Zoltán Áldott has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of MOL and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Slovnaft since 25 June 2018. Between 1990 and 1991, Zoltán Áldott was an associate at Creditum Financial Consulting Ltd. Between 1992 and 1995, he held various positions at Eurocorp Financial Consulting Ltd. From 1995 to 1997, he was the Manager of MOL’s Privatisation Department and from 1997 until 1999, he was Director of Capital Markets. In 1999, Zoltán Áldott served as Director of Strategy & Business Development. From November 2000, he acted as Chief Strategy Officer and as Group Chief Strategy Officer from June 2001. He was Executive Vice President of MOL’s Exploration & Production Division between September 2004 and June 2011. Zoltán Áldott acted as President of INA Management Board between 1 April 2010 and 31 May 2018, and between 2001 and May 2018 he was a member of the MOL Executive Board.
Vice President Political and Public Affairs - Head of EU Affairs & Country Manager Belgium, Equinor Vice Chair of IOGP European Board
Olav Aamlid Syversen is Vice President Political and Public Affairs, Head of EU Affairs & Country Manager Belgium at Equinor. He is also the Chair of the European Committee of the International Oil and Gas Association (IOGP). He joined Equinor in 2005 hand has held several EU policy and regulatory advisory roles, including leading Equinor’s Gas Regulatory Affairs team. Prior to joining Equinor he was head of commodity analysis in the Risk Asset and Liability Management team of Electrabel SA/NV now part of the Engie Group. He has a degree in economics from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland and a master in European economics from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
Ewan Chesser has worked in the oil and gas sector for over 25 years with senior roles across the majority of the value chain. He currently manages a team of subject matter experts providing technical support and products to our worldwide operations – such as novel digital solutions, increasing production and reliability, scoping carbon capture opportunities and subsea technology deployment. Prior to this role, he was the Refinery Business Manager at Chevron’s Richmond Refinery in California where Chevron manufactures a range of fuels predominately used in the Western US states. He has also served as an Advisor to Chevron’s Executive Vice President of Upstream at Chevron’s headquarters in San Ramon, California. In this role he provided support, investment and strategic advice to manage the global Upstream portfolio as well as working with Investor Relations on financial releases and external messaging. He has also held a number of other roles within our Operations in Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK
Philippe Ducom has been appointed President, ExxonMobil Europe since August 1, 2018. He is based in Machelen, Belgium. He is a director of the European Petroleum Refiners Association (FuelsEurope) and of the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic). Philippe joined Exxon Chemical France in 1989 as an engineer at the Notre-Dame de Gravenchon Chemical plant in Seine-Maritime. Between 1989 and 2003, he held various positions in manufacturing, business analysis, planning, sales and marketing in Europe and the United States. In 2003, Philippe transferred to ExxonMobil Corporation’s Corporate Planning Department in Dallas, TX, as Chemical Advisor. In 2005, he became Global Supply and Planning Manager for ExxonMobil Chemical’s Oxo and Fluids businesses. In 2007, he moved to Japan and became President of Tonen Chemical Corporation, Representative Director of ExxonMobil Yugen Kaisha, and Chairman and Representative Director of Nippon Unicar Co., Limited. In March 2010, he was elected Representative Director and President of TonenGeneral Sekiyu Kabushiki Kaisha and also became responsible for the ExxonMobil Japan Group as Lead Country Manager in September 2010. In June 2012, he became Chairman and Representative Director of TonenGeneral Sekiyu Kabushiki Kaisha. In May 2013, he became Regional Director Europe Africa Middle-East, Global Operations, ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical in Machelen, Belgium. In March 2015, he became Chairman, CEO, & President, ExxonMobil Saudi Arabia and Lead Country Manager for the Kingdom. Philippe was born in Rueil-Malmaison in France and attended secondary school in Grenoble (Isere). He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris. He is married and has a son and a daughter
Vice President, Corporate Public Policy, ConocoPhillips
Karl D. Fennessey is ConocoPhillips Vice President, Corporate Public Policy. He joined ConocoPhillips in 2008, working in various roles including corporate planning and strategy, business units and government affairs. His industry career began in 1989 with The Dow Chemical Company where he served in various refining, engineering, technology, business development and corporate strategy positions. Fennessey was a member of the state appointed Texas Water Conservation Advisory Council and served on the Great Western Credit Union Board as the Finance Chair, as well as on the Global Environmental Management Initiative Board. Fennessey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas in Austin in 1988. He is a registered Professional Engineer.
Jean-Luc Guiziou is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy (1985) and Stanford University (MSc, 1988). He is currently Senior Vice-President Europe, Exploration & Production at TotalEnergies. He joined TotalEnergies in 1988 as a Research & Development project manager in geophysics. In 1993 he was transferred to Buenos-Aires as a Senior Geophysicist for Total Austral (Argentina). From 1996 to 1999, Mr Guiziou spent three years at TotalEnergies’s Corporate Finance in Paris, before taking the position of Vice-President, Americas, as a coordinator for exploration & production activities in the Southern Cone. From 2002 to 2006 he served as President of TotalEnergies E&P Canada in Calgary. From 2006 to 2008, he was Vice-President, Financial Operations at TotalEnergies’s Corporate Finance in Paris. He then was President of TotalEnergies United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi until 2013 and later held senior roles on M&A and structured finance at Total’s Corporate Finance until 2017. From 2017 to 2022 he was Managing Director of TotalEnergies E&P UK and UK Country Chair.
Senior Vice President, Europe and Head of Country UK, bp - Vice Chair of IOGP European Board
Louise Kingham CBE joined bp as Senior Vice President for Europe and UK Head of Country in 2021. Before joining bp, Louise was CEO of the Energy Institute for 18 years, Director General of the Institute of Petroleum and Chief Executive of the Institute of Energy. Louise is a non-executive director of VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities plc, the Energy Saving Trust, a member of the POWERful Women Energy Leaders Coalition and an ambassador for 25×25. In 2022, Louise was awarded a CBE for services to the energy industry, having received an OBE in 2011. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Bath.
Vice-President of ORLEN’S Management Board, First Deputy of the President of the Management Board.
An expert in finance and taxes, with years of managerial experience in the fuel and energy industry, gained in both foreign and Polish companies. In the past, among other roles, Witold Literacki served as: Chief Financial Officer at PERN SA, which operates a network of pipelines to transport crude oil in Poland, Chief Tax Manager at RWE Stoen SA., Warsaw’s electricity grid operator, as well as the Head of the Tax Office at PKN ORLEN SA, supervising tax affairs in all of the Group companies between 2008 and 2020. He also gained experience in tax control and consulting at companies such as Carrefour Polska Sp. z o.o. and Arthur Andersen Sp. z o.o
Head of European Government Affairs for the Eni Group
Lucia has been the Head of European Government Affairs for the Eni group since July 2024. In that capacity she leads Eni’s team in Brussels and is responsible for relations with the EU institutions and EU-related public affairs. With the company since 2017, she was previously in charge of EU advocacy on power & renewables files, as well as of sustainability horizontal issues. From 2014 to 2017 Lucia was a consultant in the Brussels’ office of global consultancy Edelman, providing strategic support on EU policy and competition issues, as well as integrated communications, to multinational clients in the energy and industrial sectors. Earlier in her career, Lucia has worked for the Assembly of European Regions, a network of wider-Europe regional governments advocating at EU level, and gained professional experience in political campaigning with a cross-party European network. She holds a MA in European Affairs from the College of Europe, a double MA degree in History of Political Thought from Paris 7 Diderot / Bologna University, and a BA in Early Modern European History from the University of Bologna. She is s a native Italian and speaks English, French and Spanish. She is married and mother of 3 daughters.
Martijn van Haaster is Senior Vice President for SHELL Upstream Netherlands, Germany and SNS Assets (UK). He is also the CEO of NAM BV and is based in The Netherlands. Martijn has some 25 years of experience in a variety of Operational, Technical and Commercial leadership roles in Shell Upstream and Integrated Gas business in Asia Pacific, Russia and Africa. Martijn holds a Master of Science in Geophysics and MBA and worked as Management Consultant for the Boston Consulting Group before.
Gerda Verburg took the position of independent chairman of Element NL on September 1, 2023. In her role as chairman, Verburg represents the industry on a national and international level. Verburg was a Member of Parliament for the CDA from 1998 until she became Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in the Balkenende IV Cabinet (2007-2010). She then held two positions at the United Nations: first as ambassador of the Netherlands to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization from 2011 to 2016 in Rome. In 2016, she was appointed Assistant Secretary-General by the UN Secretary-General to lead the SUN (Scaling Up Nutrition Movement) from Geneva as coordinator.
Graham Henley was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) in September 2023. Before this, Graham was SVP Projects and Engineering Capability in Shell, completing an international career that had taken him to the deserts of Oman, frozen seas off Sakhalin, and tropical heat of Nigeria, Malaysia, and Brunei. He has spent the last ten years in headquarters roles, initially as Vice President of Conventional Oil & Gas Projects, responsible for Shell’s Upstream projects outside the Americas and thereafter in his final role leading the company’s global engineering and projects functions, supporting oil, gas, downstream and renewables projects and operations worldwide, as well as the development of the company’s 8000 projects and engineering staff. Graham’s assignments have predominantly been in technical roles though he also led Shell’s businesses in Syria until the suspension of operations in the country in 2012 and thereafter undertook a short assignment as Vice President Government Relations International. Graham had served on the IOGP Engineering Leadership Council since 2018, completing a 4-year term as Chair in July, and has been a member of the IOGP Board since 2019.
Chair of IOGP European Committee- Director of ORLEN S.A. Representative office in Brussels
Aneta Wilmanska, Director of ORLEN S.A. Representative Office in Brussels, and between 2016 and 2022 Director of PGNiG S.A. Office in Brussels. Since October 2024 a Chairperson of IOGP European Committee, since 2019 in a role of a vice-chair of the Committee. Aneta has 13- year experience in holding senior positions in Polish governmental administration in areas of: sustainable economic development, environment, climate change and SMEs (2001-2014). Over 2011-2013 A. Wilmanska was Undersecretary of State (vice-minister) in Polish Ministry of Environment in charge of Polish financing system, including financing from the EU cohesion policy for environmental, energy and climate investments. Previously, over 2004-2011 she was a Deputy CEO of the Polish Agency for Enterprises Development and a Deputy director in the Ministry of Economy involved SMEs & innovation policies implementation under cohesion policy and coordination of National Reform Programme for Poland. In 2001 A. Wilmanska joint the team in the Ministry of Economy and was involved in the process of Poland’s accession to the EU. Aneta is a graduate of International Relations from University of Lodz and Management from University of Warsaw. She also graduated from Executive MBA at Kozminski University. Aneta is an alumni of Erasmus/Socrates Programme (1999-2000) and Marshall Memorial Fund of the German Marshall Fund (2011).
François-Régis has around 30 years of international experience in the oil & gas industry. He is seconded to IOGP from Total, where he was Vice President for Oil & Gas Advocacy. His career took him from reservoir engineering in Europe and Africa, to gas and power business development in the UK and Northern Europe, a senior advisory role in the World Bank’s Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, and Total’s European Affairs activities in Brussels. In 2011, François-Régis also founded GasNaturally, a now well-established Brussels-based partnership representing the entire European gas value chain, where he served four terms as Chairman and was instrumental in formulating the industry’s position on ‘the future of gas in a post-COP21 environment’.
Head of Strategy & Communications, IOGP Europe Secretary of the European Board
Nareg leads IOGP Europe’s Strategy and Communications work. He also serves as Secretary of IOGP’s European Board and as Manager of IOGP’s European Committee. His role is to shape IOGP Europe’s overall public affairs strategy, tactics and positioning, and to coordinate the roll-out of advocacy activities in support of IOGP Europe’s regulatory work. Nareg has 10 years of European public affairs experience in service of the oil and gas industry. He previously worked as a consultant in a leading European public affairs consultancy’s energy team and in TotalEnergies’ European Affairs division in Brussels.
