Paola Carvajal

Paola is a Principal at Arthur D. Little in our Houston office. She has extensive experience working with large energy companies in the Americas.

Since joining Arthur D. Little in 2008, Paola has focused on economic and financial feasibility studies for the oil and gas industry, market studies, strategic planning, commercial and trading strategies, and energy policy analysis. She has advised private and state-owned oil and gas companies, as well as governments in many countries, with challenges related to transformation and value creation opportunities in the energy sector.

Prior to Arthur D. Little, Paola worked for the Colombian National Hydrocarbon Agency as an Energy Policy Consultant analyzing strategies to increase the private investment in the sector. She also has extensive experience assessing new investment opportunities for the Latin American private sector.

Examples of her consulting work include projects related to:

• design of energy policies,
• exploration strategies for unconventional hydrocarbons,
• visualization of deep-water developments,
• promotion of exploration & production investment,
• refinery feasibility studies,
• international trading and performance management.
• Past Experience
• Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos
• Planning and Energy Policy Consultant

Education

• Duke University
• Master in International Development Policy. Certificates in Energy and Environment as well as Latin American Studies
• Universidad Externado de Colombia
• Bachelor, Finance and International Relations

Insights

• NOC Assembly 2018, September 2018
• Building momentum – oil and gas in Latin America, May 2018
• America First: carbon emissions go last?, April 2017
• Unconventional hydrocarbons in Latin America, March 2017
• Where now for oil?, August 2015
• The birth of Neo-Petronationalism: a new emerging model, July 2014
• Opportunities and challenges for Global Deepwater Players, November 2013
• Deepwater Developments, August 2013