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Meet the team at Fastmarkets

With more than 500 team members worldwide, we have price reporters on the ground, as well as analysts and editorial teams who are researching and reporting on shifting market dynamics for the commodity markets we serve.

Our team provides price data for thousands of proprietary prices, as well as forecasts, market intelligence and insights-rich events for market participants to network, trade and discuss the critical forces driving change.

Below you can read more about each of the members of our senior leadership team, or browse some of the recent insights and analyses from our talented group of price reporters, analysts and editorial teams working across the four markets we serve.

We believe in celebrating and enriching the diversity and wellbeing of our people. This drives more inclusive behavior, perspectives and better business outcomes.
Raju Daswani, CEO at Fastmarkets
Meet the leadership team

Raju Daswani

Fastmarkets CEO

Perrine Faye

Global head of editorial and pricing

Toby Burton

Chief financial officer

Louise Noone

Chief human resources officer

James Mansfield

Chief revenue officer

Varun Atre

Chief product officer 

Catherine Oates

Managing director, events

Chris Davies

General Counsel

Richard Peers

Chief technology and information officer

Stuart Evans

Chief analytics officer

The board
Fastmarkets CEO
Chief financial and operating officer
Fastmarkets non-executive board director
Insights from our price reporters, analysts and editorial teams

Browse our insights and analysis across the four markets we serve from our experts in agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new generation energy

In contrast to the apparent widespread belief that war would lead to a surge in scrap collections in Ukraine, volumes actually fell in 2022 and are likely to fall again in 2023, according to the head of Ukranian commodities think-tank, GMK Center

East Asian battery-grade lithium carbonate prices surged on Tuesday June 6, spurred on by the ongoing rally in the Chinese domestic market and catching up with battery grade lithium hydroxide prices

The attack by the Russian army on a hydroelectric power plant in Nova Kakhovka in southern Ukraine on Tuesday June 6 has affected steelmaking operations at Kryvyi Rih, where ArcelorMittal’s Ukrainian steel mill and Metinvest’s mining and processing plants (GOKs) are located, sources have told Fastmarkets

The markets for large flake and flake fines graphite products, on an FOB China basis, all dropped amid slow demand and a depreciation in the Chinese yuan in the week to Thursday June 1, although there were indications of a possible recovery in the CIF Europe market

Mitsui and Kobe Steel are seeking to reinforce their position in direct-reduced iron (DRI) production in the Middle East with the construction of a low-CO2 iron metallics production plant within the Special Economic Zone at Duqm, in the Sultanate of Oman

The outlook of the global electric vehicle (EV) market, the importance of battery recycling and challenges in battery value chains were among the key topics discussed at the China International Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Week held in Shanghai on May 15-19

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