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Whitney Merchant is a core member of the Boston Consulting Group's Energy and Climate & Sustainability practices. She has extensive experience in strategy and transformation in Australia, Canada, and Central Asia/Asia Pacific. 

Whitney leads BCG’s East Coast gas and LNG team in Australia, as well as the firm's work on hydrogen and decarbonization for heavy emitters and hard-to-abate industries. She also leads BCG’s global Partnership on Untapped Reserves 2.0, which focused on unlocking the power of diversity and inclusion in the energy industry. She works with her clients to navigate their toughest strategic and commercial challenges—often through the use of advanced analytics—as well as through the delivery of major transformation programs. Her experience spans strategy, new business builds, net zero planning, complex data science models, capital delivery, opex improvement, and major operating model redesigns.

Before joining BCG, Whitney was a Business Development Analyst at Kinder Morgan Canada.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • MBA and MSc, Environment, Resources, and Energy, Stanford University
  • BComm, with distinction, University of Calgary

Publications and Videos

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Global Trade in Hydrogen Will Miss 2030 Targets

Regions like Europe must import sizeable volumes of low-carbon hydrogen by 2030 to meet climate commitments. Increasingly, that looks like a long shot.
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Companies Need to Explicitly Integrate Climate into Their Strategies

Markets are rewarding green companies, with many sustainable businesses receiving higher valuations. But the path to being “green” is not necessarily easy. BCG has identified a series of frameworks businesses can use to evaluate green investments.
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Don’t Let Uncertainty Get in the Way of Progress on Net Zero

There is significant uncertainty in how technology, economics and politics will evolve over the coming decades. For most companies in hard-to-abate sectors, this means plotting a clear and certain path to net zero isn’t possible as they rely on technology that has not yet been proven commercially. However, a lack of a clear roadmap shouldn’t prevent companies from acting now.
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How to Meet the Coming Demand for Hydrogen

Expanded use of low-carbon hydrogen and the fuels derived from it is critical to slowing global warming. Can we develop the renewable energy needed to make them?
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Untapped Reserves 2.0: Driving Gender Balance in Oil and Gas

Although the oil and gas industry has made significant progress toward greater diversity, much remains to be done to gain the performance and productivity benefits that a diverse workforce provides.
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How to Jump Start Australia's Economic Recovery

Australia faced the unprecedented crisis of COVID-19 with a clear and collaborative response on all fronts, putting us in a better position than many other countries. While the health challenges are flattened for now, different sectors of the economy are experiencing vastly different impacts. As of today, our governments, businesses and the community face a future that is uncertain but also one that presents opportunity.