ENERGY - TRANSREGIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Eithne Treanor

Managing Director, E.Treanor Media

Eithne Treanor is a former international TV journalist and a professional conference moderator and facilitator. She runs a specialist media and communications training consultancy based in Dubai with a focus on energy, economics and development.

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George Chikovani

Deputy Minister of Energy of Georgia

Mr. George Chikovani, Deputy minister of Energy of Georgia has more than 15 years of experience with strong focus on the Georgian and regional energy sector.

Mr. Chikovani assisted the Georgian government in the national energy policy and strategy, market development and investment promotion. As a result of the projects that he actively supported Georgia has adopted new energy policy, transmission grid code, made several amendments to the Electricity and Natural Gas Law, implemented new electricity hourly nominations software, established Transmission System Operator and Market Operator, signed Cross Border Electricity Trading Agreement with Turkey, introduced Uniform System of Accounts and developed Ten Year Network Development Plan.

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David Tvalabeishvili

General Director of Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation

Mr. Tvalabeisvhili is General Director of Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation and has almost twenty years of experience with strong focus on Georgian enegy sector.

Before becoming General Director of GOGC, in 2010-2011 he was working for United States Agency for International Development Mission Georgia as a Energy Project Manager.

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Gary Jones

BP Regional President for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey Regions

Gary Jones is the Regional President for BP’s Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey Region. In this role he is accountable for all of BP’s upstream activities in the Region. These include BP’s ca. 600,000bls/d oil (gross) and ca. 1060mmscfd gas (gross) exploration and production business. He is fully accountable for regional strategy, operating quality and relationships with governments and co-investing partners.

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Bjorn Brandzaeg

Chief Executive Officer, Clean Energy Group Georgia

Mr. Bjorn Brandzaeg is a founder and CEO of Clean Energy Group, based in Oslo. Mr Brandtzaeg is also the CEO of Clean Energy Group Georgia, the project company for the development of the 433 MW Namkhvani HPP.

From 2011 until 2015, Bjorn was the CEO in AGL/KGL the project companies for the 187 MW Shuakhevi Project and the 115 MW Koromkheti Projects in Georgia.

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Francis Malige

Managing Director, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, EBRD

Mr. Francis Malige is the Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus for the EBRD.

He has been based in Kiev since his appointment in 2014 and is responsible for leading the Bank’s operations and policy initiatives in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

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