Editor’s Note: The following segment is one in a series by NGI’s LNG Insight focused on exploring how the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market works. The conversations in this series will also analyze news and the issues that matter most to the industry in North America and beyond.

Yury Sentyurin is the secretary general of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, an international organization of some of the world’s largest natural gas exporting countries that works to increase the level of collaboration among its members. Sentyurin is a diplomat who has held various high-level positions in the Russian government. He graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages, Russian Academy of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, and from the Russian...