Panelists Opening Session

Tim Gould is co-head of the World Energy Outlook series at the Paris-based International Energy Agency, which is recognised as one of the world’s most authoritative sources for long-term strategic insight on energy and environmental trends. As Head of Division, he designs and directs the work on energy supply as well as contributing to the Outlook as a principal author. As of 2018, he also oversees the Agency’s work on investment, including the World Energy Investment Report.

For the World Energy Outlook, he has led in-depth country and regional studies of major oil and gas-exporting economies (2018) China and Southeast Asia (2017), Mexico (2016), India (2015), sub-Saharan Africa (2014), Brazil (2013), Iraq (2012), Russia (2011) and the Caspian region (2010). He has also designed and developed research on offshore energy, on the social and environmental aspects of natural gas supply and on a variety of issues related to air quality and climate change.

Before joining the IEA in 2008, initially as a specialist on Russian and Caspian energy, he worked on European and Eurasian energy issues in Brussels and has ten years of experience in Eastern Europe, primarily in Russia and in Ukraine. Mr Gould graduated from Oxford University and has a post-graduate diploma from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.

Angela Strank joined BP in 1982 as a geologist and has held various leadership roles across BP and in a variety of locations. She is currently BP’s Chief Scientist and Head of Downstream Technology and is a member of BP plc’s Executive Management Team.

Angela was awarded a DBE for services to the oil industry and for encouraging women into STEM careers. She holds several honorary degrees and in 2018 became an Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester. She is also a non-executive board director at Severn Trent Water plc and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.