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Alice has been a manager in the steel business since 2008. She has a degree in economics from the University of Genoa and a master’s in financial markets. Alice started her career during her university years, working at a small steel trading company dealing with finished products such as pipes, beams, sheets and gratings. After four years she joined Voestalpine High Performance Metal Division, where she developed Italian sales for the Buderus Edelstahl mill, focusing on special steel forged blocks. She has also acted as sales and division manager for stainless steel and nickel welding wires at Rodacciai SpA. Alice recently began a new challenge as Head of the Trading Unit for carbon steel coils in the Italian market at one of the world’s biggest metal trading groups, DITH Duferco International Trading Company. Her technical skills and determination have led her to achieve leadership positions that historically were male dominated. Alice’s passion for women’s rights led her to participate in BPW (Business Professional Women, a non-profit association), championing the motto Women for Women and becoming young representative for her district and a mentor for young people that want to push their business careers. She directs the international project Steel Women: Gender Equality In Leadership, which supports UN sustainable development goals. Read less

Mark Seddon is Senior Manager (Metals), Consulting Services, based in London. He is responsible for Argus’ rare earths and tungsten monthly outlooks and for developing metals consulting services. With over 25 years’ experience in the commodities industry as a trader, researcher, consultant and company executive, Mark has a wealth of experience in the metals sector. After gaining a BA (Hons) Degree in European Business Administration, as well as a Diplôme d’Études Supérieures Européennes de Management, Mark spent three years as a sugar trader with Louis Dreyfus, a leading global soft commodities company. The next 20 years were spent at Roskill Information Services, a leader in international metals and minerals research. In January 2001, Mark was appointed a director at Roskill and in December 2010 became the Managing Director of the company. Prior to joining Argus, he ran his own metals consulting company, Tungsten Market Research. Read less

John has been with Anglo American for 13 years and was appointed head of nickel sales in September 2016. John is also responsible for chrome and molybdenum sales from the firm’s operations in South Africa and Chile, respectively. Prior to this, John spent five years as head of strategy at Anglo’s marketing business unit, where he was key in developing and implementing Anglo’s revised approach to commercial and marketing strategy. He was also commercial manager at Anglo’s Australian coal business for two years. John’s first role with Anglo saw him leading a business improvement project in the industrial minerals segment. Before joining Anglo American, John held a number of senior operational roles in the UK chemical, engineering and textile industries. Read less

Barbara Buck is Vice President, Marketing & Sales of Climax Molybdenum Company, a subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. She is responsible for global molybdenum marketing and sales to the steel, stainless steel and chemical industries. She joined Climax Molybdenum in June 2005. Barbara has more than 40 years of sales and marketing experience in the chemicals, plastics, specialty chemicals, coatings, industrial gases and molybdenum industries where she has specialized in growing world-class global businesses serving customers in a variety of end use markets throughout the world. She is an active member of the International Molybdenum Association (IMOA) serving as the Chair of the Market Development Committee for more than 5 years and is now serving as President of IMOA’s Executive Committee. Barbara has more than 35 years of sales and marketing experience in the chemicals, plastics, specialty chemicals, coatings, industrial gases and molybdenum industries where she has specialized in growing world-class global businesses serving customers in a variety of end use markets throughout the world. She is an active member of the International Molybdenum Association (IMOA) serving as the Chair of the Market Development Committee for more than 5 years and is now serving a two-year term as President of IMOA’s Executive Committee. Read less

Candida Owens is a shareholder, director and Senior trader at Cronimet Central Africa AG, based in Switzerland. Cronimet Central Africa AG trades and processes Tantalite, Cassiterite and Wolframite and has been present in Rwanda for the past 10 years. Candida has been in the industry for 19 years working previously for 3 trading houses in the UK: Capital Minerals & Metals, RJH Trading and Simmonds Metal Trading Ltd, where she was responsible for Minor metal scrap and concentrates. Candida also sits on the Multi Stakeholder steering committee of the OECD’s working group for responsible mineral supply chains from conflict affected and high risk areas, as well as being an executive committee member of the Tantalum & Niobium International Study centre (TIC). She studied English, politics and economics and is passionate about sailing and keeping fit. Read less

Ran is the owner and president of Metal Tech Israel, which recycles tungsten scrap and produces tungsten and tungsten carbide powder for the cemented carbide industry, and which has developed a process for recovering molybdenum spent catalyst. He also owns Jurametal in Bolivia, which collects and processes tungsten and tantalite concentrates and will soon start processing antimony concentrates. He has been involved in the molybdenum industry for many years and is a long-standing member of the IMOA. Ran is partner and the commercial director of THH Moly processing in Thailand. He has a degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s in business and industrial management from Ben Gurion University, Israel. Read less

Dr. Filipe Manjolinho Costa is the Chief Executive of Cronimet Envirotec. The company based in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany is part of the CRONIMET group and specialized in recycling metal soft scrap, contaminated spent catalysts and drilling muds. Since his start at Cronimet Envirotec in 2015, Filipe has managed to position the company as a technology leader in thermal desorption treatment of metal sludges, powders and spent catalysts. Filipe possesses valuable insights about the global stainless steel scrap market and innovative, sustainable recycling processes. Read less

As the senior category manager at Haldor Topsøe, Bent is responsible for commodity raw materials such as the molybdenum, nickel, cobalt, tungsten and vanadium compounds used in the production of catalysts. He has spent more than 30 years sourcing catalyst raw materials globally for Haldor Topsøe. Bent’s previous roles include that of chemical engineer. He has also been involved in health, environmental and safety aspects for chemicals and catalysts and evaluated reclamation options for spent catalysts and catalyst scrap. He has a PhD in thermodynamics. Read less

Martim Facada is a battery raw materials broker at SCB Group, a world leading commodity brokering group of companies that aims to promote the adoption of a low carbon future. Martim previously worked at Fastmarkets as a senior lithium market reporter, responsible for lithium market prices. He worked closely with the key stakeholders in the lithium industry to monitor the latest price identify risks, market trends and overall developments in the industry. Before joining Fastmarkets, Martim worked for Asian Metal as an international metal market analyst looking at cobalt and lithium prices and market intelligence. He also worked as an independent researcher for the London School of Economics. Read less

Dharam moved to Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2014, after leaving a career as an equity and commodity trader at a global investment bank in London to join the third-generation family business. The Kotecha family is deeply rooted in various industries from plastics manufacturing to foodstuff distribution in eastern DRC, having been established in 1962. Dharam aims to make Halcyon Inc a symbol of conflict-free mineral trade, working on educating local mining firms and trading companies on how to implement practical due diligence and traceability measures into their micro supply chains. Dharam has a master’s from London Business School and a degree from the University of Warwick in the UK. Read less

Fedor is the General Manager of UK-based AVAS Trading Ltd. He joined the company as Director in 2014 and was appointed General Manager in 2016. Fedor worked in the Moscow offices of Wogen Resources Ltd from 2008-14, where he handled physical trading with Russia and the rest of the CIS, and developed business with nearby countries and regions such as Turkey, Mongolia and eastern Europe. Fedor began his career in metals in 2001, when he joined major Russian tungsten producer WOLFRAM Company, where he handled and then managed international sales and purchasing, along with marketing and logistics. Read less

Mihail is an experienced trader/supervisor with a demonstrated history of reliable performance, risk management, metals and currency hedging, custom risk/financial solutions creation and problem solving in the import and export industry. He is skilled in commodity risk management, particularly in the non-ferrous, precious and minor metals trading industries. Mihail has a degree in economics, focusing on global economics from Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. Read less

Maarten trades tungsten, molybdenum, manganese, cobalt, antimony and other metals in the steel and foundry industries, with a strong focus on tungsten and business in Asia. He has worked as a trader in New York and Beijing, and also sits on the advisory council of the newly established initiative Metal Alliance for Responsible Sourcing (MARS), a role in which he fields queries related to EU and OECD regulations. Read less

Stephen is Supply Chain Standards Manager with the International Tin Association (ITA) and the lead on the association’s Code of Conduct, which sets out corporate values and commitments for tin mining, smelting and recycling operations. As the world authority on tin, the International Tin Association coordinates industry initiatives in sustainability, technology and market analysis. Stephen is a practitioner member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, with over 12 years’ experience and knowledge of supply chain laws, standards, audits and reporting tools. He is a qualified management systems auditor (ISO 14001 and 9001). To date, he has worked with public and private sector organisations in various roles, responsible for good governance and ensuring that the highest standards of integrity are applied to their activities. Read less

Anthony’s career has taken in various aspects of the mining sector, with a focus on cobalt. He was named in 2016 by the Mining Journal as a future industry leader and in 2017 he joined the London Metals Exchange’s Cobalt Committee. Anthony has managed exploration, development and production projects across a range of commodities and has served as a director of public and private-sector companies, including Pala Investments, Firebird Management, Renaissance Capital and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Moscow. Anthony holds a BA in Russian history from Brigham Young University in the US, an MA in Russian and central Asian studies and a JD from the University of Washington, and an LLM from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Read less

Bill is responsible for leading the team that establishes the long-term strategy and contractual negotiation of these products used in the manufacture of PW products. Bill’s team manages and directs the sourcing of billet for the forgings and melt stick for castings used by Pratt and Whitley US. His team is also responsible for metals industry analysis and managing cost through strategies for elements that are used for the billet and cast melt stick alloys. Read less

Jon is responsible for long-term strategy and contract negotiations for raw materials used in Pratt & Whitney products. His role covers metal industry analysis and managing strategy for plate, billet and cast melt stick alloys. Read less

Maxwell is responsible for setting up regulatory chemical compliance systems and governance processes. He oversees a global compliance technical team that ensures product market sustainability, product compliance and safety. He also oversees the regulatory governance process for products requiring governmental approval, including filing necessary applications and handling all government interactions. Maxwell develops procedures to ensure regulatory compliance. He is also the company’s advocacy leader with regulatory authorities and board director with the industrial association, Cobalt Institute. Read less

Reiner Haus, Managing Director, Dorfner Anzaplan Reiner has a background in engineering geology and minerals processing and for decades now his focus has been on specialty minerals and rare metals. After completing his PhD in Engineering Geology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany, he held senior research positions at both KIT and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. In 2000, he became Head of Engineering, Research and Development at European industrial and specialty minerals producer Dorfner. Soon afterwards, he was appointed Managing Director of Dorfner Anzaplan, a leading independent specialty minerals and metals analytical and engineering firm based in Germany. In 2005, Reiner completed his executive MBA at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and the University of St Gallen, Switzerland, and most recently became chairman of M.Plan International, a joint venture between Dorfner Anzaplan and Micon International, based in Toronto, Canada. Read less

Ana is the Managing Partner and Co-founder of A10 Investimentos, a leading Brazilian M&A and private equity boutique that offers advisory services on consumer and healthcare matters, as well as ESG private equity investments. She has more than 25 years’ experience as a senior banker at global investment banks in New York, London and Sao Paulo, and more than 15 years’ experience as a venture capital investor. Before founding A10, Ana was Head of Latin American Capital Markets at Goldman Sachs in New York, as well as being a Managing Director at the firm. She was one of four senior bankers Goldman assigned to Brazil to build its local banking and markets operations in 2007. Ana was also Head of the Latin American consumer and healthcare investment banking team at Barclays in Sao Paulo, and has held senior positions at Merrill Lynch in both London and New York for more than eight years. During her career, Ana has been involved in more than 100 capital markets and M&A transactions, totalling more than $110bn. Five of the transactions she has led have won the prestigious IFR Deal of the Year award, including Vale’s privatisation in 1996 and Vale’s Inco acquisition in 2006. A10 Investimentos’ flagship Climate Action Fund is the controlling shareholder of Sigma Lithium, a Canadian company that produces green and environmentally sustainable battery-grade lithium concentrate in Brazil on a pilot scale to the electric vehicle and clean energy storage battery industry. Sigma owns a large mineral province, which contains some of the world’s highest-quality lithium deposits. As an investor, Ana has also advised the boards of several media and technology companies, including Lojas Americanas e-commerce (later B2W), Turner Broadcasting Latin America and Nova.com. Ana serves on the advisory board of Columbia University Global Centers and is one of the 40 co-founders of Mulheres do Brasil, a not-for-profit organisation that has more than 30,000 active professional women members with branches in six countries. The group focuses on women-oriented policy making, as well as advocacy. She has an MBA degree from Columbia Business School and a Master’s in Finance from the London Business School. Read less

Steve leads the GAM Technology business directing the global sales, research and manufacturing groups in Pennsylvania, USA and Tokyo/Aizu Wakamatsu Japan. Previously Steve was Vice President of Operations and joined Global Advanced Metals through the Cabot Supermetals acquisition in 2012 where he held progressive roles during his 11 years in the tantalum processing industry. Prior to Cabot Steve held management positions in Engineering and Research in the electronics, petrochemicals, specialty chemicals industries. Steve was extensively involved in establishing the conflict minerals protocols which are now incorporated in the Responsible Minerals Initiative. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois Read less

Polina Sparks is Analysis Editor, Non-ferrous Metals at Argus Metals International. She started reporting on metal markets with Metal Bulletin in 1998s. As Senior Assistant Editor she focused on base and specialty metals and had specific responsibility for developing Metal Bulletin’s coverage of the non-ferrous metals industries in the CIS, eastern Europe and Central Asia. She subsequently became Editor and later Head of Research at Metal-Pages, an online publication and platform for minor and specialty metals. Following the acquisition of Metal-Pages by Argus Media in 2014, Polina joined the Argus team as analysis editor. She now focuses on specialty and high–temperature metal markets, including tantalum. Read less

Michael is a commodity analyst, focusing on cobalt and other battery materials. He has been involved with the commodities industry since 2003, having previously worked at Shell and CRU. Michael holds a PhD in economics. Read less

Alina Racu is a nickel market analyst at Metal Trade Overseas, the Switzerland-based subsidiary of leading metals producer Nornickel. She previously spent seven years working for market researchers Steel & Metals Market Research in Austria as a market analyst, where she focused on stainless steel and nickel alloys. Alina holds a Master’s degree in Business Consultancy from the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt in Austria. Read less

Maximilian provides pricing and intelligence reports to the metals markets. He specialises in analysing Chinese demand for steel and other end-use base metals products, and how that demand translates into the supply of mined ores and concentrates. Maximilian was previously a senior specialist in a number of market research roles at Rio Tinto in the steel, iron ore and copper sectors. He spent four years at Rio Tinto’s iron ore industry analysis division in Perth, Western Australia. Maximilian has also worked in market research roles covering raw materials in India, China, Singapore and the UK. He holds a bachelor’s degree in International Economics from a British university, and a Master’s degree, in which he studied China's impact on the world's natural resources in one of the country’s universities. Key skills: — Macroeconomic forecasting — Commodity market analysis — Base metals and iron ore market analysis — Commodity price forecasting Read less

Tom heads the research department at Amalgamated Metal Trading (AMT), a leading ring-dealing member of the London Metal Exchange. He is responsible for interpreting and reporting on metal-specific and macroeconomic trends driving the base metal markets. Previously, Tom was head of market intelligence at the International Tin Association, gaining four years’ experience analysing the global tin industry’s supply and demand fundamentals. Tom holds a master’s degree in geology from Imperial College London. Read less

Dr Adam McCarthy is part of the leadership team at the Cobalt Institute (CI), the cobalt industry’s global representative organisation. He leads the CI’s government and public affairs function and is responsible for the its advocacy and communication. Adam has spent his career working in government affairs within the chemicals and environmental space, most recently leading at the Albemarle Corporation. He has also worked in the European Commission and Parliament and holds a PhD in political science. Based in Belgium, he is a dual Belgian/British national. Read less

Andreina is responsible for the end-to-end due diligence process for Intel’s Responsible Minerals Sourcing programme. Since joining Intel in 2015, she has been responsible for directly observing smelters’ sourcing practices around the world and incorporating them into the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process. Andreina collaborates with the Responsible Minerals Initiative and member companies to conduct outreach to smelters and refiners, develop industry standards for audit programmes, assess emerging risks and evaluate new technologies surrounding the mapping of mineral supply chains. She holds degrees in industrial engineering and economics from Penn State University. Read less

Denis Gorbachev is President and Co-owner of major Russian tungsten producer Wolfram, which has more than 1,500 employees producing all kind of tungsten intermediate products such as W conc, APT, YTO, BTO, FeW, Pure W, WC and others. Denis has more than 13 years of experience working in the tungsten sector and has held a number of positions at Wolfram, including within the international trade department dealing with sales and purchasing for the company, and as Director Business Development responsible for new business opportunities and defining the company’s strategy. Denis subsequently held the strategic position of Vice-President before becoming President of the Wolfram group of companies. These include Wolframine and Malamet, which are involved in mining tin and tungsten in Russia, Malaysia and Burundi. Read less

Christopher Ecclestone is a Principal and Mining Strategist at Hallgarten and Company and is based in London, with a focus on specialty/critical metals. Prior to founding Hallgarten in 2003, he was the head of research at an economic think-tank in New Jersey, which he joined in 2001. Before moving to the US, he was the founder and head of research at Argentinian equity research firm Buenos Aires Trust Company, from 1991 to 2001. Before that, he worked in London, beginning in 1985 as a corporate finance and equities analyst and as a freelance consultant on the restructuring of the securities industry. He graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Read less

Dan has been involved in the tantalum industry for over 20 years — from smelting, research, development and manufacture of tantalum capacitor grade powders, through to marketing and sales of tantalum capacitors. He was involved in supporting the Dodd Frank conflict minerals act, engaging with stakeholders including the US Securities and Exchange Commission and US Congress, and helped set up Kemet’s closed-pipe tantalum supply chain. From 2013 to 2017, Dan was Senior Vice-President, Global Sales and Marketing for NEC-TOKIN, a joint venture between Kemet and Japan’s NEC-TOKIN, and based in Tokyo. He currently leads Kemet’s mergers and acquisition efforts and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Dan received his BSc in chemistry from Boston College and his PhD in chemistry from the University of Texas. Read less

Stuart leads the European metals editorial team at Argus Media in London. He has over 20 years' experience in commodities pricing, news and analysis. In addition to metals, Stuart has specialised in energy and carbon emissions trading since joining Argus in 2007. Prior to Argus, Stuart was a senior correspondent and editor at Reuters news agency. Read less

Anuradha Ramanathan is the Deputy Editor of Argus Metals International at Argus Media, focusing on assessing OTC spot prices for high-temperature metals and noble alloys. Before joining Argus, Anuradha was the Managing Editor for the European power desk at S&P Global Platts, specialising in power and gas, carbon and renewables, and regulation and policy. She has also worked for Morningstar India and Thomson Reuters. Read less

Thomas is an Argus reporter specialising in battery metals and ferro-alloys. He graduated from City, University of London’s journalism school in 2018. Thomas previously ran a news website covering the administration of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, before working at The Times and Press Gazette. Read less

Meera Pau Mehta is Corporate Responsibility Manager for global steelmaker ArcelorMittal. Meera has over 15 years of experience in developing and implementing sustainability programmes for business, with a focus on supply chains and human rights. At ArcelorMittal, Meera has established the responsible sourcing programme and supported the business in working towards good practice in community engagement and social performance. Prior to this she was an Associate Director in PwC’s sustainability consulting group in London. Here she supported the establishment of the Responsible Jewellery Council, and worked with a range of public and private-sector clients. Read less

Mary Anne Alvin joined the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in 2005, and since 2015 she has served as NETL’s Rare Earth Element Technology Manager (TM), responsible for validating the technical and economic feasibility for separation and recovery of salable, high purity, rare earth elements from domestic coal-based resources in conventional, prototype, and advanced operating systems. Prior to assuming the TM position, Ms. Alvin served as Division Director for both the Geosciences Division and the Functional Materials Development Division. Prior to joining NETL, Ms. Alvin had 30 years of experience at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and at Siemens Westinghouse Power Generation, working in advanced energy systems. As a Fellow Scientist, she led the development of advanced high temperature ceramic, intermetallics, and superalloy materials for components used in the domestic and off-shore, pilot- and demonstration-scale, land-based, power generation island wrap-around systems. She currently holds 28 patents, with additional pending. Read less

At Hobré, Fabio specialises in sales of liquid analysers used in sectors including mining, oil and gas. He was previously at Dutch company Orim Energy, where he held various positions spanning metal recovery and research and development, and is currently executive director of the European Precious Metals Federation. Fabio was also previously at BP, where he was a member of the process engineers extraction team and involved in modelling and energy consumption monitoring system development, as well as polypropylene plant upgrade projects. He has a BSc in chemical engineering from Edinburgh University. Read less

Giampaolo has worked in the iron and steel industry for 24 years, trading a range of products ̶ flat (and long) steel products, raw materials for steel production (mainly bulk ferro-alloys such as FeSi, FeMn, SiMn and FeCr) and minerals (Cr ore and Mn ore). He also develops and oversees ferro-alloys and steel production, dealing with their output and raw materials. He is a graduate of the University of Genoa, Italy. Read less