Ronan Bescond is the TotalEnergies EP Australia Managing Director and Country Chair for Australia since September 2021.
Previously, he was assigned to Mozambique as Vice President Mozambique LNG and Country Chair (September 2019-August 2021), to Zimbabwe as TotalEnergies Managing Director (August 2017-August 2019) and to Singapore as Vice President Country Delegate for Australia, Brunei and Malaysia (August 2014-July 2017).
He started at TotalEnergies in 1999 when he joined the chemicals branch in Philadelphia, USA after completing Master of Science from the Chemical Engineering School of Montpellier, France and from the National University of Singapore.
At the end of 2001 he returned to the headquarters in Paris to join the Liquefied Natural Gas department of TotalEnergies Gas, Renewable and Power branch. He was involved in several LNG projects including Angola LNG, Qatargas I & II, Nigeria LNG and Oman LNG.
In 2005, he became Corporate Finance and Treasury Manager in the holding department of TotalEnergies SE in Paris where he was in charge of structuring and financing Gas, Renewables and Power activities in emerging markets then Exploration and Production activities in Africa.
In 2010, he joined the Exploration and Production African Business Unit as Deputy to the Vice President for Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Mauritania. He moved to Tripoli, Libya in 2011, as Business and Development Manager, and left Libya in July 2014.

As Managing Director for OGCI and OGDC, Julien is responsible for overall management of the strategy and execution, coordinating actions and commitments, managing relations with institutions and external stakeholders, developing external policy views and providing strategic direction to drive future development of both organizations.
Prior to OGCI, Julien headed Climate & Energy Services at EY where he helped companies set up and implement low-carbon strategies. Julien also worked at TotalEnergies where he coordinated climate change actions and at Aecom managing environmental liabilities for various industries.
Julien holds an Environmental Engineering degree from Agro ParisTech, an MSc in Energy and Climate Economics from Dauphine, an advanced degree in Climate Change Management and Natural Capital from Yale, and an Executive MBA from HEC in France.

From 2012-2023, Prof. Garnett led the University of Queensland’s Centre for Natural Gas and CCUS research programs. He worked closely with all the main CSG-LNG project proponents in the eastern states of Australia. In that role, he was a regular advisor and contributor to numerous government consultations and inquires about the gas sector, CCUS, the broader energy transition and the role of gas. From 2016 to 2020, Prof. Garnett was appointed a non-executive director of National Energy Resources Australia (NERA), a Federal Government ‘industry growth centre’. NERA worked across the energy resources sectors, partnering with government, research, science and industry. Prof. Garnett has been a reviewer on natural gas for the IEA’s World Energy Outlook series and has also contributed on CCUS via their Energy Technology Perspectives. Before entering academia, he was with Shell and Schlumberger in technical and management positions. He has over 25 years’ world-wide experience with oil majors in conventional and unconventional projects, where he consulted widely on unconventional developments, most notably those with high GHG emission footprints. He was also CEO and Project Director of ZeroGen, a large IGCC with CCS feasibility study and storage exploration venture in Queensland. Prof. Garnett is the current Chair of the Australian Gas Industry Trust (AGIT), a not-for profit trust aimed at education and research around the gas sector and he is also an Executive Committee Member on the International Gas Union.

Yvette is a senior leader at Woodside with 20 years global experience spanning strategic and technical leadership roles and is currently the General Manager of Decarbonisation. She has been awarded numerous Australian awards, and was a reviewer of the IEA 2024 Oil and Gas in Energy Transitions Report. Current non executive directorships include the CO2CRC, with prior appointments including Earth Science Australia, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and IPIECA, and the Hellenic Western Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Prior experience includes leading the wider Pluto LNG Asset and managing Woodside’s indigenous, social investment and sustainability portfolios. By background, Yvette is a wells and reservoir engineer.
Yvette has a successful track record in visionary leadership, project delivery, risk management, strategy development and implementation, governance, regulatory compliance and commercial decision making.

Bernadette is the Deloitte Australia Energy, Resources and Industrials Industry Leader and Energy & Chemicals Sector Leader.
Bernadette has more than 30 years of experience across the energy, LNG, chemicals and resources value chains. She has worked with companies in the upstream, downstream, midstream, LNG and trading segments. Her work spans the end-to-end project lifecycle including the design, build, operate and decommission phases. 
Bernadette is specifically focused on the operators, joint venture partners and the ecosystem of services companies and stakeholders involved in Australia’s world-leading LNG industry. She support companies to improve operations and business performance, implement growth strategies and new technologies, and transition to a decarbonising economy where LNG and new energies play increasing roles. She also helps companies reduce emissions and tackle the challenges of the energy transition.
Throughout her career Bernadette has held senior roles in the energy and resources industry including with Exxon Company International, Esso Singapore and Accenture.
Bernadette has an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York City and has BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering.