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David Givens

Head of Natural Gas and Power Services
Argus Media

Areas of Expertise:

Energy Economics, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Power Sector, Regulation

Head of Natural Gas and Power Services for North America for Argus Media Inc. He is based in Washington, D.C.

David Givens is Head of Natural Gas and Power Services for North America for Argus Media Inc. He is based in Washington, D.C.

David's work focuses on expanding the usage of Argus prices to index daily, monthly, derivative, term contracts and transfer pricing in the natural gas and electricity markets. David was instrumental in launching the daily reports Argus Natural Gas Americas and Argus US Electricity, and the indexes they contain.

He is an award-winning journalist and commodity index expert who brings insight and accuracy to the energy field. He is the creator of leading branded indexes for pricing billions of dollars in energy transactions, and his work also has been used for benchmarking by many global organizations.

David is a frequent speaker at energy industry conferences on pivotal issues such as storage, LNG, pipeline flows, production, generation supply/demand. He is best known in the North American gas and power industries for his analysis of what’s behind the numbers, and for launching business-to-business daily publications that became must-have reading. He wrote one of the first books on natural gas futures trading.

David also has broad experience in hands-on implementation in the areas of content management, entitlement management and databases for commodity prices and fundamentals.

He has a BS in Journalism from Northwestern University and MA in International Affairs from American University.

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