The World Energy Policy Summit (WEPS) is an annual international conference to encourage discussion, debate and direction. It seeks to bring together diverse views on various issues and developments that influence shaping policy by governments, companies and other entities pertaining to various sources of energy.
WEPS emphasizes that we live in an inter-dependent world that requires better understanding and compatibility between policies of various countries, organisations, entities and societies around the world. WEPS aims to play a key and dynamic role in that development.
Over the years, WEPS has acquired almost an iconic name as a quality conferencing platform for generating high-quality and in-death discussions, perspectives and ideas. Top policy and law makers, companies, industry leaders and executives, bankers, diplomats, academics, thinkers, and opinion leaders regularly participate in this unique conference. WEPS is designed to be one of the foremost conferencing and energy policy-shaping platforms in the world.
The previous lead speakers from overseas include: Mr Kono Taro, Hon’ble Foreign Minister of Japan; Mr Herve Maurey, Hon’ble Senator, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Sustainable Development, The French Senate, France; Mr David Hobbs, Head of Research at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, Saudi Arabia; Ms Anna Drobakha, Advisor to Vice President, Rosneft, Russia; Mr Didier Houssin, Chairman of the French Institute of Petroleum and New Energies, France; Mr Jean Sentenac, Chairman & CEO of Axens, France; Ms Carole Mathieu, Head of EU Energy & Climate Policies, IFRI Centre for Energy, Paris; Dr Dong Wang, Deputy Executive Director, School of International Studies, Peking University, China; Dr Atul Arya, Chief Energy Strategist & Global Head of Energy Wide Perspectives, IHS Markit; Mr Jarand Rystad, CEO, Rystad Energy, Norway; Mr Misako Takahashi, Head of Division, Asia Pacific and Partnerships, Office of Global Energy Policy, International Energy Agency (IEA); Dr Bassam Fattouh, Director, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK; Mr Abdallah Jum’ah, former CEO, Saudi Aramco; Mr Alireza Kameli, Managing Director, National Iranian Gas Company, Iran; The Honorable Raymond E Vickery, former Assistant Secretary of State of Commerce for Trade Development, USA; Mr Tom Cutler, President, Cutler International, formerly Director for European and Asia Pacific Affairs at the US Government; Mr Robin Mills, Head of Consulting, Manaar Energy Group, Dubai; Mr Arild Moe, Senior Research Fellow, Fridjkot Nansen Institute, Norway; Mr Ronald Kapavik, Head of Asia Power, Gas, Coal, Renewables Consulting and Research, IHS Cera; Mr Pierre Noel, Senior Fellow for Economic and Energy Security, IISS-Asia, Singapore; Mr Xiaojie Xu, Chief Fellow, World Energy China Outlook, Beijing (China); Dr Herman Franssen, Executive Director, Energy Intelligence, USA; Mr David Leckie, Partner, Clyde & Co, London; Ms Mitrova Tatiana, Head Oil & Gas Sector Development Department for Russia and the World, Energy Research Institute, Moscow and many, many others.
The prominent Indian Speakers from the past editions of WEPS include: Shri Piyush Goyal, Hon’ble Minister for Power, Coal, Mines and New and Renewable Energy, Government of India; Hon’ble Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of External Affairs, Government of India; Hon’ble Shri B K Chaturvedi, Member (Energy), Planning Commission, Government of India; Shri Shashi Shanker, CMD, ONGC; Shri B C Tripathi, CMD, Gail (India) Ltd.; Shri Gurdeep Singh,CMD, NTPC; Shri Prabhat Singh, Managing Director, Petronet LNG; Mr B Anand, CEO, Nayara Energy Ltd; Mr Prabh Das, Managing Director & CEO, HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd; Mr Nitin Prasad, Chairman, Shell India; Mr Sashi Mukundan, Regional President & Head of Country, BP Group;Shri D K Sarraf, CMD, ONGC; Shri B Ashok, Chairman, IOCL; Shri Sudhir Vasudeva, CMD, ONGC; Shri R S Sharma, CMD, ONGC; Shri R S Butola, Chairman, IOCL and Dr A K Balyan, Managing Director, Petronet LNG and many others.
Needless to say, the similar profile and stature will not only be maintained but enhanced.