Eduard Ruijs oversees Vitol’s portfolio in gas, power, renewables and infrastructure assets and companies as well as the development of Vitol’s growing portfolio of transitional and sustainable energy investments. He is co-leading the Investments & Origination group, and is representing Vitol on the board of VTTI, Vigo, Vortex and WPU. He led the firm’s recent investment in Delfin LNG.

Eduard joined Vitol in May 2023, and before that was leading BlackRock’s infrastructure investments business in EMEA and Asia, and was responsible for the fund’s investments in Kellas Midstream (and its H2NorthEast project), ADNOC Oil Pipelines, Aramco Gas Pipelines, Tata Power Renewables, GasLog LNG, PetroFirst, Covanta Dublin Waste to Energy, Renovalia Energy (and Demex) and Medgaz.

He began his career at Kearney before moving to The Boston Consulting Group and NIBC Infrastructure Partners. In 2011 he joined First Reserve Corporation as a managing director focused on investments in the energy sector, before moving to BlackRock in 2017.