President and Chief Commercial Officer
Sarah Bairstow has 20 years of international LNG and energy leadership experience, including end-to-end commercial LNG project development. Mrs. Bairstow has successfully marketed and delivered LNG projects from concept through to operations and executed over US$140 billion of gas and LNG transactions.
She was previously Head of Commercial LNG and Strategic Projects for the $18.5b Gladstone LNG Project, where she secured the long-term SPAs before building and running Gladstone LNG Project’s commercial LNG desk for close to a decade on behalf of project partners Santos, KOGAS, PETRONAS and Total. Sarah played a key role throughout the project, from concept through to operations, with direct involvement across the build out of permitting, EIS, joint ventures, gas markets, pipeline and terminal development, LNG markets, shipping, port development, FID, operational readiness and operations.
Prior to Gladstone LNG, Sarah was an energy transactions and projects lawyer with Ashurst advising on LNG, , energy project development and M&A.
Sarah holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of International Business from Griffith University. She is a regular plenary speaker at keynote industry conferences and has been widely recognized across the industry through both receiving, and being a judge for, industry awards.