Selected Biographies and Speaker Information in Order of Presentations

Selected Biographies and Speaker Information

In order of presentations

Peter Hughes Vice President Strategy and Planning BP Gas, Power & Renewables

Career History 1980 -1993: BP Held a variety of positions in BP Gas, BP Oil and BP Exploration, latterly (1991-1993) as General Manager, BusinessDevelopment, BP Oil Japan in Tokyo, following a year spent with Mitsubishi Oil Company in Tokyo under an executive exchange programme. 1993-1994: Sloan Fellowship Programme at London Business School 1994-1995: Consultant to BITOR Europe Ltd (a subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela), London 1995-1996: Consultant to European Commission, Brussels 1996-2002: Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Paris Held a number of positions with CERA, latterly as Senior Director and Head of CERA's PanEurAsia Division, responsible for all gas and power research and consulting activities outside the Americas. 2002 - present: BP

Philip J. Dingle President ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Company

Philip J. Dingle is President, ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Company, which is responsible for marketing and purchasing of all natural gas, natural gas liquids and electrical power for ExxonMobil.Born in Alberta, Canada, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Calgary in 1970. Upon graduation, he joined Imperial Oil Limited, an ExxonMobil affiliate, where he held various engineering and management assignments in Research, Drilling and Production.In 1981, Dingle was appointed Engineering Manager of Esso Production Malaysia Inc. (EPMI), where he was responsible for the early oil and gas field development planning in EPMI's contract areas. In 1984 he became the Offshore Division Manager overseeing EPMI's oil and gas producing operations. Under his leadership, the Offshore Division moved to Kerteh, Terengganu which has grown into the petrochemical hub of Malaysia.

In 1987 he returned to Imperial Oil Limited in Toronto as Vice President - Corporate Planning, and later became Vice President - Exploration and Production for Imperial Oil in Calgary. In January 1993 he was named Managing Director, Esso Exploration and Production U.K. in London.

In 1995, Dingle moved back to Kuala Lumpur, where was named Chairman and CEO of the Esso Companies in Malaysia. With the Exxon/Mobil merger in 1999 he continued as Chairman of the ExxonMobil companies in Malaysia as well as being responsible for ExxonMobil production operations in Thailand and Japan. He was appointed in June 2001 to President, ExxonMobil Saudi Arabia in Riyadh,. responsible for Core Venture 1 of the Saudi Arabian Gas Initiative.

He transferred into ExxonMobil Gas and Power Marketing Company in Houston, in April 2003 as Executive Vice President and assumed his current position on July 1, 2003.

Dingle is a Fellow of the Institute of Petroleum of London, past Director of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Asia-Pacific, a member of the Alberta Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists, and past President of the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MICCI).

On April 29, 1998, he was conferred the Dato' Paduka Mahkota Terengganu (DPMT) by the Sultan of Terengganu and on July 22, 2000, received an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Universiti Putra Malaysia for his contributions towards the social, economic and environmental development of Malaysia. He is married to Donna for 37 years and they have 3 children and 2 grandchildren.

Tomiyuki Kudo President Petroleum Energy Center of Japan

Education: • March 1963: Bachelor of Arts (International Relations), University of Tokyo

• August 1977: Master of Arts (Economics), Yale University Job Experiences: • April 1966: Joined Ministry of International Trade and Industry

• June 1980: Director, Research Division, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency

• May 1981: Executive Director, Chicago Center, Japan External Trade Organization

• June 1984: Counsellor (Comprehensive National Security), Prime Minister’s Office

• June 1986: Director, Division of Economic Cooperation, Economic Planning Agency

• June 1988: Director, International Cooperation Division, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

• August 1990: Director-General, Hokkaido Bureau of International Trade and Industry

• July 1993: Executive Director, Japan Small and Medium Enterprise Corporation

• July 1997: President, Petroleum Energy Center

H.E. Dr. Chakib Khelil Minister of Energy and Mines People's Democratic Republic of Algeria

Marital status : Married - two children. • Ph.D. Texas A and M University in Petroleum Engineering, 1968. • Speaks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. • Worked for Shell and Phillips Petroleum in Oklahoma, and DA Mc Cord and Associates, in Dallas, Texas. • In 1971 returned to Algeria as Sonatrach Petroleum Engineering Department Head and President of Alcore, a joint venture between Sonatrach and Corelab. • Technical adviser of the President of Algeria, 1973-1976. • President of Valhyd Program in Algeria to plan, developement and finance hydrocarbon resources, in the long run. • Joined the Word Bank in 1980 - Carried Petroleum Projects in Africa, Latin America and Asia, then Head of Energy Unit for Latin America, and finally as Petroleum Adviser. • Took an early retirement from the World Bank in October 1999 to become Adviser to the President of Algeria in the first November 1999. • Named Minister of Energy and Mining on December 26, 1999. o President OPEC - 2001. o President of the African Energy Commission ( AFREC ) - since 2001. o President OAPEC - 2002. o President APPA (Association of the African oil producers) - 2004 o President OPEC – 2008 o Medal-holder of the "The Sun of Perou Order" in 2002.

James Ball President and Chief Mentor Gas Strategies Consulting Ltd. and EconoMatters Ltd.

James Ball is an internationally respected commentator, analyst and advisor on natural gas policy and strategy. He is President and Chief Mentor of Gas Strategies Consulting Ltd and of itsEconoMatters Ltd.sister companies .*

Gas Strategies advises companies, government departments and project developers world-wide on commercial and strategic gas and LNG issues. James is heavily involved in confidential brainstorming with major oil and gas companies on their policy alternatives and market environment and has helped develop the gas strategy at many companies. He has been involved in numerous market studies including due diligence reports for lenders and sponsors of major gas projects around the world such as Qatargas II, Sakhalin Energy and RasGas 1&2 LNG as well as the Russia-Turkey Blue Stream project. He has specialised in LNG markets, mature market liberalisation and new market development. Part of this work is advising on gas for power, an activity James has been involved in since 1986, including the UK dash for gas in the early 1990s.

He is a regular participant in the Alphatania gas management courses, has delivered many conference papers all over the world and chairs The European Autumn Gas Conference. He has also chaired key panels at the World Gas Conference, Gastech and ONS, including the WGC’s Leaders’ Forum in Tokyo in 2003. Among his prestigious papers were the first Anzai Paper at Gastech in 1988 and the Sir Dennis Rooke Lecture in 2000. The August 2003 cover story of prestigious Danish Energy magazine el & energi featured “Gas Oracle James Ball” and his views on European gas.

Date of birth: 15 December 1950 Education : MSc (Managerial Economics), City University Business School , London , UK , 1976 BA (Economics), University of Colorado , USA , 1974 Life : Lives in London with his wife Jackie, collects Art Deco, listens to Jazz and travels too much. *providing Expertise, Insight and Perspective to clients through Gas StrategiesConsulting Ltd. ; in the journal Gas Matters, and e-mail Gas Matters Today ; through AlphataniaLtd. the international gas management courses; and the Overview ConferencesLtd series. Web site: www.gas-strategies.com . In December 2003, EconoMatters became part of India ’s CRISIL Group.

Rob Shepherd Consultant Gas Strategies Consulting Ltd

Rob is a Senior Associate Consultant with Gas Strategies. He has worked on a wide range of consultancy subjects since joining Gas Strategies in 1993, his interests including the commercial and strategic aspects of LNG projects, industry and regulatory structures across the world, and the future of UK gas markets. Rob has led and worked on several Gas Strategies’ due diligence and audit projects. He joined Gas Strategies after a long career with BP. In the early 1980’s he managed BP’s share of the North West Shelf LNG project in Australia. In the mid-eighties he played a leading role in BP’s UK gas business, selling to British Gas and starting BP’s move into direct gas marketing. Following this, he managed BP’s share of the Qatar LNG project.

Jill Elise Nesbitt Graduate Student Economics Rice University

Jill Nesbitt is currently a Ph.D student in the Department of Economics at Rice University. Her current research efforts focus on elements of developing a world gas trade model that will simulate the development of global gas markets based on commercial considerations of available supply and its development costs, the costs capital, end use by sector, and fuel competition. Ms. Nesbitt holds a B.A. degree in mathematics and economics from Northwestern University.

Peter Hughes Vice President Strategy and Planning BP Gas, Power & Renewables

John Hritcko, Jr. Vice President Strategy and Development Shell US Gas and Power Company

John Hritcko, Jr. is Vice President, Strategy & Development for Shell US Gas & Power Company, responsible for various aspects of developing and managing LNG import capacity to support LNG activities in the United States, including assisting with the management of Shell’s capacity at the Cove Point and Elba Island terminals. He also leads the LNG Sub-group of the current NPC Gas Study. Mr. Hritcko has spent 26 years in the U.S. natural gas industry. Previous positions have included 13 years with Columbia Gas System in various positions of increasing responsibility, including marketing and regulatory affairs at Columbia LNG Corporation and Cove Point’s marketing, regulatory and business development activities. He also worked as a Planning Engineer for Tennessee Gas Transmission Corporation , a subsidiary of El Paso Energy, formerly part of Tenneco, Inc. Mr. Hritko holds a B.S. from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Houston.

Martha Brill Olcott Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Dr. Martha Brill Olcott is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Colgate University, where she taught from 1974-2001, she served as chairman of the department of political science from July 1984 through June 1990. Professor Olcott received her BA from SUNY Buffalo in 1970, and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1978. In July, 1994 Dr. Olcott was named by President Clinton to be a Director of the Central Asian American Enterprise Fund, on whose Board she served until 2000, having been named Vice Chairman in 1999. Earlier she held a formal appointment as Consultant on Central Asian Affairs for former Acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. Dr. Olcott has also served as a consultant for a number of business firms interested in Central Asia, including Unocal, Placer Dome, and Cameco.

Martha Olcott is also a prolific author, and has published some fifty articles in academic journals and books. She is the author of Kazakhstan Unfulfilled Promise (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002), The Kazaks (Hoover Institution, Stanford University Press, 1987, second revised edition 1995), The New States of Central Asia (United States Institute of Peace, 1996), and a co-author of Getting It Wrong: Regional Cooperation and the Commonwealth of Independent States (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999). Her recent publications include "Taking Stock of Central Asia", Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2003, Vol 56, No. 2, and "Notes of a Terrorist", Foreign Policy, March/April 2003, pp.30-40.

Mark R. Maddox Acting Assistant Secretary Office of Fossil Energy U.S. Department of Energy

Mark R. Maddox currently serves as acting assistant secretary in the Office of Fossil Energy for the U.S. Department of Energy, a position he was named to on March 1, 2004. As acting assistant secretary, Maddox is involved in several high-priority Presidential initiatives including implementation of the Administration's $2 billion, 10-year initiative to develop a new generation of environmentally sound clean coal technologies, the $1 billion FutureGen project to develop a pollution-free plant to co-produce electricity and hydrogen, and the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, both key emergency response tools available to the President to protect Americans from energy supply disruptions. The Energy Department's Office of Fossil Energy is made up of about 1,000 scientists, engineers, technicians and administrative staff with headquarters offices in Washington, DC, and in Germantown, Maryland. Fossil Energy also has field offices in Morgantown, West Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Tulsa, Oklahoma; New Orleans, Louisiana; Casper, Wyoming; and Albany, Oregon.

Maddox joined the Office of Fossil Energy in September 2003 when he was named principal deputy assistant secretary. Previously, Maddox served as a senior policy advisor to U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham where he was responsible for advising on fossil energy and environmental management program issues, as well as on communications strategy.

Maddox was deputy director of public affairs at the Department of Energy during the George H.W. Bush Administration, where he helped design and implement the strategic communication plan for the Persian Gulf War, directed the department's crisis communications planning, and supervised the public affairs activities of its field sites.

Prior to returning to public service in 2002, Maddox was director of communications and public affairs for the IMS division of Lockheed Martin, Inc., now Affiliated Computer Services State and Local Solutions, Inc. In these roles he participated in developing the division's political and legislative strategies, served as spokesman, and developed the division's communications strategies.

Before joining Lockheed Martin, Maddox was a vice president for a mid-size Washington, D.C., lobbying firm where he represented clients on a variety of issues.

He has served as the chief of staff to a member of the U.S. House Commerce Committee where he was active on telecommunications, electricity deregulation and other issues under committee jurisdiction. He has also worked as a press secretary in Congress and local government.

Maddox holds an MBA from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. An Ohio native, he resides in Alexandria, VA, with his wife and two children.

Philippe van Marcke de Lummen Special Advisor to the President of General Management Energy Division of SUEZ Tractebel S.A. and Chairman Tractebel LNG Trading S.A.

• Special advisor to the president of the general Management – Tractebel S.A. the energy division of SUEZ Chairman – Tractebel LNG Trading S.A. • President & CEO Tractebel LNG Ltd. 2001-2002

• Executive Vice President, Strategy and Portfolio Management Tractebel North America 2000-2001

• President of Strategy Committee, Head of Merger and Acquisitions Tractebel Energy Marketing, Inc./Tractebel Power, Inc. 1999-2000

In its present position Mr. van Marcke advises Tractebel’s general Management in all gas matters relevant to the group and coordinates the further development of Tractebel’s natural gas strategy. In 2001, he set up Tractebel LNG Ltd., a London-based organisation the purpose of which is to coordinate Tractebel’s LNG activities worldwide, develop a long term LNG supply portfolio for Tractebel, and optimize the value of its shipping fleet through the negotiation and execution of short term transactions. In 1996 Mr. Philippe van Marcke founded Tractebel Energy Marketing, Inc. and developed it to become amongst the top 20 licensed power marketers in 1999. Mr. Philippe van Marcke joined Tractebel in 1984 as Assistant to the Executive Director – International Subsidiaries, in Brussels, and later as Vice President of American Tractebel Corporation in New York to initially manage the company’s venture capital investments and subsequently to initiate Tractebel’s investments in the independent power business. Mr. Philippe van Marcke holds a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Brussels University (1968) and a post graduate certificate in B.A. from the Ecole de Commerce Solvay (1981).

Amos Avidan Principle Vice President and Manager Petroleum and Chemicals Technologies Bechtel Corporation

Amos Avidan is a Principal Vice President, a Bechtel Fellow, and manager of Petroleum & Chemicals Technologies at Bechtel Corporation. Amos has more than 23 years of experience in petroleum refining, LNG, and synthetic fuels. Amos started his career with Mobil Corporation, where he managed downstream technologies such as catalytic cracking and modeling and advanced control. Later on, he was manager of upstream engineering, and vice president of LNG technology. Amos obtained a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the City University of New York and has authored and co-authored more than 60 publications and 31 US patents.

William (Bill) E. Hauhe Manager Global LNG Market Development ChevronTexaco Global Gas

Bill Hauhe has been Manager Global LNG Market Development since February 2003. In this role he is responsible for the generation, evaluation and implementation of LNG/natural gas "market pull" opportunities in support of ChevronTexaco natural gas resources world wide. These opportunities include formulation of integrated transportation and market demand ventures, creation of market access, including physical assets such as LNG receiving terminals and commercial structures with large anchor buyers of natural gas.

Mr. Hauhe has over twenty years experience in the development of energy projects. He was part of the original team that founded what is now ChevronTexaco Global Power Generation group, he has had lead roles in the commercial development of gasification opportunities in Europe and in the creation of the commercial structures and contracting associated with a large crude oil development in the North Sea, United Kingdom. More recently Mr. Hauhe has been involved with LNG assets and opportunities in Australia and was the Project Manager for the Angola LNG Project from its inception to his assignment in Global LNG Market Development. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and a member of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI). He holds a B. S. in Chemical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University – Pomona.

Ira Joseph Managing Director International Gas PIRA Energy

Ira Joseph (Managing Director, International Gas) manages PIRA’s European Energy Service, which includes distinct service on European Natural Gas (ENG) and European Electricity (EES) . In 2001, Ira co-authored PIRA Energy's multi-client study on Atlantic Basin LNG markets. Ira joined PIRA in 1999 after working at Energy Intelligence Group (EIG) for over a decade, as Senior Editor of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and Editor-in-Chief of World Gas Intelligence. He has authored several books on crude oil marketing and natural gas, including versions of EIG’s International Crude Oil Market Handbook and World Gas Handbook, as well as several articles on natural gas swaps and gas marketing strategy. Ira holds an MA in International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Steven J. Lowden Senior Vice President Business Developments and Integrated Gas Marathon Oil Corporation

Mr. Lowden joined Marathon Oil Company in 2000 as Senior Vice President, Business Development. Prior to Joining Marathon, Mr. Lowden was an executive director of the Board of Premier Oil and responsible for exploration, production, and business development. He has extensive business development experience in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and a similarly wide experience in gas projects.

Mr. Lowden earned a bachelor of science degree, with honors, in pure mathematics from Exeter University in Exeter, England, and a master of science degree in petroleum engineering from Imperial College in London.

Steve is married with three boys. He is a keen skier, and mountaineer and off-road cyclist.

Congressman Francisco Xavier Salazar Diez de Sollano Chairman Energy Commission Mexican Chamber of Deputies

Francisco Salazar is Chairman of the Energy Committee at the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress. Representing the 6th district of San Luis Potosí, he is also a member of the Budget Committee. Member of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) he has previously served as the ranking PAN member on the Environment Committee and as member of the Water Resources Committee.

Prior to serving at the Chamber, Francisco started his career as a businessman in the LPQ Group in 1991, a partnership company oriented to the import and distribution of specialty chemicals. Francisco holds an MSc in Public Financial Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a BSc in Chemical Engineering as well as other graduate studies in Law and Economics. He has also taught courses on Public Finance and Monetary Economics at local universities in San Luis Potosi and written on the use of economic instruments in environmental public policy.

Mourad Belguedj Lead Energy Specialist Oil & Gas Policy Division World Bank

Areas of Expertise: • Energy sector projects and reviews • Preparation of the legal and regulatory framework to support institutional reforms in the energy sector • Design and preparation of privatization of refineries • Opening access to petroleum storage and handling facilities including ports • Phasing out fuel subsidies • Gas flaring mitigation and use • LPG recovery and regional market development Country Experience: Algeria, Angola, the Comoros, Cote d'Ivoire, Congo, Gabon, Madagascar, Mauritania, Moldova, Senegal and the Gambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Edward L. Morse Executive Advisor Hess Energy Trading Co., LLC (HETCO)

Dr. Edward L. Morse is a leading specialist on the commercial aspects of the international oil and gas sector. His career in the sector spans more than two decades and includes senior positions in business, government, academia and publishing. He is at present Executive Advisor at Hess Energy Trading Co., LLC (HETCO), a proprietary trading firm, with offices in London and New York. In that capacity, he provides strategic advice to the firm as well as to its clients and counterparts on oil and natural gas market trends. In the winter and spring of 2001 he chaired a Task Force on Energy Security, jointly sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations of New York and the James A. Baker III Institute at Rice University.

He joined HETCO in April 1999 after more than a decade as Publisher of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and other oil and gas industry newsletters. He became President of PIW in 1988 and expanded this “bible” of the oil industry into a seven-newsletter publishing company, which also produces reference materials on the oil and gas industry. In 1996 he spearheaded the merger of PIW Publications and The Oil Daily Company, thus creating Energy Intelligence Group, the largest independent publishing enterprise for the energy sector.

Morse was an undergraduate at The Johns Hopkins University and received a master’s degree in international relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1966. He earned his doctorate in politics at Princeton University in 1969 and taught at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from then until 1975, when he became a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. in New York. While at the Council he directed what was then the largest research project in the institution’s history. At the same time he served as Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

From 1978 to 1981 Morse was in the United States government where he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for international energy policy, the most senior official in the Department of State with full time responsibilities in energy. In that capacity he represented the US at the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency, where he was chairman of the IEA’s Committee on Long Term Cooperation. He also chaired various bilateral working groups between the United States and other countries, including Iran, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Nigeria and Norway.

When he left the government he joined Phillips Petroleum Company as Director of International Affairs, a position he held from 1981 until 1984 when he co-founded the Petroleum Finance Company, a Washington, DC-based consulting firm.

Among the consulting assignments Morse has led are the strategic planning for the government of Yemen in pricing its new oil exports in the 1980s, and the organization of the United Nations mechanisms for exporting oil and monetizing the escrow account for the UN Compensation Commission on Iraq. He is at present advisor to the Department of Defense.

A frequent commentator on oil market trends, both in writing and for broadcast media, Morse is the author or co-author of several books and monographs on politics, finance, energy and international affairs, including the lead article in the March-April 2002 issue of Foreign Affairs. He has written several dozen scholarly articles and numerous commentaries and essays. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Oxford Energy Policy Club. He is a trustee of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, chairman of the Energy Forum at New York University and a member of the advisory boards for the energy programs at Columbia University (where he chairs the Columbia Leadership Forum), the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the University of Houston.