C-suite Chat with KPMG’s Regina Mayor: Carbon-based Livelihoods

[Editor's note: A version of this story appears in the June 2022 issue of Oil and Gas Investor magazine.]

Sometimes dressed in a self-described pink power suit, Regina Mayor, KPMG’s global head of energy, spent March globetrotting. She visited oil companies in India, talked shop with OPEC leaders and saw a new intensity in decarbonization in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

She listened to world energy leaders irked by their exclusion from the U.N.’s Climate Change Conference, COP 27.

As the world plunges into the chaos of war, inflation and potential recession, Mayor and KPMG, one of the world’s largest accounting firms, see opportunities in that disorder. She also sees the necessity for all fossil fuel companies—whether members of OPEC or independent E&Ps in Texas—to find their place in the low-carbon narrative of the future.