His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman Al Saud with Judd Swift January at the 2008 Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF). Where? Dharan?
As the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy, Judd Swift served as the U.S. delegate to the CSLF. He led the forum’s 27 country Task Force on Capacity Building in Emerging Economies
2016 Ali al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s former Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Judd Swift
After rising through the ranks at Saudi Aramco, Ali al-Naimi became the kingdom’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in 1995 and served as Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister for nearly 21 years. He was described by many as both the most influential non-royal in Saudi Arabia and the most powerful man in the oil industry.
2016 Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1991) and founder and president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research think-tank and source of energy industry analysis.
2015 Charles K. Ebinger, former senior fellow in the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at the Brookings Institute. He served as the initiative’s director from 2008 to October of 2014. Previously, Ebinger served as a senior advisor at the International Resources Group where he advised over 50 governments on various aspects of their energy policies, specializing in institutional and economic restructuring of their utility sectors. Ebinger has special expertise in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, but has also worked in the Far East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America 2015 Dr. Yong Wang Li, Professor at National Energy Research Center for Clean Fuels (NDRC) Chinese Academy of Sciences, General Manager of Synfuels China LTD, Chairman of Synfuels Americas.