Therese Robinson

Chief Editor

Therese Robinson has extensive experience in energy and financial journalism. Before joining Interfax to head up Interfax Global Energy Services, Therese was the Managing Editor at Gas Strategies, editing Gas Matters and LNG Business Review. This added to the energy and financial market knowledge that she gained as European Managing Editor at Platts, Director at Standard & Poor’s Credit Ratings and held similar editorial positions at Argus and Bloomberg. Therese has a special interest in the North American natural gas market, particularly in the development of Canadian and US shale gas plays.

Annemarie Botzki

Reporter, EU Policy & Regulation

After completing a Masters degree in Politics and Government in the European Union from the London School of Economics, Annemarie has worked as a freelance journalist covering EU energy, foreign and security policy. Whilst completing an undergraduate degree in Social Science from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, she worked in the German Parliament and the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Tom Hoskyns

Editor, Western Europe

Tom Hoskyns joined Interfax in October 2012 from ICIS Heren. There he wrote news and analysis of the European power and gas markets, focusing specifically on France, Belgium, Italy and Germany. Before moving to ICIS he reported on developments in global energy law at Law Business Research.

Sara Stefanini

Editor, Asia & the Pacific

Sara Stefanini has covered markets across the world, including the US, India and Europe on topics ranging from politics and policy, to national security, law and energy. Most recently, Sara reported on Italy’s power, gas and emissions markets for ICIS Heren. Prior to that, Sara specialized in energy and environmental law, policy and regulation for Law360 in New York.

Andreas Walstad

Editor, EU Policy & Regulation

Andreas Walstad has a wide knowledge of the European energy industry. As the London Bureau Chief at Montel he wrote and edited market commentaries and analytical features across the commodity sector, including gas, oil, coal, power and the carbon markets. This added to the experience he gained covering the European energy markets as an Associate Editor at Platts. Andreas specialises in the UK and northwest European gas markets.

Andrew Walker

Research Analyst, EnergyHub

Andrew Walker joined Interfax in July 2012, having completed an internship at The Carbon Brief where he reported on UK energy policy with a focus on shale gas. He holds a Masters in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London and an undergraduate degree in Geography and History from the University of Birmingham.

Doug Kitson

Sub-editor

Doug Kitson joined Interfax Energy in 2012 having produced, edited and written for chemistry magazines LCGC Europe, LCGC Asia Pacific, LCGC North America; digital magazine The Column; German language publication LCGC Ausgabe in Deutsche Sprache; and life science magazines Pharmaceutical Executive Europe and Ophthalmology Times Europe.

Joseph Williams

Website & Art Editor

Joseph Williams has over five years experience as a production editor, working most recently at ICIS Heren, where he managed the publication of thirteen reports including the daily flagship title, European Spot Gas Markets. Joseph has an interest in website development and design, having created and maintained websites on a freelance basis. Joseph holds a degree in Media & Communication from the University of the West Indies, Mona (Jamaica).

James Batty

News Editor

James Batty joined Interfax Energy in 2011 with more than six years of experience covering the energy sector, specialising particularly in company news and finance. As a Europe and Africa journalist for Energy Intelligence, he reported on the long-term strategies of Shell, Total, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, BP and BG in the region, as well as the growing influence of the national oil companies and independents. Prior to joining Interfax Energy he co-edited Energy Intelligence’s weekly Energy and Finance publication.

Tom Washington

Editor, Former Soviet Union

Tom Washington joined Interfax in 2013 after covering oil and gas in the former Soviet Union for Energy Intelligence. Before that he covered Russian politics for The Moscow News and Russian energy for Newsbase, spending almost six years in the former Soviet Union. In Moscow he focussed on the politics of gas in Ukraine and the Caspian region and on the Russian upstream oil sector. He studied Russian at Minsk State Linguistic University.

James Byrne

Reporter, Asia-Pacific

James Byrne moved to Interfax in July 2011, immediately after finishing a Masters of Research in the War Studies Department at King’s College London. He has worked in both Italy and South Korea, before which he completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy with 1st class honours, and a Distinction in a Masters in the Philosophy of Science.

Leigh Elston

Editor, Middle East & Africa

Leigh Elston has written extensively about the global gas and LNG market for Gas Strategies, focusing particularly on UK and US energy law, the Middle Eastern gas market, energy project finance and LNG project management. Before joining Gas Strategies, Leigh reported for 18 months on the oil and gas project finance market for Infrastructure Journal.

Chris Noon

Editor, Latin America

Chris Noon has reported on international affairs, finance and the European power markets for Forbes, Oxford Analytica, HSBC and most recently ICIS Heren. While at ICIS, he wrote news and analysis on the European power, gas, carbon and coal markets, with special expertise in French, German, Central and Eastern European and Russian power.

Jason Torquato

Editor, Global Markets

Jason joined Interfax from ICIS Heren in July 2012, where he reported on gas, power and LNG markets across Europe, with a special focus on Britain, France, Belgium and Germany. He previously worked as a gas and power market analyst at energy consultancy, The Energy Brokers.

Rhys Timson

Chief Sub-editor

Rhys Timson joined Interfax Energy in 2011 with five years of experience in a variety of editorial and production roles. He has previously worked for Hydrocarbon Engineering magazine and its quarterly supplement, LNG Industry, as well as a number of other trade titles.

Beatrice Prokofiev

Sub-editor

Bea Prokofiev joined Interfax Energy in April 2012, having worked at financial B2B publisher VRL for one and a half years as sub-editor. In this role she was responsible for text and layout sub-editing, ads and graphics production, as well as the editing of extensive financial reports. She is editor of a biannual newsletter for charity The AT Society, and has also assisted with the design and sub-editing of music magazine Nonclassical. She is currently studying graphic design in her spare time.