Dr Jennifer Coolidge

CEO at CMX Global

Speaker

Coolidge is a frontier market entrepreneur based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and a renowned expert on the oil and gas sectors of the Kurdistan Region, Federal Iraq, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and the Eastern Mediterranean. Coolidge leads a team of experts located across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and North America, and has advised CEOs and senior executives at more than 50 IOCs and hedge funds on commercial strategy, political risk, security, operations, E&P, M&A, and market entry. The combined market cap of corporate clients totals over $2.272 trillion. Big Heart Foundation, the NGO she chairs in a pro bono capacity, has delivered over $185 million in humanitarian aid to 3.9 million people in northern Syria since 2012. She received a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, and wrote “Turkmenistan: an exporter in transition” in Russian and CIS gas markets and their impact on Europe.