• 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, 12 March

  • 11:35am - 12:35pm (CST) / -

    Oil Markets: Riding the wild roller coaster
    Panel Oil Geopolitics/Energy Policy/Economics

    In the past six months, discussions about the price of oil have ranged from $100 to “how low can it go?” This variation reflects a change in market psychology from concern about “too little” oil to “too much” oil. During this session, we will discuss perspectives on global oil demand, supply, price, and geopolitics. What do they mean for the global oil market in 2019 and beyond?