Led by Mr. Christof Rühl, vice Chairman and CFO, a team of four BP Group senior officers came to SME and BIT Research Center of Energy and Environment Policies.
After the visits, Mr Rühl share his ideas with SME audience by delivering a lecture named Global Oil and Gas Markets: The Long and the Short Run, in which he generalized the open-eye developing trend of these two markets.
About Christof Rühl
Christof Rühl is Group Chief Economist and Vice President of BP plc. He manages BP’s global Economics Team, providing economic input into the firm’s commercial decisions. BP’s Economics Team also produces the annual Statistical Review of World Energy. Christof has a distinguished track record in both academia and economic policy making. Prior to joining BP, he was at the World Bank (1998-2005) where he served as the Bank’s Chief Economist in Russia and in Brazil. Before that, Christof worked in the Office of the Chief Economist at the EBRD in London. Previously, he was an academic economist, first in Germany and from 1991 as Professor of Economics at the University of California in Los Angeles. In addition, Christof held Visiting Professorships at academic institutions worldwide, amongst them the University of Chicago. His areas of specialization are macroeconomics and energy economics; he has published widely in these fields. His latest article Global Energy after the Crisis: Prospects and Priorities was published in the current issue of Foreign Affairs (Mar.-Apr., 2010).
