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Lauren Masterson has been the editor of Energy Argus Petroleum Coke since the end of 2012, helping to relaunch it as a weekly publication and adding anode-grade market coverage. She started out at Argus covering the US coal markets. Prior to joining Argus, Lauren was the editor of an ocean technology magazine, and she had previously written for political and lifestyle publications. A native of New York, Lauren has lived in Washington, DC, since 2006. Read less

As Special Advisor to the IEA, Joel works with the teams in the Energy Markets and Security Directorate. Previously, as Group Chief Energy Economist at TOTAL SA, Joel coordinated the cross-branch dialogue within TOTAL on the world macroeconomic and energy outlook as well as the economic assumptions for the long-term plan. Until October 2017, he was VP for Market Analysis in the Trading & Shipping Division of TOTAL (TOTSA), managing a team providing analysis and technical support for TOTAL’s oil trading activity. The work was also used by the planning, the upstream and the downstream divisions of TOTAL. Joel has worked in the oil industry since joining Elf Trading in September 1992, and was appointed to the Trading & Shipping Management Committee in 2009. He holds a B.Eng from McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) and a MS in Energy Economics from Université de Grenoble (France). Following his studies, he worked on radio-isotope production in Canada and subsequently, in France, on long-term energy studies for EDF, for DRI, and for the International Energy Agency. Read less

Saad Rahim is Chief Economist at Trafigura, one of the world’s largest traders of oil, metals and other commodities. He is responsible for the company’s views on markets and macroeconomics, including the outlook for crude oil, oil products and metals markets, commodity prices, equity and credit markets, and political risk. Prior to joining Trafigura, Saad was Chief Economist at BG Group (now Shell), a major integrated oil and gas company, and prior to that Deputy Chief Economist at Chevron. Before joining Chevron, Saad was an international energy adviser with PFC Energy (now IHSMarkit). Saad received BA degrees in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University, and attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) for advanced degree work in Economics and Global Energy. 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

Mr. Martinez is Vice President of Sales at Oxbow Calcining International LLC and has over 20 years of experience in the carbon industry. Early in his career he worked on several feasibility studies for various green field petroleum coke calcining projects on behalf of major investment banks. Later he joined a major European solid fuels trading company to trade carbon products in the Americas. Mr. Martinez has been with Oxbow since 2007 and has served various commercial roles trading the company’s carbon products. Since 2016 he has been responsible for Oxbow’s global calcined petroleum coke sales to the aluminum industry. Read less

Mr He Huang graduated from UIBE (University of International Business and Economics) with a bachelor's degree in international trade and obtained an EMBA from UIBE Business School. At Sunstone, he is in charge of the marketing and international trade of aluminium-related products, serving as General Manager of Sales, assistant of the chief executive, head of the company's overseas institution and General Manager of Sunstone (HK) Corporation. Mr Huang is highly experienced in the trading of carbon anode, petroleum coke, calcined coke and alumina, among other commodities related to the aluminium industry. Read less

Onuralp Bozer is responsible for petroleum coke sourcing globally for HeidelbergCement plants and HeidelbergCement Trading. Besides he is involved with coal and petroleum coke trading. He grew up in Istanbul, Turkey and currently based in Dubai since 2018. Read less

Dr Carole Nakhle is an international authority on global energy issues, in particular in the fields of hydrocarbons finance, market development, policy, governance, regulation, fiscal regimes and contractual arrangements. With a unique breadth of experience spanning different stakeholders in the oil and gas industry all around the world, Dr Nakhle has worked with oil and gas companies (Eni and Statoil) at the executive level, governments and policy makers (including Special Parliamentary Advisor in the UK), international organisations, academic institutions and specialized think tanks on a global scale. She is active on the Governing Board of the Natural Resource Governance Institute and Member of its Audit and Finance Committee, and Advisory Boards of IKAR Industries and the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. She is a program advisor to the Washington based International Tax and Investment Centre, lead Energy Expert with the Geopolitical Intelligence Services and a member of the Executive Sessions on the Political Economy of Extractive Industries at Columbia University in New York. She is also involved in the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development and has contributed to the development of the organization’s Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts. In addition to her commercial role, Dr Nakhle lectures at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, University of Surrey in the UK, the European University Institute in Italy, Saint Joseph University in Lebanon and Nato Strategic Direction South Hub in Naples. Dr Nakhle founded the not-for-profit organisation ‘Access for Women in Energy’ in 2007, with the aim of supporting the development of women in the energy sector, globally. She has also supported the development of similar initiatives in Ghana, Tunisia and the UAE, where she sits on ADIPEC’s Advisory Board for Inclusion and Diversity. Her views on energy matters are highly regarded, with numerous articles in academic journals, newspapers and magazines to her credit. She is an avid commentator on energy and geopolitics in the international media and major conferences and industry gatherings, in many countries. She has appeared on Al Arabiyya, Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, France 24 and Sky News, among others. She is the Executive Editor and Author of Newsweek’s special edition ‘New Technological Frontiers in the Oil and Gas Industry’ and the first Guest Blogger for Aspentech. She has published two widely acclaimed books: Petroleum Taxation: Sharing the Wealth published in 2008 and re-printed in 2012 and used as primary reference in leading universities and industry training courses; and Out of the Energy Labyrinth (2007), co-authored with Lord David Howell, former Secretary of State for Energy in the UK. Dr Nakhle has worked on energy projects in more than 45 countries and has been on exploratory visits to the Arctic and North Sea. She is also fluent in Arabic, English and French. In 2017, she gave evidence to the International Relations Committee at the UK Parliament on oil markets, the transformation of power in the Middle East and implications for the UK policy. In the same year, she received the Honorary Professional Recognition Award from the Tunisian Minister of Energy, Mines & Renewable Energy. Read less

Angela currently serves as Vice President of DQ Carbon Group, where she has worked since 2015. She oversees the operation and development of the company. Angela served as deputy general manager of calcined coke enterprise Weifang Lianxing in 2012-14, where she was in charge of sales. Before this, she joined China Daqing Gaoxin International Industry and Trading in 2009 as Vice President and was responsible for business operations. And previous to this, Angela joined the family carbon business, Yunhai Carbon, as the deputy general manager in 2004, where she was responsible for sales and finance. Read less

As strategic sourcing director at Solid Fuels APAC, Sanjay is responsible for sourcing solid fuels for the APAC region and driving the fuel mix in plants to optimise costs. Sanjay has 21 years of experience across leading multinational and Indian power, refining, IT and cement companies. He specialises in supply chain management, project management, and net working capital management. An engineer, he is APICS-certified in production and inventory management and PMI-certified as a project management professional. He also holds an MBA in in operations management from SP Jain Mumbai business school. Read less

Amr is based in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he is responsible for strategic planning and performance management activities of Yanbu cement in addition to advising on Industrial Optimization and Development projects. Amr was the regional champion for pyro processing and fuels for Lafarge Holcim in Middle East, North Africa and Subsahara regions as well as consultant for fuel shift projects consultant in the MENA region. He is also a certified change management, strategy and business planning professional. Being a chemical engineer and cement industry professional with around 20 years’ experience; his role with solid fuels was always focused on co-processing and co-grinding of solid fuels while considering cost reduction and energy management of the industrial operation in around 25 countries around the globe. Read less

Arda has been with the Çimsa group for four years and in his current position since February. He began his career in 2010 as a purchasing engineer. He has an MSc in mechanical engineering from İstanbul Technical University. Read less

Mr. Narayan Bhatra is a “B Tech (Chemical Technology) from Calcutta University and a “Masters in Financial Management” from NMIMS, Mumbai having rich corporate experience of 26 years. His career span across various leading world class organisations like Ispat Group, MRPL, Reliance Industries Limited, JSW Energy, Nayara Energy Limited where he has performed several critical roles giving him a unique blend of strategy and business experiences. He possesses an in-depth experience and knowledge in Energy Sector across various verticals with experience in Corporate Strategic Initiatives, International Trading, Planning, Refinery Operations. Business Development, Retail Marketing and Institutional Business (B2B). Currently Heading Institutional Business of Nayara Energy Limited (known as Essar Oil Limited until 31 May 2018) with a consolidated product portfolio of more than 3 MMTPA. Has been mandated to scale up the business and develop new business and product line as part of identified growth agenda of the organisation. Before May 2020, was Heading Oil Retail Operations of the Nayara Energy Limited with a strong growing network of 5600+ Retail Outlets for 5 years. Business witnessed significant scale up on contribution, market share, Network effectiveness, Hygiene, Brand Equity and standardisation and was also part of the MD & CEO Office prior to Retail role. Read less

Andy has worked in the UK’s organics and alternative fuels sectors for more than 14 years, including nine years at SUEZ UK. Andy’s focus is on the commercial development of alternative fuels for the wood, RDF and SRF markets requiring the development of their fuel production facilities and associated supply chains. Under his leadership, SUEZ UK became the largest exporter of alternative fuels and the first company to successfully supply SRF to non-EU markets for the cement industry. Subsequently, Andy set up his own consultancy business for companies involved in the alternative fuels markets, with a focus on emerging markets. It is in this role that he serves as senior adviser to N+P. Andy is also chairman of the Wood Recyclers’ Association in the UK, which represents UK producers and European energy and panel board consumers. Read less

Dr Michal Meidan is Director of the China Energy Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Before joining OIES in July 2019, she headed cross-commodity China research at Energy Aspects. Prior to that, she headed China Matters, an independent research consultancy providing analysis on the politics of energy in China. Michal also held senior analytical roles at Eurasia Group in New York and London, and at Asia Centre-Sciences Po, Paris. She taught undergraduate courses on China’s political economy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and has authored numerous academic articles. Michal also regularly provides comments for a wide variety of media outlets and is featured as a speaker at industry conferences. Michal holds a PhD in Political Science and East Asian studies from Sciences Po, Paris. She is fluent in Mandarin and French. Read less

Head of the Global Trading for fuels and cementitious products for the Votorantim Cimentos Group. Responsible for the international trading, including sourcing, shipping and international logistics. Member of the Board of Votorantim Cement Trading. Before joining Votorantim in 2014, Roberto worked for Holcim Spain and Holcim Trading for 13 years. Roberto has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, an MBA from ICADE and IE in Madrid Spain, as well as an Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School and Corporate Finance Program from the London Business School. Has lived and studied in Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, US and UK Read less

Erisa Senerdem is editor for the Argus Biomass Report. She has previously covered Petroleum Coke and contributed to the Argus Coal Daily International report as well as covering gas and power markets at Argus. Prior to Argus, she has worked as a researcher, university lecturer, journalist and a consultant. She has a Ph.D. in economics, with a special focus on the energy field. Read less

Hayden leads the forecasting and analytics for the coal and petroleum coke markets, including the monthly publication of Argus Seaborne Thermal Coal Outlook and Argus Petroleum Coke Outlook. Prior to joining Argus, he was a senior commodities analyst working for Macquarie Group where he was responsible for price forecasting, demand and supply of thermal coal, precious metals and uranium markets. Hayden holds two BAs from University of Melbourne, one in commerce and the other in information systems. Read less

Yao Zhao is the Managing Director at Vantage Point Group Holding since 2014. He has been heavily involved in the Aluminum Industry for the last 15 years and the Petroleum Coke Industry for the last 6 years. Read less

Semih Nihmet currently works at USA based Robindale Energy’s Istanbul office. He has 9 years of experience in the petroleum coke markets in Turkey and MENA region; mainly dealing with Venezuela origin and USA origin materials. Previously, he was working for Ion Carbon handling fuel grade petroleum coke sales in Europe, MENA and Asia regions. In his current role, Semih markets Robindale’s metallurgical and thermal coal as well fuel grade petroleum coke. Semih has experience in seaborne as well as domestic logistic processes. In Turkey, Semih oversees sales into steel companies, cement companies, power plants as well as stock and sale companies. Semih has an undergraduate degree from Duke University and MBA degree from University of Virginia. Read less

Aloke Kumar Singh is the General Manager (Institutional Business) at Indian Oil Marketing Head Office in Mumbai. He has been with Indian Oil for over 26 years and is currently responsible for all product marketing for the company’s petcoke business. Before joining the head office in 2019 he handled LPG Bottling plant operations, retail sales, corporate communications besides the B2B marketing of petroleum products. Read less

Has more than 45 years of successful Corporate experience with leading Cement and Oil sector in India with Organizations like Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited, Jaypee Group (Cement Division), Shree Cement. Has also worked with Indian Oil Corporation Limited as an Executive Director. Also had a World Bank Financed Deputation assignment with Govt of Mozambique during 1990 - 1995. Currently working as Independent Consultant (Commercial). A Chemical Engineer from NIT Tiruchirapalli (Tamilnadu) with Post Graduation Management qualifications from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani (Rajasthan). Read less

Mr Sabyasachi Mishra is an engineering graduate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and an MBA in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. With 26 years of international business experience, Mr Mishra has worked in various industries having lived and worked in different countries in Asia including India and Indonesia. Based in Singapore for the last 17 years, he has led trading desks in Minerals, Metals, Agro Commodities and Fertilizer. He is currently the Head of Business Development for Minerals Business for Tata International, the flagship trading arm of Tata Group, a Global conglomerate with Group Turnover estimated over USD 100 Billion. Tata International trades in Dry Bulk commodities including Coal and Coke for its customers all over Asia. Read less

Yury manages bitumen and petcoke trading activities at DYM Resources. He and his partner incorporated DYM Resources in 2016, with a trading focus on niche oil products originating in countries formerly in the Soviet Union. Yury deals with materials linked to vacuum residue processing — bitumen and petcoke — with main destination markets in Europe and southeast Asia. Yury has degrees in customs regulations and logistics management and has been involved in commodities trading for more than 10 years. Read less

Responsible for the global strategic sourcing of green and calcined petroleum coke at Rio Tinto, supporting the aluminum smelters in the Atlantic and Pacific region. Having worked in the oil and gas industry for over 20 years in different commercial roles, joined Rio Tinto in 2018 with the mandate to centralize and deliver the sourcing strategy for carbon raw materials to our calciners and carbon plants. Hold a BSc Degree in Business Administration and a Master’s Degree in Oil and Gas Economics. Read less

Rameshwar worked at IOC from 1983 to January 2018, gaining experience in various departments, most recently as head of the Mumbai office, where he was responsible for marketing and pricing petroleum coke. He worked closely with the Environment Pollution Control Authority and Central Pollution Control Board in the lead up to India’s ban on petcoke, co-ordinating with industry members and major customers. Latterly, Rameshwar has worked as an independent consultant, tracking domestic markets and liaising with petroleum coke producers, cement producers, calciners, traders and other stakeholders. Read less

Sunit is a gold medallist of 2002 batch of mining engineering from IIT-BHU and the recipient of the ‘Best Student in All Round Performance’ Award in 2002. He has pursued his MBA in operations and supply chain management from Symbiosis Centre for Management & Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune during the period 2005-07. He is a certified six sigma green belt, internal auditor of ISO 9002, 14000 & OHSAS, certified safety auditor, APICS Level III certified having around 15 years of experience in managing end-to-end procurement and supply chain from ‘Procure-To-Pay’ across building material and steel sectors. Sunit is leading the Fuel and Strategic Sourcing for Nuvoco Vistas Corp. Ltd. from Nov, 2018. Prior to this he has been driving the Operational Excellence Initiatives for Procurement during the period 2017-18 in collaboration with Mckinsey and successfully delivered a saving of around 33 Cr last year. His first stint was with Tata Steel (Raw Material Division) for 3 years till Mar, 2005, where his primary contribution was in improving the manpower productivity, Six Sigma and EMS Implementation and Auditing. He was recognised at MD level for his productivity improvement projects. He worked with Lafarge Canada in Plant Production for their Richmond Plant in Vancouver, Canada for around 2 Years. Moved to Lafarge India in Nov, 2009 and have successfully grown in 9 years from leading the Coal Block project, Strategic Sourcing to lead the entire Raw Material Procurement team. He has been awarded the ‘Best Procurement Initiative’ award in 2016 in the ‘Manufacturing & Supply Chain Summit 2016’ for his initiatives in fuel sourcing. Also, awarded for ‘Reduction in Energy Cost’ in Lafarge India Awards and recognised at Nuvoco Excellence Awards 2018 for driving saving initiatives through collaboration. Read less

Juan Pablo Pistarini is responsible for the marketing and trading of petroleum coke on international markets at YPF based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Besides, he is involved with the supply and trading of distillates and light end products. Juan Pablo has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Buenos Aires. Read less

Claire Pickard-Cambridge has been with Argus Media for over 16 years, covering a range of energy markets. She began working for the company in London as Africa editor, followed by nine years in the company’s Washington DC office. She joined the Argus Singapore office in January 2016 as the company’s Asia solid fuels manager, responsible for coverage of the thermal coal, petroleum coke and biomass markets. Prior to Argus, she worked at oil consultancy Global Pacific and Partners in Johannesburg, South Africa and previously Africa editor at Business Day newspaper in Johannesburg. Read less

Steve has more than 35 years of experience in refining and chemical plant management, engineering and operations. Steve began his long career with Total as a process engineer. He has served as an operations manager, a styrene plant manager and a refinery manager. His accomplishments include managing the world’s largest combined styrene and polystyrene complex for Total Styrenics, and later overseeing major improvement projects for clients including a refining steam cracker project in Thailand and Brazil, and a refinery in eastern Europe. Read less

Freddie started work as a price reporter with ICIS Heren, covering commodities from power to gas to coal, before moving into the sharper end of the business with Noble Group, becoming their senior market analyst for thermal and coking coal. From there he moved to EdF where he worked as a fuel originator, working as part of a team that sourced 10mn t/yr of coal and 250,000 t/yr of biomass for UK power plants. Freddie joined Argus as business development manager in January 2014, focusing on growing the company’s coal, iron ore, petroleum coke and biomass indexation and coverage. Read less

Ajay has been reporting for Energy Argus Petroleum Coke since October 2019 when he joined Argus in Singapore. Prior to Argus, Ajay reported for leading Indian financial publications from New Delhi, writing on oil and gas, automobiles and hospitality. Read less

William Wang has been with Argus over 15 years and now is based in China as lead analyst of solid fuels covering thermal coal, met coke and petroleum coke markets. He developed most of China-related indexes including fuel oil, LPG, base oil, thermal coal, coking coal, met coke and petroleum coke in import and export markets. William Wang also takes care of business development for coal in China. Read less

Andrew Jones is the Deputy Editor for Argus Asia Coal. He joined Argus in 2009, based in the company’s Singapore office. His initial focus was on the Asia-Pacific dry bulk and tanker markets before switching to the coal desk, where he now focuses on price discovery, news and analysis of regional thermal coal and petroleum coke markets. Having previously worked at sea, Andrew started his journalism career in the UK before moving to Asia in 2006 as a correspondent with Dow Jones Newswires/The Wall Street Journal, where he covered various regional commodities markets. Read less

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Alex Younevitch is the Global Head of Freight at Argus, responsible for the strategy, editorial coverage, market engagement and adoption of Freight & Transportation services at Argus Media. Prior to joining Argus in February 2020, Alex was head of EMEA shipping at S&P Global Platts, overseeing over 100 of daily freight assessments and three daily publications. He drove the rapid expansion of the Platts freight portfolio in the tankers, dry bulk and container markets. Alex previously worked as a tanker broker at Gibson Shipbrokers. Alex has a 1st class BA Honours degree in International Supply Chain and Shipping Management from the University of Plymouth. Read less

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