Andrew Garnett
Professor (Emeritus) & Executive Chair
Australian Gas Industry Trust
Prof. Garnett is the Executive Chair of the Australian Gas Industry Trust and ExCom member of the IGU.
Before entering academia, he was with Shell and Schlumberger in technical and management positions and has over 25 years’ world-wide experience in conventional and unconventional projects, where he consulted widely on unconventional developments, most notably those with high GHG emission footprints. He was also CEO and Project Director of ZeroGen, a large IGCC with CCS feasibility project in Queensland.
From 2012-2023, Prof. Garnett led the University of Queensland’s Centre for Natural Gas (now Gas and Energy Transition Research Centre) and their CCUS research programs. He worked closely with all the main CSG-LNG project proponents in the eastern states of Australia and is a regular advisor to State and Federal governments on gas sector matters.