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Haakon Olafsson
Haakon is an alumnus of Cargill, Enron, Goldman Sachs and Statkraft India. He received his MBA from London Business School in 1998 and has a BSc in Economics and Finance.
He has a 30-year highly successful track-record of trading, business development, project development and optimisation of physical resources.
His trading track record generating on average 6 x Annualised return on VaR, equivalent to 30% AAR.
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During his career, he has managed front, back, middle office, logistics, technology, finance, legal and regulatory teams.
He has hands on experience operating large-scale energy assets; 100MW-1.8GW power plants, onshore gas terminals, offshore oil & gas production, pipelines and gas storage
Key Positions Held:
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Managing Director at Statkraft Markets, India
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Managing Director, Global Coal, EMEA Gas & Power at EDF Trading/Credit Agricole JV
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Head of EMEA Energy, Global Coal & Freight at Lehman Brothers
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Head of UK Gas, Global Coal & Freight at Goldman Sachs
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Head of UK Gas at Enron
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Senior Oil Seeds Trader at Cargill
Commodity Market Experience:
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African/Indian/South-East Asian power & gas
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European power & gas
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Coal
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LNG
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Oil
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US nat gas
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Emissions
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Bulk freight
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Agricultural products
Asset/Technology Experience:
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Thermal power stations
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Hydro generation (reservoir+run of river)
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Upstream & downstream gas and LNG
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Power & gas transmission systems
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Solar PV
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Green Hydrogen & Ammonia
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Biomass & waste-to-energy
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Bulk energy storage systems
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Gas storage
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Coal mining
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AI driven analytics
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