Rikard Scoufias is an energy/extractives executive and has led organisations facing some of the sectors most complex development and “license to operate” challenges in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
In 2011 he joined the Trans Adriatic Pipeline as Country Manager for Greece to devise a turnaround and secure TAP’s commercial selection as the European part of a new $45 billion “Southern Gas Corridor” from the Caspian into EU markets. In 2013 the project won selection and was hailed by the Greek Prime Minister as the “most important economic development for a decade”. Over the ensuing years he grew TAP into an execution organisation that by 2017 had delivered the project’s ’50%-construction’ milestone with unprecedented local support and working in close cooperation with several governments.
Prior, Rikard worked for BP Plc. at its London HQ and in various internationally postings. Until 2004 he was the BP group’s regional government & public affairs advisor for Europe and oversaw its political relationships in Brussels and EU capitals. From 2004 he oversaw non-technical risks and corporate relations for a number of the company’s international projects and was i.a. the architect behind its entry strategy into the Brazilian amazon basin, commencement of oil production in Angola, and global crisis response for LNG Indonesia. In 2008, following the departure of CEO John Browne, he left BP to be Executive Director for a think-tank founded by Shell, Microsoft, Unilever, IBM and J&J to drive thought leadership on business role in society.
By background he is a lawyer specialised in international law and EU law. He is proficient in nine languages and has been a board member at the Royal Institute for International Affairs and visiting lecturer energy at the College of Europe in Bruges and National Diplomatic Academy in Baku.
