ProSpector Energy Advisors

Clear. Empirical. Contextualized. 

ProSpector Energy Advisors is available for retained advisory, or to provide bespoke one-off analyses, project strategy and support, executive education, and live or virtual speaking engagements. Primary expertise is in energy commodity markets and energy policy. Throughout her career in financial services and academia, Katherine Spector has produced extensive, thought-leading financial and policy research on energy supply/demand fundamentals, price behavior, market structure, and geopolitical risks. With ProSpector Energy Advisors, she makes empirical analysis accessible to diverse audiences, from career energy professionals in industry, finance and government, to clients grappling for the first time with decisions related to energy markets or policy.

ProSpector Energy Advisors is New York based; compensated travel will be considered on a case by case basis.

 

Topics of interest include:

  • Explaining short- and long-term price trends in physical and financial energy markets;

  • Identifying investment opportunities created by dislocations in energy markets;

  • Assessing how financial energy market structure, composition, liquidity, and regulation influence commodity price behavior and market health;

  • Weighing domestic and international geopolitical and policy risks to energy markets;

  • Identifying energy risk management strategies for energy producers, consumers, governments and investors;

  • Planning for the energy transition and assessing climate risks to energy infrastructure;

  • Introducing new investors to opportunities in the ESG space.

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Katherine Spector is a longtime energy market analyst, having spent the past 15+ years producing thought-leading research at major banks. The bulk of her career was spent leading energy strategy and research for the commodity derivatives sales and trading desks at JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and CIBC World Markets. Ms. Spector was responsible for the banks' energy price forecasts and market views, and she produced analysis of global energy supply-demand fundamentals, price behavior, market structure, and geopolitical risks. Her work supported bank traders and originators in all major regions, and clients ranged from oil and gas companies, to institutional investors, to representatives of US and international government.

Ms. Spector is a non-resident Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. She is also on the board of the New York Energy Forum, an educational organization dedicated to increasing public knowledge about energy issues. She serves as an advisory committee member for environmental non-profit Scenic Hudson. Prior to her work on Wall Street, she worked as the editor of Oil Market Intelligence at the Energy Intelligence Group and as a consultant with Industrial Economics, Inc. where her work included litigation support for the deregulation of natural gas utilities. She has also served as an adjunct faculty member at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and held term membership at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Spector has appeared regularly in print and television media on a wide range of energy issues and speaks frequently at public and private forums on energy markets and policy.

Ms. Spector graduated with honors with a degree in Political Science from Yale University.