ESGOS 2014 speakers
Dan Byles is the Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire & Bedworth and has a strong expertise in strategic UK energy policy...
Dan Byles MP
Chairman
All Party Parliamentary Group for
Unconventional Oil & Gas
For the past 8 years, Dr. Sylvain Bintein has been employed at the European Commission in Brussels (Belgium) as the Team Coordinator of the program for registrations, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and the program for classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals
Sylvain Bintein
REACH and CLP Team Coordinator, Environment DG
European Commission
James Clarke
Deputy Head
Office of Unconventional Oil and Gas (DECC)
Tony joined HSE in 2005 and has worked in various policy areas including work related stress and musculoskeletal disorders.
Tony Almond
Hazardous Installations Division, Offshore, Gas
Health and Safety Executive
Kamlesh Parmar was appointed as CEO on 18 October 2012. He has been with 3Legs since its activities commenced in 2007 and has previously held the position of Group Commercial Director and Poland Country Manager...
Kamlesh Parmar
Chief Executive Officer
3 Legs Resources
Chris Faulkner is the Founder, President and CEO of Breitling Energy Corporation (BECC), an oil and natural gas company based in Dallas, Texas.
Chris Faulkner
CEO and Chairman
Breitling Oil and Gas
Sam Schofield
Lancashire Communications & Public Affairs Manager
Cuadrilla Resources
Andrew is a founder of IGas, has been an Executive Director since 2004 and the Chief Executive Officer for the last 5 years with full time responsibility...
Andrew Austin
Chief Executive Officer
IGas Energy PLC
Paweł Poprawa
Advisor
Energy Studies Institute, Poland
Nick has been fascinated by geology since he was about six years old and spent much of his childhood and youth on mine tips, in quarries and in stream & river beds in NW England. In 1977 Nick graduated in Geology and Zoology at Bristol University and then followed through with a PhD...
Dr. Nick Riley MBE
Director
Carboniferous Ltd.
Stuart Haszeldine OBE
Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage
University of Edinburgh
Prof. Dr. Mariusz-Orion Jedrysek
Full Professor, Head of Laboratory of Isotope Geology and Geokol
University of Wroclaw
Stuart Haszeldine trained as a geologist, and has over 35 years research and industry experience in energy and environment. He has innovated new approaches to oil and gas extraction, radioactive waste disposal, biochar in soils, and now...
An international authority in environmental engineering and risk, Simon has built a prominent career through appointments in academia, consulting and government.
Prof Simon Pollard
Head of Department, Environmental
Science & Technology
Cranfield University
Dr. Jennifer Roberts
Research Associate
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Jen is a leading young researcher in the growing interdisciplinary field of energy systems and social and environmental risk. A geologist by training, Jen uses her technical background to address research questions on the social and environmental impacts of energy choices...
Prof Samuel Fankhauser is Co-Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics...
Professor Sam Fankhauser
Co-Director
The Grantham Research Institute on
Climate Change and the Environment
After periods as an International Chemical Engineer and Director of some of the UK’s major Transport Operators, joined the Chamber as CEO in 1993...
Michael Damms
Chief Executive
Chamber of Commerce
East Lancashire
Christian Besson graduated with a PhD in Physics from Princeton University. After a 27 years career in technology development and management with Schlumberger...
Christian Besson
Office Director
EUROGIA 2020
Pedro, a civil engineer, was previously Portuguese Secretary of State for Science and Innovation, a Director at the European Commission, responsible for several R&D programmes focussed on energy and information technology and deputy Director-General for the Secretariat for Portugal’s accession to the EU.
Dr Pedro de Sampaio Nunes
Head of Eureka Secretariat
Eureka
Travis Hesketh, Vice President, Marketing and Applied Technology Europe, is responsible for sales and marketing Emerson Process Management new technologies across a broad range of industries...
Travis Hesketh
Vice President, Marketing and Applied Technology
Emerson Process Management
Martin Copp
Business Development Manager
PECOFacet
Andrew Foulds
Director
Petrafiz
Glynn graduated in Mining Engineering and has over 30 years of exposure to a wide range of international Oil & Gas activities including reservoir evaluation, drilling and production.
Glynn Williams
Partner
EPI-V
Jonathan Shortis is Vice President – Energy, EMEA, a position he has held since the start of 2013. Within his current role, Jonathan is responsible for leading the growth agenda for DHL's Global Energy Sector across EMEA...
Jonathan Shortis
Vice President, Energy - EMEA
DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation
Simon has worked for over twenty five years on ground investigations and contaminated land issues with much of this time focusing on ground-gas contamination and the risks to human health, property and the environment...
Simon Talbot
Founder & Managing Director
Ground Gas Solutions
Matthew Farrow
Executive Director
Environmental Industries Commission (EIC)
Mark has over 17 years experience working in the public and voluntary sector on environmental policy and regulation.
Mark Ellis-Jones
Manager
(Energy and Climate Change)
Environment Agency
Dougal has spent more than 25 years managing complex stakeholder engagement programmes in the development, house-building and resources industries, advising a wide range of public and private sector bodies. He heads up the UK stakeholder team for national consulting practice Curtins and leads the team supporting IGas Energy...
Dougal Paver
Director - Stakeholder Engagement
Curtins
Government
Operators
Academics
Industry Bodies
Solutions Providers
Stakeholder Engagement
Simon Phillips
Partner
Bird & Bird
Minister Maciej Grabowski
Minister of the Environment
Ministry of Environment, Republic of Poland
Sandy Telfer
Partner
DLA Piper
Geologist associated with the Energy Studies Institute in Warsaw (since 2012), as well as working at AGH University of Sciences and Technology in Cracow (since 2013). He studied geosciences and petroleum geology at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, AGH University of Sciences and Technology, and University College Dublin.
Member to Sejm (the Lower Chamber of the Parliament of the Republic of
Poland); vice-head of Sejm Commission for Environmental Protection,
Natural Resources and Forestry; representative to the Green Development and Energy Parliamentary Group of Baltic Countries; head of Raw Materials and Energy Parliamentary Team, member of Extraordinary Commission on Energy and Energetic Resources
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Sandy Telfer is a commercial property lawyer and has been a partner in DLA Piper for 10 years. He leads the Firm's Scottish Planning practice and is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in planning law and procedure. In the last peer review survey taken by the Royal Town Planning Institute he was ranked as one of the top three planning lawyers in Scotland. Sandy is a Legal Associate of the RTPI and a regular contributor to the Scottish Planning and Environmental Law Journal.
Andrew Foulds is presently working in the UK as a Consultant Petrophysicist/Geoscientist within his own company Petrafiz Limited, serving the nascent unconventional exploration program in Europe as well as conventional reservoir evaluation. Andrew has over 34 yrs. experience in the oil industry...
James Clarke is Deputy Head of the Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil, in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), where he leads on regulatory and EU matters. He previously worked as a strategic policy adviser on a number of areas, including Electricity Market Reform and retail market tariffs. Prior to joining DECC in 2010, he worked in corporate governance and socially responsible investment research, including as an analyst in the investment banking arm of HSBC.
Simon has been a partner in the Commercial Group at Bird & Bird since 2005. He is based in London. Simon has extensive experience in large technology projects, including supplier & programme change management and information security. His interests also include the commercial and legal problems that occur with the advent of disruptive technologies, such as unconventional gas and genomic technologies. Simon is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce and is a member of a Bird & Bird team that lectures as part of the University of Oxford’s M.Sc. in Major Programme Management.
Chris Hughes
Commercial Director
NuTech Energy Alliance
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2nd EUROPEAN SHALE GAS AND OIL SUMMIT 2014