APPEA 2025 Conference and Exhibition

Cecile became Country Chair and Senior Vice President Integrated Gas of Shell Australia in May 2023. She has more than 25 years of international experience in LNG, oil and gas project development and operations and mergers and acquisitions. Previously Cecile was CEO of Arrow Energy, Shell’s joint venture with PetroChina, which she commenced in 2020. She has also held senior commercial leadership roles at Shell Australia, where she was VP Commercial and New Business Development, and as Growth Director with BG Group, prior to its acquisition by Shell.

Before joining Shell and BG Group, Cecile was a corporate partner at the leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills in London for nine years. Her corporate energy practice focused on complex cross-border oil, gas and LNG project development, high-value mergers and acquisition transactions in the energy and mining sectors and long-term sales arrangements for oil, gas and LNG.

Cecile is also a Board Director of Australian Energy Producers and a member of the Senate of the University of Queensland, where she serves on the Finance and Campus Infrastructure Committees.

Presentation details

Plenary 3
Keynote Panel: Energy geopolitics | Security in the transition
Wednesday 28 May 2025
8:30am – 10:15am

Detailed program can be found here.