Carlos joined Welligence Energy Analytics in 2024 as Executive Vice President of Macro Analysis & Advisory. Prior to Welligence he spent 15 years at S&P Global Commodity Insights (SPGCI) where he was responsible for upstream legal, fiscal and regulatory research and analysis. He was also focused on regulatory framework design and good practices for the decarbonization of oil and gas operations and regularly advised companies and hydrocarbons regulatory agencies on upstream legal and regulatory matters. Prior to SPGCI, he was an external counsel for oil and gas companies and in-house legal counsel at two major Orinoco’s Oil Belt projects in Venezuela.
Since 2013, he has been a Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary University, London and SciencePo in Paris where he teaches the module ‘International and Comparative Petroleum Law and Contracts in the Energy Transition’. In 2023, he was appointed Honorary Fellow of the University of Dundee’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP).
Carlos holds a law degree from the Universidad Catolica ‘Andres Bello’ and an LLM in Petroleum Law and Policy from the University of Dundee (CEPMLP).
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