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

Mark Bynoe

Co-operative Republic of Guyana, Ministry of the Presidency, Department of Energy

Director, Department of Energy

Dr. Mark Bynoe, Director, Department of Energy, Guyana, has over 25 years of experience in academia, the public and private sectors, and as Deputy Executive Director and Senior Resource Economist at the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC). Dr. Bynoe was appointed as the inaugural Director, Department of Energy, Ministry of the Presidency (Guyana) on 1 August 2018. He has over 20 publications in reputable journals in the areas of resource economics, sustainable development, and trade reforms. His areas of interest are in natural resource accounting, natural resource governance, and financing. Dr. Bynoe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Guyana, a Master of Science degree from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD from the University of East Anglia, as well as post-graduate study at the University of Guyana, Harvard University, and St. George’s University.


Sessions With Mark Bynoe

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Latin American E&P: Increasing competitiveness
    Upstream Oil & Gas

    The Latin American upstream sector has some of the best subsurface opportunities available globally. Basins such as offshore Brazil, the Guyana Basin on the Equatorial Margin, and the onshore Neuquén Basin all illustrate the depth of potential investment interest in several other basins in the region. However, the aboveground offering must also be competitive. Shifting realities, risks, and policies toward investment all interact to the region’s detriment. Can policymakers in the region enhance competitiveness to capture a larger share of what promises to be suppressed global spending in E&P? Can gas market reforms and midstream liberalizations unlock the region’s upstream opportunities? How do companies and governments see the impact of the energy transition on Latin American E&P?