Khalid Abuleif

Sustainability Adviser to the Minister and Chief Negotiator for Climate Agreements, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Eng. Ahmed Al-Ebrahim

Chief Executive Officer, Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority

H.E. Mohamed Al Hammadi

Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation

H.E. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber

Minister of State, United Arab Emirates & CEO, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei

Minister of Energy and Industry, United Arab Emirates

H.E. Matar Al Neyadi

Undersecretary, Ministry of Energy and Industry, United Arab Emirates

Musabbeh Al-Kaabi

CEO, Petroleum and Petrochemicals, Mubadala Investment Company

Fatima Al Nuaimi

Chief Executive Officer, ADNOC LNG

Mohamed Jameel Al-Ramahi

Chief Executive Officer, Masdar

Shaikh Nawaf Al-Sabah

Chief Executive Officer, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company

Ali Al-Saffar

Middle East And North Africa Program Manager, International Energy Agency

H.E. Eng. Fatima Al-Foora Al-Shamsi

Assistant Undersecretary For Electricity, Water and Future Energy Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Industry, United Arab Emirates

Dr. Fahad Al-Sherehy

Vice President, Energy Efficiency & Carbon Management, SABIC

H.E. Dr. Khaled Al-Sultan

President, King Abdullah City for Atomic & Renewable Energy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Dr. Fahad Alturki

Vice President of Research, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center

Marco Alverà

Chief Executive Officer, Snam S.p.A.

Adnan Amin

Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council

Joseph Anis

President and CEO, Middle East, North Africa, & South Asia, GE Gas Power

Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir

Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council and former Minister of Energy and Commerce, Iceland

Dr. Ahmed Ali Attiga

Chief Executive Officer, Arab Petroleum Investment Corporation (APICORP)

H.E. Belinda Balluku

Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Republic of Albania

George David Banks

Chief Strategist for the Minority, Policy and Communications, Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, US House of Representatives

H.E. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo

Secretary General, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Dr. Michel Berthélemy

Nuclear Energy Analyst, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Eric Besson

Chairman, SICPA Morocco

Amit Bhandari

Fellow, Energy and Environment Studies Program, Gateway House

Sama Bilbao y León

Head of the Division of Nuclear Technology Development and Economics, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency

Dr. Fatih Birol

Executive Director, International Energy Agency

Reed Blakemore

Associate Director, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Jason Bloom

Senior Director, Global ETF Strategy and Research, Invesco Ltd

Jason Bordoff

Professor and Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

Neil Brown

Director, KKR Global Institute

Dr. Barbara Burger

President, Technology Ventures, Chevron Corporation

Kanika Chawla

Director, Centre for Energy Finance, Council on Energy, Environment and Water

Samantha Carl-Yoder

Director, International Affairs and Marketing, Tellurian Inc.

Dr. Yongsung Cho

President, Korea Energy Economics Institute

H.E. Dr. Tawfiq-e Elahi Chowdhury

Energy Adviser to the Honorable Prime Minister, People’s Republic of Bangladesh

Nick Cochrane-Dyet

Special Adviser for the Middle East, British Petroleum

Eric Corbier

Chief Commercial Officer, SICPA S.A.

Phillip Cornell

Founder, PM First & Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Ronald Crean

Vice President, Trade Business, Windward Marine Risk Ltd.

Dr. Helima Croft

Managing Director & Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets

The. Hon. Carlos Curbelo

Principal, Vocero, LLC & Former US Representative for Florida’s 26th District, US House of Representatives

John Defterios

Emerging Markets Editor, CNN Business

Amb. Paula Dobriansky

Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

Tom Earl

Chief Commercial Officer, VG LNG Marketing

The Hon. Francis R. Fannon

Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources, US Department of State

Anatol Feygin

Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer, Cheniere Partners

Mirjana Filipović

State Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Mining, Republic of Serbia

Jonathan Finer

Senior Vice President, Political Risk and Public Policy / Environmental, Social and Governance

Aldo Flores-Quiroga

Visiting Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin

Kirsten Fontenrose

Director, Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, Atlantic Council

Maria Rita Galli

Executive Vice President, Business Development and Asset Management, Snam S.p.A.

Hadley Gamble

Reporter and Anchor, CNBC

Avi Garbow

Environmental Advocate, Patagonia

H.E. Dr. Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, United Arab Emirates

Kamal Gawri

Chief Financial Officer, Bayat Power

Meg Gentle

President & CEO, Tellurian, Inc.

Aman Ghalib

Chief Executive Officer, DABS (National Power Utility of Afghanistan)

Fred Ghatala

Director for Carbon and Sustainability, Advanced Biofuels Canada

Dr. Arunabha Ghosh

Founder and CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water

Jennifer Gnana

Energy Correspondent, The National

Nicole Goldin

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Business & Economics Program

David Goldwyn

President, Goldwyn Global Strategies & Chairman, Energy Advisory Group, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Dr. Jennifer Gordon

Deputy Director, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Seth Grae

President and CEO, Lightbridge Corporation

H.E. Niculae Havrilet

State Secretary, Ministry of Economy, Energy and Business Environment, Romania

Thorsten Herdan

Director General, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany

David Hobbs

Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Amos Hochstein

Senior Vice President, Tellurian Inc.

Bina Hussein

Associate Director, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Dr. Robert Ichord

Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Majid Jafar

CEO, Crescent Petroleum

Dr. Robert Johnston

Executive Advisor and Managing Director, Global Energy and Natural Resources, Eurasia Group & Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

General James L. Jones Jr., USMC (Ret.)

Executive Chairman Emeritus, Atlantic Council

Ditte Juul-Jørgensen

Director General for Energy, European Commission

Ylber Karanxha

Deputy General Director of Customs, Excise Department, Government of the Republic of Albania

Frederick Kempe

President and CEO, Atlantic Council

Melanie Kenderdine

Principal, Energy Futures Initiative & Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Olga Khakova

Associate Director, European Energy Security, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Georgios Kiourktsoglou

Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich

Dr. Michael Knights

Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Mele Kyari

Group Managing Director, Crude Oil Marketing Division, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

Francesco La Camera

Director General, International Renewable Energy Agency

Benoît Lebot

Executive Director, International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation

Christopher Leeds

Executive Director, Commodity Origin, Standard Chartered Bank

H.E Gabriel M. Obiang Lima

Minister of Mines, Industry, and Energy, Republic of Equitorial Guinea

Daniel Litvin

Founder and Managing Director, Critical Resource

David Livingston

Deputy Director, Advanced Energy, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Andrea Lockwood

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa, Middle East, Europe and Eurasia, Office of International Affairs, US Department of Energy

Berta Macamo

Customs General Coordinator, Mozambique Tax Authority

Andrei Marcu

Senior Fellow, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development & Director, European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition

Jeffrey Merrifield

Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Gérard Mestrallet

Honorary Chairman, ENGIE

Cornelia Meyer

Chairman and CEO, Meyer Resources

Chris Midgley

Head, Analytics Content, S&P Platts

Shreerupa Mitra

Executive Director, The Energy Forum

Amb. Richard Morningstar (Ret.)

Founding Chairman, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Ramzi Mroueh

Managing Director, Cheniere Energy, Inc.

Majid Mufti

Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures

Dr. Carole Nakhle

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Crystol Energy

Mostafa Nasri

Global Director, Fuel Integrity Programs, SGS

Alisa Newman Hood

Senior Vice President, Excelerate Energy

Dr. Tidjani Niass

CCUS Lead, Technology, Strategy and Planning, Saudi Aramco

Bart Oosterveld

Senior Fellow, Global Business and Economics Program, Atlantic Council

Paddy Padmanathan

President and CEO, ACWA Power

Dr. Carlo Papa

Director, Enel Foundation

Nandita Parshad

Managing Director, Sustainable Infrastructure Group, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Brad Page

Chief Executive Officer, Global CCS institute

Daniel Poneman

President and CEO, Centrus Energy Corporation

Andrew Prag

Special Adviser, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama

President Commissioner, PT Pertamina

Julia Pyper

Senior Editor, GreenTech Media & Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Hamid Rahin

Vice President, Infrastructure, Bayat Power

Dr. Ian Ralby

Chief Executive Officer, I.R. Consilium & Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

John Roberts

Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center and Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council

Alim Saidov

Executive Vice President, Oil, Gas, and Chemicals, SGS

Chadi Salloum

Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Dr. Mani Sarathy

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering & Associate Director, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

David Scott

Director, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and TerraPower; Advisor, General Atomics

Michael Sen

Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Energy

Dr. Jean-François Seznec

Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Greg Sharenow

Portfolio Manager, Real Assets, PIMCO

Adam Sieminski

President, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies & Research Center

H.E. Kadri Simson

European Union Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, European Commission

Daniel Simmons

Assistant Secretary, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy

Dr. Kartikeya Singh

Deputy Program Director, SED Fund

Aida Sitdikova

Director, Energy and Natural Resources, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Andrew Sollinger

Publisher, Foreign Policy

Dr. David Soud

Head of Research & Analysis, I.R. Consilium

Thomas Spencer

Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute

Michael Steele

Faculty Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University and Former Chairman, Republican National Committee

Nobuo Tanaka

Chairman, Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Masakazu Toyoda

Chair & CEO, Institute of Energy Economics, Japan

Michael Train

President, Emerson and Chairman, Emerson Automation Services

Eithne Treanor

Managing Director, E. Treanor Media

Shawn Tupper

Associate Deputy Minister, Natural Resources, Canada

Dr. Sara Vakhshouri

Founder and President, SVB Energy International

Rumina Velshi

President and CEO, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Dr. Ellen Wald

Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council

Han Wenke

Senior Adviser and Research Fellow, The Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission

Ed Williams

President and CEO, EMEA, Edelman

Eric Williams

Research Fellow, King Abdullah Petroleum Research and Studies Center

Frank Wouters

Director of European Union Gulf Cooperation Council Clean Energy Technology Network, European Union

Dr. Karen Young

Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

Dr. Matthew Zais

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of International Affairs, US Department of Energy

Baihua Zheng

Director-General of Development Bureau, Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO)

Monali Zeya Hazra

Regional Energy Manager and Program Management Specialist, Clean Energy and Environment Office, US Agency for International Development

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