Ashutosh Shastri

Ashutosh Shastri is the founder of EnerStrat Consulting - a London based international strategic management consultancy practice in the Energy Sector. He also serves as Advisor, Global Gas Centre, Geneva; Distinguished Fellow (non-resident) at the Washington DC based Energy Policy Research Foundation Inc. (EPRINC) and Member of the Advisory Board of the Research Centre for Energy Management at ESCP Business School, London.

Ashutosh has advised leading international energy companies in their corporate and business unit strategies, especially in the petroleum and petrochemicals sector related scenario development and planning, risk management, and business modelling. He has also conducted due diligence for Private Equity and VC funds, provided analyses of macroeconomic and geo-political trends in global energy and its implications for Institutional Investors/Asset Managers. He has acted as independent expert in a range of commercial renegotiations/disputes in the natural gas/LNG and electricity contracts. In addition to his strategic/commercial advisory, he is an adviser to several Track-2 international initiatives on Energy Transition, Scenarios, Clean Technologies and Climate Change Negotiations. He has often taken on operational and interim management roles in energy and technology companies. He has hands on experience in technology commercialization, new product/market development and organizational change/performance improvement. He has extensive experience in carbon markets; energy and climate finance, including a good understanding of energy/clean technology venture investing. 

He has authored several published papers on Global Unconventional/Shale Gas, LNG, Smart Grids and Wind Energy. He has chaired several prestigious UN Conferences on Energy Policy and Trade. He is a member of several committees in the World Energy Council, chiefly the Trilemma Group, Global Energy Scenarios Committee and Unconventional Gas Expert Group and the international task force on Nuclear Energy Strategy: Post Fukushima. Prior to founding EnerStrat, he was an expert consultant in the global energy practice of McKinsey and Company based in London between the years 1995-2003. Prior to McKinsey, he worked as a TQM/ISO-9000 Champion and a Project Engineer in India. 

Ashutosh is an electrical engineering graduate of The Victoria Jubilee Technological Institute, University of Mumbai. Additionally, he is also a member of the Energy Institute, Chatham House, The Institute of Directors and a Liveryman (Member of the Court) of the Worshipful Company of Fuellers.