The 5th CWC China LNG & Gas International Summit

Masato Sasaki

Director, Oil & Gas Division

Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI), Japan

Mr. Masato Sasaki has served as Director for Oil and Gas of the Agency for Natural Gas Resources and Energy at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and is in charge of policies for upstream development and procurement of oil and gas for Japan. He has a long carrier in energy affairs at METI as Director of Nuclear Facilities Development and Public Relations Division, and as Director of Energy Strategy Office.

He obtained his LLB from the University of Tokyo (1995).

Wang Lei

GM, Natural Gas Department

PetroChina International

XU Tong

Deputy General Manager

Beijing Gas Group

Zheng Hongtao

President, Energy Trading & Marketing

ENN Group

Dr Hongtao has been responsible for CNOOC’s LNG procurement and trading efforts since 2008, and is one of the pioneers of spot LNG trading as well as short- and mid-term LNG procurement in China. During his over ten-year career in CNOOC, Hongtao has led approximately 10 mtpa of spot and term LNG procurements, and a series of LNG package transactions along the upstream and midstream.

Dr Hongtao has a PhD in Thermal Engineering from Tsinghua University.

ZHU Jianying

Senior Vice President

Towngas

Mabel Leung

President, China Gas Marketing

ExxonMobil (China)

Mabel Leung is currently located in Beijing and has responsibility for business development of ExxonMobil’s LNG activities in China.

Mabel joined Mobil Corporation (now ExxonMobil Corporation) in 1987 and has held various downstream executive positions with a primary focus on Global Strategic Planning and Retail Fuels Marketing for Asia Pacific.  She has taken on various international assignments in both Singapore and the United States, ExxonMobil’s regional headquarters and global headquarters respectively.  Apr 2016, Mabel joined the Gas & Power Marketing organization of ExxonMobil and relocated to Beijing after spending a few months in Houston, Texas.

Mabel holds a Masters in Information Technology from the City University of Hong Kong and a Postgraduate Diploma in E-commerce from Hong Kong University and is married with two children.

梁美宝女士

埃克森美孚中国天然气市场营销总裁

梁美宝女士目前常驻北京，负责开发埃克森美孚公司在中国的LNG业务。

1987年梁女士加入美孚公司，即现在的埃克森美孚公司，曾担任多个下游业务的管理岗位，重点负责全球战略规划及亚太地区的燃料零售业务。她曾被派驻新加坡和美国，在埃克森美孚区域中心和埃克森美孚总公司都分别工作过。2016年4月，梁女士在德克萨斯州休斯敦进修数月后被调到北京，就任埃克森美孚公司天然气与电力营销公司中国天然气市场营销总裁。

梁美宝女士是香港城市大学的信息技术硕士，并获得香港大学的电子商务硕士证书。已婚，育有二子。

Ali Mohammed Al-Emadi

Commercial & Shipping Marketing Long Term Sales Manager

Qatargas

Tom Earl

Chief Commercial Officer

Venture Global LNG

Tom Earl is the Chief Commercial Officer of VG LNG Marketing, LLC. Tom previously served as Vice President at the international oil company Total, focusing on the development of its global LNG business.

After graduating from City University in London with a degree in Engineering, Tom joined Total’s newly formed gas marketing and trading team in 1998. After various responsibilities within the trading division of the newly combined Total, Elf and Petrofina operations, he managed the natural gas option desk and gas trading desk. Tom successfully led significant commercial negotiations on long-term gas and LNG contracts in countries such as Russia, Norway and Qatar.

In 2006, Tom was appointed Head of Electricity Trading at Total where he led a significant expansion into newly opened power markets across Europe. In 2011, Tom moved to Houston, where he was appointed as head of Total’s North America commodity trading business, including its LNG, gas, power, coal, petcoke and LPG operations. Tom also represented Total in its US LNG liquefaction transactions from 2012 to 2015.

In 2015, Tom was appointed Vice President of Development for Total’s global LNG activities. Tom led Total’s most recent and highly regarded global expansion into new LNG markets. This work has included innovative new LNG terminal projects and new downstream asset transactions across the world.