• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Eduard Ruijs

Vitol

Head of Energy Transition

Eduard Ruijs, Head of Transition of Vitol, oversees the development of Vitol’s growing portfolio of transitional and sustainable energy investments.  To date, Vitol has committed over $2bn to identified sustainable projects and has an extensive pipeline of new projects currently under review. Today’s portfolio comprises a range of activities and geographies; from renewable generation to biogas, methane capture and the electrification of transport. In addition to optimising its performance, Eduard will lead the portfolio’s future development, identifying promising new technologies and developments that fit strategically with Vitol’s core energy business. He is representing Vitol on the board of Vortex, VTTI, Vigo, VEV, SunMobility, and WPU.   

Eduard joined Vitol in May 2023, and before that was running BlackRock’s infrastructure investments business in EMEA and Asia, and was responsible for the fund’s investments in Kellas Midstream (and its H2NorthEast project), ADNOC Oil Pipelines, Aramco Gas Pipelines, Tata Power Renewables, GasLog LNG, PetroFirst, Covanta Dublin Waste to Energy, Renovalia Energy (and Demex) and Medgaz.  

He began his career at Kearney before moving to The Boston Consulting Group and NIBC Infrastructure Partners.  In 2011 he joined First Reserve Corporation as a managing director focused on investments in the energy sector, before moving to BlackRock in 2017.

Sessions With Eduard Ruijs

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 04:10pm - 04:50pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 09:10 pm - 20/mar/2024 09:50 pm

    The “Capital Transition” for the energy transition
    Finance & Investment/Trading & Risk Management

    In the past decade, rapid technology changes, regulatory shifts and volatile interest rates have clouded both the economic outlook and the prospective energy mix, heralding a new uncertain landscape for energy investing. Nonetheless, investors and their counterparts are finding ways forward—and have deployed record amounts of capital into cleantech. How do major investors think about risk? How do they view energy transition opportunities? And what are their forecasts for the next big growth areas in energy?  

Thursday, 21 March

  • 11:55am - 12:45pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 04:55 pm - 21/mar/2024 05:45 pm

    New Capital for New Energy
    Finance & Investment/Trading & Risk Management

    Energy hasn’t been this exciting for investors in decades. Two revolutions are intersecting and creating huge opportunities—cleantech costs have fallen rapidly while financial power in the sector shifted from traditional banks to new investors. Whether corporations investing in their own balance sheets, or private equity players and sovereign funds moving into new businesses, firms are deploying capital across every part of a rapidly changing energy landscape. Learn how these leaders in capital allocation combine the skillsets of traditional energy finance with novel capitalization approaches and balance the requirements of natural resource businesses with breakthrough technologies.