British-American Business Council to Host Event on Politics of Energy in Mexico

HOUSTON - June 4, 2014 - PRLog -- Last year, Mexico's legislature passed historic reforms for the energy sector, with the aim of opening the way for much-needed foreign direct investment to the nationalized energy industry for the first time since 1938.

Mr. Richard Shackleton of the British Embassy in Mexico will discuss the prospects and challenges confronting Mexico's energy reform and the implications for the oil, gas and power sectors at a luncheon hosted by the British-American Business Council  on June 18 at Le Mistral in the Energy Corridor, Houston TX. The event is sponsored by ABIP CPAs.

Mr. Shackleton joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1990. He has since been posted to the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York, the UK Trade and Investment Office in Bogotá, Colombia and the British Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria.He took a career break to work as International Director for the Bogotá Children’s Museum in Colombia. In 2000, he was nominated as Deputy Director of the British Council in Colombia. He has also worked in the FCO's Climate Change and Energy Department in London, focusing on energy security issues in Russia and the Caspian Region and in the Department of Energy and Climate Change on the international climate change negotiations. He was posted to Mexico City in June 2012 to lead on the Embassy's energy, climate change and programme work.

More information on the event and registration can be found at http://babchouston.org/en/cev/510 or by calling the BABC office at 832.351.3940.

About the British-American Businss Council Houston - BABC Houston is the premiere organization for the British American business community in Texas. A 501 (c) 6 organization, BABC provides its membership and the business community at large with networking opportunities, business to business introductions, topical seminars and luncheons.  BABC is a member of BABC, Inc. a larger organization of 23 chapter in the US and UK with 10,000 members.