Based in New York, David Cowan leads Spencer Stuart’s Global Energy Practice, covering energy transition technologies and infrastructure, renewable energy, power & utilities, upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas and oilfield services. He is a core member of the firm’s Carbon Task Force that supports clients to meet their ESG objectives through developing people agendas to support decarbonization. David also serves within the Private Equity, Board & CEO and Infrastructure practices. David focuses on supporting investors to leverage leadership and talent to improve portfolio company performance across the investment lifecycle and advising large companies on the succession of the CEO, C-Suite and Board. He works with both traditional energy/infrastructure companies as they transition to today’s market and the companies developing innovative technology to drive change in these sectors. David holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in genetics from the University of Leeds in England.