Contributors

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Jackie Forrest

Jackie actively monitors emerging strategic trends related to energy. She is an author and sought after public speaker with 25 years of experience in the energy industry. 

Jackie is a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA). She is a former board member of Longshore Resources Ltd. and the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada (EPAC).

Jackie has published 20 public papers on energy issues. 

Jackie was the recipient of the 2018 Schulich School of Engineering Environment and Sustainability Alumni Award, recognizing her contribution to a significant body of knowledge that has helped to increase the understanding of the connection between energy and environment. 

She attended the University of Calgary where she received an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering.  She also has an MBA from Queens University.

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Peter Tertzakian

Peter has devoted his career to energy, first as a geophysicist, then as an economist and investment strategist.

He's written two bestsellers — A Thousand Barrels a Second and The End of Energy Obesity — and in 2020 launched his new project, energyphile.org, and book, The Investor Visit and Other Stories: Disruption, Denial and Transition in the Energy Business.

Peter created Energyphile to encourage people to think about the energy business in a whole new way.

In 2015 Peter was seconded to the Royalty Review Panel for the province of Alberta — the world’s 8th largest producer of oil and gas — where he led the redesign of the fiscal policy. In 2016 he was inducted into the Alberta Petroleum Hall of Fame and in 2021, he joined the Institute of Sustainable Finance Advisory Board and became the Chair of the board of Contemporary Calgary Art Gallery.