Dr Herman Franssen
President, International Energy Associates Inc

Dr. Franssen has a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.He currently serves as a senior advisor and board member of various US and European companies and is a Senior Associate at the CGES.

Samad Al Awadi
Oil Consultant & Former MD of KPC

Samad Alawadi was educated in the UK, gaining his Master’s degree in engineering. Samad was the former head of the KPC European Regional Office and the Permanent Representative of the Kuwait delegation to OPEC. 

Dr George Kouris
Independent Consultant

Formerly chief economic advisor to the prime-minister of the coalition government in Greece, George Kouris is an economic consultant to Enolia Energy S.A. Greece. His work has been used by the IEA,  presented in the IAEA-Vienna and at Stanford and Berkley Universities of California

Thamir Al Uqaili
Hydrocarbon Exploration & Field Development Consultant

Dr Uqaili has a PhD in Petroleum Reservoir Engineering and has supervised different aspects of Oil and Industrial Research. He's the author of Hydrocarbon Exploration & Field Development in Iraq and speaks at many of the CGES’ events.

David Long
Partner, OPRA

David Long is an independent consultant, writer and lecturer specialising in the oil, natural gas and emissions trading markets. He is the editor of the Oil Trading Manual and the Gas Trading Manual.

Margaret Chadwick
Partner, OPRA

Margaret Chadwick is an independent consultant and writer in the oil and energy markets. She writes regularly for several industry publications including Argus Fundamentals and Argus Global Markets and the CGES’ Monthly Oil Report and Global Oil Insight.

Rt Hon Lord Howell of Guildford

Former Member of the Board

Rt Hon Lord David Howell was appointed Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 14 May 2010. Lord Howell is an economist, author, journalist and former Cabinet Minister.

Dr Hussain Al-Chalabi
Petroleum Consultant

Dr Al-Chalabi is a UK-based International Consultant for the Energy Sector with focus on the utilization and/or the processing of Oil & Gas. After obtaining his BSc in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, he was awarded the PhD in Chemical Engineering.

Ahmed M Jiyad
Iraq development Consultant

Ahmed Mousa Jiyad is an independent development consultant with over 40 years of extensive international professional experience. He studied and graduated with BSc in Economics and MA from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Jaafar Altaie
Consultant

Jaafar Altaie is an energy economist and petroleum business consultant who currently advises IOCs and NOCs on regional upstream business and economics issues. An Economics graduate, Jaafar has produced extensive analytical material on the Iraqi oil sector.

Yelena Kalyuzhnova
Professor of Economics, Univ of Reading

After working as an Economic Adviser to the President of Kazakhstan, Yelena founded the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies at the University of Reading. Yelena has a wide knowledge of the transition and emerging economies.