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Paul is a former energy and carbon trader in energy group, investment bank and hedge fund. Paul lead energy transition and development programs in emerging markets for national agencies
He was also commodity and sustainability expert and advisor to the United Nations.
Paul advises innovative energy companies, founded a commodity tech start-up, and develops nature-based carbon offset programs in central America.
CTA Advisory co-founder and Managing Partner, Christophe had executive roles in a leading shipping company.
He held key positions in controlling, finance management & project management. Graduated from the Geneva University in Commodity Trading and Shipping.
He is involved in the Commodity Trading Alumni Association and became General Secretary in 2020.
Geir is an environmental scientist by background.
In the last ten years he has been CRO of BP’s global trading business and prior to that was BP’s Head of Group Risk.
He has multi-industry business risk and assurance experience as a consultant at Andersen, Deloitte and Det Norske Veritas. He spent several years originating CDM carbon offset projects.
Thiago is a recent Sciences Po master’s graduate on International Management and sustainability, with previous background in sustainable and impact finance.
His journey began by actively participating in the first emergency relief fund in Brazil to fight COVID-19 economic burdens on SMEs, along with later on supporting trade finance activities of Banco do Brazil in France. Most recently Thiago was involved in the voluntary carbon market space as an investment analyst for PE NBS funds at Mirova (a subsidiary of Naxitis – Group BPCE).
Francesca has over 25 years of experience in environmental markets with a focus on climate change, energy and carbon.
With SGS she has first covered the role of Global Manager for the Climate Change Programme and she currently holds the position of Global Product Manager Audit & Compliance. In this role, she is also responsible SGS global portfolio of carbon related services such as verification of corporate inventories (ISO 14064-1, PAS2060, GHG Protocol), mandatory reporting (EU ETS and CORSIA), product and service footprints (PAS 2050 and ISO 14067). Prior to joining SGS, she has been the Managing Director of Econergy International Corporation in Brazil, a renewable energy and carbon offsets project developer (today a GDF-Suez International Group company).
Oscar Eering has a combined 20 years’ experience in the oil and renewable products sales and trading.
He is currently the Global Head of light product Trading for Neste (Suisse) S.A. where he has expanded the global footprint for Neste’s light end products sales and trading.
Prior to joining Neste in 2014, Oscar spent over 10 years with NorthSeaGroup/Argos as welll as Cargill International in various positions in trading and sales.
He is a motived and driven person with a strong sense of commerce, business opportunities and risk vs reward.
As Founder of SunCo, specialised broker in Green energy, Laurent has more than 10 years of experience in Biofuels and 20 years in Oils markets. He is constantly investing in client relationships by supplying comprehensive analyses.
Laurent as an intermediary, facilitate the trading activities of his clients with a range of services.
His involvement in different cultures and businesses allows him to provide accurate pricing information through his extensive network.
Global Carbon Commercial Director at Louis Dreyfus Company, Natalia is an expert in Climate Change, environmental, renewable energy carbon markets. Former carbon emissions originator.
Former member of the Operations Council and Senior Vice President Digital & Innovation of SGS Group since 2017. Fred Herren has been tasked with the design and implementation of a digital roadmap for the group while engaging over 97’000 employees in an innovation process.
Fred is retired since January 2021 but is active as independent consultant.
Olena has more than 12 years of experience at commodity trading sector. She is responsible for risk management advisory at KPMG Switzerland and she manages a team that also covers sustainability topic.
Before joining KPMG, she had worked for 10 years as an oil products trader at two multinational oil trading companies in Geneva. In these roles, Olena has developed a deep practical expertise of the business models, supply chain, shipping, operations, trade finance and the related risks.
Currently she is covering such topics as risk management governance, risk assessment, automation of the processes, reporting, supply chain traceability and compliance.
Jean Laville is a Partner at Conser SA in Geneva, expert and advisor in Sustainable Finance and Responsible Investment .
He is also deputy CEO of Swiss Sustainable Finance, the umbrella organisation promoting sustainable finance in Switzerland.
Jean Laville was deputy director of Ethos Foundation (2002 to 2012).
Between 1988 à 2002, Jean Laville hold position in wealth management at Banque Pictet & Cie à Genève, where he developed and lead sustainable investment strategies.
Jean Laville released publications in sustainable investment (Swiss Carbon Disclosure Project and ESG reporting, code of conduct, fight against corruption).
Jean Laville is co-founder and executive board member at Sustainable Finance Geneva (2007), and SEED association promotion sustainable city management (2019).
Giacomo Luciani created the scientific content of the Master in International Energy at the Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences Po. He teaches at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and in the Master of Science in International Trading at the University of Geneva.
In 2010-13 he was Global Scholar at Princeton University.
Besides teaching, he has worked and consulted for major international energy companies and governments of oil exporting countries.
His latest co-edited book, “When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?” (Palgrave, 2020).
In 2021 the Handbook of International Energy Economics, which he co-edited with Manfred Hafner, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
His MOOC “Politics and Economics of International Energy” is available on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-energy.
Michael is a sustainability and climate change expert, business developer and sustainable finance solutions manager.
Michael is also a co-founder of the World Climate Summit.
Michael has 20 years of experience in finding and developing business and finance solutions to sustainability and climate change. Most recently Founding Team of Mootral www.mootral.com a Swiss startup reducing methane emissions from agriculture, and was previously Co-Founder of the World Climate Summit www.wclimate.com the first and largest business and finance summit during the United Nations COP. His experience include fundraising, marketing, communications with a focus on AgFood, cleantech, carbon markets, and renewable energy.
Michael is a Certified Impact Investment Analyst, Certified Investment Manager (University of Geneva), Master Certificate in Renewable Energy Management & Finance, and Certified Vegan Health Coach.
As Vice President Strategy & Policy of OGCI – Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, Julien Perez is responsible for developing external policy views, coordinating commitments, managing relations with institutions and providing strategic direction to drive future investments.
Previously, Julien was head of Climate & Energy Services at Ernst & Young where he assisted private and public players in setting up and implementing low-carbon strategies.
Julien also worked at Total where he coordinated climate change actions and at Aecom managing environmental liabilities for various industries.
Julien holds an Environmental Engineering degree from Agro ParisTech, an Energy and Climate Economics degree from Dauphine and an advanced degree in climate change management from Yale.
Alessandro Sanos is heading the global sales readiness function of the Commodities, Energy, and Shipping business of Refinitiv on the holistic offering of market insights, analytics, data management, and technology.
Most recently, Alessandro was leading Thomson Reuters’ Commodities business, and prior, the Risk business in Europe. Before joining Reuters, he worked for PwC in Greece covering the shipping and energy market, and for JPMorgan Chase in the United Kingdom.
Alessandro is a regular speaker on technology and market trends at leading industry events. A published author on international financial publications and a guest lecturer on innovation and digital transformation, Alessandro is member of the Executive Committee of GARP for Switzerland, and the Chapter Head of Geneva for the CAIA Association.
Federica Strumia is Head of Middle Office Oil Products team at Neste (Suisse) SA, the Finnish Oil and Renewable Products refiner. She joined Neste in 2009 to develop the middle office and market risk management desk, and is now leading a team in charge of quantifying and monitoring the market price risks of the oil business of the company.
Prior to Neste, Federica has worked at Cargill International SA, Sempra Oil Trading and TXU Energy Europe.
Federica holds a PhD in particle physics and worked at CERN, Fermilab, University of Bologna and Geneva before moving to the commodities world.
Of Italian origin, she has been living in Switzerland for more than twenty years.
Taghi is an enthusiastic leader with over 10 years experience in the oil and gas industry
He is an alumnus of the Audencia Nantes Business School and the University of Geneva, majoring in International Management and Commodity Trading, and he is currently continuing his studies at the IMD Lausanne.
Confident problem-solver, highly skilled in Business Planning, Commercial Negotiations and Analytics as well as International Logistics and Procurement. Strong communicator with particular emphasis on motivation and empathetic approach within the team.
Among his interests are Sustainability and Energy Transition, as well as social community projects.
He has initiated, co-created and managed various projects for youth, including a successful futsal club, summer schools for students, charity organisation and other long-term projects in Azerbaijan.
Olivier brings 20 years of experience of the commodity trading and shipping industry to the Climate Neutral Commodity Initiative.
An alumnus of the DAS in Commodity Trading from UNIGE and member of its scientific committee, he is the founder of the CTA.
He teaches commodity trade finance at STSA and has advised on many projects in the CSR and commotech areas. He has gained trading experience in a large energy trading company and was an auditor with a big four company with a main focus on shipping and trading clients.
For the last 11 years, Olivier has been heading credit and transaction management for a leading trade finance bank in Geneva.
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