• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Hendrik Gordenker

JERA Co. Inc.

Director & Senior Advisor

Hendrik Gordenker, Senior Corporate Vice President, Director, JERA Co., Inc., assumed the position of Chief Global Strategist in April 2019. He previously served as Chairman of JERA from April 2016 to March 2019 after acting as Senior Advisor and External Expert to JERA from its founding in April 2015. Mr. Gordenker was involved in the conception and establishment of JERA. Since joining JERA, he has contributed to enhancing its global presence and capability, to strengthening its governance, to advancing its strategy, to increasing its diversity, and to completing numerous seminal transactions executed during JERA’s first years. Mr. Gordenker continues to serve on JERA’s Board of Directors and has responsibility for the further enhancement of JERA’s strategy, global relationships, and risk management structure. Mr. Gordenker has a long-time involvement in Japan and the global energy business. After living in Japan in the early 1980s, he returned to the United States to study. He began practicing law in Washington, DC in 1988. He then moved to Tokyo in 2000, and was recognized regionally and globally as a leading energy lawyer with particular expertise in LNG and power. From 2015 he began acting as an independent Strategic Advisor in the energy business. Mr. Gordenker holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, and a joint MPA/JD from Princeton University and Columbia University.

Sessions With Hendrik Gordenker

Thursday, 14 March