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

Helen Currie

ConocoPhillips

Chief Economist

Helen Currie is chief economist for ConocoPhillips. Currie has over 20 years experience in the energy industry with ConocoPhillips and BG Group. Prior to her current role, she held leadership positions in corporate strategy, business development, upstream and downstream business analysis, commercial risk management and IT risk systems. Prior to entering the energy sector, Currie held roles in academia as a  finance professor and in government as an economic analyst. She has published work in finance and management journals and energy industry research. Currie is a noted industry expert and frequent speaker at industry venues. She was named as one of Oil & Gas Investor’s Top 25 Influential Women in Energy in 2018. She is president of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics and a member of the Mississippi State University Foundation board of directors where she chairs the Investment Committee.  Currie holds a PhD in Finance from Mississippi State University, a Master’s in Economics from University of 
Washington and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Millsaps College.

Sessions With Helen Currie

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    Carbon Pricing & Policies: Choices & strategies
    Panel Climate & Sustainability

    Climate action is an imperative for the energy industry. Companies and countries adopt policies such as a price on carbon to reduce emissions intensity in pursuit of climate change goals. These policies are popular, but are they effecting real change? What are the economic and environmental costs and benefits of pricing carbon today? And what types of policies might be needed to achieve longer-term climate goals?