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USEA Now - October 2018

September 27th, 2018
USEA Now

Briefing: The Role of DER in Colombia

October 5th, 2018

Please join USEA for an overview of efforts to incorporate distributed energy resources (DER) onto Colombia's electricity grid. XM, Colombia's system operator, will discuss their recent efforts, future steps, and some ideas gleaned from recent visits to U.S. system operators. By 2023, 2.4 GW of DER will be connected to the Colombian electric system, in addition to distributed residential generation, which will likely grow substantially.

Carlos Mario Correa

Job Title: 
Specialist, R&D Grid Integration
Organization: 
XM Colombia

USEA Chief Echoes DOE optimism on U.S.-China Energy Trade

September 19th, 2018

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September 19, 2018

 

USEA, DOE Kick Off U.S.-China Oil and Gas Industry Forum

USEA, USAID Release Roadmap for Electricity Trade Between South and Southeast Asia

September 14th, 2018

Washington, D.C. – Regional coordination on energy policy, legal and regulatory frameworks, and resource management would improve energy security, and accelerate economic growth of South and Southeast Asia, according to an analysis released recently by the U.S. Energy Association (USEA) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Linking South Asia with Burma & Southeast Asia to Advance Cross Border Electricity Trade: A Political Economy Study

September 14th, 2018
USAID Reports
Program Publications

Regional coordination on energy policy, legal and regulatory frameworks, and resource management would improve energy security, and accelerate economic growth of South and Southeast Asia, according to an analysis released recently by the U.S. Energy Association (USEA) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Women In Energy: Maria Nohemi Arboleda Arango

September 11th, 2018

The Women in Energy series is a joint project between USEA and USAID that was developed out of USEA’s Engendering Utilities Partnership, a program funded by USAID to improve gender policies and gender outcomes at their respective organizations.

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María Nohemi Arboleda Arango

Job Title: 
Chief Executive Officer
Organization: 
XM

Gerry Yurkevicz

Job Title: 
Partner, Energy, Utilities and Infrastructure
Organization: 
Oliver Wyman

Gerry Yurkevicz, a Partner in the Energy, Utilities and Infrastructure Practice at Oliver Wyman, specializes in business strategy, marketing, organizational transformation, and operational improvement. He brings over 30 years of consulting and operating experience with utilities, energy companies, and technology firms. His areas of focus include:

• Business strategy: For multiple energy companies, Mr. Yurkevicz has assisted in developing and implementing business strategies and improving planning processes. These efforts have involved broad management participation and deep fact-based market and competitive analysis, helping to drive growth initiatives. Recent efforts have focused on the future of energy markets, the utility of the future, digital transformation, and innovation in the energy market.
• Cyber strategy: Mr. Yurkevicz leads the Practice’s cyber initiatives. He is currently working with start-up to develop software, and services to for cyber security solutions for the evolving power grid. He has worked with leading utilities to cost-effectively implement cyber solutions to meet evolving business and regulatory needs.
• Market entry: He has worked with a range of software, hardware, and device companies to develop business strategies to grow and expand in the energy and infrastructure markets.
• Corporate advisory and M&A: Mr. Yurkevicz has helped energy companies and investors with pre-transaction, deal-related including due diligence, and post-transaction initiatives for a range of assets and businesses, including distribution utilities, generation, renewable resources, smart grid-related new entrants, pipelines, and energy-related product and services businesses.

Previously, Mr. Yurkevicz spent six years as a member of the senior executive team at Providence Energy, a regional utility. He was responsible for all utility and non-utility marketing and communications, corporate development, and merger and acquisition functions. He developed, launched, and had P&L responsibility for its new energy businesses, starting-up, developing and integrating over 15 acquisitions and joint ventures.

Mr. Yurkevicz has also worked as a senior consultant in the energy practices of leading consulting firms, including Global Insight, Concentric Energy, and KEMA. Mr. Yurkevicz began his energy career at BP Amoco, focusing on economic and financial analysis in the oil and gas industry.

Mr. Yurkevicz holds a B.A. in economics from Amherst College and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Credentials: 
MBA

Victoria Shirazi

Job Title: 
Associate Director, Strategic Solutions Group
Organization: 
Marsh & McLennan Companies

Victoria is an Associate Director for Marsh and McLennan Companies, which operates at the global corporate level. She consults on topics of risk, value and strategy, working across Marsh, Mercer, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman to deliver strategic client solutions. Victoria leads Marsh & McLennan Companies’ cross op-co cyber sector, responsible for supporting clients in cyber risk advisory and transfer solutions in order to build effective cyber resilience. Victoria also works within MMC’s digital analytics, insurer, government, and payer industries.

Prior to joining Marsh & McLennan, Victoria led emerging technologies and cyber risk work at the World Economic Forum. Victoria was the Project Lead for the “Mitigating Risks in the Innovation Economy” project made up of the world’s leading global C-suites executives and government leaders.  Victoria managed the World Economic Forum’s technology and insurance risk project since its inception and worked closely with our colleagues at Oliver Wyman and Marsh as well as with many of our clients and competitors. Victoria’s work brought to the forefront the interconnected risks of emerging technologies. The publication of her project’s White Paper hit the New York Times, Reuters and over a dozen other Insurance, Business and Technology journals and news outlets. Her project was featured at the Annual Meeting in Davos and the Annual Meeting in Dalian as well as launching a successful press conference on technology risk  in Davos between Lloyd’s CEO Inga Beale and IBM’s David Kenny. Victoria was  successful to developing global public-private collaboration in order to develop cyber resilience against attacks on the electrical grid. Prior to leaving the WEF, Victoria saw the creation of the World Economic Forum’s Global Center for Cybersecurity.

Before joining the WEF, Victoria was a Senior Engagement Manager at TK Consulting, leading a team of analysts in increasing the productivity of a formerly failing 3D film company to IPO. Victoria also worked as a consultant for Millward Brown where she assessed and aided CMO’s at top CPG companies to manage distinctive issues they faced with globalization. Victoria has also worked as a Senior Consultant for BAE Systems, aiding Homeland Security to develop a national preparedness strategy for natural and man-made disasters. Prior to that, Victoria spent close to three years at McKinsey & Company as a Research Analyst in the Insurance Practice. While at McKinsey & Company, Victoria authored numerous internal McKinsey briefs and white papers on P&C Insurance and Hurricane & Terrorism Insurance. 

Victoria has been published in the World Economic Forum’s Agenda as well as in Fortune magazine and other news outlets, discussing building resilience against technologic risk exposure. Victoria is currently working on a book about the Geopolitics, Petroleum Power and the Islamic Revolution of 1979. She has been published in Harvard’s Middle East Journal, New Society as well as Islamist Watch. Victoria is a well known speaker on government, policy, technology and risk.

Victoria holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Emory University. She holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Victoria also attended Dartmouth’s Tuck Business School Business Bridge Program.  

Profile Type: 
Speaker

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