Peter Golding, Senior Manager, Oil and Gas Climate Initiative
Peter is a Senior Manager at the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI). He works closely with member companies to support the delivery of OGCI's Low Carbon Solutions practice, including initiatives focused on scaling carbon management and CCS deployment. He currently leads a number of collaborative OGCI initiatives involving industry, governments, international organisations and research institutions. Prior to joining OGCI, Peter held technical and commercial roles across the energy sector, supporting CCS and decarbonisation projects throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Maryam Golnaraghi, Director Climate Change & Environment, Geneva Association
Maryam Golnaraghi’s 25-year career has been dedicated to pioneering climate resilience, climate risk management and decarbonisation initiatives. Her experience spans senior executive roles, entrepreneurship, and international advisory positions across the private sector, public sector, and United Nations.
Maryam is currently the Director of Climate Change and Environment at The Geneva Association, the think tank for the global insurance industry. In this role, she collaborates with CEOs and executive teams of the largest re/insurance companies and builds cross-sectoral partnerships to boost the industry's contributions to addressing climate change.
Maryam's previous roles include Chief of Disaster Risk Reduction at the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (2004–2014), where she headed up an international program and delivered capacity development projects in climate and disaster risk management to governments across more than 40 countries. She has provided advice to companies and boards of directors and been featured in platforms such as The Economist Climate Summit, Wall Street Journal Pro, BBC Radio, World Economic Forum, InsuranceERM, and Risk.net.
Maryam holds a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, an M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Harvard University and a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.
Michel Krenzer, Energy Transition Lead, SCOR
With over 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, Michel Krenzer combines technical expertise, underwriting knowledge, and strategic leadership. He began his career as a Chemical Engineer with Foster Wheeler in Paris before joining UAP Large Corporate Risks as a Loss Prevention Engineer and subsequently moving into Oil & Gas underwriting with Sorema in 1995.
After relocating to London in 1999 to establish Sorema's facultative branch office, he joined SCOR in 2001. Since then, he has held a range of senior leadership positions within SCOR Business Solutions, SCOR’s Large Corporate Risks division. Appointed Global Head of Energy in 2023, Michel assumed the role of Energy Transition Lead in 2026. In this position, he drives SCOR Business Solutions' energy transition strategy, market development, client engagement, and thought leadership, supporting clients in their transition to a low-carbon economy.
Juho Lipponen, Coordinator, Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS Initiative
Juho is Coordinator of the Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS Initiative. The Initiative Member governments have joined together to accelerate CCUS deployment across all sectors. Juho works closely with the country Co-Leads and all seventeen Initiative Member governments and is responsible for the day-to-day running of all the activities of the Initiative.
Prior to this, between 2010-2018, Juho was Head of Carbon Capture and Storage Unit at the International Energy Agency, and acting Head of Energy Technology Policy Division. Before joining the IEA, Juho held several positions at Eurelectric in Brussels.
In addition to the CEM CCUS Initiative, Juho is also Coordinator of the Mission Innovation CDR Mission, working with the Mission member countries to advance innovation and policy development of technological carbon dioxide removals.
Juho holds a M. Sc in political science, economics and constitutional law from University of Turku, Finland. He is based in Paris, France.
Iain Macdonald, CCUS Workstream Lead, Oil and Gas Climate Initiative and Principal Technical Carbon Advocacy Advisor, Shell
Iain has been the lead of the OGCI CCUS workstream since 2019. He has been working within Shell’s corporate related carbon functions (currently Carbon Strategy) as a Principal Technical Carbon Advocacy Advisor since joining Shell in early 2019. Prior to this he was working in LNG operating facilities in Qatar and for 10 years managed a major industry led CCUS R&D programme at Imperial College London.
