Anthony Livanios, is the CEO of Energy Stream CMG GmbH, an international advisory firm in the oil and gas industry based in Frankfurt, Germany. He has over 20 years of experience in structuring, negotiating, and implementing oil and gas projects, intergovernmental agreements, pipeline negotiations, geopolitical risk assessments, and market intelligence. His experience includes providing advice on oil and gas project development agreements, shareholders and project sharing agreements. He has been advising oil majors, national oil companies, and oil independents on concessions, pipelines and LNG projects on investment strategies, establishment of joint ventures, privatization, and oil and gas infrastructure development. He has implemented energy projects in Eurasia and Caspian region, Persian Gulf and Arab world, Europe and the United States. He was Managing Director for LNG Trading at M&M Gas S.A. of the Motor Oil group, (2010-­?2011), President of Poseidon S.A., Offshore Natural Gas Greek-­?Italian Pipeline(2009 – 2010) achieving the agreement for the construction of the Greek-­? Bulgarian Natural Gas Pipeline (IGB). From 2000 to 2009 he was the CEO and founder of Alpha Metrics S.A., a company specializing on market intelligence, geopolitical risk analysis, media relations, and organization of exclusive international business and energy conferences. In 1994 he established American Research Inc., specializing in political risk analysis, public opinion research, and business to government relations. From 1994 to date he has been appearing as a commentator on the geopolitics of oil and gas in Eurasia and Eastern Mediterranean, on international media networks such as CNN, Reuters, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and the Middle East News Agency, and newspapers such as the, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Al Ahram. Anthony Livanios holds a Master’s Degree in International Political Economy from Columbia University, New York, N.Y. (1991), and a B.A. in Economics from the American University, Washington, D.C. (1988). He is fluent in English, German and Greek. He served as a Navy SEAL in the Hellenic Navy (1992-­?1994).

Geoffrey Boyd is a field development planning engineer and decision analyst with over 30 years’ experience in the upstream oil and gas industry. He is a chartered engineer, with an MSc in Ocean Engineering from UCL and a BSc in Civil Engineering from Sheffield Hallam University. He works with integrated teams of geoscientists, engineers and commercial specialists on field and area development studies.Before specialising in field development planning, Geoffrey worked in a range of upstream sectors including: engineering design, geophysical survey, diving, insurance underwriting, construction, R&D & information systems. As well as being an active field development engineering consultant, Geoffrey also works as an educator. During his career he has developed and delivered training courses on a wide variety of engineering, information systems and field development topics.