Argus Fertilizer Asia Conference

Pak Panji has previously worked in the private sector for several companies such as CitiBank, Visa, Honeywell and others. He has also worked with the Indonesian government ministry of economic affairs. He currently has been tasked by the Indonesian government to help build up Pupuk Indonesia into a nimble and dynamic fertilizer company. Read less

Dom LaVigne is a senior executive and government relations professional with more than 20 years of management, public policy, corporate affairs, and foreign direct investment (FDI) promotion experience across the Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Central Asian regions. Dom has worked extensively for global and regional trade associations, including with the Methanol Institute from 2011-2018. From 2004-2011, he served as Executive Director of the American Chambers of Commerce (AmChams) in Singapore, Malaysia, and Afghanistan. Dom began his career with Vice President Al Gore at The White House in 1993-1995. Read less

An electrical and electronics engineer and MBA by qualification, Raza Soomar is Founder and CEO of multinational, RNZ Group head quartered in UAE. The company is engaged in specialty fertilizer production in technical collaboration with Shell. Its state-of-the-art research station is developing futuristic bio-tech inputs to mitigate the emerging challenging conditions. Sustainability is close to his heart, and today has evolved as a lead next-gen Agri inputs provider through its circular production. Read less

He served as the deputy general manager of Asia-Potash International Investment (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd., and the executive director and general manager of its subsidiaries, namely, Sino-Agri International Potash Co., Ltd., Sino-Agri Potash Co., Ltd., Beijing Agricultural Potash Resources Technology Co., Ltd., and Sino-Agri Mining Development Co., Ltd.. He is currently responsible organizing the team to implement the strategic objectives of the Board of Directors at Asia Potash. He has led the team to successfully achieve the completion of Asia Potash’s first 1 million tons of potash fertilizer project in Laos Read less

10 years in Shell, as the Head of Sustainability and Strategy in Shell Agriculture, we aim to drive decarbonisation & business development agenda in the agriculture sector by working with customers, partners and to decarbonise the value chain and lead sustainable energy practices globally. Read less

Mr Jian joined Wintrue Holding in June 2018. He currently holds several positions such as shareholder Supervisor of Wintrue Holding, General Manager of Marketing Department and CEO of International Department and Director of Garsoni Agricare Co Ltd. Read less

Amit has been with RIL for the last 22 years working in diversified businesses like petrochemicals, gasoil, aviation fuel , petcoke and sulphur. He is responsible for the sulphur business of RIL for the last 6 years for both domestic and export markets. RIL is the largest supplier of Sulphur in India with the production of close to 1.8 MMTPA and exporting at 1 Million tonnes of Sulphur every year. In addition to Sulphur he is also handling the Petcoke business of RIL. Read less

He is working as an Assistant General Manager in the Business Development team of Green Hydrogen / Green Ammonia at ACME Cleantech Solution, India. He has completed MBA from IIT Bombay and Mechanical engineering from IIT Varanasi, India. He has more than 8 years of work experience in Commercial and Strategy domain with assignments including Contract negotiations, Pricing Strategy, Strategic planning, Due Diligence, Valuation, Feasibility Studies, Bid Advisory etc. He has developed industrial expertise of Green Hydrogen/Green Ammonia, LNG/ Natural Gas Distribution and Power sector in India. Read less

Mr Zhai Jidong is Vice President of Kingenta Group and President of Kingenta International, the world’s largest slow and controlled release fertilizer producer and China largest NPK compound and Specialty fertilizer producer and a public company listed in Shenzhen Stock Exchange (002470). A 32-year veteran of the agriculture industry, Mr. Zhai was previously COO at Spur Ventures Inc., a public company listed in Toronto, Headquarter in Vancouver, where he led Spur’s business in China with a large phosphate mine and chemical complex integrated project. Prior to Spur, he was Executive Vice president and Chief Economist of Sino-Arab Chemical Fertilizers Co. Ltd.(SACF). He was formerly Managing Director of Huaying Phosphoric Acid Co. Ltd., a joint venture company between Japanese ITOCHOU and Chinese CNCCC. Mr. Zhai was Vice Chairman of the China Phosphate Industry Association, Director of the China Sulphuric Acid Industry Association and was Member of Hebei Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC). Mr. Zhai is Senior Chemical Engineer and has Bachelor Degree of Science and Master Degree at Economics. Read less

After achieving an MBA from the University of Delhi, Dileep has been a procurement professional having 15+ years of experience in Imports of Fertilizers and Strategic procurement for National Fertilizer Limited with prior experience at Ramagundam Fertilizers. Read less

He holds a degree in Agronomy from the Federal University of Viçosa (1994), a Master's degree in Agricultural Microbiology from the Federal University of Viçosa (1997) and PhD in Agronomy-Soil Science from Federal University Rural of Rio de Janeiro. He is currently a researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa Solos unit. In management, he served as Deputy Head of Research and Innovation at Embrapa Solos, from August 2015 to December 2017, and as General Head between January 2018 and October 2019. He is currently Executive Secretary of the National Council of Fertilizers and Plant Nutrition Read less

Vish Iyer is the Global Chief Commercial Officer at Jakson Green, a new energy transition platform jointly promoted by India headquartered Infrastructure and renewables major Jakson Limited and clean energy veteran Bikesh Ogra. An energy industry specialist by background, Vish's expertise lies across functional areas of the power sector business, given his 17-years of work across conglomerates such as Siemens, Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra and Shapoorji Pallonji Group (Sterling and Wilson Solar). His body of work over the years led him to recently receive the unique distinction of being among only 3 Indians to have made it as a “Rising Star Finalist” at the S&P Global Platt’s Global Energy Awards (regarded as the “Oscars of the Energy Industry”) across the award’s 20 years’ history. Read less

Mike is responsible for managing the London editorial fertilizer team and helps to develop new contacts. He is the Editor of Argus’ weekly Phosphates Report and the Monthly Africa Fertilizer Supplement, and the main contributor to the Monthly Phosphates Outlook. He also has special responsibility for the emerging African sector. Read less

Gavin is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of Gokomodo, an Indonesian agriculture supply chain company that empowers farmers and the rural economy through technology and physical infrastructure. Gokomodo leverages technology, big data, and machine-learning to enable cost-competitive supply, cost-efficient supply chain, and direct to consumer engagement. Prior to that role he was the Global Vice President of Business Development for fertilizers at Argus Media. He focused on price indexation and development of new pricing opportunities. All in all, Gavin is a fertilizer industry expert with nearly two decades of experience in trading, distribution, manufacturing, business development, and pricing. Read less

Muhamad Fadhil has extensive experience in tracking and analysing petrochemical prices and market trends. His area of interest includes crude and downstream markets in Asia and the Middle East. Before joining Argus, Fadhil was Head of Middle East Markets for ICIS, based in Dubai, where he was overall responsible for market engagement and strategy. He also previously worked for Singapore-based Channel NewsAsia, Hill & Associates Risk Consulting and the O&S Group of Companies. Fadhil holds a masters degree in Literary Studies from the National University of Singapore and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of London. Read less

Maria has been editor of the Argus Sulphur report since 2020. She has close to 6 years of experience working at PRA’s assessing global sulphur prices and writing about the global sulphur trade, with a previous background in country and brand analysis with Cision and Euromonitor International. Maria has a master’s degree from the Law/Politics Department at Queen Mary’s University of London, having focused on International Politics and Migration, as well as Latin American Studies. Read less

Andrea Valentini has 15 years of experience as a commodities market analysis. He is now leading Argus’ research and consulting in blue/green ammonia and carbon markets. Prior to joining Argus, he was the head of consulting for Integer Research. He is a regular speaker and industry events and has over 10 years of experience in APAC markets. Andrea is a graduate in Economics from the University of Padua in Italy and holds an MBA from McGill University, Canada. Read less

Matt Drinkwater is manager for gas and power analysis at Argus Media. He has 15 years’ experience analysing the gas and LNG markets at Argus, and before that worked on biofuels at New Energy Finance and on Middle East trade and investment for Noozz.com. Read less

After Graduating from Bombay University, Kartik worked in the Bombay Stock Exchange as a sales trader specialising in the fertilizer sector. He has since been marketing organic agricultural inputs and enhanced efficiency fertilizer to the Indian and International markets. Read less