Middle East Executive Petroleum Virtual Conference (MEEPEC)

Salem joined BP in 2000 as a Marketing Advisor for BP Middle East. In 2005, he became the Communications and External Manager for BP Dubai, Sharjah and Oman. In 2007 he was involved in setting up the business and in the negotiations in Oman. In 2009 Salem was appointed as Advisor to BP Middle East Regional President, where he was involved in setting up BP business in Basra. In 2010 he was the Communications and External Affairs Vice President for BP Iraq. In 2015 he became the Vice President of Government Relations for BP Middle East Region. In July 2016 Salem was appointed as General Manager and Chief Representative of BP Abu Dhabi, responsible for BP’s shareholder engagement in Abu Dhabi National Oil Company; specifically, Abu Dhabi Offshore, ADNOC Onshore, ADNOC LNG and ADNOC Logistics & Services, which collectively produce around 260 thousand barrels of oil per day BP Net.

Hatem Al Mosa has more than 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. He received BSc Degree with Honors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984, and a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1986.

He started his career with Amoco Sharjah Oil Company as a Plant Engineer in 1986. He held various engineering, operations and integrity management roles in Amoco, BP and Crescent Petroleum.

He joined Sharjah National Oil Corporation (SNOC) when it was established in 2010 as a Technical Control Manager, then Operations Manager. He was named Chief Executive Officer of SNOC and Secretary General of Sharjah Petroleum Council by Amiri Decree in November 2015.

Based in London, Paul covers the key metals, energy and agricultural markets with analysts based in Singapore, Shanghai and London. He was previously head of commodities research at Barclays, and head of energy research at JPMorgan.

Prior to becoming a financial analyst, Paul was a researcher at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies for 10 years, where he authored books on the Brent oil market and on Asian energy markets. He holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a doctorate in Economics from Oxford University. Paul has been a BeyondBorders author since December 2014.

Edward Bell leads Emirates NBD's analysis of global commodity markets with a particular focus on the critical commodities for the economies of the UAE and wider Middle East.

Edward is responsible for the bank's view on oil markets, including price forecasting. Prior to joining Emirates NBD, Edward served as senior commodities analyst covering energy, metals and agricultural markets and as a Middle East economist for a leading independent economics consultancy in both Hong Kong and London.

He is a regular speaker at energy events in the region and frequently sought out for commentary on market developments. Edward holds a Master's Degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Toronto and the IMC awarded by the CFA Society of the UK.

Andy has worked in the oil industry for over 30 years.

Based in Dubai since early 2006, he has held roles as Vice President for BP’s Integrated Supply & Trading business in the Middle East, Vice President Upstream Services Cyrus Group, Managing Director Bomin Oil DMCC and Senior Partner Energy Consulting Ltd. Andy has a broad experience including upstream, technical, commercial, refinery optimisation, crude and product sales and trading, business development and project management. He has lived in Papua New Guinea, the North Sea, South Africa, Venezuela, Alaska, London, Aberdeen, and Dubai and worked on every continent except Antarctica.

His current focus with Sahara is the African market, specifically products supply in East and Central Africa, as well as expanding the company’s business in the broader Middle East region.

More than 20 years’ experience with SONATRACH, the National Oil and Gas Company of Algeria, in projects management, studies, planning, economic evaluations, modelling and simulation, negotiations for shareholder agreements as well as technology licensing negotiations, partnership in oil and gas industry and petrochemical industry.

Neil R. Brown (New York) joined KKR in 2014 and is Managing Director, KKR Global Institute and KKR Infrastructure, focusing on new markets investing, geopolitical and trends analysis, and energy. At KKR, he’s been involved in ADNOC Oil Pipelines, Marverde Infraestructura (PEMEX Midstream), Monterra Energy, United Group (SBB/Telemach), and others. Mr. Brown is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States, specializing in energy and foreign policy.

Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Brown served for over eight years as a senior staff member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he concurrently led energy security efforts for Senator Richard G. Lugar. In that capacity, Neil led legislative efforts and oversight on global energy security and governance, environment, and domestic energy, and he worked on countering weapons of mass destruction. He has also served as a senior advisor at Goldwyn Global Strategies, on the U.S. Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative advisory committee for the U.S. Secretary of Interior, and as a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

He previously undertook refugee and development work while living in Nepal, Namibia, and Egypt. Mr. Brown currently serves on the boards of The Lugar Center, Merton College Charitable Corporation, Association of American Rhodes Scholars, and Columbia University Energy Journalism Initiative. An Iowa native, Mr. Brown is an honors graduate of Harvard University and received graduate MSc and MPhil degrees from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.

Zhuwei Wang is a Lead Analyst based in Platts Dubai office, covering Middle East oil market analytics since 2019. He is good at generating market insights by modeling cross commodity balance, trade flow arbs, and refinery economics across different regions.

Before moving to Dubai, Zhuwei was a Senior Analyst at Platts Beijing office, focusing on China oil market analytics since 2016. He engineered the China balance model by tracking monthly supply and demand flows covering 14 products on the provincial level. Prior to that, he was a program officer at the National Energy Administration of China, specializing in financial approval of energy projects and international energy cooperation for seven years.

Zhuwei earned a Master degree in Finance from the Renmin University of China and Dual Bachelor degrees in Arabic Literature and Accountancy from the University of International Business and Economics in China. Zhuwei is trilingual in Arabic, Chinese and English.

With a 24-year career, Mr. Chaudhry is currently the Senior Vice President and Sector Head of the Energy at Mashreq Bank’s Corporate and Investment Banking Group in Dubai. Mr. Chaudhry has worked at Mashreq since 2005, starting as a Relationship Manager for Large Corporates. Prior to that, he worked at Habib Bank in Dubai and Jebel Ali, and Agripak International in Pakistan.

Mr. Chaudhry was tasked by Mashreq to setup the Energy Sector where he is currently overseeing a portfolio of Corporate Relationships operating in the Energy Space. Mr. Chaudhry has been successful in building upon Mashreq strong credentials & market excellence in the Trade Finance domain; all the while enriching the product and services applicable for the Sector.

Mr. Chaudhry is adept at managing corporate relationships by offering wholesale corporate banking solutions, including structured trade finance, receivables finance, and corporate finance. His many accomplishments include origination of landmark Corporate Finance transactions which have been awarded multiple awards and recognitions.

Mr. Chaudhry has an MBA in Finance, with Merit, from the University of Leeds in the UK.

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.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandrosanos
Twitter: @AlessandroSanos

Eklavya Gupte is Senior Editor, EMEA Oil News, with a special focus on the African oil markets and is also part of the S&P Global Platts OPEC team. Based in the London office since 2011, he has also covered the crude oil and refined products markets in Europe and Africa. He has extensively travelled to Africa reporting on the changes in the African oil sector in the last five years.

Eklavya has more than 10 years’ experience reporting on the global oil markets. Eklavya has also attended and reported on the OPEC meetings and other major news events. He is also a regular interviewee on global news channels. Previous work stints have been at Dow Jones Newswires, Argus Media, Euromoney, Time Out Mumbai, Channel V India and Percept Advertising.

He has a bachelor’s degree in mass media from the University of Mumbai, India, and a master’s degree in journalism from Goldsmiths College, University of London, England.