We present a Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from S&P Global’s CERAWeek 2026.

SmarterMarkets™ was in Houston last week for CERAWeek to partner with S&P Global. We sat down with participants at the energy industry's most influential annual conference. The theme for this year's conference was Convergence and Competition: Energy, Technology, and Geopolitics – and the implications of the conflict in Iran were on everyone's mind.

We’ve compiled a selection of those interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. If you would like to listen to the full interviews, they are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal. They’re also available on our second podcast channel, SmarterMarkets™ Presents.

Our guests are:

Arjun Murti – Partner at Veriten & Publisher of "Super-Spiked" on Substack

Susan Sakmar – Visiting Professor at University of Houston Law Center & Board Member of Flex LNG

Jeff Currie – Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Pathways, Carlyle

Radhika Krishnan – Chief Product and Technology Officer, Quorum Software

Michael Greenstone – Director, Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)

David Keith – Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative, University of Chicago