Speakers
Michael Ansah
CEO
Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC)
Guido Aufdemkamp
Executive Director
The European Aluminium Foil Association
Murat Bayram
Director & Head of European Non-Ferrous
EMR
Claudia Bierth
European Sustainability & Public Affairs Manager
Ball Beverage Packaging EMEA
Carrie Bone
Senior Reporter
Fastmarkets
Yang Cao
Senior Analyst
Fastmarkets
Yang Cao
Senior Analyst
Fastmarkets
Yang Cao is Fastmarkets’ aluminium analyst and editor of the Aluminium Weekly Market Tracker. He performed in-depth market analysis and review of the global aluminium market, including providing price/balance forecasts. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance in China and had his internship at KPMG and Standard Chartered Bank. He then achieved a master’s degree in economics and finance from the University of York and joined Fastmarkets. He attends and presents at several influential industrial conferences. Yang is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Ian Caton
Director Metals Products
CME Group
Raju Daswani
CEO
Fastmarkets
Raju Daswani
CEO
Fastmarkets
Shortly after graduating from the London School of Economics in 1991, Raju began his working career at Alcan in the UK. In 1995, Raju moved to Metal Bulletin as a Senior Economist, and built his career at MB through a number of roles culminating in his appointment in 2006 at Managing Director, and later CEO. American Metal Market is the North American pricing & information arm of the Metal Bulletin Group. A focus on developing the best pricing data for the markets it serves has established the Metal Bulletin Group as the world’s leading price reporting agency (PRA), information and events business for the metal, steel and raw material markets. The Group has successfully acquired other commodity price reporting & information businesses including FastMarkets in 2016 and RISI in 2017. RISI is a global PRA providing leading benchmarks for the pulp, paper and wood product markets. Raju oversees a team of 400 employees located in the USA, UK, China, Singapore, Brazil, Brussels & Finland – together the business today assesses over 4,000 prices, provides analysis and forecasts for these markets and also stages over 50 world-leading cross-commodity global events.
Mahmood Daylami
Secretary General
Gulf Aluminium Council
Mahmood Daylami
Secretary General
Gulf Aluminium Council
• Over forty years of work experience in all aspects of the Aluminium industry. • Prior to joining the Gulf Aluminium Council, held the position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Aluminium Bahrain (ALBA)
Imogen Dudman
Price Reporter
Fastmarkets
Andy Farida
Analyst
Fastmarkets
Andy Farida
Analyst
Fastmarkets
Andy Farida joined Fastmarkets base and precious metals research team as an analyst specializing in nickel supply, demand and price dynamics. As well as doing fundamental analysis, Andy is also a technical analyst and a member of the Society of Technical Analysts. Studying and forecasting price action is part of his passion which he often shares in his reports. In addition, Andy often presents his research at conferences on behalf of Fastmarkets.
Perrine Faye
Global Editorial Director – Metals
Fastmarkets
Rosa Garcia
Vice President Sustainability and President Alcoa Foundation
Alcoa
Rosa Garcia
Vice President Sustainability and President Alcoa Foundation
Alcoa
Rosa M. García Piñeiro is Alcoa Sustainability Vice-president and President of Alcoa Foundation since November 2016. Previously, she served as Global Director of Sustainability since September 2015. Rosa joined Alcoa in 1999 to work as an Environmental Engineer for the San Ciprian Smelter and Refinery in Spain. In 2001, she moved to the Corporate EHS Audit Department, working with the North American and European Audit Teams first in Pittsburgh and then in Madrid. In 2003, she moved back to San Ciprian to take over the Environmental Department as Environmental Manager for the Smelter and the Refinery. In 2005 Rosa moved into a European position as Director Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) for the Primary Products business, where she stayed for three years, taking in 2008 the responsibility for EHS and Sustainability for the region. Rosa expanded her role in 2012, when she was appointed Director of Government Affairs in addition to her role in Sustainability. In her new function she had responsibility for coordinating and overseeing government interactions in the different countries where Alcoa has interests across Europe. In March 2014 Rosa was named President of Alcoa Spain, where her main target was to obtain an energy framework favorable for the energy intensive industry at national level. Rosa serves in the Board of Directors of the Alcoa Foundation since 2012 and in the Advisory Board of the School of Mining Engineers of Madrid since 2014. From March 2014 to September 2015 Rosa was President of the Board of Alcoa Inversiones España, the holding group financing Alcoa operations in Europe, Middle East and Brazil. In 2003 she was named “Woman Worth Watching” by the Diversity journal.
Romain Guillaume Billy
Postdoctoral Fellow- Department of Energy and Process Engineering
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Romain Guillaume Billy
Postdoctoral Fellow- Department of Energy and Process Engineering
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Romain Billy is a postdoctoral researcher within the Industrial Ecology Program at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. In his research, he is developing two main types of models relevant to the aluminium industry: 1. Material Flow Analysis and Stock Dynamics models to monitor and simulate global metal cycles and their emissions over time, with a focus on aluminium and battery materials. These models explore in particular the role of aluminium as an enabler of the green transition in the transport and energy sectors and enable to design future scenarios for the impacts of this transition on primary demand, resource availability, scrap generation, and recycling technologies. 2. Digital twins of primary and secondary aluminium plants. These models improve the monitoring and reporting of material flows and emissions in industrial facilities. They are also used to explore the potential of systemic emission reduction strategies at plant level, such as increasing material and energy efficiency or replacing fossil fuels by hydrogen or electricity in heating processes. Romain holds a PhD and a MSc in Industrial Ecology from NTNU and a MSc in Engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes.
Göksal Güngör
CEO
Assan Alüminyum
Göksal Güngör
CEO
Assan Alüminyum
Born in 1973, Göksal Güngör started his career in 1994 and joined Assan Alüminyum in 1999 in the sales department. Between 1999 – 2016, he has taken on a series of roles with increasing responsibilites including Sales Director, Global Sales and Marketing Director, and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), in charge of Sales, Marketing and all functions of the Supply Chain. Since July 2016, he has been serving as the General Manager of Assan Alüminyum.
Duncan Hobbs
Research Director
Concord Resources
Andrea Hotter
Special Correspondent
Fastmarkets
Andrea Hotter
Special Correspondent
Fastmarkets
Andrea Hotter is the New York-based special correspondent at Fastmarkets and has over 25 years’ experience in the metals and mining sector. Her expertise spans commodities and encompasses materials essential for the energy transition, including battery raw materials such as copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt and aluminium. Andrea’s responsibilities include producing insights for Fastmarkets’ customers across all markets to develop users’ understanding and effectiveness, and to build Fastmarkets’ reputation as a leader at the heart of the metals industry. She acts as a brand ambassador for Fastmarkets globally, through conference chairing and hosting, web seminars, podcasts, social media and other platforms and media. She also works to connect Fastmarkets to industry leaders and position the company as the prime source for market intelligence. Before joining Fastmarkets in New York in 2012, she was the assistant managing editor at Dow Jones Newswires on its energy and commodities desk in London. In this role, she was responsible for markets and equities coverage of metals, agriculture (grains, cocoa, coffee, sugar) and energy (oil, gas, power, renewables) for EMEA. Prior to this, Andrea was on the metals desk for Mitsui Bussan Commodities in London and was a senior correspondent and head of metals for Bridge News. Andrea graduated from Kings College, University of London, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature & Language.
Charles Julien
Counsel
White & Case LLP
George Karkampasis
Senior Manager Regulatory Affairs – Circular Economy & Raw Materials
European Aluminium
George Karkampasis
Senior Manager Regulatory Affairs – Circular Economy & Raw Materials
European Aluminium
George has a background on Economics and holds a Master’s degree in EU Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven. He joined European Aluminium in 2020 and works on topics related to Recycling, the Circular Economy and Raw Materials. Prior to joining, he worked as a Sustainability Manager for the European Chemical Industry Council.”
Ron Knapp
Special Advisor
Hongqiao Group
Nilesh Koul
Sr. President, CEO Aluminium Downstream
Hindalco
Boris Kurth
Head of Business Unit Can & Head of Recycling Casthouse Cluster (RCC)
Speira
Maarten Labberton
Director Packaging Group
European Aluminium
Maarten Labberton
Director Packaging Group
European Aluminium
• With a degree in International & European Law and certificates in European Law from the universities of Utrecht (NL) and Leuven (B) Maarten Labberton has developed a specific expertise in European environmental legislation. He has been working in senior positions for several industries including the Dutch Food and Drinks Industry and the European Soap and Detergent manufacturers. • Since 2005 he works as Director Packaging Group of EUROPEAN ALUMINIUM, representing the manufacturers and recyclers of aluminium for packaging. • In 2020 Maarten Labberton established ASTON CEC BV, an independent consultancy specialized in Circular Economy solutions. He is focusing on clients who are active in the packaging and waste management industries and who need professional advice to develop and implement innovative collection, sorting and recycling solutions in line with the European Circular Economy. • Maarten has the Dutch nationality and lives since 1992 in Belgium. He is married and has two children.
Suzanne Lindsay-Walker
Vice President Sustainability
Novelis
Ewa Manthey
Commodities Strategist
ING Research – Global Sectors
Alice Mason
European Base Metals Editor
Fastmarkets
Christian Mildner
Head of Corporate Sales
London Metal Exchange
Christian Mildner
Head of Corporate Sales
London Metal Exchange
Christian Mildner is the Head of Corporate Sales at the London Metal Exchange where he focusses on the physical end users. He has over 10 year’s industry experience and has in-depth knowledge of corporate commodities and metals hedging. Prior to joining the LME, Christian worked at Commerzbank in London where he headed up the Commodity Corporate Sales team. Christian has a Msc. in Financial Markets from University Paris Dauphine.
Marc Ostwald
Chief Economist & Global Strategist
ADM Investor Services International
Marc Ostwald
Chief Economist & Global Strategist
ADM Investor Services International
Analysing and forecasting the impact of macro / microeconomic trends and central bank policies on a broad range of asset classes; examining and where necessary challenging market psychology and consensus views. The joy of working as a market economist is, and has always been the constant need to research and learn about the changing landscape of the way that the world works, going far beyond the limited scope of economics and financial markets; be that in respect of how globalization and technology has and is transforming nearly all aspects of communication, culture, energy and how we interact with the environment on all levels. The fall-out from the pandemic will inevitably radically change working and social practices globally, and also force drastic changes on ‘just in time’ production, outsourcing processes and supply chains which have been exposed as very fragile and deficient by the pandemic, with the war in Ukraine serving to exacerbate such trends and add further uncertainty. The key challenges as an analyst are to enable and facilitate an in-depth critical and lateral thinking perspective on global economic, political and asset market trends, and to convey these ideas in terms that are accessible, with enthusiasm, as well as thought provoking. Having spent much of his childhood in Libya and Iran, Marc also has a particular interest in Middle Eastern culture, current affairs and history, and is passionate about music of all genres. Marc is a regular guest on Bloomberg TV & Radio, BBC, CGTN, CNBC, Le Fonti International and widely quoted on newswires, newspapers and other digital media across the globe. He is also a frequent conference speaker (S&P Sugar Geneva, Baltic Freight Forum, CTW, ETW, Global Grain, GAIM, IoD Annual Forecasting events, Trends Advisory amongst others), guest lecturer at various universities, as well as mentoring for the CFA Poland, universities and schools.
Uday Patel
Senior Research Manager, Global Aluminium Markets
Wood Mackenzie
Uday Patel
Senior Research Manager, Global Aluminium Markets
Wood Mackenzie
Uday has over 30 years’ experience in the metals & mining sector covering aluminium and other metals and joined Wood Mackenzie in 2014 as a senior research manager in the aluminium team. He manages and leads the aluminium markets suite of products and has worked on a range of consulting projects covering the entire aluminium value chain, including detailed market studies, cost analyses and strategic advisory work. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie Uday was senior marketing specialist at Ma’aden, Saudi Arabia and a manager at Dubal where he contributed to the start-up of EMAL phases 1 and 2. He has also worked for several years at Outkumpu Oyj and CRU. Uday is a graduate of the London Business School’s executive management programme, Sussex University and the University of Exeter.
Miles Prosser
Secretary General
International Aluminium
Mark Roggensinger
Market Analysis Manager
Norsk Hydro
Jostein Søreide
LCA and Sustainability Manager
Hydro
Kelly Thomas
EVP and Chief Commercial Officer
Alcoa
Zhang Zhiyong
Commodity Department I
Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE)
Zhang Zhiyong
Commodity Department I
Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE)
Zhang Zhiyong, graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University with a PhD in Management. He is currently working in the Commodity Department I of the Shanghai Futures Exchange, responsible for the operation and market services of non-ferrous metal futures products such as aluminum and tin, as well as the research and listing of Aluminum oxide Futures products. He have rich experience in futures and derivative supervision and research.