Alex Wood

Chairman

Alex has over three decades of experience in corporate finance services and strategy consulting to the energy and mining industries worldwide - with a focus on Asia over the past twenty years.

Alex worked at Paribas focused on Energy & Mining (capital markets, M&A and banking) for nine years from 1991 to 1999 in Paris and London – but covering Asia (mainly Indonesia and India) from 1995. In 2000 he became a founding Director of AWR Lloyd, a specialist Asian energy and mining sector advisory firm. At AWR Lloyd, Alex has focused on strategic and financial advisory to the oil (midstream and downstream) and coalmining industries in China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. He has been based in Bangkok since 2001 but may relocate to Singapore later this year.

In the oil sector, Alex has advised a number of clients (commercial, strategic and financial advisory assignments) in relation to over a dozen oil terminal, storage, trading, procurement and refining projects in South East Asia. In the coal sector, Alex has been principal strategic advisor to Banpu since 2000, helping the company grow from a market capitalization of $75M to over $7 billion today through acquisitions in Indonesia, China and Australia – and through effective strategic planning and investor relations.

Alex was educated in economics and history at the London School of Economics (BSc Econ) and Oxford (MSt Oxon)