Vice President, Energy, S&P Global Commodity Insights
Matthew J. Sagers, Vice President, Energy, S&P Global, is a well-known expert on energy, energy transportation systems, and regional economic development in the Former Soviet Union, including pipeline constraints and solutions in Eurasia, and is an authority on energy policy in that region. Dr. Sagers heads the S&P Global Eurasian Energy advisory service and headed the Eurasian Transportation Forum. He is the key contributor to the Eurasian Oil Export Outlook and Eurasian Gas Export Outlook. Recent research includes leadership of the team that produced Kazakhstan’s National Energy Report (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021); Russian upstream oil dynamics and the OPEC plus deal; Russian oil taxation; trends in lifting costs of Russian oil; Russian, Turkmen, and Uzbek gas development and export prospects (including Power of Siberia and Yamal LNG); Ukrainian natural gas developments; oil products demand and outlook for the Russian oil refining sector; and new oil, oil product, and gas pipeline projects in Russia and Eurasia. Earlier research included Kashagan project economics, the Kazakh domestic gas market, and the outlook for oil transit in the Turkish Straits. Prior to joining Cambridge Energy Research Associates (later acquired by IHS Markit) over a decade ago, Dr. Sagers was Director of the Energy Service at PlanEcon, Inc., and formerly was Chief of the Soviet Branch in the US Census Bureau’s Center for International Research. Dr. Sagers previously served on several World Bank missions, study teams, and advisory panels focused on oil pipelines in Russia and Kazakhstan. He worked on the International Energy Agency’s Survey of the Russian Energy Sector and Survey of the Ukrainian Energy Sector. Previously, he was an economic advisor to the Federated States of Micronesia and a Professor of geography at Weber State University and the University of Virginia. He is the author of several monographs and an extensive number of research articles, government reports, and other publications. Dr. Sagers holds a BS from Weber State University and MA and PhD degrees from The Ohio State University.