Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance, University of Houston

This week, we kick off our new series, A Smarter Way, exploring better paths forward to solve our concurrent crises of commodities and climate. Our first guest in the series is Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance at the University of Houston. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Craig to examine both the implications of […]

Leah Wieczorek, Vice President, Global Carbon, Macquarie Group

We continue our Financing the Energy Transition series this week by welcoming Leah Wieczorek into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Leah is Vice President of Global Carbon at the Macquarie Group. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Leah to discuss the role that banks like Macquarie play in scaling the carbon markets and in financing the […]

Nat Bullard, Senior Contributor, BloombergNEF and Venture Partner, Voyager Ventures

We kick off our new series, Financing the Energy Transition, with Nat Bullard, Senior Contributor at BloombergNEF and a Venture Partner at Voyager Ventures. Nat writes weekly for Bloomberg Green on energy, transport, technology, climate, and finance. We start our new series by exploring with Nat the size of the investment that’s happening in the […]

Oystein Kalleklev, CEO at Flex LNG and Executive Chairman at Avance Gas

We welcome back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio Oystein Kalleklev, CEO at Flex LNG and Executive Chairman at Avance Gas. Oystein sits down with SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely to share his unique perspective on the European energy crisis and what it means for the LNG industry. Hosted By Episode Q&A The following Q&A is created using […]

Beau Taylor, Former Global Head of Energy Sales & Trading, J.P. Morgan

In this episode, David Greely welcomes Beau Taylor, J.P. Morgan’s Former Global Head of Energy Sales & Trading, to recount his experience in the U.S. Natural Gas market following Hurricane Katrina. Together they explore the risk miscalculations, market conditions, and elements of human nature that led to one of the largest hedge fund collapses on […]

Ryan Ingram, Chief Risk Officer, Abaxx Exchange

After exploring algorithms, data and models, host David Greely takes a deep dive into the human element of optimizing risk management with Chief Risk Officer at Abaxx Exchange, Ryan Ingram. Join us for an episode dialed in on chronic issues facing risk managers in today’s commodities and energy markets along with an optimistic take on […]

Ranting on the inadequacies of our systems and riffing on ideas for how to solve them …

SmarterMarkets™ brings together the icons and entrepreneurs of technology, commodities and finance to examine how market systems can be redesigned and improved to address the most important challenges of our time.