The Future of Global Energy Markets with Christyan Malek

This week Christyan Malek, Managing Director and Global Head of Energy Strategy for JP Morgan and Head of EMEA Oil & Gas Equity Research, joins Joseph Majkut, director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program to discuss energy market conditions, energy security, barriers to investment and what’s next for the energy transition.  

Christyan Malek, a Managing Director and Global Head of Energy Strategy for JP Morgan and Head of EMEA Oil & Gas Equity Research. Christyan and his team have been consistently top-ranked by Institutional Investor in European Exploration and Production and Oilfield Services over the last 11 years, most recently achieving the #1 rank four years in a row in the 2020-2023 II Surveys for Oil & Gas Exploration and Production in both the Developed Europe and Emerging EMEA categories. He is also ranked the top-rated global energy analyst in the individual category.  

Christyan has written extensively on Global and European Majors’ energy transition and disruption, energy macro strategy and the Supercyle thesis, and has hosted a suite of industry thought leaders including Saudi Minister of Energy HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, OPEC Secretary General HE Mohammed Barkindo, US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and the Executive Director of the IEA Fatih Birol.  

He has previously worked at Nomura, DB and BP, and graduated from Imperial College, London, with a First in Chemical Engineering. He is originally Egyptian, and Arabic is his second language.