Torbjørn Kjus has 24 years of experience in analysing the global energy markets. He worked 6 years as an oil analyst and trader in Norsk Hydro in Oslo and BP trading in London before he took up a role as Chief Oil Analyst in DNB Markets in Oslo in 2007. He held this position for 11 years but has the last six years worked in the Aker system, currently as Chief Economist in Aker BP. Torbjørn was by Norwegian institutional investors ranked as the num ber one financial analyst independent of sector when he resigned from DNB in 2018. For the Oil & Gas sector Torbjørn was ranked as the number one analyst during his last four years in DNB. Torbjørn annually held 250 presentations on the global oil & gas ma rkets to investors and oil industry worldwide and was frequently quoted in media such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Platts, Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, etc. He regularly briefed the US Treasury in Washington D.C. on the global oil market and provided consultations about the market to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum, to the Norwegian Pension Fund (NBIM) and to the Norwegian Central Bank. Oil “legends” like Ray Hunt, Olav Refvik and numerous hedge funds in London and New York leaned on Torbjorn to in terpret the global energy space, in addition to oil producers and oil consumers worldwide. Torbjørn is particularly known for having predicted the oil price crash in 2014 – 15 as a consequense of the US shale oil revolution, first published in the report “Th e fat lady has started to sing”.