Dr Mostefa Ouki

Dr Mostefa Ouki, is Vice-President, Energy Resources, Nexant Ltd. and heads the company’s Global Gas group. He has 25 years of experience in managing and executing gas and energyrelated techno-economic studies and advisory assignments for national and international energy companies, multilateral and bilateral development agencies, and financing institutions in various regions of the world. He has also conducted a number of assignments on the development of oil and gas-related infrastructure projects and has managed and executed master plan studies on upstream and downstream infrastructures in key hydrocarbon-producing countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Dr. Ouki started his training in the energy sector with Algeria’s oil and gas company Sonatrach in Algiers and worked in Washington, D.C. for the World Bank on gas development projects. Prior to the formation of Nexant, he was with the energy technology and consulting division of Bechtel and worked for the UK-based oil and gas engineering company Penspen. Dr Ouki holds a degree in petroleum engineering economics from Algeria’s National Hydrocarbons Institute and M.Sc. in Energy Resources, M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a member of the Arab Energy Club; American Economic Association; Association of International Petroleum Negotiators; UK Energy Institute; International Association of Energy Economics; and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.