Argus Agritel Paris Grain Conference

Olivier Tichit is the Director of Sustainability of Musim Mas Group, based in Medan (Indonesia). Olivier oversees the implementation and execution of Musim Mas Sustainability plan. His role includes reviewing the Group sustainability policy and strategy, as well as working with the Group’s key customers and stakeholders to identify synergies for enhancing palm oil sustainability. Musim Mas is an active member of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), where Olivier serves as alternate member of the Board of Governors, and as co-chair of the Standing Committee for Standards, and as member of the Finance Committee and of the Standing Committee for Assurance. Prior to Musim Mas, Olivier was the Group Head of Sustainability of SIPEF, a Belgian plantations company present in Cote d'Ivoire, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Before joining SIPEF, Olivier was the Indonesia Country Manager for a major commodities merchant group, Ecom Agroindustrial, and spearheaded sustainable certifications for coffee smallholders. Read less

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Gary oversees the Group’s Risk team and ADM’s Global Trade business that includes crop origination and merchandising operations, global ocean freight, structured trade finance, as well as rice and cotton trading, in addition to the destination marketing strategy. He joined ADM in 2009 as joint managing director of ADM Arkady in Ireland and has since held several senior management positions within the company, including global head of feedstuffs and managing director, Global Trade. He has spent his entire career working in the food and agriculture sector. Gary holds a Bachelor’s degree in Banking & International Finance from the City University Business School in London, UK. Read less

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PhD, London School of Economics. Arthur heads the OECD Development Centre’s Unit for Africa, Middle East and Europe. Every year, the unit produces Africa’s Development Dynamics and Revenue Statistics in Africa, in partnership with the African Union and the European Union, and Quality Infrastructure in 21st Century Africa with the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET). Prior to that, Arthur led the themes of the African Economic Outlooks (AEO), in partnership with the African Development Bank and UNDP. At UNDP in New York, Arthur contributed to the United Nations’ flagship Human Development Reports. In Abidjan, he volunteered for the United Nations Operations in Côte d’Ivoire (ONUCI) during the electoral crisis. He taught at the LSE, King’s College London and Sciences-Po. Arthur gained private sector experience at Wolters Kluwer. Read less

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Anton Zhemerdieiev has extensive experience in various areas of agriculture: public administration (Parliament of Ukraine, Ministry of Agrarian Industry and Food), international trade (CHS Inc.), infrastructure (Maxigrain terminal), and production (Astarta, TAS Agro). He has successful experience in managing trade in grains, oilseeds and processed products, port transshipment, oilseed processing and auto/rail/sea logistics. He graduated from the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics (two master’s degrees in "Commodity Science and Trading Business" and "Commercial Law")." Read less

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Fahad Vaipel is Vice President at Olam, based in Switzerland. He is a proprietary trader and also leads global wheat research for the company. He has 14 years of industry experience. Read less

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Scott Wellcome is the Director of Grain Risk Management & Sourcing at GoodMills Group GmbH, based in Vienna, Austria. The GoodMills group is Europe’s largest wheat milling company, operating in 7 EU countries with 24 milling operations, alongside its innovations, planted based-protein and pulses facilities. His day-to-day focus is helping the group manage its operational risks, whether they be raw material price risk, energy needs or supply chain logistics related. His career began in 1988 in London and as well as currently working in Austria, has also worked in Switzerland & Dubai, for both multi-national and private trading commodity companies. Read less

Based at Pernod Ricard's headquarters in Paris, Andrea is responsible for developing the Group's sustainable agriculture vision. Andrea coordinates with Pernod Ricard's global brands, suppliers and partners to implement and scale regenerative agriculture practices across the Group, which sources more than 240 natural ingredients from over 70 countries. Prior to joining Pernod Ricard, Andrea worked in regenerative agriculture and sustainable sourcing consulting at Control Union, based in the Netherlands. He holds an MSc in Agroecology from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands. Read less

Isabelle Job-Bazille began her career at Paribas in 1997 as a country risk analyst in charge of the Middle East-Africa zone. She joined Crédit Agricole S.A. in September 2000 as an economist specialising in Japan and Asia before taking over responsibility for the Macroeconomics Division in May 2005. Between 2007 and 2011, she joined Crédit Agricole CIB's Market Research teams in Paris and London while continuing her assignments at Crédit Agricole S.A. Diplomas Read less

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Anne-Sophie Corbeau is a Global Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and a visiting professor at Sciences Po. She leads the Center's research on hydrogen and natural gas. Anne-Sophie has over 20 years of experience in the energy industry and is a recognized expert on natural gas. She is the author of many publications focusing on gas, LNG markets, hydrogen, Asia, China, India and Africa, including the book “LNG markets in transition: the great reconfiguration” (Oxford, 2016). She is also the co-chair of Gastech's governing body. Prior to joining the Center, Mrs Corbeau was a senior Leader and head of gas analysis at bp, where she was responsible for advising the Leadership Team on gas market developments and long-term pricing assumptions. As part of the Economic and Energy Insights team, she was leading the Energy Outlook’s analysis on gas, industry, nuclear and hydrogen. She also served as a member of bp France’s Comex (board). Before joining bp, she was a Research Fellow at KAPSARC (King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center) in Riyadh where she set up and expanded the natural gas program. She also worked for the International Energy Agency (IEA) where she was responsible for managing the research on global gas markets, and for IHS CERA. She began her career as an engineer working on fuel cells and hydrogen at Peugeot and Debis Systemhaus. Anne-Sophie holds an MSc from the Ecole Centrale Paris and an MSc from the University of Stuttgart Read less

Filipe is the managing director of Bryce SA, a Swiss-based commodities trading firm, he also owns GreenEmissions, a Swedish-based carbon trading platform. Previously, he was in trade finance as the Vice President for the American and European continents at a Nasdaq-listed multinational at the time, leading business development and trade finance structuring on behalf of clients in the region, with a special focus on the CIS region. As an entrepreneur, in the past, Filipe created the world’s first token of grains, as well as a platform for grain trading using blockchain. For his education, he holds a bachelor's degree in business, a master's in environmental sciences, and is currently working towards a doctorate in business focusing on sustainability. He speaks Portuguese, English and French fluently, with working knowledge of Spanish and German, also learning Korean and Russian. Read less

Dr. Mark Jekanowski is Chairman of USDA’s World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB), where he is responsible for the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report and the work of the Joint Agricultural Weather Facility. Dr. Jekanowski also serves as Program Chair for USDA’s largest annual conference, the Agricultural Outlook Forum. Dr. Jekanowski joined the WAOB in 2018 as Deputy Chairman. Previous positions with USDA include Deputy Director for Outlook at the Economic Research Service, and Chief of the Crops Branch at the Economic Research Service. Prior to his service at USDA, Dr. Jekanowski was a Senior Vice President at Informa Economics and Head of the Washington, DC office. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University, and a B.S. degree in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was raised on a commercial, family-owned vegetable and tobacco farm in Hadley, Massachusetts. Read less

Denis Drechsler is a Project Manager at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), where leads programme development and project implementation of the G20 Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS). Prior to joining FAO, Denis coordinated outreach and policy dialogue at the OECD Development Centre. He completed his graduate studies in political science and economics at Potsdam University, the Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble and the University of Wisconsin. Read less

Charles Funnell is Managing Director of CF Commodities based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He has extensive experience in risk management, physical and futures trading across soft commodities and has held senior roles at a hedge fund, trade house and a large end user. The company caters to well established industrial clients and management consultancies. Core services include commodity risk management strategy, implementation and governance; physical and futures trading; forex and freight risk management. Charles holds a degree in Politics and French from the University of Bristol and has dual British and Swiss nationality. Read less

Katharina Geiger has been working as a policy officer for grain production at DBV (German farmers Association) since 2022. The topics she deals with politically are as diverse as German agriculture: grain market, fertilizers, crop protection, genetic engineering, seeds and hemp. Katharina holds a bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences and a master's degree in process and quality management in agriculture from Humboldt University in Berlin. Read less

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Fiona Poynter joined Argus in 2006, having begun her commodities career in the energy industry at Italian oil and natural gas producer Eni. Fiona leads Argus’ business development across agricultural commodities. Fiona spent 8 years working for Argus in Australia where she was responsible for the firm’s business development activities across a range of different commodities, with a particular focus on LNG and natural gas. She previously worked at Argus’ London headquarters as editor of Argus LNG Daily and Argus European Emissions. During her time at Eni, Fiona was responsible for gas sales to the company's UK-based industrial and commercial customers Read less

David has more than 30 years’ experience of working in energy markets. Prior to joining Argus, David was most recently chief economist at commodity trading company Gunvor. Before this, he managed the oil industry and markets division of the International Energy Agency and edited its influential monthly Oil Market Report. David has a master’s degree in energy policy and economics from Imperial College London. Read less

Ryan Koory is Argus’ organic agriculture Vice President Economist. With nearly 15 years’ experience, Ryan leads the development of Argus’ organic commodity pricing, trade, crop production, livestock inventory and feed demand research and data. Prior to Argus, he developed market forecasting models for global livestock, dairy, and biofuel markets. Ryan has a B.S. in Economics at Missouri State University and studied for his M.S. in Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Read less