Aamir Malik

Senior Vice President, Global Head of Energy and Natural Resources Strategy

Aamir works with international and national oil companies to improve financial, commercial and operational performance.

Adam Pearson

Vice President Consulting

Adam specialises in leading transformative initiatives with energy operators that deliver bottom-line impact.

Latest articles by Adam

• Opinion 16 January 2025

  Navigating the impact of President Trump's tariffs on utility supply chains

Amrit Naresh

Principal, EMEA Downstream Consulting

Amrit has 10 years of analytics and consulting experience in the energy sector.

Latest articles by Amrit

• Opinion 20 January 2025

  Analysing the petroleum asphalt binder supply chain under energy transition scenarios

• Opinion 26 April 2024

  Oil refining in the energy transition: key questions answered

Bob Kubis

Vice President, Americas, Gas & LNG, Consulting

Bob Kubis focuses on delivering natural gas, NGL & LNG solutions

Latest articles by Bob

• Opinion 22 October 2024

  Gastech 2024: Our top three takeaways

Brianna Alix

Consultant, Power & Renewables

Brianna is a consultant with a focus on power and renewables.

Latest articles by Brianna

• Opinion 1 July 2024

  Underwriting Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) as an asset class

Chris Heath

Senior Vice President, Head of Consulting APAC

Chris leads a team of consulting professionals in the energy and natural resources sectors.

Chris Barry

Director, Downstream Consulting

Chris's consulting expertise spans the refining, chemicals and storage sectors where he has advised clients worldwide.

Latest articles by Chris

• Opinion 22 March 2017

  European oil storage: Competitiveness is key to identifying sustainable investments

Chris Liu

Senior Analyst, Asia Polyolefins

Chris is responsible for polyolefin product analysis in Asia.

Chris Sum

Vice President Consulting, Middle East

Chris advises governments and businesses in the Middle East on strategy, energy policy and development.

Latest articles by Chris

• Opinion 17 January 2024

  Ebook | How can the Super Region enable the energy transition?

Costa Swift

Vice President, Consulting

Costa is an experienced upstream and business development consultant.

Darren Smith

Head of Asia Pacific Consulting

Darren is an expert in strategy, due diligence, M&A, transaction support and commercial studies.

David Barrowman

Vice President, Fiscal Consulting

David leads our upstream fiscal service, drawing on more than 30 years' industry expertise.

David Parkinson

Vice President, Upstream Consulting

David leads our exploration strategy team and is also responsible for exploration consulting.

Latest articles by David

• Opinion 29 May 2024

  Emboldened and disciplined exploration: results from our Future of Exploration 2024 Survey

• Opinion 27 September 2023

  Three critical factors to developing Africa’s oil and gas resources

• Opinion 5 December 2022

  Can carbon offset crude move from idea to reality?

• Opinion 5 May 2022

  What is the future of oil and gas exploration?

Dominic Tisdell

Head of Metals and Mining Consulting, Asia Pacific

Daniel Tipping

Managing Consultant, Power & Renewables Consulting EMEA

Daniel is a subject matter expert in solar markets and corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs).

Latest articles by Daniel

• Opinion 6 November 2024

  Ebook | Unlocking renewable energy financing in emerging markets

• Opinion 12 April 2024

  Welcome to the new PPA market paradigm

Dylan Mair

Vice President UCM Asia Pacific

Dylan has over 25 years upstream oil and gas experience in E&P operations consulting.

Liu Lei

Managing Consultant, Plastics & Sustainability

Liu takes care of the plastic sustainability research in APAC region.

Frank Harris

Head of Global LNG Consulting

Frank is a recognised expert on the global LNG industry and leads our global consultancy practice in this area.

Latest articles by Frank

• The Edge 26 September 2024

  Taking the pulse of the global LNG industry

• Opinion 23 May 2024

  Debating the future direction of the LNG market

• The Edge 17 November 2023

  WoodMac’s Gas, LNG & Future of Energy conference – five key takeaways

Gracie Guidotti

Consultant, Americas

Gracie is a consultant within the Americas with a focus on power & renewables and the energy transition.

Latest articles by Gracie

• Opinion 1 July 2024

  Underwriting Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) as an asset class

• Opinion 21 December 2023

  10 transaction themes for private equity and principal investors in 2024

Gavin Law

Senior Vice President, Emissions & Low Carbon Fuels Consulting

Latest articles by Gavin

• Opinion 2 September 2024

  Japan’s LNG decarbonisation challenge

• Opinion 25 January 2018

  Is natural gas more emissions intensive than coal?

• Opinion 20 September 2017

  Emissions intensity: portfolio composition is the key

Ian Simm

Director, EMEA Consulting

Ian brings 15 years of experience throughout the energy value chain.

Janice Lim

Principal Consultant, Asia Pacific Consulting

Janice advises on due diligence, price forecast and market feasibility studies for numerous clients.

Jie Liu

Managing Consultant, Aluminium Value Chain

Jie specialises in aluminium market analysis and asset research.

Jon Story

Vice President, Energy Consulting, Head of CCS Consulting

Jon is a vice president and global head of Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS consulting​.

Latest articles by Jon

• Opinion 31 October 2024

  Can CCUS momentum overcome headwinds to the industry?

Ian Kyle

Principal Consultant, Gas & LNG

Ian is a Principal Consultant with over 12 years experience in the gas and LNG industry.

Isabel Schwartz

Vice President, Supply Chain Consulting

Isabel is a leader in the supply chain consulting practice.

Latest articles by Isabel

• Opinion 4 March 2025

  Supply chain call to action: navigating tariff uncertainty today

• Opinion 16 January 2025

  Navigating the impact of President Trump's tariffs on utility supply chains

• Opinion 27 June 2024

  4 years into a difficult transformers market in the US, is there a potential end in sight?

• Opinion 28 May 2024

  Supplier diversity programs: a new source of competitiveness and innovation for utilities in North America?

Kalpesh Ramwani

Director, Energy Consulting

Kalpesh has over 11 years of consulting experience within the region.

Kara McNutt

Vice President, Head of Americas Power and Renewables Consulting

Kara leads Wood Mackenzie’s Americas Power and Renewables Consulting team based in Boston.

Latest articles by Kara

• Opinion 14 March 2023

  Green hydrogen: what the Inflation Reduction Act means for production economics and carbon intensity

• Opinion 26 March 2020

  Will carbon policy push refiners to the brink?

Karoline Sun

Senior Consultant, Nickel Cost and Metals & Mining Sustainability​

Karoline covers global nickel cost analysis and conducts research in sustainability for metals and mining.

Kevin Jacobs

Director, Supply Chain Consulting

Kevin is a supply chain professional and electrical engineer with extensive experience in the energy sector.

Latest articles by Kevin

• Opinion 27 June 2024

  4 years into a difficult transformers market in the US, is there a potential end in sight?

• Opinion 2 April 2024

  Supply shortages and an inflexible market give rise to high power transformer lead times

Kian Akhavan

Consultant, EMEA

Kian is a specialist in public policy, with a focus on public-private partnerships.

Latest articles by Kian

• Opinion 12 February 2025

  How public-private partnerships can accelerate the energy transition

Kristy Kramer

Vice President, Head of Gas and LNG Consulting

Kristy brings over fifteen years of gas and energy industry experience to her role leading our Gas and LNG Consulting.

Latest articles by Kristy

• Opinion 6 September 2019

  Who will make money on the second wave of US LNG?

Lisa Gillespie

Director, Energy Consulting

Lisa is an experienced project manager working across upstream and the energy transition.

Latest articles by Lisa

• Opinion 5 August 2024

  The Norwegian emissions dilemma

• Opinion 5 December 2022

  Can carbon offset crude move from idea to reality?

Malcolm Forbes-Cable

Vice President, Upstream and Carbon Management Consulting

Malcolm is an expert in designing international growth strategies, unconventional gas studies and portfolio reviews.

Latest articles by Malcolm

• The Edge 30 January 2025

  No country for oil men (and women)

• Opinion 5 August 2024

  The Norwegian emissions dilemma

• Opinion 27 June 2023

  The case for developing UK's oil and gas resources: Rosebank and Cambo fields

• Opinion 17 August 2021

  Scotland the brave: a Firth of Forth net zero hub for COP26?

• Opinion 4 February 2021

  A £2.5 trillion transformation: the economic impact of a net-zero North Sea

• Opinion 5 January 2021

  Is net zero oil and gas production possible?

Mangesh Patankar

Vice President, Gas and LNG Consulting

With 14 years of experience in the gas/LNG and power industry, Mangesh has a deep understanding of client challenges.

Latest articles by Mangesh

• Opinion 1 September 2023

  A Gastech exclusive: making sense of LNG market volatility

Melany Vargas

Vice President, Head of Hydrogen Consulting

Melany has extensive experience solving strategic problems for clients across the global energy value chain.

Latest articles by Melany

• Opinion 14 March 2023

  Green hydrogen: what the Inflation Reduction Act means for production economics and carbon intensity

Melvin Chen

Head of Power & Renewables Consulting, APAC

Melvin focuses on commercial corporate planning, exploration strategies, due diligence, feasibility and market studies.

Miller Wang

Principal Consultant Steel Decarbonisation

Miller leads on WMC analysis on steel decarbonisation, focusing on the benchmark of emerging green steelmaking.

Latest articles by Miller

• Opinion 12 September 2024

  Grey area: can steel really go green?

Nassam Estibill Zalaquett

Principal Consultant, Metals & Mining, Americas

Nassam has extensive experience across the natural resources value chain.

Latest articles by Nassam

• Opinion 1 October 2024

  Direct lithium extraction: is the hype justified by the reality?

Patrick Barnes

Vice President, Head of Metals & Mining Consulting

Patrick has over 10 years of experience helping foster development of stable and equitable mining sectors.

Latest articles by Patrick

• Opinion 17 January 2024

  Ebook | How can the Super Region enable the energy transition?

Paul Manley

Director, Metals and Mining Consulting

A geologist by training, Paul brings over 20 years of industry experience to our metals and mining consulting team.

Prashant Khorana

Director, Power & Renewables Consulting

Prashant is Director, Data Product Owner – Asset Valuations within Wood Mackenzie's research and data organisation.

Latest articles by Prashant

• Opinion 24 October 2024

  What we learned from conversations with power and renewables investors in 2024

• Opinion 1 July 2024

  Underwriting Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) as an asset class

• Opinion 21 December 2023

  10 transaction themes for private equity and principal investors in 2024

• Opinion 15 August 2023

  What we learned from conversations with power and renewables investors in 2023

• Opinion 20 July 2023

  How power and renewables investors should navigate the Inflation Reduction Act and recent power market volatility

• Opinion 4 August 2021

  Who will foot the bill for the energy transition in Asia-Pacific?

Qing Du

Senior Consultant, Graphite

Qing works on the Battery Raw Material Graphite team.

Redd Zhou

Managing Consultant, Asia Polyolefins

Redd is responsible for polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) analysis in China.

Renaud Brimont

Head of EMEARC Consulting

Renaud leads our upstream consulting practice in EMEARC and is an expert in business transformation.

Roslyn Cooke

Consultant

Rohan Shayi

Consultant, Power and Renewables

Rohan works in the power and renewables consulting division.

Latest articles by Rohan

• Opinion 21 December 2023

  10 transaction themes for private equity and principal investors in 2024

Elysia Sheu

Principal Consultant, Supply Chain

Elysia focuses on supply chain strategy, O&M savings and energy industry operations.

Latest articles by Elysia

• Opinion 16 January 2025

  Navigating the impact of President Trump's tariffs on utility supply chains

Shatha Alwardi

Director, EMEARC Consulting

An expert in long-term strategy development, Shatha advises on pricing, planning and market analysis.

Steve Jenkins

Vice President, Chemicals Consulting

Steve brings more than 30 years experience in chemical markets, and is a world expert in paraxylene.

Latest articles by Steve

• Opinion 21 October 2020

  No silos allowed in the pursuit of a greener economy

• Opinion 9 January 2018

  Is the outlook for China's petrochemicals market hanging in the balance?

• Editorial 9 January 2018

  Is the outlook for China’s petrochemicals market hanging in the balance?

• Editorial 5 July 2017

  PTT re-engages in South East Asia with new chemicals investments

• Editorial 15 May 2017

  ExxonMobil acquires Southeast Asia’s Jurong Aromatics

• Opinion 15 May 2017

  ExxonMobil acquires Southeast Asia's Jurong Aromatics

Su Jie

Senior Research Analyst, APAC Aromatics

Su specialises in the benzene and derivative value chains and is responsible for the Asian market.

Steven Knell

Vice President, Power & Renewables Consulting

Latest articles by Steven

• The Edge 14 December 2023

  COP28 key takeaways

Ti Guo

Managing Consultant, Iron Ore and Steel Cost Research

Ti is focused on understanding iron ore and steel supply/demand dynamics and market trends in China.

Valentina Kretzschmar

Vice President Consulting, Climate Risk and Strategy

Dr Valentina Kretzschmar has over 25 years of experience in the energy sector.

Latest articles by Valentina

• Opinion 5 June 2024

  The energy transition in the upstream oil & gas sector: a reality check?

Xinlin Chen

Managing Consultant, China Aluminium Supply

Xinlin covers market trends, material flows and cost services.

Yanghui Liu

Principal Consultant, Power & Renewables Consulting, APAC​

Yanghui is an expert in wind industry market analysis, supply chain and products

Yue Wang

Senior Consultant, Rare Earths

Yue specialises in the rare earth market research and supporting cathode and precursor asset research.

Zhifei Liu

Managing Consultant – Copper Markets, Metals & Mining

Zhifei is focused on copper demand in China where she monitors and forecasts both short-term and long-term demand.