Argus Biofuels

Angel Alvarez Alberdi has been Secretary General of European waste-to-advanced biofuels association EWABA since its creation in 2013. EWABA is a Brussels-based trade association defending the interests of waste-based biofuel producers using feedstocks such as used cooking oil (UCO), tallow and other wastes to produce sustainable biofuels with greenhouse gas savings ranking among the highest available on the market. Angel has been working in EU government and institutional affairs in Brussels for the past decade, with a particular focus on energy matters and on EU legislative procedures. He started his career in Brussels with a stint at the European Commission’s Secretariat General, then worked for an international public affairs consultancy, the trade association European Biodiesel Board and a global law firm. A lawyer by training, Angel has an MA in European interdisciplinary studies with a major in EU governance from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Read less

Elmar has worked for VDB since 2007, and is now focused on transposing the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive II (RED II) and the reshaping of German energy and climate policy. In his current role, he lobbies for the Germany’s biodiesel industry, which has the highest output in Europe, representing members in Berlin and Brussels. Elmar has a bachelor’s degree in biotechnology engineering and a master’s in industrial engineering, and has completed advanced training in investment and financing, logistics and innovation management. Read less

Emmanuel leads the ePURE team, which he first joined in 2013 as Director of Government Affairs responsible for energy and environmental affairs. Before coming to ePURE, Emmanuel was Senior Manager for Public Affairs with Novozymes. His career in public affairs and advocacy also includes positions with UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association, and the Industrial Ethanol Association. He holds a Master's Degree from the Institute of Political Studies of Bordeaux and an LL.M in European Law from the University Carlos III of Madrid. A French citizen, Emmanuel also speaks English and Spanish. Read less

Kona Haque joined ED&F Man in May 2014 as Group Head of Research, responsible for the company’s commodity and macro-economic research team (including Volcafe coffee, Man Sugar, and grains). She joined from Macquarie Bank where she was responsible for agriculture and soft commodities research for 7 years. Previously, Kona spent 4 years as Senior Commodities Editor at the Economist Group. She has also worked for a shipping consultancy as Director of Bulk Commodities and spent 4 years at Metal Bulletin Research, specialising in base metals. Other experience includes working as an Economist for a grains market information provider and with the United Nations in Rome, Italy. Kona has an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Agricultural Economics from Reading University. Read less

Jan Henke has studied International Economics at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He has worked for four years at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in the research area of environmental and resource economics. During that time he also acquired his PhD from the University of Potsdam in Germany. After that he joined Meo Carbon Solutions, a management consultancy focussing on sustainability, climate change and renewable resources. While working with Meo, Jan was involved from the beginning in the development of GRAS Global Risk Assessment Services and ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification). Jan is working on topics of renewable resources, recycling, sustainability, renewable energies, climate change, land use and land use change, GHG calculations and certification. The regional focus of Jan’s work is Europe, the Americas and South East Asia. Read less

Timo Huhtisaari is the Sustainability Director at North European Oil Trade (NEOT), a Finnish Fuel procurement company which is also operating in Sweden. Although Timo has been fully working at NEOT for a two and a half years, oil – and later biofuels – industry can be said to be for him in the milk. Only at the age of 15 he started as a summer helper for Esso Finland and has been in the industry ever since in various different tasks learning the characteristics of the whole fuel products supply chain. Through his Bachelor in Environmental engineering and later on Masters of Corporate Environmental Management he developed a deeper interest in environmental topics, renewable energy and specifically Biofuels. Now at NEOT Timo focuses on the Regulatory Affairs on Nordic and European. This is accompanied by leading the NEOT’s Corporate Responsibility team that looks after NEOT’s Advanced ethanol production projects in Gothenburg, Sweden and Kajaani, Finland. Read less

Rachel’s career has focused on energy and environment policy development. Most of her work has been with the UK civil service, but she has also worked in the corporate affairs team at Tesco and for a year as interim Managing Director at Sandbag, a UK climate think-tank. Highlights of Rachel’s career have included piloting the UK Climate Change Bill through parliament and overseeing a major review of the Feed-in Tariffs Scheme. Read less

James Standage is a Biodiesel Physical Broker at London-based energy brokerage OTC Europe. James joined the company in 2014, bringing the team he had established in his previous role at Oil Brokerage, specialising in swaps and physical products. James joined Oil Brokerage in 2008, after three years at HBI in Paris, where he sold market reports, brokered castor oil derivatives and started in an emergent biodiesel market. James graduated from St Andrews University in Scotland in 2005. Read less

Anders joined Swedish forestry firm SCA in 2011 and is responsible for developing the biorefinery business. His biofuels journey in started 2006 in the ethanol business, before he switched focus to the biodiesel industry, where his work focused on compliance with the Renewable Energy Directive and national legislation. At SCA, Anders studies biofuel and biochemicals markets, policy, global and regional trends, new technologies, and how the forestry industry can work with others to replace fossil fuel-fired power with bio-based products. In addition to heading two commercial advanced biofuel projects, he also works in fuel technology development, including a pilot process designed to convert lignin into advanced biofuels such as renewable naphtha, diesel and jet fuel. Read less

Luis Poch Rodrigo has worked in the biodiesel industry since 2009, and always been focused on waste-to-energy projects. His main expertise is in using waste feedstock to produce quality biofuel, mainly within double-counting regimes. He is experienced in ISCC EU certification and Italian regulation, and helps suppliers and customers meet all the quality parameters and regulations required to sell in European markets. In 2013, he started UCO Trading Spain, which trades sustainable feedstock for biodiesel and hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). Read less

Panu Routasalo is Vice-President at UPM Biofuels, which offers customers in the transport and petrochemical industries ways to replace fossil fuels with renewable and sustainable alternatives. He has more than 10 years of experience in the oil and biofuels industries, including commercial and technical roles, and was previously Director of Sales & Product Management for UPM BioVerno. Read less

Chris Judge is Vice-President for Products at the Argus head office in London. He is responsible for the development of market-appropriate price assessments, methodologies and editorial training and development. Chris was previously editor of the daily European Products report, which publishes price assessments used in physical and derivative indexation for the European gasoline markets, among others. Chris graduated in English literature at the University of Kent. Before joining Argus, Chris worked for other media organisations, including energy price reporting service Platts, where he headed up the European products team in London, before moving to New York to manage the coverage of US markets. Read less

Colin Cowan works at COUNT Renewables Trading in Rotterdam, building the renewables team and managing sustainable UCO supply chains worldwide. He also works with COUNT Terminal Rotterdam, which is a renewable storage hub with 70,000t of Cat3 and UCO storage, with plans to increase to 130,000t by 2020-21. Colin has 15 years’ experience working in the oil industry, including at Chevron and Greenergy, with 10 years focused specifically on UCO, wastes, and renewables. Read less

Raffaello Garofalo has been secretary-general of the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) — the European federation of biodiesel producers — since May 2002. He previously worked for four years at FEDIOL, the European Federation of Vegetable Oils Producers, dealing with non-food uses of vegetable oils, including as biolubricants, biosolvents and biodiesel. In 1998, he worked temporarily in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and the European Parliament’s research directorate. Read less

Caroline Midgley PhD is director of oleochemicals and biofuels research at LMC International, a firm that provides economic, marketing, and consulting services for a broad range of industries related to agricultural commodities and their downstream derivatives. She is based in Oxford and her work — which is supported by LMC’s oilseeds, grains, sugar and starch teams — includes investment appraisals for new plants, assessing the impact of domestic policy changes, analysis of agricultural raw material and by-product markets, and analysis of the impact of technological developments. Read less

Kees began his commodities career in 1997 as a grains trader for the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe at two major Rotterdam-based agricultural trading houses. In 2006, he became involved with biofuels trading and, in 2008, he launched his own business, providing interim management at an integrated rapeseed crush/RME production plant in the Netherlands. He then began brokering biodiesel and later founded the biofuels desk at TFS London, moving into derivatives. Since October 2012, he has run his own business in Rotterdam, brokering biodiesel, biodiesel feedstock, and by-products at Global Bio Broker. Kees has an MA in economics from the Amsterdam Free University. Read less

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Laura joined clean transport campaign group Transport and Environment (T&E) in April 2013 after working for two years as a parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament. Laura manages T&E’s energy campaigns and focuses on making European fuels policy more sustainable, moving away from oil towards alternatives such as renewable electricity, and phasing out support for land-based biofuels. She has worked extensively on campaigns around the Renewable Energy Directive and the Fuel Quality Directive, as well as the EU-delegated act that labelled palm oil diesel unsustainable. During her time in parliament, Laura worked on different files being discussed by the environment committee, with a focus on biodiversity, and closely followed the work of the petitions committee. Laura hails from the east of France and studied public administration at the Institute of Political Studies in Strasbourg, followed by environmental law at the University of Strasbourg. Read less

Prior to joining Argus, Josefine spent nine years with Shell Downstream in the strategy, marketing and sales departments. She has a master’s degree in economics from Lund University, Sweden, and is now Vice-President at Argus leading Business Development in Europe. Read less

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Charles leads engagement across the energy industry, specialising in providing market studies and investment feasibility analysis for Argus clients looking to build assets in fossil fuel and bio-based supply chains. Before joining Argus, Charles worked at Accenture, growing its renewable energy consulting practice. He has also worked in the UK civil service, looking at long-term shifts in society and the challenges for government. Over the past year, Charles has led multiple projects, helping companies understand the implications of biofuels blending on their supply chains. Read less

Dickon has been working in the biodiesel industry since 2004. Initially the Development Director for Argent Energy in the UK, he has managed the marketing for Argent and is now focused on advocacy and the relevant legislative and regulatory instruments that affect biodiesel markets in Europe and around the world. Argent specialises in the production of waste-based biodiesel and has recently constructed a second plant in the UK able to handle very low-grade waste feedstocks. Dickon was involved in setting up the supply chain for high blends of waste-based biodiesel into London buses, works closely with the UK’s Department of Transport on policy and is Vice-President of the European Biodiesel Board, where he has chaired the Advanced Biodiesel sector group for a number of years. Read less

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Pietro is adviser to the General Director of Brazilian oil, gas and biofuels agency ANP. He has 13 years’ experience of the energy regulatory and biofuels sectors. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Read less

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