Carlos Pascual keynote speaker

Senior Vice President and Partner, Global Energy and International Affairs, IHS Markit
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ABOUT SPEAKER

Carlos Pascual, former senior US diplomat and previously the State Department’s top energy official, joined IHS Markit in January 2015 as Senior Vice President to focus on global energy issues and international affairs. As the former US Energy Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the State Department, Mr. Pascual established and directed the new Energy Resources Bureau and served as the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on energy issues. In that role, he was centrally involved in U.S. energy policy in the Middle East, China energy diversification, India energy security and natural gas in Europe.

Since joining IHS Markit, Mr. Pascual has led work on Mexico’s energy reforms and energy transition in Latin America. He is centrally involved in incorporating geopolitical risk into IHS market forecasts and working with corporate and government leaders to translate such risks into corporate and policy strategies. Mr. Pascual is a Vice-Chair of the CERAWeek global energy conference.

Mr. Pascual was previously US Ambassador to both Mexico and Ukraine and was Special Assistant to the US president for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia on the National Security Council. Mr. Pascual created the position of coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization in the State Department, establishing the first U.S. civilian response capacity to conflicts. He also was the State Department’s coordinator for US assistance to Europe and Eurasia and held leadership roles at the US Agency for International Development.

At the Brookings Institution, Mr. Pascual served as Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies and launched the Brookings Energy Security Initiative. His book, Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats, won a 2009 award for the best political science book published by an independent publisher. Mr. Pascual taught and wrote on the geopolitics of energy as a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy in the fall of 2014 and continues to serve as a non-resident fellow.

Mr. Pascual holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Master of Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.


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