Pedro Haas
Principal
McKinsey & Company
Panelist: Energy
Pedro Haas is a Principal with McKinsey & Company, with expertise in trading and risk management in the petroleum industry, as well as mergers and acquisitions, exploration and production, refining, and gas. Working with McKinsey, he has helped a large integrated oil company understand opportunities in third-party petroleum trading, has collaborated in various studies involving trading and risk management issues for the Firm, has supported E&P opportunity valuation for both crude oil and gas, and has worked on E&P strategy issues with independent and major companies.
Fluent in three languages, below is an overview of positions and responsibilities he has held, including:
• CEO of KoSa (a joint venture between Koch Industries and Isaac Saba, a Mexican investor, which included most of the polyester assets of Hoechst AG).
• Managing Director for Latin America for Koch Industries, Inc., responsible for developing new business for Koch throughout the region, including upstream, refining, and chemical projects.
• Various positions with Pemex: CEO of Pemex Gas (Mexico City), the unit responsible for natural gas and LPG fractionation, transportation, and marketing; CEO of PMI, the international trading subsidiary; Managing Director for Pemex in Europe (London and Paris), responsible for crude oil sales in Europe, oil market intelligence, and attendance to OPEC meetings; and Deputy General Manager (Mexico City), Crude Oil Exports, International Trade Department.
• Economic Counselor to the Mexican Embassy in Japan ( Tokyo ).
In addition to his years in the industry's corporate sector, Mr. Haas was on the board of the Institute of the Americas , and has served on the boards of Profalca, SA ( Caracas ); Repsol, SA ( Madrid ); and Petronor, SA (Madrid/Bilbao). He is an annual lecturer at the Oxford Energy Seminar and is a member of the Oxford Energy policy Club.
Mr. Haas studied Economics at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and obtained a BA in Economics (cum laude) from Vanderbilt University . He did graduate work in economics at Cambridge University .
