Keynote speaker
Kathleen L. Quirk, President and Chief Executive Officer, Freeport-McMoRan Inc.
Kathleen L. Quirk is President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (Freeport).
Ms. Quirk joined Freeport in 1989 and has had responsibility for a broad range of corporate functions, including Tax, Investor Relations, Corporate Development and Treasury before being named Chief Financial Officer in 2003. During that period, she was named Best CFO in Metals and Mining by Extel (formerly known as Institutional Investor magazine) on numerous occasions.
She was named President of Freeport in 2021, became a member of the Board of Directors in 2023 and became Chief Executive Officer in 2024.
As a senior member of the company’s executive team for more than 20 years, she has been instrumental in Freeport’s strategic planning and execution of company goals.
Ms. Quirk is a member of The Business Council and Business Roundtable and also serves on Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Board of Directors of the Council of the Americas. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Vulcan Materials Company.
Ms. Quirk is a graduate of Louisiana State University
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Andrea Hotter, Special Correspondent, Fastmarkets
Andrea Hotter is the New York-based Special Correspondent at Fastmarkets.
Previously, she was the Assistant Managing Editor at Dow Jones Newswires on its energy and commodities desk in London, where she was responsible for markets and equities coverage of metals, softs, grains and energy for EMEA.
Prior to this, Andrea was on the metals desk for Mitsui Bussan Commodities in London, and has been a Senior Correspondent for Bridge News.
Bonnie Y Chan, Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)
Bonnie Y Chan was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited on 1 March 2024.
Ms Chan brings more than 30 years of global capital markets leadership and expertise. She has played a leading role in supporting the transformation of Hong Kong’s listed market and infrastructure, enhancing market quality, attractiveness, and efficiency, and helping position HKEX as a leading global exchange group.
Ms Chan has held leadership roles in legal and financial services with Asia-Pacific and global responsibilities. Before becoming CEO, Ms Chan was HKEX’s Co-Chief Operating Officer, where she oversaw the Group’s key operational and strategic functions. Ms Chan first joined HKEX as Head of IPO Transactions in 2007 from Morgan Stanley, where she spent four years leading the legal function for the investment bank’s Asia capital markets business. She rejoined HKEX in 2020 as Head of Listing, after serving as a partner at international law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell focusing on capital markets between 2010 and 2019.
Ms Chan is a frequent contributor to the World Economic Forum and is a member of the Forum’s Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems Advisory Council.
In Hong Kong, Ms Chan served as a member of the Financial Services Development Council between 2015 and 2018, and was a member of its Board of Directors between 2019 and 2020. She was also a member of the Standing Committee of Company Law Reform and the Disciplinary Panel of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Ms Chan was recognised as one of the World Federation of Exchanges’ Women Leaders between 2021 and 2023. She was also recognised among IFLR1000’s Asia Best Lawyers in 2019 and was named The American Lawyer’s Dealmaker of the Year in 2018.
Ms Chan holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Hong Kong and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. She is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong and an attorney at law in New York State.
陳翊庭
集團行政總裁 ,香港交易及結算有限公司（香港交易所）
陳翊庭於2024年3月1日獲委任為香港交易及結算所有限公司集團行政總裁。
陳女士在環球金融市場累積逾30年的管理經驗，在推動香港上市制度改革、優化基礎設施、以及提升香港市場的質素、吸引力和效率方面貢獻良多，鞏固了香港交易所作為國際領先交易所集團的地位。
陳女士曾在亞太區和全球的法律和金融服務領域擔任高級管理職務。在升任為香港交易所集團行政總裁前，陳女士擔任集團的聯席營運總監，負責領導集團主要的營運部門及戰略規劃。陳女士於2007年首次加入香港交易所擔任上市科首次公開招股交易部主管，並於2020年再次加入香港交易所擔任上市科主管。此前，陳女士曾在投資銀行摩根士丹利工作，領導其亞洲資本市場業務的法律部門長達四年；亦於2010至2019年擔任國際律師事務所達維律師事務所的合夥人，負責資本市場業務。
陳女士經常參與世界經濟論壇（WEF）舉辦的年會和活動，就不同的議題發表見解。她也是世界經濟論壇「金融和貨幣系統諮詢委員會」的成員。
陳女士曾於2015至2018年出任香港金融發展局成員，並於2019至2020年擔任該局的董事會成員。她曾任公司法改革常務委員會及香港會計師公會紀律小組成員。
陳女士於2021至2023年連續三年被評為世界交易所聯合會（WFE）年度女性領袖之一。她亦曾被The American Lawyer評為2018年度最佳交易律師，並被IFLR1000評為2019年度亞洲最佳律師。
陳女士持有香港大學法學學士學位及哈佛法學院法學碩士學位。她擁有香港事務律師和美國紐約州的律師資格.
Janet Henry, Global Chief Economist, HSBC
Janet Henry was appointed as HSBC’s Global Chief Economist in August 2015 and is responsible for all of HSBC’s economic forecasts and thematic economic research output globally.
She was previously HSBC’s Chief European Economist. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, her work has focused on the labour market implications, evolving inflation dynamics and policy challenges in a world facing geopolitical tensions, protectionism, new innovations and enormous demographic and climate challenges.
Janet is a Governor of the UK’s National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Chief Economists Community and a Non-Executive Director of HSBC Bank UK plc.
She has given evidence to financial committees of the EU Parliament on China and UK House of Lords on Europe. Janet joined HSBC in 1996 in Hong Kong where she worked as an Asian economist in the run-up to, and aftermath of, the Asian crisis.
Matthew Chamberlain, CEO, London Metal Exchange
Matthew joined the LME in 2012, having advised HKEX on the acquisition of the LME while at UBS. He started his career at Citibank, and holds an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Holtum, Chief Executive Officer, Trafigura
Richard Holtum became Chief Executive Officer of Trafigura on 1 January 2025, having joined the Trafigura Board on 1 October 2024.From 2022 to 2024, Richard was Global Head of Gas, Power and Renewables, with responsibility for building Trafigura’s presence in the fast-evolving gas, power and carbon markets.
Richard joined Trafigura’s LNG team in 2014 and became Global Head of LNG and Gas in 2019, playing a significant role in growing the company’s integrated LNG and natural gas trading activity into a global business.
Prior to joining Trafigura, Richard was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and spent five years with the British Army. He then worked for two years at Glencore.
Richard holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of St Andrews.