September 29, 2026
London Market Briefing
Marriott Grosvenor Square, London, UK
We are pleased to invite you to our annual S&P Global Energy London Market Briefing, returning this year on Tuesday, 29 September 2026, at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square.
Designed for industry leaders and market participants, this complimentary full-day briefing offers a valuable opportunity to explore the evolving dynamics of global energy and commodity markets. You will hear directly from S&P Global experts as they share timely insights, forward-looking analysis, and key trends shaping the market.
The day will also provide excellent opportunities to connect with peers and engage in meaningful discussions with fellow decision-makers across the industry.
what to expect?
- Expert-led sessions on current market trends and outlook
- Insights across energy, commodities, and policy developments
- Dedicated networking opportunities with industry peers
- Two breakout tracks tailored to your interests:
- Short-Term Market Outlook – focusing on immediate market dynamics, supply chains, and near-term volatility
- Long-Term Outlook – exploring cross-commodity scenarios, the energy transition, and M&A landscapes
September 29, 2026
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Why attend?
Network with Industry Leaders:
Connect with a senior delegation of peers and decision-makers from across the energy and finance sectors in the heart of London.
Engage with Experts
Hear directly from our leading S&P Global analysts, researchers, and executives as they share strategies to navigate today's complexities.
Gain Actionable Insights
Explore the short-term volatility and long-term policy implications shaping the markets through our dedicated breakout tracks.
Speakers
S&P Global Energy
Alun Davies
Executive Director, Head European Gas
Alun is a Specialist in European gas and power markets, with over a decade of experience in the energy sector.
Alun also plays a significant role in the development of the long term energy balance outlooks for Europe. His expertise includes price forecasting, market strategy, fundamentals analysis, and European gas market design and operation. Alun has authored or co-authored research reports on a variety of topics within the European Energy and Global gas space. These cover a variety of topics including European gas pricing and risk management, gas supply and infrastructure, and gas demand in the context of fuel switching in the power sector.
Prior to joining S&P Global, Alun worked for six years at a major UK gas and power utility in a variety of roles, including long-term strategy, power modeling, trading, and trade strategy. He also has R&D experience working for a major global pharmaceutical company.
Alun holds a Masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.
S&P Global Energy
Andy Orszynski
Director, European Ethylene and Derivatives
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Bruno Brunetti
Head of Renewables Revenue Streams
Bruno Brunetti leads the PPA markets analysis and environmental markets research, which includes forecasting of EU GO, UK REGO and renewables energy credits globally.
Bruno spent over 5 years at S&P Global Platts, leading the long-term power modelling and renewables capture prices forecasts. He also led the global wind and solar outlooks, while also expanding the analytics coverage into global power markets.
Bruno spent over 15 years at PIRA Energy Group, now part of S&P Global, where he launched and managed the PIRA’s European Electricity Service, which provides market insights into the developments of power generation, demand, cross-border trading, and prices for Europe’s most relevant markets.
Bruno graduated magna cum laude in economics and management from Bari University (Italy) and obtained a masters in energy economics from the ENSPM/Institut Français du Pétrole (Paris).
S&P Global Energy
Debnil Chowdhury
Executive Director, Head of Americas and Europe, Fuel & Refining
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Fotios Katsoulas
Director, Head Tankers Freight & Alternative Fuels Research
Fotios focuses on the oil tanker freight markets, seaborne trade flows of crude oil and clean petroleum products and their impacts on the shipping cycles and investors' decisions, drawing from his experience in commercial shipping and energy sectors.
Previously, he gained experience in using the latest technology to provide insights to the shipping industry and to associated finance and insurance providers. As head of research for Affinity Shipping and as shipping analyst for Maritime Strategies International, he managed big shipping data, developed shipping cycle econometric models, and assisted with advisory projects and valuations for major international shipping banks and financial providers. Fotios regularly attends international shipping industry conferences and has professional experience in operational research and corporate presentations. Sectors covered include oil tankers, gas carriers, and offshore sectors.
Fotios holds a Master of Science in shipping, trade, and finance from Bayes (former Cass) Business School, City University of London, United Kingdom, an LLB from Queen Mary University of London and a BSc in Business Administration from Athens University of Economics and Business.
S&P Global Energy
Hédi Grati
Director, Head Europe, Eurasia & Africa Petrochemical Feedstocks
Hédi leads the Refining and Marketing team for the Europe/CIS region, and prepares the quarterly long-term price forecasts for crude oil and refined products relevant to the European market. He specializes in the future of European refining in a decarbonizing world, and the refinery's heavy fractions.
Since joining S&P Global (now part of S&P Global) in 2014, he has carried out numerous tailored consulting assignments for national and international oil companies, traders, logistics providers, and financial institutions. He also headed the supply and demand section of the Multiclient Study Navigating choppy waters, which focuses on the bunker fuel transition. In 2019, he was in charge of shipping policy for the latest Multiclient Study Reinventing the Airplane and the Ship, about the decarbonization of aviation and maritime transport. Hédi is regularly quoted by Bloomberg and OPIS by S&P Global (now part of S&P Global).
Before joining S&P Global, Hédi worked for ExxonMobil, most recently as heavy products optimizer for Europe, where he helped prepare the company for the 2015 bunker specification change in the emission control areas. He also held various technical, operational, economic, and supervisory roles at two of ExxonMobil's refineries.
Hédi holds a Master of Science in civil engineering from Ghent University, Belgium, and an Executive MBA from Antwerp Management School, Belgium. He is a native Dutch speaker, and fluent in English and French.
S&P Global Energy
Katie Elliot
Director Aromatics
Katie Elliot serves as a Director Aromatics at S&P Global Energy in London.
Katie supports single-client consulting engagements for market, pricing and investment studies, as well as assisting clients in business performance analysis and strategy related projects. Prior to her current role, Katie served for five years in S&P Global's insights group, leading aromatics feedstock analysis in the EMEA region, including coverage of benzene and feedstocks, mixed xylenes, toluene, orthoxylene and phthalic anhydride. She contributed to publications including European aromatics, world analysis benzene, and toluene and xylenes, special studies and speaking at industry conferences. She has more than seventeen years of experience in the petroleum industry covering, business strategy and planning, sourcing, trading and risk management, commercial performance and market analysis. Prior to joining the company in 2014, Katie spent eleven years with BP where she worked as a petrochemicals trader and product manager in the styrenics and paraxylene businesses. Her earlier career included commercial roles in refining and trading operations and in downstream oil businesses.
Katie holds a Master of Arts from Queens' College, Cambridge, UK.
S&P Global Energy
Laurent Ruseckas
Executive Director, Global Gas, Geopolitics & Finance
Laurent Ruseckas leads coverage of geopolitics, geoeconomics and finance within the Global Gas research and analysis team. He also leads global gas and LNG market coverage for S&P Energy’s real-time analysis product First Take.
Ruseckas has worked for over 30 years advising companies, financial institutions and governments on energy strategy and investment, with a focus on the natural gas industry and the role of natural gas in the energy transition.
From 2022 to 2024 he led global gas research and European power and energy transitioncoverage within the company’s Energy Capital Insights team. Previously Ruseckas managed over 30 consulting engagements related to natural gas infrastructure development or gas-related transactions in Europe and Eurasia.
Earlier in his career, Ruseckas managed the Europe and Eurasia practice at a leading political risk advisory firm, and began his career covering the Caspian Sea region with Cambridge Energy Research Associates in the early 1990s. A Russian speaker, Ruseckas holds a B.A. with honors in Russian and Soviet Studies from Harvard College (Cambridge, USA) and passed comprehensive examinations in the Ph.D. program in Political Science at ColumbiaUniversity (New York, USA). He is based in London
S&P Global Energy
Louise Vertz
Director, Global Lead Long-Term Fuels
Louise based in the UK, she has over 25 years of experience in downstream oil markets research and consulting. Her areas of expertise include long-term refined product supply/demand forecasting, with a specialization in European markets.
Prior to her role at S&P Global Energy, Louise headed the European Downstream Monitoring Service with PFC Energy, and has extensive experience in research and consulting across the refining and marketing industries. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Southampton University, and speaks fluent English and French
S&P Global Energy
Mai Barakat
Analyst, Datacenter Services & Infrastructure, EMEA
Mai Barakat is an analyst on the 451 Research Datacenter Services & Infrastructure team at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Her research focuses on datacenter market activity across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Her key research areas include emerging datacenter markets; retail, wholesale and cloud provider activity; industry growth projections; market share analysis; government incentives and regulations; and pricing dynamics.
Before joining the Datacenter Services & Infrastructure team in 2020, her focus was on mobile telecommunications and 5G in Europe. Prior to that she spent more than 10 years at Omdia covering mobile/fixed telecommunications and TV in the Middle East and Africa, with a special focus on mobile banking and fintech initiatives in emerging markets.
Mai holds a Bachelor of Science in international management and French from the University of Bath, UK and an MSc in marketing. She is fluent in Arabic and French.
S&P Global Energy
Paul McConnell
Head, Outlooks and Scenarios Analysis
Paul McConnell, executive director for the Climate and Sustainability practice at S&P Global Energy
Paul is an Executive Director with the Energy and Climate Scenarios team at S&P Global Energy. His work covers energy and carbon markets, long-term decarbonisation trends, climate policy, and strategic responses to climate change and the energy transition. He is highly experienced in both development of energy and climate scenarios, as well as their application in assessing climate-related risk and opportunity for organisations across the oil & gas, power, industry and financial sectors. Prior to S&P Global Energy, Paul led the climate transition risk team for a leading global sustainability consultancy. He also has many years' experience working in research roles across the energy industry.
Paul holds an MSc in Global Environmental Change and International Policy from Imperial College, London.
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Sara Pourghorbani
Associate Director, Lead Global LNG Balances
She has held a number of analytical roles at Centrica and Wood Mackenzie, focusing on gas and LNG markets and value chain. Prior to S&P Global, she spent two years at a boutique consultancy, developing a bespoke global gas model. Her interests are focused on energy modelling, fundamentals of gas and LNG markets and drivers of LNG prices.
Sam Wilkinson
Director, Clean Technology and Renewables
Sam Wilkinson is an expert on the solar PV, batteries and energy storage industries. He is an director within the Clean Energy Technology & Renewables research team at S&P Global Energy.
Sam Wilkinson is an expert on the solar PV, batteries and energy storage industries. He is an director within the Clean Energy Technology & Renewables research team at S&P Global Energy. Sam coordinates and contributes to a wide range of custom research, consulting, and advisory projects, in addition to continued contributions to the team's syndicated research products. His areas of expertise are solar PV, battery technology and supply chain, and battery energy storage (for grid applications). Upon joining the team in 2008, He was responsible for researching the photovoltaic (PV) inverter market and the PV module and polysilicon supply chain, working closely with leading global suppliers to develop detailed analysis on these markets. He has also been responsible for establishing primary research reports focusing on solar demand and policy, complementing S&P Global Energy extensive research of the complete PV supply chain. Building on his experience in the solar research team, Sam established the Clean Energy Technology team's coverage of energy storage in 2012, covering a wide range of topics within this fast-developing sector, including the development of battery technology and the battery supply chain. Sam analysis and commentary is regularly published by leading PV and energy industry media and the global press. He has also presented at many leading industry events and conferences and previously worked in structural engineering. Sam holds a bachelor's degree in math and engineering from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Venue
London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square
Address: Grosvenor Square, London, W1K 6JP, United Kingdom
