45 Years. Three Presidents. One Question: Are You Ready?

Strategic Advisor to the Presidents of the Philippines, Pakistan, and Timor-Leste  |  Former Country Manager, BHP Indonesia  |  Former Country Manager, Premier Oil Pakistan  |  Founder, Strategic Disruption Intelligence

THE OPERATING TRACK RECORD

Peter Cockcroft has spent 45 years operating at the intersection of energy, geopolitics, and crisis in the world's most complex markets. As Country Manager for BHP in Jakarta, he wrote the scenario planning document in 1997 that modelled Indonesia's political instability and correctly anticipated the conditions for regime change - 12 months before the Asian financial crisis and the fall of the Suharto government.  As Country Manager for Premier Oil in Pakistan, he navigated the security and regulatory environment of one of the world's most volatile energy jurisdictions. As Strategic Advisor to the Presidents of the Philippines, Pakistan, and Timor-Leste, he brought crisis management discipline to the highest levels of government decision-making.

THE INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTION

Peter is the creator of the SDR - the Strategic Disruption Rating - a proprietary 40-indicator framework for assessing the disruption risk profile of specific energy and infrastructure assets. He teaches the Shell 4Ts risk response framework, adapted with an upstream methodology that closes the gap between risk identification and pre-decided crisis response.  He is the author of Are You Ready? Crisis Management in 2026, the ASEAN Energy Geopolitics Newsletter (20,000+ LinkedIn followers), and multiple published works on ESG, carbon management, and data centre acquisition.

In 2026, he published Battery Storage in Southeast Asia — the first commercially grounded investment guide for the battery storage sector across the six major ASEAN markets — timed to coincide with the Hormuz disruption that made energy security a board-level imperative across the region.

WHERE HE OPERATES

Peter is based between Singapore and Jakarta. He works with energy companies, infrastructure investors, government agencies, and boards across ASEAN and the Middle East - the markets where geopolitical risk, supply chain disruption, and crisis readiness intersect most acutely.

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