Raul Timponi

Raul Timponi, Director, S&P Global Commodity Insights, specializes in global power markets.

Raul has almost 15 years of experience in the energy industry and is currently the Head of the Power & Renewables Consulting team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Through consulting engagements, he has led a number of projects focused on the power sector and renewables asset valuation and investment. He has also advised a wide range of clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, focused on market screening and entry strategies (in Continental Europe, Egypt, Libya, Abu Dhabi, and Saudi Arabia), power sector scenario planning (in Rwanda, Morocco, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia), gas-to-power monetization assessments (in South Africa, Ghana, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt), power generation economics analysis, and asset due diligence and valuation (in Western Europe, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Kenya, Ghana, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, and Dubai).

Prior to joining S&P Global Commodity Insights, Raul worked at Petrobras in international business development as part of their market intelligence and gas and power teams. He was a member of the Brazilian Power Sector Research Group at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, where he studied the role of auctions and contract design on energy planning and earned his Master of Science.