24th World Energy Congress Update: Ministers, Heads of Delegation, Press Registration

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Started by the World Energy Council in 1924, the World Energy Congress is the largest and most influential energy event covering all aspects of the energy agenda. The event is an unique opportunity for participants and media to better understand energy issues and solutions from a truly global perspective.

Members of the press can now officially register!

All sessions are open to journalists and registration is free to editorial representatives upon verification of official press credentials. Read the full programme here! Bear in mind that the official conference language is English.
Please feel free to invite news, business and trade media outlets to cover the ground breaking insights that will be shared and to produce hundreds of business stories.

A new round of Ministers and Heads of Delegation have now confirmed their attendance to the 24th Congress (click on each image to view full size):

Left to right, top to bottom:

Hon. J.M. Gumbo: Minister of Energy and Power Development, Zimbabwe
Tom K. Alweendo: Minister of Mines and Energy, Namibia
Dr. Siri Jirapongphan: Minister of Energy, Thailand
H.E. Joao Galamba: Secretary of State for Energy, Government of Portugal
Prof. Abubakar Sani Sambo: Special Advisor to the Nigerian President, Government of Nigeria

H.E. Arnoldo Wiens Durksen: Minister of Public Works and Communications, Government of Paraguay
H.E. Omar bin Sultan Al Olama: Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Ministry of Cabinet Affairs & Future, UAE
President Macky Sall: President of Senegal
H.E. Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima: Minister of Mines, Industry and Energy, Government of Equatorial Guinea

More confirmed speakers below:

Government speakers

H.E. Mustapha Guitouni, Minister of Energy, Government of Algeria
H.E. Bachir Ismael Ouedraogo, Minister of Energy, Government of Burkina Faso
H.E.Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy, Government of the Russian Federation; Member Committee Chair, World Energy Council
H.E. Khalid Al-Falih, Minister of Energy, Industry & Mineral Resources, Government of Saudi Arabia
H.E. Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Minister of Oil, Government of Bahrain
H.E. Ibrahim Al-Muhanna, Advisor to the Minister of Energy, Industry & Mineral Resources, Government of Saudi Arabia; Vice Chair for the Gulf States/Middle East, World Energy Council
H.E. Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy, Government of the United Arab Emirates; Member Committee Chair, World Energy Council
H.E. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of State; Chief Executive Officer, Government of the United Arab Emirates; Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)
H.E. Matar Al Neyadi, Undersecretary of Energy, Government of the United Arab Emirates; Chair, Congress Organising Committee, World Energy Council

H.E. Fatima Alfoora Al Shamsi, Assistant Undersecretary for Electricity, Water and Future Energy; CEO, UAE Ministry of Energy and Industry; Organising Committee of the 2019 World Energy Congress
H.E. Abbas A. Al-Naqi, Secretary General, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC)
Dan Brouillette, Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Energy
H.E. Abdul Hussain bin Ali Mirza, Minister of Electricity and Water, Government of Bahrain
H.E. Hala Adel Zawati, Minister of Energy & Mineral Resources, Government of Jordan
Abdulah Al-Akwa, Minister of Electricity & Energy, Government of Yemen
H.E. Joe Mizzi, Minister for Energy and Water Management, Government of Malta

IGO speakers

Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)
Xiansheng Sun, Secretary General, International Energy Forum (IEF)
Yury Sentyurin, Secretary General, Gas Exporting Countries Forum
Mohammad Barkindo, Director General, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Martin Frick, Senior Director, Policy and Programme Coordination, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Rachel Kyte, Chief Executive Officer, SE4All
Tareq Emtairah, Director, Department of Energy, UNIDO
Sergio Suchodolski, Director General on Partnership & Strategy, New Development Bank
Keiko Honda, Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

Riccardo Puliti, Senior Director, Energy & Extractives World Bank (WB)
Alfonso Blanco Bonilla, Executive Secretary (OLADE) Organización Latinoamericana de Energía (OLADE)
Nandita Parshad, Managing Director, Energy & Natural Resources European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Luis Bertrán Rafecas, Secretary General, International Gas Union (IGU)
Richard G. Newell, President and Chief Executive Officer Resources for the Future (RFF)
Rhee Han Woo, Director, Korea Energy Agency
Ahmed Badr, Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director, Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE)
Ms. Linda Wright, Chief Executive, New Zealand Hydrogen Association

Business

Muqsit Ashraf, Managing Director & Global Head of Energy, Accenture Strategy
Carmen Becerril, Chief International Officer, Acciona
Paddy Padmanathan, President & Chief Executive Officer, ACWA Power
Jason Drew, President & Chief Executive Officer, AgriProtein Technologies
Ian Gardner, Director, ARUP
Lorenzo Simonelli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Baker Hughes, a GE Company
Martin Brudermüller, Chief Executive Officer, BASF
Atul Sobti, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
Steve Bolze, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Infrastructure Operations and Asset Management, Blackstone
Claudia Cronenbold, President, Bolivian Chamber of Hydrocarbons and Energy (CBHE)
José Antonio Vargas Lleras, President, CODENSA; Chair, Communications & Strategy Committee, World Energy Council
Remi Eriksen, Group President & Chief Executive Officer, DNV GL
Johannes Teyssen, Chief Executive Officer, E.ON
Paul Ellis, Executive Chairman, Co-founder, Electron
Joanna Hubbard, Chief Operating Officer, Electron
Mohamed Al Hammadi , Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC)
Claudio Descalzi, Chief Executive Officer, ENI
Stefan Dohler, Chief Executive Officer, EWE AG
Wendy Green, Chief Executive Officer, Fusion Energy Holdings
René Bautz, Chief Executive Officer; Chairman Gaznat; Global Gas Centre
Russell Stokes, President & Chief Executive Officer, GE Power
Jérôme Pécresse, President & Chief Executive Officer, GE Renewable Energy
Eric Martel, Chief Executive Officer, Hydro-Quebec
Bernardo Vargas Gibsone, President, ISA
Scott Schnipper, Managing Director, JP Morgan
Mohammed Jameel al Ramahi, Chief Executive Officer, Masdar
Klaus Bonhoff, Managing Director (Chair), Nationale Organisation Wasserstoffund Brennstofzellentechnologie
Peter Coleman, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Woodside
Lord Edmund John Phillip Browne, Executive Chairman, L1 Energy (UK) LLP
Wilson Ferreira Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Eletrobras
Richard Lancaster, Chief Executive Officer, CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd, Member Committee Chair, World Energy Council
Mohamed Arkab, Chief Executive Officer, Sonelgaz; Chair, World Energy Council
Dongwook Kim, Senior Vice President, Hyundai Motor Group
Nuno Silva, Strategic Projects Director, EFACEC Energy

Gurdeep Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, NTPC Ltd.
Francois Austin, Partner & Global Head, Energy, Oliver Wyman Group
David Martin, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Power Ledger
Norbert Schwieters, Global leader, Energy Utilities & Resources, PwC
Jeroen van Hoof, Global Leader, Power & Utilities, PwC
Alexey Likhachev, Director General, Rosatom
Rolf Martin Schmitz , Chief Executive Officer, RWE AG
Lisa Davis, Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG
Charity Wanjiku, Co-Founder, Strauss Energy
Shigeru Muraki, Executive Advisor, Tokyo Gas Company Ltd.; Vice Chair for Asia Pacific/South Asia, World Energy Council
Luis Miguel Morelli, President, ANH
Lucia Bakulumpagi-Wamala, CEO & Founder, Bakulu Power
Mansoor Hamayun, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Bboxx
Richard Poulden, Chairman, Black Swan PLC.
Hando Sutter, Chairman of the Management Board, Eesti Energia AS
Jean-Bernard Lévy, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Electricité de France (EDF)
Marianne Laigneau, Group Senior Executive Vice President, International Division, Electricité de France (EDF)
Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, Chairman, ENGIE
Isabelle Kocher, Chief Executive Officer, ENGIE
Alessandro Costa, Sustainability, Communication & Sustainability, Falck Renewables S.p.A.
Satoru Katsuno, Chairman / President, Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan / Chubu Electric Power Company
Sampriti Bhattacharyya, Chief Executive Officer, Hydroswarm
Dany Qian, Vice President, JinkoSolar
John Hopkins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, NuScale Power
Josu Jon Imaz, Chief Executive Officer, Repsol
Neil Bruce, President & Chief Executive Officer, SNC-Lavalin
Guenter Butschek, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Motors Group
Keith Martin, Member of the Board of Management, Chief Commercial Officer, Uniper
Almassadam Satkaliyev, Managing Director, Sovereign Wealth Fund - Kazyna; World Energy Council
Kıvanç Zaimler, Energy Group President; Vice Chair Sabancı Holding / WEC Turkey
Veronica Garcia, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Bitlumens
Sara Vakhshouri, President, SVB Energy International
Patrick Pouyanné, CEO, Total
Mr. Kim Yin Wong, Group Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Power
Mr. Takayuki Ueda, President & Chief Executive Officer, INPEX

Civil Society & Key Experts

Frederic Kempe, Chief Executive Officer, Atlantic Council
Meagan Fallone, Chief Executive Officer, Barefoot College
Christian Zinglersen , Head of Secretariat , Clean Energy Ministerial
Amy Myers Jaffe, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment; Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council On Foreign Relations (CFR)
Andreas Kuhlmann, Chief Executive, DENA
Ewald Hesse, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Web Foundation
Craig Bennett, Chief Executive Officer, Friends of the Earth
Sandra Ro, Chief Executive Officer, Global Blockchain Business Council
Liu Zhenya, Chairman, Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) & China Electricity Council
Xiansheng Sun, Secretary General, International Energy Forum
Tatiana Mitrova, Head of Energy Center , Skolkovo Business School
Yana Popkostova, Founder and Managing Director, European Centre for Energy and Geopolitical Analysis (ECEGA.EU)
Bernard Bigot, Director General, ITER
David Victor, Professor & Director of Laboratory on International Law & Regulation, University of California
Paul Kearns , Laboratory Director, Argonne Energy Labs
Steve Berberich, Chief Executive Officer, California ISO
Robert C. Armstrong, Director, MIT Energy Initiative
Andrew Steer, President & Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute
Kenji Yamaji, Director-General, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth

Adnan Shihab-Eldin, Director General, Kuwait Foundation of the Advancement of Science
Doug Arent, Executive Director, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Jules Kortenhorst, Chief Executive Officer, Rocky Mountain Institute
Sean Cleary, Chairman, Strategic Concepts
Agneta Rising, Director General, World Nuclear Association
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Global Leader for Climate & Energy, WWF International
Ana Trbovich, Co-Founder, Energy Web Foundation
Loïc Fauchon, President, World Water Council
Paul Smith Lomas, Chief Executive, Practical Action
Adam Sieminski, President, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies & Research Center (KAPSARC)
Astrid Alvarez, President, Grupo de Energia de Bogota (GEB)
Piyush Verma, Senior Energy Market Analyst, International Energy Research Center
Daniel Schmerler, Chairman, International Confederation of Energy Regulators
Jonathan Elkind, Fellow and Senior Adjunct Research Scholar Center on Global Energy Policy, SIPA, University of Columbia
Ella Minty, Co-Chair of Energy Leadership Platform, Chartered Institute of Public Relations
Younkyoo Kim, Director , The Center for Energy Governance and Security at Hanyang University; Division of International Studies
Leena Srivastava, Vice Chancellor, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

World Energy Council Global Leadership

Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, Chair, Finance Committee, World Energy Council
Oleg Budargin, Vice Chair, Responsibility for Regional Development, World Energy Council
José Da Costa Carvalho Neto, Chair of the Programme Committee, World Energy Council
Ged Davis, Executive Chair, World Energy Scenarios, World Energy Council
Jean-Marie Dauger, Co-Chair, World Energy Council
Christoph Frei, Secretary General & Chief Executive Officer, World Energy Council
Elham Ibrahim, Vice Chair for Africa, World Energy Council
Philippe Joubert, Senior Advisor, World Energy Council
Arthur Hanna, Senior Advisor to CEO, World Energy Council

Seetapathy Chander, Advisor, World Energy Council
Younghoon David Kim, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Daesung Group; Chair, World Energy Council
Leonhard Birnbaum, Member of the Board of Management, E.ON; Vice Chair, Studies Committee, World Energy Council
Robert Hanf, Executive Vice President, Stakeholder Relations & Regulatory Affairs, Emera Inc.; Vice Chair for North America, World Energy Council
Gina Domanig, Chief Executive Officer, Emerald Ventures; Co - Chair, Innovation & Issues Monitor, World Energy Council
Philip Lowe, Executive Chair, World Energy Trilemma, World Energy Council
Jeroen van der Veer, Executive Chair, Dynamic Resilience, World Energy Council