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

Paul Markwell

S&P Global

Senior Associate, CERAWeek

Paul Markwell, Senior Associate, S&P Global, is an independent Energy sector advisor with 40 years experience spanning technical and executive roles in upstream oil and gas companies, and research and advisory firms. His current focus is around helping energy sector players accelerate the use of new technologies in low carbon solutions. Paul spent 17 years with IHS Markit companies until 2021 and is a longstanding speaker and moderator at CERAWeek. In his last full-time position at IHS Markit he was Vice President for its Global Upstream Oil & Gas Insight business, where his teams provided insights and consulting services to a wide range of energy sector players on themes including company strategies and transactions; E&P terms and aboveground risk; costs, technology and basin strategies. Previously in IHS and CERA he led various research and consulting teams and he led a number of energy policy advisory programs for governments in the MENA region. Paul previously held posts at McKinsey and Company as an upstream expert consultant and as European Petroleum Practice Manager. The first half of his career was spent in operational, commercial and country manager roles in Shell and other international E&P in the Netherlands, Thailand, the UK and Pakistan. Mr. Markwell holds a BSc from Imperial College, London, and an MBA from Henley Management College. He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute in the UK and an Honorary Fellow of Brunel University, London, where he served as an independent member of Council and Audit committee chair.

Sessions With Paul Markwell

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 03:30pm - 04:00pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 08:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 09:00 pm

    Disruptors in Low-carbon Technology
    Innovation & Technology

    A wide range of technologies are being researched by academia or implemented in industry that, if delivered at scale, could significantly impact the economics and sustainability of energy use over the next 10 to 20 years. What pathways are there for innovations in low-carbon fuels, materials, AI,  etc., to change current assertions about the roadmap to net zero? To what extent is there potential for “disruption” in low-carbon solutions? Is the impact of these innovations a function the uniqueness of a new technology, or its scalability, based on markets or human capabilities?

     

  • 04:30pm - 05:10pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 09:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 10:10 pm

    ARPA-E: Spotlight on energy startups
    Innovation & Technology

    The DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) invests in innovative, early-stage ideas from academia, private industry, national labs, start-up companies and small businesses. How are some of the agency’s brightest, emerging energy startups with innovations around emissions monitoring, energy storage and zero-carbon cement being set up for success? How do some of their challenges compare? To help them scale, what financial and non-financial help do these companies need next? 

Thursday, 21 March

  • 12:30pm - 01:00pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 05:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 06:00 pm

    Corporate Venture's Role in Supporting Innovation and Startups
    Start-ups

    Corporate venture capital (CVC) groups provide support to startups in several ways―expert input, pilot projects, finance, access to certain markets, etc. But startups typically need access to many sources of funds and market access to grow. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corporate VC programs for supporting startups? What role can corporate VC’s play in later-stage commercial growth or exits?