Andy Calitz

Andy Calitz is engaged with FutureEnergy.Global helping audiences understand the Global Energy Supply Transition Journey as it plays out on the regional and national economies on six continents. He is based in London. Until recently he was the first Secretary General of the London-based Secretariat of the International Gas Union.

He started his career with Eskom, the South African electricity utility. He joined Shell in 1996, where he was actively involved in the alliances with Gazprom, CNOOC, and SINOPEC, Liquefied Natural Gas shipping, Sakhalin Energy in Russia, the Australian Gorgon LNG project, New Business Development, and LNG Canada.

He was educated as an Electrical Engineer at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, with further qualifications in Commerce, Management and Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and University of the Witwatersrand, University of South Africa and Insead. He has lived in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Boston, London, Lima, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, Sakhalin, Perth, The Hague and Vancouver. He has travelled to 94 countries on business and private visits. He is a member of The Royal Institute of International Affairs and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.