) and a master’s in Columbia University’s School of the University of Louisville. She received a development studies from the University of International and Public Affairs. PhD in economics from Auburn University. East Anglia (UK). He also studied upstream economics and risk analysis at the George Mensah Okley Peter Hughes Economist. is head of the upstream is an independent adviser petroleum portfolio at the to major international Ajay Khandelwal Ministry of Energy in Ghana. energy companies and has is president of E&P His responsibilities include been involved in business at Reliance negotiating gas- international arbitration Industries in India. Prior to commercialization agreements, relating to long-term gas contracts. He has joining Reliance in 2013, he coordinating natural gas development and held numerous senior-level positions during was CEO of Jubilant Group reforms, and evaluating applications for his career, including executive vice and an investment adviser at Shell. exploration licenses and gas-to-power president-group strategy at BG Group; vice Khandelwal has broad experience in development. He received MSc degrees in president-strategy & portfolio for BP Gas, multinational corporations in areas such as chemical engineering from the University of Power & Renewables; and senior director/ business development, finance, private- Dortmund (Germany) and in reservoir head of the PanEurAsia Division of equity investment in oil and gas, and the evaluation & management from Heriot-Watt Cambridge Energy Research Associates energy and infrastructure sectors. University (Scotland). (CERA). Hughes received a BA degree from Khandelwal received an MBA from Cranfield the University of Wales in Cardiff, and a MSc School of Management (UK). degree (Sloan Fellowship) from the London Business School.

12 Natural Gas Initiative George Minter Emma Samwel Msaky Rachel Pritzker is regional vice president of is the acting chief technical is president and founder of external affairs and advisor for the Oil and Gas the Pritzker Innovation environmental strategy for Advisory Bureau in the Fund, which supports the SoCalGas, where his office of the president of development and responsibilities include Tanzania. From 1984 to advancement of paradigm-

community relations, local government 2015, she worked as a geoscientist for the shifting ideas to address the world’s most ngi.stanford.edu affairs and energy & environmental affairs. Tanzania Petroleum Development wicked problems, with a primary focus on From 2000-2013, he was managing principal Corporation, the national oil and gas climate change, global poverty and energy. for Greer/Dailey/Minter and GM Public Affairs, company of Tanzania. For more than three She is also chair of the advisory board of the where he managed public-policy initiatives decades, Msaky has applied her knowledge Breakthrough Institute, a board member and and communications programs to approve to help solve geological problems and co-chair of the Energy Program at Third Way, large energy and land-use projects. From evaluate petroleum potentiality in the a board member of the Center for Global 1985-2000, Minter held several other sedimentary basins of Tanzania and Development, and a co-signer of management positions at SoCalGas. Prior to elsewhere. She received a PhD in geology An Ecomodernist Manifesto, which outlines a that, he was a political consultant on various from the University of Queensland, Australia. powerful alternative approach to climate local, state and national political campaigns. mitigation and human development. He is also a founder of the Business Council Philip Mshelbila Pritzker attended Brown University, where for Sustainable Energy, and a member of is the general manager-gas she majored in Latin American studies. several community organizations and for Shell Nigeria and a business associations. Minter received a BA director of the Shell Brad Ritts in history from the University of California, Petroleum Development is the managing director of Berkeley. Company of Nigeria. In his the Stanford Natural Gas 20-year career with Shell, he has held various Initiative. Ritts is an expert A. Scott Moore positions, including managing director of on oil and gas exploration is vice president of Shell Nigeria Gas and general manager for and the upstream worldwide marketing for sustainable development and community . Prior to joining Stanford, Anadarko Petroleum relations for Shell Nigeria. Prior to joining he held a variety of technical and Corporation. He has Shell, he worked with the Nigerian National management positions with Chevron in management responsibility Petroleum Corporation and the National Oil California and Singapore, and was on the for Anadarko’s U.S. and international & Chemical Marketing Company. Mshelbila faculty of Indiana and Utah State marketing of natural gas, crude oil and received postgraduate qualification in universities. Ritts received a doctorate in natural gas liquids, as well as commodity occupational & environmental medicine geological and environmental sciences derivatives and market fundamentals. from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) at Stanford University. Moore serves as chairman of the board of and an MBA from the IESE Business School of the University of Navarra (Spain). the Natural Gas Supply Association, and of James Rockall Coloradans for Responsible Energy is the CEO & managing Development. He was also an assistant chair Neil Parsan director of the World LPG on the National Petroleum Council’s Prudent is chairman of the Global Association. Prior to joining Development study for the U.S. Secretary of Gas Council and a global the WLPGA in 2003, he was Energy. Moore received an MS in mineral ambassador to the June a director of the global economics from the Colorado School 2018 World Gas Conference energy group SA. He also worked of Mines. in Washington, D.C. He has for Shell International in senior management held several diplomatic posts with the positions in the Netherlands and Venezuela. Todd Moss government of Trinidad and Tobago, Rockall is a Chartered Chemical Engineer is senior fellow at the including ambassador to the MIChemE. He received a master’s degree Center for Global and representative to the Organization of with honors from the University of Development, a American States. He has also been a director Nottingham and an MBA from the Swiss nonresident scholar at the of several companies in the Caribbean and Institute of Management Development. Center for Energy Studies a consultant on special projects. Parsan at Rice University’s Baker Institute and an received an MBA and an undergraduate adjunct professor at Georgetown University. medical degree from the University of the His work focuses on electrification in Africa, West Indies. cash transfers in new oil economies and upgrading U.S. development finance tools. In 2007-2008, he served as deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Moss received a PhD from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.

2017 Symposium 13 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Joyashree Roy Tisha Schuller Todd Sostek is a professor of economics is Strategic Advisor to the is manager of at Jadavpur University and Stanford Natural Gas environmental research at a national fellow at the Initiative. Schuller founded the Southern California Gas Indian Council of Social Adamantine Energy to Company in Los Angeles. Science Research. She is provide thought leadership He is also a member of the the founding coordinator of the Global to transform energy policy and politics environmental strategies committee of the Change Programme and Ryoichi Sasakawa around the world. She most recently served Western Energy Institute. Sostek previously Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Project at as CEO of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association. served with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Jadavpur. She was a chapter author of the Tisha received a bachelor’s degree in Earth Office of Policy and Evaluation, and the Global Energy Assessment and co-recipient of Systems from Stanford University. California Air Resources Board’s Office of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Planning. He received a doctoral degree in Prize for Water. Roy’s research interests George Shultz environmental science and engineering from include the economics of climate change, is the Thomas W. and University of California, Los Angeles. modeling energy demand and water-quality Susan B. Ford demand modeling. She received a PhD in Distinguished Fellow at the Mark Thurber economics from Jadavpur University. Hoover Institution, and is associate director of the advisory council chair of Program on Energy and Rathin Roy the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford Sustainable Development is director and CEO of the University. He leads Hoover’s Shultz- at Stanford University. National Institute of Public Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy, At PESD, he directs Finance and Policy in India. which addresses energy policy in the U.S. research on how energy services can more He has worked as an and its effects on domestic and international effectively be delivered to low-income economic diplomat and political priorities, particularly national populations. His has conducted research on policy advisor with the U.N. Development security. Shultz served as U.S. secretary of the adoption of biomass stoves in India and Programme focusing on emerging state, labor and Treasury, and as the first solar home systems in East Asia. He also economies, with postings in London, New director of the Office of Management and co-edited and co-wrote, Oil and Governance: York, Kathmandu, Brasilia and Bangkok. Budget. His many honors include the Medal State-owned Enterprises and the World He has taught at the universities of of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian . Thurber received a PhD from Manchester and London and served as honor. Shultz received a PhD in industrial Stanford University in mechanical economic adviser with India’s Thirteenth economics from Massachusetts Institute of engineering (Thermosciences). Finance Commission. Roy is a member of the Technology. U.N. Environment Programme Inquiry into Alicia Trent the Design of a Sustainable Financial System Oliver Simpson is the product leader for GE and the World Economic Forum. He received is the Vice President of O&G Gas Processing, where a PhD in economics from the University of Commercial for Excelerate she manages the global Cambridge. Energy with responsibility profitable growth of the for overseeing the business. She joined GE in Samir Saran development of new the Edison engineering development is a senior fellow and vice commercial opportunities involving program, then moved to more senior president of the Observer Excelerate’s regasification projects and the engineering roles, including process, Research Foundation in commercialization of its existing assets. application engineering, strategic marketing India, where he oversees Oliver joined Excelerate in 2014 and has over and management. Trent also serves on the outreach and business ten years of experience in the gas and energy steering committee for the GE Houston development activities. He is also chairman business. Before joining Excelerate, he was a Women’s Network and co-leads the Asia and CEO of “gTrade,” a company that shipbroker with Fearnleys based out of Pacific American Forum Myconnections promotes sustainable investing in India. Houston and London, successfully building team. She received an MS in mechanical Prior to joining ORF, Saran was a vice out their LNG business. Previously, Oliver engineering from the Institute of president at involved in worked for Total in various positions in their Technology. regulatory aspects of the oil and gas sector. Gas & Power Trading Division in London and He has published extensively on the politics Houston. Oliver holds an MA in Modern of climate change, economic development, History from St Andrew University. energy, and Islam and radicalism. An electrical engineer by training, Saran received a master’s in media studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

14 Natural Gas Initiative B. C. Tripathi Kenyon Weaver Catherine Wolfram is the chairman and is an attorney-advisor with is the Cora Jane Flood managing director of GAIL the Commercial Law Professor of Business (India), formerly known as Development Program Administration at the Haas the Gas Authority of India (CLDP) in the Office of the School of Business, Limited. He started his General Counsel of the U.S. University of California,

career at the Oil and Natural Gas Department of Commerce. He works on Berkeley. She is also faculty director of the ngi.stanford.edu Corporation in 1982, and joined GAIL two CLDP’s global energy initiatives, assisting Energy Institute at Haas and of the E2e years later. He has held several key regulators, energy officials and national oil Project, and program director of the management positions at GAIL, including companies worldwide to develop the legal National Bureau of Economic Research’s project manager of the Dahej-Vijaipur infrastructure for sustainable investment. Environment and Energy Economics Pipeline, which earned a silver medal for From 2010-2015, Weaver was an attorney in Program. Her research analyzes the impact excellence from the International Project the Kazakhstan and U.S. offices of Dentons of environmental regulation on energy Management Association in Germany. law firm, where he worked on cross-border markets and the effects of electricity- Tripathi received a mechanical engineering transactions in energy and natural industry privatization and restructuring degree from the National Institute of resources, economic sanctions, and trade worldwide. Before joining the UC-Berkeley Technology in Allahabad. and corporate issues. He received a JD from faculty, she was an assistant professor of Georgetown University Law Center and was economics at Harvard University. Wolfram Hamis Ussif a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan. received a PhD in economics from is principal of corporate Massachusetts Institute of Technology. strategy and new business Megan Welch for the Ghana National is a first-year MBA student Simon Zhang Petroleum Corporation at the Stanford University is the CEO of NW Innovation (GNPC). He has been Graduate School of Works. Before joining the involved in all GNPC gas commercial Business and is pursuing a NWIW development team, negotiations, including the large Sankofa joint MS degree in he held a number of Gas Project. Prior to joining GNPC, he environment and resources. She is president leadership roles at BP, worked as the macroeconomist and public of the Stanford Energy Club and a member including solar global vice president of financial-management expert at the Swiss of the Natural Gas Initiative Symposium strategic alliances, chief of staff of BP Global embassy in Ghana. He has also been a steering committee. Prior to business Chemicals and deputy CFO of BP- financial adviser to the government of Ghana school, she was as an engineer at Baker Retail in China. He received a PhD in and to the Bank of Africa. He is a chartered Hughes focusing on international product- chemical engineering from the University of accountant and fellow of the Association of line development for unconventional Wisconsin and an MBA from the University Chartered Certified Accountants (UK). completions equipment. She has expertise of Chicago. He received an MSc in development studies in wellbore construction, completion and from the London School of Economics and for Mark Zoback, director of Political Science. and gas. She received BS degrees in the Stanford Natural Gas mechanical engineering and mathematics Initiative, is the Benjamin Pallassana (Venkat) from Southern Methodist University. M. Page Professor in the Venkataraman Department of Geophysics is ExxonMobil’s global Maarten Wetselaar in Stanford University’s business development lead is integrated gas & new School of Earth, Energy & Environmental for refining and logistics energies director and Sciences. An expert on reservoir investments. He joined the member of the executive geomechanics, Zoback is the author/ company in 2005 and, as an ExxonMobil committee of Royal Dutch co-author of more than 300 scientific papers representative, was a principal contributor Shell. He is responsible for and has advised industry and government to the 2012 National Petroleum Council Shell’s integrated gas business, including leaders worldwide on study on future transportation fuels. LNG and GTL positions. He also leads the development and environmental protection. He spent his early career leading R&D in the new energies business, including Shell’s areas of computational modeling and investments in new fuels, energy carriers catalysis, first at DuPont and then at and business models for a low-carbon ExxonMobil. Venkataraman is the author of future. After joining Shell in 1995, Wetselaar 13 peer-reviewed scientific publications and held a variety of financial, commercial and holds five U.S. patents. He received a PhD in general management roles in Shell’s chemical engineering from the University of businesses in Europe, Brazil and Ghana. Virginia and an MBA in finance from the He received a master’s degree in economics Wharton School of Business. from the University of Groningen and a post-doctorate controllers degree from VU University of Amsterdam.

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