David Brown, is the director of our Energy Transition Practice. He began his career with Wood Mackenzie in 2011 as an analyst covering European markets. From 2014-2016, he was posted in our Beijing office, where he led the integration of our China energy research. He presented regularly on China’s macroeconomic outlook, gas and LNG markets and coal-to-gas switching goals.

Leveraging his global experience across multiple areas of the energy industry, David moved to our Houston office in 2016. He is a key author of our Energy Transition Outlook, Accelerated Energy Transition Scenarios and emerging technology coverage. He regularly advises strategy groups, company leadership teams, and investors on major long-term questions facing energy markets.
 

Kirsten Odynski, is a partner in White & Case's International Arbitration Practice. She has significant experience in resolving complex disputes, with a focus on the energy and construction sectors. Kirsten has acted as an advisor in commercial and investor-State arbitrations. She has conducted ad hoc arbitrations, as well as arbitrations under most major institutional rules. She also has experience with dispute avoidance / adjudication boards, as well as with claims and contract management.

Kirsten, a Canadian citizen, is qualified to practice in Paris and New York and spent time in the Firm's New York office before moving to Paris. She has served on the ICC's Task Forces for Expedited Procedure Provisions and Resolving Climate Change Related Disputes through Arbitration and ADR and participates in the activities of the World Nuclear Association. She was recognized in Who's Who Legal as a Future Leader in Arbitration and accepts appointments as arbitrator.

Frédéric G. Sourgens, is the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Tulane Center for Energy Law.

He joined the Tulane Law Faculty in 2023. Prior to teaching at Tulane, Sourgens served as the Senator Robert J. Dole Distinguished Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law.

Sourgens is the co-lead investigator with OPEC’s General Legal Counsel, Leonardo Sempértegui of the energy transition policy and regulatory briefs project for the Organization of Petroleum Producing States (OPEC). He is the Chair of the Southwest Institute for International and Comparative Law and a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Academic Outreach Committee for the Institute for Energy Law.

Sourgens is active in the governance of the American Society of International Law, where he currently serves a three-year term on its executive council. He holds multiple editorial appointments including Editor-in-Chief of Oxford University Press' Investment Claims reporter of international arbitral awards between states and foreign investors and serving on the editorial boards of the Brill Research Perspectives in International Investment Law and Arbitration as well as the American Review of International Arbitration (Columbia University School of Law).

Before entering academia, Sourgens practiced law at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP in Houston (now Norton Rose Fulbright) and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in Washington DC (now Milbank).
 

Tim Williamson, a native Texan, graduated from Rice University in 2001 and began his career in the United States Navy as a Submarine Warfare Officer. He spent twelve years on active duty, serving in a variety of leadership roles both at sea and ashore. During his Navy career, Tim successfully led large teams and managed several high-energy system quality assurance and control programs including Submarine Safety, Nuclear Propulsion maintenance, Reactor Plant Chemistry and Radiological Controls, and Nuclear Weapons quality assurance for submarine launched ballistic missiles. He earned his MBA from the Naval Postgraduate School in 2008.  

Tim hired on with NOV in 2013 as a project manager with the Subsea Blowout Preventer product line and served in a variety of in Project, Program, and Quality Management roles.  He has also served as Manufacturing Operations Director in the Intervention & Stimulation business unit and in several Data & Analytics roles within the NOV Corporate group.  

He presently serves as the Director for Regulatory & Public Affairs for NOV Shepherd Power. In this role he leads Shepherd Power’s regulatory engagement and modernization efforts with the US NRC, state and local leaders, and other public stakeholders.