Martijn Rats is Morgan Stanley’s Global Commodities Strategist, focusing primarily on oil and natural gas markets. Martijn, a managing director, also heads the European Energy team in Equity Research and has been ranked No. 1 in the II/Extel survey from 2015-2021 and 2024. In previous years, he covered the Oil Services sector and was rated No. 1 in the Extel survey in that category in 2010 and 2011. Martijn joined Morgan Stanley in 2002. Before that, he worked as a management consultant for OC&C Strategy Consultants in the Netherlands and the UK. He holds an MSc in Physics from Delft University of Technology, an MSc in Finance from London Business School, and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Physics Department. Martijn is also a CFA charterholder.