Stéphanie Saunier (Moderator)

Managing Director

Carbon Limits

Stéphanie Saunier is an expert on emission and mitigation potential for greenhouse gas emissions from the Oil and Gas sector. Over the past decade she has worked extensively on these matters on behalf of a number of institutions including the Norwegian and Canadian Ministries of Environment, EBRD, the EU commission, NOROG and EDF. Stephanie has been a key person and the project manager of dozen studies evaluating methane emissions mitigation and gas flare reduction projects in Europe, North America, central Asia and South America.

Ilse Aben

Professor

SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research

SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is the Dutch expertise institute for space research. The institute develops and uses innovative technology for groundbreaking research in space, focusing on astrophysical research, Earth science and planetary research. Ilse Aben is co-PI of TROPOMI, responsible for the TROPOMI team at SRON.

Stephane Germain

President

GHGSat Inc.

Stephane Germain is president of GHGSat, which focuses on high-resolution remote-sensing of greenhouse gas (GHG) and air quality gas (AQG) emissions from industrial sites, using satellite technology.Stephane holds an MBA from INSEAD and his BASc in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University.

Steven Hamburg

Chief Scientist

Environmental Defense Fund

Steven Hamburg is Chief Scientist at EDF where he plays a leading role in the organization’s research efforts on climate change, methane emissions, systems ecology and more. Prior to joining EDF in 2008, Steven was an environmental science professor at the University of Kansas and Brown University. Steven served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was acknowledged as one of the contributing recipients of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has been a visiting fellow at Yale and Harvard Universities and earned both his M.F.S and Ph.D. from Yale University.

Eric Kort

Professor

University of Michigan

Eric Kort is an Associate Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research group studies greenhouse gases and air pollutants through ground-based, airborne, and space-based observations.  Kort’s group has done extensive airborne measurements of methane emissions from the oil and gas sector and conducted among the first space-based analyses of methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.  Recipient of early career awards from NASA and NSF, Eric holds both an S.M. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University.

Antoine Rostand

President and Founder

Kayrros

Antoine Rostand began his career more than 20 years ago as a wireline field engineer. Since then, he has gained a strong expertise working with many of the world's largest oil companies, advising on growth strategies, human resources, organizational changes, mergers and acquisitions, and operational excellence. Antoine currently serves as the president and founder of Kayrros, a FinTech for global energy organizations. He holds an engineering degree from École Polytechnique and an MBA from INSEAD.

Darcy Spady (Moderator)

Managing Partner

Carbon Connect International

Darcy Spady is a professional engineer, independent director and technical advisor. He was the 2018 Society of Petroleum Engineers International (SPE) president. Darcy is a founding partner of Carbon Connect International Inc.and has a 33-year career in the conventional oil, heavy oil and unconventional gas business on both the operator and service sectors the industry. Darcy is also an active grain farmer in Central Alberta and the industry chair for the Remediation & Reclamation program at Olds College. He is a Petroleum Engineering graduate from the University of Alberta

Robert Kleinberg

Senior Research Scholar

Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy

Robert L. Kleinberg is Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, and Senior Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy.  His current interests include energy technology and economics, and environmental and regulatory issues associated with the oil and gas industry.  From 1980 to 2018, Kleinberg was employed by Schlumberger, the premier oilfield service company, attaining the rank of Schlumberger Fellow, one of about a dozen to have held this rank in a workforce of 100,000.  From 1978 to 1980 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory.  Kleinberg was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (B.S. Chemistry, 1971) and the University of California, San Diego (Ph.D. Physics, 1978).  Kleinberg has authored more than 120 academic and professional papers, holds 41 U.S. patents, and has invented several geophysical instruments that have been commercialized on a worldwide basis.  Kleinberg is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and serves on the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Manfredi Caltagirone

Programme Management Officer

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Manfredi Caltagirone leads UNEP work on methane emissions in the energy sector, including the International Methane Emissions Observatory. In UNEP, he was previously engaged in the establishment and operations of the Climate Technology Centre and Network under the UNFCCC. Prior to joining the UN Environment Programme, Manfredi worked as policy advisor on climate technologies at the Italian Ministry for the Environment. He has been a Research Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. Manfredi holds a J.D. from the II University of Rome, and a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. 

Bill Kovach

Air Manager and Global Expertise Team Lead

Royal Dutch Shell

Bill is the Air Manager and Global Expertise Team Lead for Shell, where he leads a team tasked with driving compliance across Shell on air emission commitments and requirements and positioning Shell to effectively respond to future air emissions-related risks and opportunities. Bill is passionate about delivering energy solutions that balance environmental and social implications against other business considerations. He strives to position business as a leader in developing innovative and sustainable solutions when realizing energy opportunities. Bill holds an environmental engineering degree from the University of Guelph.

Beatrix Wieczorek

External Sustainability Reporting Manager

Royal Dutch Shell

Beatrix has been working for Shell for 28 years in a variety of operational and corporate roles, and is currently based in Germany. She is part of a team that is responsible for performance reporting on sustainability metrics for the Shell Group. It is her role in particular to monitor external stakeholders’ expectations which are constantly evolving, and to collaborate across different departments to develop Shell’s reporting and disclosure strategy. It also includes leading and participating in several working groups of initiatives (e.g. OGCI) and trade associations (e.g. IPIECA). 

Matthew Todd

Program Director, The Environmental Partnership

American Petroleum Institute (API)

Since joining the American Petroleum Institute in 2001, Matthew’s focus has been air emissions across the supply chain of the oil and natural gas industry.  During his career, he has worked to better understand emissions and engaged during the development of numerous state and federal air regulations. He is now the Director of The Environmental Partnership, an industry-led voluntary program whose mission is the continuous improvement of the industry's environmental performance.  

Julien Perez

Strategy & Policy Vice President

Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)

As Strategy & Policy Vice President of OGCI, Julien Perez is responsible for coordinating actions and commitments, developing external policy views, managing relations with institutions and external stakeholders, and providing strategic direction to drive the future development of the organization. 

Previously, Perez was head of Climate & Energy Services at Ernst & Young, where he assisted private and public players in setting up and implementing low-carbon strategies. He also worked at Total where he coordinated climate change actions and at Aecom managing environmental liabilities for various industries. Perez 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. 

Trey Shaffer

Senior Partner

ERM

Mr. Shaffer is a regional upstream oil and gas sector leader and helps clients address a broad range of sustainability, environmental and safety challenges. Prior to joining ERM in 2003, Trey was the Director of Downstream Services for Boots & Coots International Well Control.

In 2014, Trey was elected to the SPE International Board of Directors as the 2014-2017 HSSE-SR Technical Director. Trey was elected in 2016 as Vice Chair of the SPE Gulf Coast Section. He was the co-chair of the SPE International 2016 HSSE-SR Conference in Stavanger, Norway. Trey supports numerous SPE activities globally and is a frequent speaker on environmental and sustainability topics.

In 2010, he was recognized by the SPE Gulf Coast Section and received the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Petroleum Engineering in the area of HSSE-SR. He earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas in 1987. He lives in Texas with his wife and three daughters.

Daniel Palmer

Technology Deployment Lead, OGCI Climate Investments

Daniel Palmer leads technology deployment at OGCI Climate Investments. In this role he works to accelerate the deployment of new technologies to reduce GHG emissions in the oil and gas industry.

Daniel has a worked for technology startups in applications of solar energy to oil production, and mining geoscience and previously spent more than 20 years at Schlumberger in various roles across the globe, working across sales, operations, marketing and technical positions. He led the global marketing and technology function for Schlumberger Wireline and holds numerous patents and has widely published in oil and gas, solar enhanced oil recovery and mining technology.

Daniel is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), holds a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge and attended Heriot-Watt University for post-graduate studies in petroleum engineering.

Iain Cooper

CEO

SeekOps Inc

Steve Deiker

Co-founder and CEO

Kairos Aerospace

Dan Zimmerle

Senior Research Associate

Colorado State University

James Mackey

Managing Director, Project Capital

OGCI Climate Investments

Vanessa Ryan (Moderator)

Manager, Carbon Reduction

Chevron

Adam Brandt

Associate Professor

Stanford University

Dr. Brandt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University.  His research focuses on reducing the greenhouse gas impacts of energy production and consumption, with a focus on fossil energy systems. Research interests include life cycle assessment of petroleum production and natural gas extraction. A particular interest is in unconventional fossil fuel resources such as oil sands, oil shale and hydraulically fractured oil and gas resources. He also researches computational optimization of emissions mitigation technologies, such as carbon dioxide capture systems. Dr. Brandt received his PhD from the Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley. 

Arvind Ravikumar

Assistant Professor

Harrisburg University of Science & Technology

Prof. Ravikumar directs the sustainable energy development lab at Harrisburg University in Pennsylvania. His group examines the future of oil and gas resources in a carbon constrained world and evaluates the role of new technologies in detecting and quantifying methane emissions. His work employs a combination of field work and simulation, and develops modeling tools such as FEAST to better understand the role of technology and innovation in addressing climate change. He routinely collaborates with US and international regulatory agencies, NGOs, grassroots organizations, and businesses to advance effective climate policy. 

Steven Hamburg

Chief Scientist

Environmental Defense Fund

Steven Hamburg is Chief Scientist at EDF where he plays a leading role in the organization’s research efforts on climate change, methane emissions, systems ecology and more. Prior to joining EDF in 2008, Steven was an environmental science professor at the University of Kansas and Brown University. Steven served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was acknowledged as one of the contributing recipients of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has been a visiting fellow at Yale and Harvard Universities and earned both his M.F.S and Ph.D. from Yale University.

Peter Evans

Snr Engineering Product Owner - Methane

bp

Peter Evans is the Senior Engineering Product Owner for methane measurement at bp where he is accountable for defining the technology identification, selection and testing of the measurement systems that will underpin bp’s aim to install methane measurement at all our existing major oil and gas processing sites by 2023. He has worked for bp since 2012. Peter is a geochemist by training, with a PhD in isotope geochemistry and also holds an MBA in technology management. Prior to working for bp, Peter worked for the UK government establishing environmental measurement standards and at Imperial College where he supported the foundation of the Energy Futures Lab.