Oil Trader Academy
Trevor Christmas
Trevor Christmas has 30 years
experience in the energy industry with BP, and more recently, with the
IPE. At BP, he held senior management positions in London, Asia and the
Americas mainly in trading and downstream. At the IPE, he was
responsible for the Exchange’s marketing services worldwide in oil, gas
and electricity.
David Richards
David
Richards has over 30 years experience in the international oil and
natural gas business with the BP Group. He gained a breadth of
experience in senior management positions within the downstream
marketing business in the UK, Europe and South Africa, involving
Directorships in a number of BP subsidiaries.
Tom James
Professor
Tom James has built up 20 years of practical expertise in the Energy,
Emissions and International Commodity markets. His broad experience
covers investment and trading with a particular focus on Asian, Central
Asian, and Middle East Markets. His career has spanned the complete
value and business process chain and through this he has built up a
holistic understanding of the key elements of investment, trading and
risk management decision making. In 2003 he published his first book
offering practical guidance to corporate managers and new traders in
the energy and commodity sector and since then has published three more
books and contributed to two others, including Energy Markets (Wiley
Finance 2008), Energy & Emissions Markets (Wiley Finance 2006).
Since 2006 he has held the Chair Professorship for LNG business at the
University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, and in November 2008 for
his contribution to written knowledge in the Energy Trading field was
awarded the title of Distinguished Professor. In October 2009 he
started co-operation with the Singapore Management University’
International Trading Institute (SMU ITI) as a visiting Executive
Faculty member and as a Research Fellow. Tom is a regular commentator
on BBC World, CNBC, and Bloomberg television on topics related to
international energy and emissions market related issues.
John Fry
John Fry has worked in the energy
markets since 1986 when he joined Man International as a broker on the
oil desk. He specialised in futures and options and qualified as a
trader in the IPE option pit. He executed the first principal OTC oil
deals for Man and became head of the energy desk in London. John moved
over to the OTC energy market in 1997 and worked for Koch Petroleum
Group helping to develop their energy derivatives business.
Ken Mildwaters
Ken
Mildwaters read jurisprudence (B.Juris. (Hons)) and law (LL.B) at the
University of Western Australia, Australia and law (Ph.D.) at the
Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the
University of Dundee, Scotland. Ken Mildwaters has been a partner at
the London office of global law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius, and
of-counsel for another global firm, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &
McCloy, focusing on corporate, commercial and natural resources law. He
founded and managed law practices on behalf of a joint venture of law
firms Dewey Ballantine and Theodore Goddard, in the Czech Republic,
Hungary and Poland. Dr Mildwaters has presented numerous papers and
conducted workshops in the fields of natural resources law, joint
ventures and joint operating agreement, negotiation skills and managing
in-house legal functions. His academic interests lie in the
intersection of law and business, where he has concentrated on joint
ventures/joint operating agreements and negotiation.
Henry Curra has been an economist and shipping analyst for over 12 years, specialising in oil trade, transportation and logistics. He was chartering representative with a major ship-owner before specialising in commodity and shipping analysis with business information providers and, more recently, shipbrokers. He spent three years as a tanker analyst with Poten & Partners and is now Head of Research and Consulting with ACM Shipping Ltd.
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