David Ledesma
Senior Reseach Fellow

David Ledesma is an independent gas and LNG consultant focusing on gas and LNG strategy along the value chain including the structuring of commercial arrangements, financing and markets for pipeline gas and LNG projects. He is one of the authors for the Institute’s book “Gas in Asia” published in June 2008 and in July 2009 published a paper "The Changing relationship between NOCs and IOCs in the LNG chain". He is currently authoring a chapter for a second book on Gas and LNG in the Middle East. David also gives numerous commercial training courses on gas and LNG in the UK and overseas, writes on gas and LNG and presents regularly at conferences. He is also an associate of Outsights, an independent futures and scenario planning consultancy. During thirty years in the energy and utility sector David has worked on the development of complex integrated energy projects, negotiations at government level, and in the management of joint ventures. While with Shell, he worked in Malaysia and the Netherlands and travelled extensively to Oman and Asia. He was a key member of the team that closed a major LNG project in the Middle East. He is an experienced commercial manager with hands-on experience of developing and closing commercial gas transactions as well as developing business strategy. From 2000 to 2005, as Director of Consulting then Managing Director of the Gas Strategies Group (formally EconoMatters Ltd), David worked on and managed LNG and gas consulting assignments around the world. He has a degree in Economics and Geography from the University of Exeter, UK. He joined the Institute in November 2007.

Natural Gas in Oman, in Bassam Fattouh and Jonathan Stern (eds), Natural Gas Markets in the Middle East and North Africa, Oxford University Press, 2011.

South East Asian and Australian Supply to Asia, in J. Stern (ed.), Natural Gas in Asia (2nd Edition),, Oxford University Press, 2008.