Consulting - our people

Aruna Mannie

Director Consulting, Upstream & Carbon Management

APAC Director Aruna brings 20+ years' global upstream experience, advising on strategy, M&A, and energy transition.

Aamir Malik

Senior Vice President, Global Head of Energy and Natural Resources Strategy

Aamir works with international and national oil companies to improve financial, commercial and operational performance.

Adam Pearson

Vice President Consulting

Adam specialises in leading transformative initiatives with energy operators that deliver bottom-line impact.

Amrit Naresh

Principal, EMEA Downstream Consulting

Amrit has 10 years of analytics and consulting experience in the energy sector.

Ashwin Kumar Balaji

Managing Consultant, Power & Renewables - North America

Ashwin is a Managing Consultant in Wood Mackenzie's Power & Renewables team with seven years' power market expertise.

Byron Pollard

Director, Power & Renewables Consulting

Byron leads US market entry strategies and due diligence with 20+ years' commercial and operational experience.

Bob Kubis

Vice President, Americas, Gas & LNG, Consulting

Bob Kubis focuses on delivering natural gas, NGL & LNG solutions

Chris Heath

Senior Vice President, Head of Consulting APAC

Chris leads a team of consulting professionals in the energy and natural resources sectors.

Chris Barry

Vice President, Downstream Consulting

Chris's consulting expertise spans the refining, chemicals and storage sectors where he has advised clients worldwide.

Chris Sum

Vice President Consulting, Middle East

Chris advises governments and businesses in the Middle East on strategy, energy policy and development.

Costa Swift

Vice President, Consulting

Costa is an experienced upstream and business development consultant.

Darren Smith

Head of Asia Pacific Consulting

Darren is an expert in strategy, due diligence, M&A, transaction support and commercial studies.

David Barrowman

Vice President, Fiscal Consulting

David leads our upstream fiscal service, drawing on more than 30 years' industry expertise.

David Parkinson

Vice President, Upstream Consulting

David leads our exploration strategy team and is also responsible for exploration consulting.

Dominic Tisdell

Head of Metals and Mining Consulting, Asia Pacific

Dylan Mair

Vice President UCM Asia Pacific

Dylan has over 25 years upstream oil and gas experience in E&P operations consulting.

Liu Lei

Managing Consultant, Plastics & Sustainability

Liu takes care of the plastic sustainability research in APAC region.

Frank Harris

Head of Global LNG Consulting

Frank is a recognised expert on the global LNG industry and leads our global consultancy practice in this area.

Gavin Law

Senior Vice President, Emissions & Low Carbon Fuels Consulting

Harry Falcone

Senior Consultant

Harry is Senior Consultant in Wood Mackenzie's Power & Renewables, bringing engineering expertise to battery modelling.

Ian Simm

Director, EMEA Consulting

Ian brings 15 years of experience throughout the energy value chain.

Janice Lim

Principal Consultant, Asia Pacific Consulting

Janice advises on due diligence, price forecast and market feasibility studies for numerous clients.

Jie Liu

Managing Consultant, Aluminium Value Chain

Jie specialises in aluminium market analysis and asset research.

Jon Story

Vice President, Energy Consulting, Head of CCS Consulting

Jon is a vice president and global head of Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS consulting​.

Ian Kyle

Principal Consultant, Gas & LNG

Ian is a Principal Consultant with over 12 years experience in the gas and LNG industry.

Isabel Schwartz

Vice President, Supply Chain Consulting

Isabel is a leader in the supply chain consulting practice.

Kalpesh Ramwani

Director, Energy Consulting

Kalpesh has over 11 years of consulting experience within the region.

Kara McNutt

Vice President, Head of Americas Power and Renewables Consulting

Kara leads Wood Mackenzie’s Americas Power and Renewables Consulting team based in Boston.

Karoline Sun

Senior Consultant, Nickel Cost and Metals & Mining Sustainability​

Karoline covers global nickel cost analysis and conducts research in sustainability for metals and mining.

Kian Akhavan

Consultant, EMEA

Kian is a specialist in public policy, with a focus on public-private partnerships.

Kristy Kramer

Head of LNG Strategy and Market Development

Kristy brings over fifteen years of gas and energy industry experience to her role leading our Gas and LNG Consulting.

Lisa Gillespie

Director, Energy Consulting

Lisa is an experienced project manager working across upstream and the energy transition.

Malcolm Forbes-Cable

Vice President, Upstream and Carbon Management Consulting

Malcolm is an expert in strategy development, transaction support and the energy transition.

Mangesh Patankar

Vice President, Gas and LNG Consulting

With 14 years of experience in the gas/LNG and power industry, Mangesh has a deep understanding of client challenges.

Melany Vargas

Vice President, Head of Hydrogen Consulting

Melany has extensive experience solving strategic problems for clients across the global energy value chain.

Melvin Chen

Vice President, Head of Power & Renewables Consulting, APAC

Melvin focuses on commercial corporate planning, exploration strategies, due diligence, feasibility and market studies.

Miller Wang

Principal Consultant Steel Decarbonisation

Miller leads on WMC analysis on steel decarbonisation, focusing on the benchmark of emerging green steelmaking.

Nassam Estibill Zalaquett

Principal Consultant, Metals & Mining, Americas

Nassam has extensive experience across the natural resources value chain.

Patrick Barnes

Vice President, Head of Metals & Mining Consulting

Patrick has over 10 years of experience helping foster development of stable and equitable mining sectors.

Paul Manley

Director, Metals and Mining Consulting

A geologist by training, Paul brings over 20 years of industry experience to our metals and mining consulting team.

Prashant Khorana

Director, Power & Renewables Consulting

Prashant is Director, Data Product Owner – Asset Valuations within Wood Mackenzie's research and data organisation.

Qing Du

Senior Consultant, Graphite

Qing works on the Battery Raw Material Graphite team.

Redd Zhou

Managing Consultant, Asia Polyolefins

Redd is responsible for polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) analysis in China.

Renaud Brimont

Head of EMEARC Consulting

Renaud leads our upstream consulting practice in EMEARC and is an expert in business transformation.

Roslyn Cooke

Consultant

Rohan Shayi

Consultant, Power and Renewables

Rohan works in the power and renewables consulting division.

Elysia Sheu

Principal Consultant, Supply Chain

Elysia focuses on supply chain strategy, O&M savings and energy industry operations.

Shatha Alwardi

Director, EMEARC Consulting

An expert in long-term strategy development, Shatha advises on pricing, planning and market analysis.

Steve Jenkins

Vice President, Chemicals Consulting

Steve brings more than 30 years experience in chemical markets, and is a world expert in paraxylene.

Su Jie

Senior Research Analyst, APAC Aromatics

Su specialises in the benzene and derivative value chains and is responsible for the Asian market.

Ti Guo

Managing Consultant, Iron Ore and Steel Cost Research

Ti is focused on understanding iron ore and steel supply/demand dynamics and market trends in China.

Valentina Kretzschmar

as Vice President Consulting, Energy Transition Strategy

Dr Valentina Kretzschmar has over 25 years of experience in the energy sector.

Vignesh Gulasingam

Senior Vice President & Global Head, Power & Renewables Consulting

Vignesh leads Wood Mackenzie's Global Power & Renewables Consulting with 20+ years' experience in strategic advisory.

Xinlin Chen

Managing Consultant, China Aluminium Supply

Xinlin covers market trends, material flows and cost services.

Yanghui Liu

Principal Consultant, Power & Renewables Consulting, APAC​

Yanghui is an expert in wind industry market analysis, supply chain and products

Yue Wang

Senior Consultant, Rare Earths

Yue specialises in the rare earth market research and supporting cathode and precursor asset research.

Zhifei Liu

Senior Research Analyst – Copper Markets, Metals & Mining

Zhifei is focused on copper demand in China where she monitors and forecasts both short-term and long-term demand.