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

Atul Arya

IHS Markit

Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist

Dr. Atul Arya, Senior Vice President and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit is responsible for integrating energy content, analysis, and insights across the entire energy value chain and for c-suite client engagements. The Energy division has an international presence, with over 500 colleagues and office locations on five continents. Legacy product brands including CERA, Herold, Purvin & Gertz, McCloskey, and EER are now part of the Energy business. Dr. Arya’s areas of expertise include business strategy, commercial analysis, oil markets, energy technologies, climate change, and renewables. He has over 30 years of leadership experience in the energy industry, including senior posts with BP. Dr. Arya’s experience includes leadership in solar energy development as well as oil and gas sector. His international career spans a range of energy fields from strategy development and business planning to field operations and technology commercialization. Dr. Arya has previously led Energy Insight, Research and Analysis, and Energy Research teams at IHS. He has previously served on boards of several companies and institutions including Tata BP Solar, Green Mountain Energy, and National Council for Atmospheric Research. Dr. Arya was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Agenda Council on the Future of Oil and Gas and Adjunct Senior Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations in the United States. He is a regular speaker and moderator at public conferences, company boards, and at CERAWeek. Dr. Arya holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Sessions With Atul Arya

Monday, 11 March

  • 02:30pm - 03:15pm (CST) / -

    Company Strategies in a Time of Change
    Panel Finance/Trading/Risk Management Geopolitics/Energy Policy/Economics
  • 04:30pm - 05:15pm (CST) / -

    Voices of Innovation with Fatih Birol: Solving Energy and Climate Puzzle
    Interview Technology/Innovation

    Dr. Birol returns to the Agora for a deep discussion on energy transition. How fast can technology drive this change? How is geopolitics shaping global energy markets? Why is shale the game changer? Can renewables become a significant portion of the world's energy mix? Is there irrational exuberance about the pace of EV penetration? Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit.

  • 05:45pm - 06:30pm (CST) / -

    Voices of Innovation:  Ashok Belani and Blake Moret

    Join Ashok Belani and Blake Moret as they share their vision to create end-to-end solutions and technology platform to automate entire upstream operations from drilling to production, well to terminal, conventional and unconventional, onshore and offshore. Will this be the answer to provide complete lifecycle and process automation solutions? Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit.

  • 07:30pm - 09:00pm (CST) / -

    Investment Strategies in a Low-Carbon World
    Panel Climate/Environment/Sustainability Finance/Trading/Risk Management

    The idea of an energy transition to a low-carbon world has now gone mainstream. The combination of concern about the risks of climate change and focus about new clean technologies has captured the public attention, the interest of the general press, and some of the political dialogue in almost every country. For companies in the energy business, this has brought pressure in the form of shareholder resolutions, and calls for divestment from fossil fuels. This pressure is coming from major investors. Is money moving into low-carbon investments? Will the shift in sentiment constrict ability to invest in oil and gas and lead to higher prices? How should companies respond?

Tuesday, 12 March

Wednesday, 13 March

Thursday, 14 March

Friday, 15 March