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

Daniel Berkove

S&P Global

Senior Advisor, Energy

Daniel R. Berkove, Senior Advisor, Energy, S&P Global, leads business development for S&P Global's energy consulting practice in Africa and the East Mediterranean region, focusing on strategic and national growth initiaties. He 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 2013, he established the private Africa Energy and Economy 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

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 07:15am - 08:20am (CST) / 20/mar/2024 12:15 pm - 20/mar/2024 01:20 pm

    Africa’s Energy Future: Access, investment and sustainability
    Strategy and Business Models

    Africa’s major oil and gas producers leverage hydrocarbon production to generate government revenue and drive economic development. But recently they have struggled to achieve their full potential. How has turmoil in oil and gas markets and climate considerations in recent years affected the continent’s producers? Where are investments most needed and how can African producers attract capital? How can Africa’s oil and gas producing countries plan for the energy transition to grow sustainably?  

  • 05:00pm - 05:40pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 10:00 pm - 20/mar/2024 10:40 pm

    Spotlight | Africa's Energy Future: Opportunities and Constraints
    Geopolitics

    Governments want to attract foreign investment, but revenue generation is not their only goal.They are also looking for investment that will boost infrastructure development, job creation, social welfare and help meet environmental objectives. Given this complex and dynamic landscape, how do African governments set their hierarchy of priorities? What opportunities and constraints do they contend with today, and how do they plan for tomorrow? What government policies are Africa’s natural resource ministers developing to be competitive, drive investment and support economic growth?