Andy Calitz

Andy Calitz

Andy Calitz is engaged with FutureEnergy, helping audiences understand the Global Energy Supply Transition Journey as it plays out in oil, solar, wind, nuclear, coal, gas, LNG, hydro-electricity, and electricity storage on six continents' regional and national economies. He is based in London. He was the first Secretary General of the London-based Secretariat of the International Gas Union. He is a judge of the S&P Platts Global Energy Awards.

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 in Russia, CNOOC and SINOPEC in China, Liquefied Natural Gas shipping, Sakhalin Energy in Russia, the Australian Gorgon LNG project, New Business Development, and LNG Canada. At the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, he was responsible for Fujairah LNG. 

He has lived in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Boston, London, Lima, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, Sakhalin, Perth, The Hague, Vancouver and Abu Dhabi. 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.