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

David Foley

Blackstone

Global Head of Blackstone Energy Transition Partners

David I. Foley is a Senior Managing Director in the Private Equity Group and Global Head of Blackstone Energy Transition Partners. Mr. Foley is based in New York and is responsible for overseeing Blackstone’s private equity investment activities in the energy sector on a global basis. Since joining Blackstone in 1995, Mr. Foley has been responsible for building the Blackstone energy practice and has played an integral role in every energy-related private equity deal that the firm has made. Mr. Foley actively leads our investment activities and provides guidance and support to the other BEP senior investment professionals, who each have primary responsibility for specific sectors. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Foley worked with AEA Investors and prior to that he worked as a management consultant for Monitor Company. Mr. Foley serves as a member of the Board of Directors for several BEP investments, including Beacon Offshore Energy, Geosyntec, Kinetik, Olympus Energy and Rover. He also serves as the Chairman of the Columbia University Medical Center Ophthalmology Board of Advisors. Mr. Foley received a B.A. and M.A. in Economics, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from Northwestern University and received an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Sessions With David Foley

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 11:50am - 12:40pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 04:50 pm - 19/mar/2024 05:40 pm

    Growing Weight of Private Capital Across Energy

    Finance & Investment/Trading & Risk Management

    Private capital has played an outsized and impactful role in energy transition investing over the past two years. Scaled-up energy transition opportunities emerged at the very moment private capital came to dominate financial deal flow, creating a huge opportunity for private equity and debt firms to deploy long-term investments into the future direction of the energy economy. Will this trend continue? Will private market investors dominate the cleantech-led energy economy? What clean energy technologies are private capital looking at now?