Ray Leonard received a B.S. with Honors in Geoscience at the University of Arizona and an M.A. in Geology at the University of Texas at Austin. He held executive positions with Amoco, YUKOS, MOL, the Kuwait Energy Company and was subsequently Chief Executive Officer of Hyperdynamics, a NYSE-listed independent oil company operating in West Africa. He has published and presented on world oil and gas reserves, climate change and the Russian energy industry at forums such as Council on Foreign Relations, International Energy Agency, the 26 th World Gas Conference and the World Economic Forum at Davos.