Murray Smith

Murray Smith

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Calgary, Alberta

Former Minister of Energy | Natural Resources | Government Relations And Business Expert

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MURRAY SMITH BIOGRAPHY

Murray Smith, a former member of the advisory boards for a leading Canadian securities firm and a global engineering consultancy, brings extensive expertise in natural resources and energy strategy. As president of a North American advisory firm, Murray Smith provides strategic counsel to major clients, including electrical generators, upstream producers, and national research institutions in the energy sector.

Murray Smith has served as an expert on the Audit Review Panel for a major Canadian energy corporation and is currently a director with two prominent energy companies. Murray Smith has delivered key presentations on Alberta’s oil sands and energy sector internationally, including in London, Geneva, Beijing, and across North America, sharing insights into global energy markets and Alberta’s role within them.

He is a frequent commentator on Bloomberg television, BNN, and Alberta media, as well as a respected source of energy analysis in the print media. Murray Smith is a frequent presenter and speaker to investor organizations, conferences, and numerous seminars.

Murray Smith was the first Official Representative of the Province of Alberta to the United States of America. Murray Smith established the Alberta Office in Washington, DC, and served until the fall of 2007. During his tenure in Washington DC, Murray Smith testified in Senate and Congressional Committees.

As Alberta’s representative in Washington DC, Murray Smith was a Congressional Nominee for Securing America’s Future Energy, a Presidential Commission. Murray Smith also guided a partnership with The Smithsonian Institution that featured Alberta on the National Mall in Washington DC.

The Folklife Festival attracted over a million visitors. Prior to his diplomatic posting, Murray Smith was a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Province of Alberta, Canada (winning three consecutive elections in Calgary-1993-2004) and appointed by the Premier to four different Cabinet portfolios: Energy, Gaming, Labor, and Economic Development.

As Minister of Energy (2001 to 2004), Murray Smith was responsible for gaining international recognition of Alberta’s 176 billion barrels of established oil reserves. In Alberta’s electricity sector, he guided the $5 billion market move to a competitive wholesale generation market. In his first Cabinet-level post, Minister of Economic Development (1994 to 1996), Murray Smith initiated the largest industrial tax reduction in the province’s history.

Murray Smith was a Member of the Cabinet Committee Treasury Board and the main contributor to the province’s debt retirement plan, which led the province to become the first debt-free jurisdiction in Canada. Before running for elected office in 1993, Murray Smith was an independent businessman with a number of Alberta-based energy service companies including drilling fluids, service rigs, oilfield contracting, and consulting.

Murray Smith is the recipient of numerous awards, including being named one of the Top 40 Alumni in the past 40 years at the University of Calgary (where an endowment exists in his name). Murray was recognized as one of Alberta Venture News magazine’s 50 most influential Albertans (2006).

Murray Smith was also recognized for his work with First Nations in Alberta and given the name “Seven War Bonnets Man.” Murray is a past Director of the Calgary Stampede Board Community Giving Board. A graduate of the London Business School’s Senior Executive Program, Murray Smith also holds a B.A. (Economics & Political Science) from the University of Calgary.

Murray Smith is a graduate of Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, and a Past-President of the College’s Alberta Alumni Association. Murray Smith is married to Barbara and has two daughters and 3 grandsons. Murray Smith is an avid, though unskilled, golfer and a lifetime member of the Riley Park Cricket Club.

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BNN BLoomberg

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Energy companies being realistic by leaving Canada: Former Alberta energy minister
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Energy minister agrees deregulation still needs work

CBC News

Murray Smith, Alberta's Energy Minister, acknowledges that changes have to be made to electrical deregulation. Smith is reacting to a survey that was done by a business group that shows many businesses are dissatisfied with deregulation. The survey, done by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, found that, since the start of the year, small and medium business owners are paying an average of 78 % more for electricity.
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Tears of Enthusiasm

Apega

The sun shines on Murray Smith, as suit-clad, he treads five blocks of grey sidewalk—from 501 Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.—pitch book enclosed in his grip. It’s 2006, a hot day in May, and a congressman from the Carolinas has phoned: he wants to meet in the Canadian Embassy to talk about Alberta’s oilsands. The sun beats down from the sky as the humidity performs its own kind of damp assault. Smith opens his jacket and ponders what the potential $100 billion of investment capital in this 14-month endeavour of proving the oilsands exist will mean for Alberta’s economy. Embraced by air conditioning in the congressman’s beige office, Smith tells the...
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Murray Smith Calgary, Alberta, Canada delivers Keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics.Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences, and event formats.

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