Paul Markwell
S&P Global Commodity Insights
Senior Associate
Paul Markwell, Senior Associate, S&P Global, is an independent Energy sector advisor with 40 years experience spanning technical and executive roles in upstream oil and gas companies, and research and advisory firms. His current focus is around helping energy sector players accelerate the use of new technologies in low carbon solutions. Paul spent 17 years with IHS Markit companies until 2021 and is a longstanding speaker and moderator at CERAWeek. In his last full-time position at IHS Markit he was Vice President for its Global Upstream Oil & Gas Insight business, where his teams provided insights and consulting services to a wide range of energy sector players on themes including company strategies and transactions; E&P terms and aboveground risk; costs, technology and basin strategies. Previously in IHS and CERA he led various research and consulting teams and he led a number of energy policy advisory programs for governments in the MENA region. Paul previously held posts at McKinsey and Company as an upstream expert consultant and as European Petroleum Practice Manager.
The first half of his career was spent in operational, commercial and country manager roles in Shell and other international E&P in the Netherlands, Thailand, the UK and Pakistan. Mr. Markwell holds a BSc from Imperial College, London, and an MBA from Henley Management College. He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute in the UK and an Honorary Fellow of Brunel University, London, where he served as an independent member of Council and Audit committee chair.
