Dr. Seck was named Vice President, LNG Marketing and Shipping in November 2016. He has more than 25 years of experience working in the international oil and natural gas industry and began his career as a wireline engineer working for Schlumberger. Following his doctoral studies, he spent eight years in Russia with Shell including an assignment with Sakhalin Energy Investment Company where he marketed the first sales of Russian LNG into Asia/Pacific. Following a corporate planning assignment with Shell in Houston, he joined Qatargas Operating Company Ltd. where he worked for almost six years as Assistant Director, LNG Marketing, East of Suez, with the responsibility for maintaining and growing Qatargas’ LNG sales portfolio throughout the Asia-Pacific region. At the beginning of 2015, he joined Uniper Global Commodities SE as Regional Head of LNG, Asia based in Singapore.
Dr. Seck holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, Scotland and a Bachelor of Science in geological engineering from Queen’s University, Canada.