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The Oxford Princeton Programme
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Lecturers
Dr. Carlos Blanco is an expert in energy, commodity, and financial risk management and modeling and lectures extensively on topics related to enterprise wide risk management, energy derivatives pricing and hedging and other risk topics. He has published over 90 articles on financial, energy, and commodity risk management and modeling, and more recently on ERM topics. He is currently a lecturer at the Finance department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founder and managing director of a research and advisory firm with clients in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Carlos is a former VP, Risk Solutions at Financial Engineering Associates. There, he worked over six years as an essential contributor in the development of the energy and risk management models of the firm, and providing strategic and tactical leading-edge risk advisory and educational services to over 500 energy and commodity trading firms and financial institutions worldwide. He also managed the world-class support and professional services department within the firm. Prior to FEA, Carlos worked for a hedge fund in the Midwest and an asset management firm in Madrid, Spain. He is a former regional director of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA).
Leigh Bolton, MBA(Distn), BSc(Hons), CEng, FCQI, MIMMM, is Principal of Holmwood Consulting Limited and a globally recognised LNG expert. He currently focuses internationally on energy market studies, LNG supply chain, gas monetisation, commercial gas trading developments, European security of supply, and natural gas pipelines and storage logistics. Previous positions held include Energy Director, Principal Gas Consultant, Principal E&U Consultant, Managing Consultant, and International Business Manager. He has 25 years of experience operating in diverse technical engineering, senior business management, organisational development, corporate and market strategy, and in both internal and external consulting roles for the natural gas and electricity industries in developed and emerging markets in Africa, Asia, North America and across Europe.
Andy L Bowler, BSc, MSc, CEng, FIGasE, MInstPet, is a Director in SALGAS, gas engineering consultants, and was formerly Director of the Centre for Natural Gas Engineering at Salfold University; prior to joining the University of Salford he was an Operations Engineer in the Piplines Department of British Gas.
Chris Brown has over 20 years' experience in the petroleum industry, both in downstream operating companies and in business consultancy. He has particular expertise in the downstream oil sector economics including market and production analysis, strategic planning and investment analysis. He has run numerous training courses covering refining operations and economics and on the downstream oil industry in general. He has undertaken a wide range of consulting assignments around the world, reporting at clients' executive board and senior management level. These have ranged from high level strategic analysis and corporate planning, industry restructuring, support to privatisation and M&A, asset and operations optimisation. He also has substantial experience in petroleum product pricing issues. Chris started his career at Exxon’s Fawley refinery in England, having gained a BSc in Chemical Engineering at Edinburgh University.
Robin A Burley is principal consultant with Kennet Oil Logistics, a company established in 1990 providing expertise in the international supply, trading and transportation sector. During his 30 years experience in the oil industry he has worked with BP including Marine and Supply Departments, and Gulf Oil including Trading and Transportation, Refining and Marketing functions. Besides the day-to-day management and negotiation of oil supply, trading and transportation deals, he has been involved in a variety of oil logistics projects throughout the world. He has lived in the USA, Europe and the Middle East, and is a contributing author to the Oil Trading Manual (pub. Woodhead 1995).
Scott Carter operates his own independent consultancy specializing in oil trading and marine fuel projects in Europe. He has over 25 years experience in oil trading including the management and responsibility of risk, supply and trading, refinery optimization and P&L. Mr. Carter was initially employed by P&O Shipping evaluating and executing group bunker purchasing. He moved into cargo trading in 1986 and joined Phibro Inc in 1991 where he became fuel oil desk lead and traded physical and paper fuel oil and feedstocks globally. Mr. Carter later took the position of Managing Director of Tosco Europe and Product Trading Manager and was instrumental in the company move into European trading and asset acquisition. On the purchase of Tosco by Phillips Petroleum and the subsequent merger with Conoco in 2002, Mr. Carter was appointed European Product Trading Manager of ConocoPhillips where he created a supply and trading operation of significant size and activity. Mr. Carter left ConocoPhillips in 2007 to move into consultancy and is studying an MSc in Environmental Management.
Dr. David S Glass is a former director of ChemSystems Ltd (now part of IBM UK Ltd) in London. He directed the Petrochemical Practice and was responsible for studies in the petrochemical and polymer field with particular interests in marketing, competitive analysis, strategic planning and business profitability. He joined ChemSystems in 1982 after spending fifteen years in ICI in the Petrochemical Division, where he held posts in marketing and purchasing. For many years he was Marketing Manager for Olefins, and subsequently became Marketing Manager for Aromatics. Prior to this he was responsible for fuels purchasing for the ICI group.
Dr. Ian Holdaway is an international consultant in the downstream oil industry and Partner / Technical Director of Cambrian Marine Reprocessing, a company specialising in the on-site reprocessing of contaminated petroleum and petrochemical cargoes. After graduating with a PhD in industrial chemistry, Dr Holdaway joined Esso working in Research, Marketing and Corporate Planning before transferring to Refining, where he was responsible for Refinery Operations Planning and subsequently Supply Logistics, where he was responsible for the management of import and exports to Esso's two UK refineries and the transportation of refined product to Esso's mainland marketing terminals. In this role Dr Holdaway was also responsible for product tanker chartering, including, when necessary, outchartering of Esso's five GP product tankers. After 11 years he joined J Aron, the commodity trading division of Goldman Sachs, where, as Trading Operations Director, he was responsible for all aspects of J Aron's International Trading Operations within the European and Far Eastern Offices.
Stuart Howell is Principal of the Castle Hampton Management Consultancy, former Head of BP's retail business in the UK and the industry's representative on the Government's Deregulation Task Force. The consultancy was established five years ago following 30 years service with BP which included senior posts in policy development, marketing, sales, network property management, investment and engineering. He currently advises oil companies, retail and city institutions.
Roger Hutcheson joined Shell in 1961 as a quality control chemist and went on to work in lubricants marketing until the mid-1970s. Roger then started to specialise in automotive fuels, first for Shell UK and then for Shell International Petroleum. In July 1990 he was seconded to CONCAWE as Technical Coordinator, with special responsibility for automotive emissions. In September 1996 he returned to the UK and took early retirement from Shell. He is now Technical Director of his own automotive fuels and environmental consultancy, whose clients include a number of oil and additive companies, plus a major energy consultancy organisation. He has recently been commissioned by the US Society of Automotive Engineers to update the SAE Automotive Fuels Reference book.
Mary Jackson has over 15 years of experience in the energy industry. She began her career at BP working in the information management group, then later rose to a trading analyst in the supply and trading department. She subsequently joined Saladin as an energy consultant to provide consultancy advice and training on energy market analysis, trading and risk management to clients throughout the world. In several senior roles at Saladin, she managed the energy consulting team, ran the energy market information service and directed strategy for new software and information product development, including the development of a new internet based trading system. After leaving Saladin, Mary worked as an independent energy market consultant until she formed Kingston Energy Consulting in 2002. She has lectured regularly for The Oxford Princeton Programme on energy markets, trading and risk management and is also a regular speaker and panel member at public conferences. She has written articles for industry publications including Harts Energy Markets, Energy and Power Risk Management, Global Energy Business and Petroleum Review. Mary obtained a bachelor's honours degree from Bristol University and a master's degree from London University.
Richard Johnstone is an independent consultant, providing expertise in all areas of oil supply and trading, in particular in the negotiation and operation of commercial contracts for oil and gas production, processing, transportation and sales. He has had over 30 years' commercial and management experience in major oil industry organisations, where his responsibilities have included sales and marketing, supply and trading, and transportation. Richard is a graduate of Oxford University; before becoming a consultant in 1997, he had worked for BP in London and Milan, the British National Oil Corporation, the Oil and Pipelines Agency (BNOC's successor) and BG Exploration and Production.
Charles Lawrie is a founding partner of Richardson Lawrie Associates, an independent firm of international maritime economists and business consultants established in 1987. He is responsible for the firm's consulting and retainer services in the crude oil, petroleum products and gas transportation sectors. He has spent 30 years in the oil and shipping sectors, more than 20 of which have been as project manager or senior consultant on shipping, economics, investment appraisals, feasibility studies, transportation strategies and business studies within Europe, the Americas and the Far East. He is a specialist in the development of: investment appraisals, business plans, strategy reviews; commercial/contractual advice, project implementation; evaluation of the transportation economics of varying routes, ports and cargo handling techniques; commodity trade flow analyses and forecasts; modelling and forecasts of short, medium and long term shipping traffic, shipping demand and shipping supply; and modelling and forecasts of shipping charter rates and vessel costs.
Jeffrey Plotkin is the Director of Nexant Chem Systems' Process Evaluation/Research Planning (PERP) program. Managing this activity involves working closely with technology developers, including operating companies and engineering contractors. His interests are in all phases of process R&D, with special emphasis on gas-to-chemicals processes, selective oxidations, alkane activation, and biocatalyzed routes to chemicals. His prior work experience with ISP and Exxon Chemicals provided an excellent background for his interests in commodity and specialty chemicals from both a technology and marketing perspective. He holds over 30 U.S. patents and has co-authored 28 peer-reviewed publications. He received his B.S. in chemistry from the State University of New York at Oneonta, a Ph.D. in organometallic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Pace University. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Ohio State University.
Les Priestley is a director of Springtide Management Consultants Ltd. He carries out international training and consultancy on commercialising and developing gas field discoveries. Before that he was Managing Director of the consultancy and technology transfer companies of Essex University. His 25 years experience with KUFPEC, Total and BP included assignments and projects in many countries around the world. He has held senior management posts in engineering, project management, contract negotiation, market development, project economics and planning.
Richard Prince has almost 30 years of experience within the downstream oil industry, covering both marketing and refining businesses. Most recently responsible for marketing planning across the BP group, he has been an independent consultant since 2007. Richard has an MA in chemistry from Oxford University and began his career with BP in refinery process research and development, before gaining plant commissioning & operating experience. He joined Castrol in 1989, then part of Burmah Oil, as a manufacturing and supply chain advisor, before broadening his experience into marketing by managing the central business intelligence team. With subsequent management positions at BurmahCastrol in Strategic Projects and Corporate Development, he was a key contributor to the BurmahCastrol Board's decision to sell the business to BP in 2000. Returning to BP after the sale, Richard was appointed to the integration team set up to plan and manage the merger of the BP and Castrol lubricants businesses. Following a period in the downstream strategy & planning group, he took on a new role with responsibility for all planning activity in the global marketing function and was additionally responsible for developing these capabilities across the BP Group.
Ms. Jacqueline Richardson is a founding partner in Richardson Lawrie Associates, a specialist international trade, maritime economics and business consultancy firm. She has 28 years of experience in the maritime, transportation and trade sectors and manages the firm’s chemicals and speciality business practices. She has been Principal, Managing Consultant and Manager for over 80 projects worldwide including feasibility studies, shipping economics, investment appraisal and business development studies. Other business activities include: development of strategic planning procedures and appraisals at board and senior management level and responsibility for the development and management of budgetary systems; marketing and commercial advice to chemicals shipping and chemicals companies worldwide; development and implementation of new building projects involving market research appraisals and setting up of subsidiary companies and operations; and provision of expert advice and providing expert witness testimony on behalf of companies involved in legal disputes. Jacqueline has overall responsibility for the company's training programs.
Neil Richardson has career experience spanning 40 years in oil, gas and petrochemicals, acquired in oil refining, corporate planning, public administration, consulting and lecturing. Sponsored at university by BP, he went on to spend 24 years working with BP in both operational and strategic planning roles, which included refinery production planning, long-range financial and corporate planning, project and acquisition analysis, competitor analysis and the assessment of company performance and value. Posted by BP to Brussels in 1990, he went on to join the European Commission there in 1993 at the Directorate-General for Energy, working on EU oil and gas strategy and on EU technical assistance programmes to former Soviet bloc countries involving the setting-up and monitoring of projects. In 1996 he became an independent consultant, still based in Brussels but engaged on oil and gas projects in Russia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as the EU, working primarily as an associate consultant to the consulting arm of Bechtel (latterly named Nexant). This included leading a major study project for the European Commission on the costs to EU refiners of tighter oil product specifications, which won the British Consultant of the Year award in its category in 2000. Mr Richardson returned to live in the UK in 2003 and lectures for The Oxford Princeton Programme on three of their courses.
Richard Sleep is the global director of Nexant’s ChemSystems Online and Petroleum and Petrochemical Economics (PPE) programmes. (Nexant acquired Chem Systems from IBM in 2001). He has 25 years of experience in the petrochemical industry in production, business management, trading and consulting. Prior to joining ChemSystems in 1994 he had been a trader with Metallgesellschaft Petrochemicals Corp. He spent twelve years with BP Chemicals Ltd in a variety of roles, initially in production as a mechanical engineer working at BP Chemicals' steam crackers at Baglan Bay and Grangemouth and subsequently in commercial roles including five years as Propylene Product Manager. Prior to joining BP Chemicals he worked for ICI as an engineer working on polyethylene and perspex plants.
David Whitby, BSc (Hons), MInstPet, is Chief Executive of Pathmaster Marketing, a business development consultancy for technology-based industrial businesses. Prior to this, he worked for BP for 22 years in a number of management positions, including Marketing and Business Development Manager for Kalsep (an advanced separations company), Business Manager for BP Ventures and Project Leader for Industrial Lubricants for BP Research.
Dr. David Wood has some 30 years of international oil and gas experience spanning technical and commercial exploration and production operations, contract evaluation and senior corporate management. Industry experience includes Phillips Petroleum, Amoco (Africa, Europe and UK) and Canadian independents (South America, Africa, Middle and Far East), including three years based in Colombia and four years based in Dubai. From 1993 to 1998 he was he was UK Managing Director for Lundin and then Morrison Petroleum responsible for a broad portfolio of assets and a staff of more than 100. He now works as an independent international consultant and expert witness. He has published an extensive body of work on diverse energy related topics including: performance modelling of fiscal terms, economic analysis, enterprise risk and portfolio simulation, LNG, GTL and gas supply, deepwater exploration and production techniques, corporate performance, portfolio and strategy management, mergers and acquisitions, negotiations and project management. He is actively involved in diverse professional training, research and development programmes.
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