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

Andy Barrett

S&P Global

Senior Advisor, Global Gas & Power, Energy

Andy Barrett, Senior Advisor, Global Gas & Power, Energy, S&P Global, has an extensive background in the international energy business, previously with broad senior careers in Shell and BG. As a founding Executive Vice President with the BG Group, he had responsibility for multiple regional operations upstream and downstream, together with leadership for the strategy, business development, electric power, and regulatory functions, and he led BG’s major entry into Brazil. Since 2001 Dr. Barrett has led a wide range of IHS Markit's energy consulting studies for governments and for major upstream and downstream gas, independent power producers, and utilities in Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. He has led multiple national energy master-plan and policy studies. He co-headed the IHS Energy Policy Dialogue with the EU and key European stakeholders/NGOs and has coauthored major reports on the future of global and European gas and LNG, the future of Middle East energy, financing European renewables, new business models for the electricity sector, and three updates on “Sound European Energy Policy” focused around the EU initiatives. Dr. Barrett co-wrote the chapter “Alleviating Energy Poverty in Africa” for the 2014 book Energy Poverty: Global Challenges and Local Solutions. He is an Adjunct Professor with the Haskayne Business School (University of Calgary), contributing to their energy executive MBA program. He holds a number of directorships of midsize European energy and service companies and acts as an operating partner for a large private equity firm. Dr. Barrett is qualified with the Institute of Chemical Engineers, is an alumnus of Wharton Business School, and holds a PhD from Oxford University.

Sessions With Andy Barrett

Wednesday, 13 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    How Will LNG Infrastructure Be Financed?
    Panel Gas Finance/Trading/Risk Management

    With a record inventory of new LNG projects competing to meet growth in demand, how will the winners be funded? Will traditional commercial and risk management approaches lose out to new business models? Can novel sources of financing be accessed, and can these sources significantly increase the availability and lower the cost of capital? Insights from leading developers, stakeholders, and financial institutions will help inform these questions.

Thursday, 14 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    Emerging Economies: Reinventing the power sector in Africa
    Panel Power Geopolitics/Energy Policy/Economics

    As emerging markets take the lead in power demand growth and renewable capacity additions, they will serve as testbeds for new technologies and market structures. Government, developer, investor, and other stakeholders discuss how transitioning economies will reform power sectors in the age of digitalization and electrification. How can they balance long-term resource adequacy and price stability with decentralized and distributed options? What level of revenue risk does an investor perceive in a newly restructured and privatized power market?