Skip to main content
Intellect

“Oil and the Middle East: Poison or Promise?” lecture topic at BYU Sept. 29

Jamal Qureshi, lead analyst for the energy company Statoil, will be speaking Wednesday, Sept. 29, at noon in 238 Herald R. Clark Building at Brigham Young University.

Qureshi’s lecture is titled “Oil and the Middle East: Poison or Promise?” and is hosted by the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies.

Qureshi is the lead crude oil and refining trading analyst for the Norway-based Statoil energy solutions company.

His decade of professional experience includes having worked as the fundamentals analyst and hedge fund liaison at Hess Energy Trading Company in New York City; as on-desk fundamentals analyst for Barclays Capital’s crude and oil products traders in New York City; as the lead oil market analyst at consultancy PFC Energy in Washington, D.C., in ExxonMobil’s public affairs division and for the U.S. State and Treasury Departments.

A BYU alumnus, Qureshi spent a year studying Arabic on a Fulbright grant at the American University in Cairo before receiving a Master of Arts degree in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.

The lecture will be archived at kennedy.byu.edu/archive.  For more information, contact Lee Simons at (801) 422-2652 or lee_simons@byu.edu. For more information on Statoil, visit www.statoil.com/en/Pages/default.aspx.

 

Writer: Philip Volmar

qureshiaj.jpg
Photo by Kylea McMurray/BYU Photo

Related Articles

data-content-type="article"

Green-thumb dynasty: BYU landscaping wins fifth national championship in six years

March 27, 2024
For the fifth time in six years, BYU students dug, pruned and planted their way to the National Collegiate Landscaping Competition title, the March Madness of college landscaping teams. BYU bested 50 other universities in the four-day event, outscoring the second-place finisher by more than 358 points and breaking the 5000-point total for the first time in the 48-year history of the tournament.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"

Forum: How to be a confident pluralist

March 26, 2024
In a democracy where people hold many conflicting views, how do we each honor our own values while making decisions together? Grappling with that question in Tuesday’s forum address, Harvard professor Danielle Allen encouraged her audience to meet this challenge by becoming “confident pluralists.”
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"

More than money, family and community bonds prep teens for college success

March 21, 2024
Family bonds make the difference in getting teens to college, BYU study says.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText=