Kevin Birn
S&P Global
Head, Centre of Emissions Excellence
Mr. Birn is based in Calgary and is responsible for the Centre of Emission Excellence within S&P Global Commodity Insights. The Centre is responsible for accelerating Commodity Insights emissions estimation by helping to identify and inform strategic priorities, ensuring consistency in estimation across business lines, and providing technical support and guidance to develop new models, methods and tools in the estimation of GHG emissions across energy value chains. Mr. Birn has over a decade of experience engaging and advising governments, companies and industry on emission accounting estimation as well as decarbonization strategies. Mr. Birn is also an established thought leader on the Canadian oil market and serves as the Chief Analyst for the Canadian Oil Market. Mr. Birn is currently a fellow at the Canadian Global Affair Institute. Mr. Birn holds an undergraduate degree in business and a graduate degree in economics from the University of Alberta.