Canada: Emerging Investment and Growth Opportunities

Kevin Birn is responsible for carbon research at S&P Global Energy Horizons. This includes carbon markets, carbon management, emissions modelling and insight and carbon accounting. Kevin’s responsibilities also include leading The Center of Emissions Excellence, which is a special research area dedicated to accelerating, ensuring consistency, connecting and promoting the emissions quantification capabilities across Commodity Insights business lines. Kevin has over a decade of experience engaging in and advising governments, companies and industry on emission accounting estimation as well as decarbonization strategies. Kevin is also an established thought leader on the Canadian oil market, authoring countless research papers, and continues to serve as Chief Analyst, Canadian Oil Markets for S&P Global Energy.

Kevin is a Member of the Board at Emissions Reduction Alberta, a fellow at the Canadian Global Affair Institute, an advisor at Avatar Innovations, and a member of the Executive Committee for the Global Energy Show. He holds an undergraduate degree in business and a graduate degree in economics from the University of Alberta.

Jackie Forrest is the Executive Director of ARC Energy Research Institute and Managing Director of ARC Financial Corp.

Jackie actively monitors emerging strategic trends related to energy. She is an author and sought-after public speaker with over 30 years of experience in the energy industry. She is the co-host of the ARC Energy Ideas podcast, a weekly show that explains the latest trends and news in Canadian energy and beyond.
As a Managing Director of ARC Financial Corp., Jackie is a member of the Board of Directors, Investment Committee, and Executive Committee. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA) and on the Board of Directors for STEP Energy Services, a leading North American energy services company. She is a former board member of Longshore Resources Ltd. and the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada (EPAC).
Prior to joining ARC, she was the leader of North American crude oil research for IHS CERA (now S&P Global). Jackie has published more than 20 public papers on energy issues. She has co-hosted over 300 podcasts and written numerous columns in national publications, spanning all energy systems from oil and gas to clean energy, including electric vehicles, renewable power, and biofuels.

Jackie was the recipient of the 2022 Schulich School of Engineering Canadian Engineering Leadership Award. The award recognizes pioneers of progress in engineering for their achievements, leadership, generosity in sharing their experiences & role model qualities. She is currently a member of the Schulich Industry Advisory Council (SIAC), the group provides input to the engineering school to help to ensure that programs and initiatives align with industry needs. She is also a Special Advisor to the Business Council of Alberta.
Jackie attended the University of Calgary where she received an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering. She is a Professional Engineer and has an MBA from Queen’s University. She also holds the Institute of Corporate Directors ICD.D designation.

Shangyou Nie, PhD, is a former strategy advisor from Shell and non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. He is also the editor of AAPG’s upstream energy business newsletter, Well Read.