• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Daniel Berkove

S&P Global

Senior Advisor, Energy

Daniel R. Berkove, Senior Advisor, Energy, S&P Global, is an advisor to senior levels of business and government, serving in this capacity for over two decades. He has extensive experience spearheading major consulting initiatives across Africa, the Middle East, and Eurasia that address complex, high-value, and multi-stakeholder issues. These include projects focused on strategy development, competitiveness and innovation, corporate transformation, integrated resource planning, and the nexus of energy sector and economic development.

Daniel is also a member of the CERAWeek leadership team heading CERAWeek's Africa- and East Mediterranean-focused content and community and supporting VIPs from regional governments and national oil companies. In 2014 he established the private Africa Forum, when he served as Co-Chair of the inaugural Africa Energy Summit. In addition, he has served in executive and board positions for organizations across a range of sectors including chemicals recycling, commodity trading, IPP development, fintech, mobility technology, and poverty reduction.

During his career, Daniel has been variously based in Israel, France, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He presently serves as a board member of Innovation: Africa and ARIS. Fluent in Russian and Hebrew, Mr. Berkove holds a BA from the University of Michigan.

Sessions With Daniel Berkove

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Competing for Upstream Investment: Rewriting Africa's story

    Panel Oil Gas Geopolitics/Energy Policy/Economics Finance/Trading/Risk Management
    Africa offers a vast array of frontier, emerging, and mature phase basins for upstream players across a range of aboveground challenges and risks in both Saharan and Sub-Saharan regions. Substantial volumes of oil and (mainly) gas have been discovered over the past decade and now offer opportunities for monetization. Several upcoming exploration wells have the potential to be play openers and many governments aspire to have new licensing rounds, but the global competition for upstream risk capital is intense. What role should NOCs play? How can aboveground factors be best managed—by investors, NOCs, and host governments— to maximize value for all? Are governments positioned to compete for a more limited pool of upstream capital?

Wednesday, 13 March