Before joining Encana, Doug held a number of senior leadership posts at BP, including Chief Operating Officer, BP Exploration & Production, and President, BP Alaska. He was a member of the board of BP America as well as the BP America Operations Advisory Board. Previously, Doug served as President of BP Sakhalin Inc., where he was responsible for BP's activities in Sakhalin, Russia, and its joint venture with Rosneft, a major Russian oil company. 

He held other senior leadership roles in BP, including Vice President for North Sea operations and President of BP's Trinidadian oil business. Prior to joining BP, Doug completed various production engineering assignments with Exxon from 1983 to 1988. 

Over the course of his career, Doug has volunteered his time and talents to community organizations across North America. Doug is a member of the National Petroleum Council and sits on the Board of Directors of the American Petroleum Institute, the American Exploration & Production Council, the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the National Association of Manufacturers. 

Doug has served on the University of Texas Engineering Advisory Board since 2007 and was honored with the school’s Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award in 2008. Doug graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.

Jean Pierre Mustier began his career at Société Générale, where he remained from 1987 until 2009, working primarily within the Corporate & Investment Banking division. He held numerous positions in various markets and financing activities, in Europe, but also in Asia and the US.

Jean Pierre was appointed head of Société Générale's Corporate & Investment Banking Division in 2003, and was also a member of the bank's Executive Committee. In September 2008, he took over the responsibility for Asset Management, Private Banking and Securities Services.

After leaving Société Générale at the end of 2009 he has advised many financial institutions and completed large amounts of fundraising for various social enterprises and non-profit institutions, several of which he is a trustee.

In early 2011 he joined UniCredit as Deputy General Manager in charge of the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Division. He was a member of the UniCredit Executive Management Committee. Upon stepping down from his executive role at UniCredit at the end of December 2014, he joined the bank's international advisory board.

In January 2015, Jean Pierre became a London based partner of Tikehau Capital, an investment management group, with specific focus and responsibility for Tikehau's international expansion.

On 30th June 2016 he has been co-opted as member of the Board of Directors of UniCredit SpA, being thereafter appointed as Chief Executive Officer and General Manager effective 12th July 2016.

Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. He is a prolific thought leader and author, regularly expressing his views on political issues in public speeches, television appearances, and top publications, including Time magazine, where he is the foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large. Once dubbed the “rising guru” in the field of political risk by The Economist, he teaches classes on the discipline as a professor at New York University. His latest book Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism is a New York Timesbestseller.

In 1998, Ian established Eurasia Group with just $25,000. Today, the company has offices in New York, Washington, San Francisco, London, Sao Paulo, Singapore, and Tokyo, as well as a network of experts and resources in 90 countries. As the firm’s president and most active public voice, Ian advises leading executives, money managers, diplomats, and heads of state.

Ian is credited with bringing the craft of political risk to financial markets—he created Wall Street’s first global political risk index (GPRI)—and for establishing political risk as an academic discipline. His definition of emerging markets—“those countries where politics matters at least as much as economics for market outcomes”—has become an industry standard.

“G-Zero,” his term for a global power vacuum in which no country is willing and able to set the international agenda, is widely accepted by policymakers and thought leaders.

In 2007, Ian was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, where he is the founding chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk. He is the Harold J. Newman Distinguished Fellow in Geopolitics at the Asia Society Policy Institute and serves on the President’s Council of the Near East Foundation, the Leadership Council for Concordia, and the Board of Trustees of Intelligence Squared.

Ian earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University, where he went on to become the youngest-ever national fellow at the Hoover Institution. He received his bachelor’s degree in international relations from Tulane University.

Ian has published nine books including the national bestsellers Every Nation for Itself: Winners andLosers in a G-Zero World, The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States andCorporations?, and Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World

Patrick Honohan joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in March 2016 as a nonresident senior fellow. Honohan was governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and a member of the governing council of the European Central Bank from September 2009 to November 2015. He came to that position from Trinity College Dublin where he was professor of international financial economics and development and where he has since become an honorary professor of economics. Previously he spent 12 years on the staff of the World Bank as a senior advisor on financial sector issues.

During the 1990s he was a research professor at Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute. In the 1980s he was economic advisor to the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Garret FitzGerald. He also spent earlier spells at the Central Bank of Ireland and at the International Monetary Fund. A graduate of University College Dublin, he received his PhD in economics from the London School of Economics in 1978.

He has taught economics at the London School of Economics, at the University College Dublin, and as a visitor to the University of California, San Diego and the Australian National University as well as at Trinity College Dublin. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2002. In recent years, Honohan's research has focused on monetary and financial sector policy. His work on financial crises includes an evaluation of how different policy approaches have affected the overall cost of these crises in both developing countries and advanced economies. He has also studied exchange rate regime choice. Another research theme has been the access of low income households to financial services.

He is coauthor of Systemic Financial Crises (2005), Finance for Growth (2001), Finance for All? (2008), and Financial Liberalization: How Far, How Fast? (2006). He has also published extensively on the Irish economy, recently focused on the Irish banking crisis of 2008–12 and the economic performance of Ireland in the euro area. Previous work on Ireland analyzed the earlier fiscal crisis of the 1980s, performance in the European Monetary System, the role of multinational corporation profits, and the interaction of unemployment and migration.

Susan Athey is the Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and her PhD from Stanford, and she holds an honorary doctorate from Duke University. She previously taught at the economics departments at MIT, Stanford and Harvard. 

Her current research focuses on the economics of digitization, marketplace design, and the intersection of econometrics and machine learning. She has worked on several application areas, including timber auctions, internet search, online advertising, the news media, and virtual currency. 

As one of the first “tech economists,” she served as consulting chief economist for Microsoft Corporation for six years, and now serves on the boards of Expedia, Rover, and Ripple. She also serves as a long-term advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, helping architect and implement their auction-based pricing system.