Speakers

Alberto Xodo, VP Sales at the LME, has worked on various strategic initiatives for the Exchange, including the launch of new contracts, the development of its steel futures market and the launch of the Registered Intermediating Broker membership category. He joined the London Metal Exchange in December 2014 and has been a member of the LME Nickel Committee and of the LME Steel Committee since 2015.

Previously, he was working in the Transaction Services team of PwC with focus on strategy consulting and commercial due diligence for the Financial Services industry.

Aline is the Managing Partner of the Frontier Commodities Strategy. She has conceptualised and developed Frontier’s unique “quantamental” trading style and volatility management systems.

She has 18 years of experience in cross-assets investments, including derivatives trading, structured products, interest rates modelling, fundamental research, AI-Big Data analytics, ESG and risk management.

Amy Gower (née Sergeant) leads the Metals and Mining Commodity Strategy team at Morgan Stanley.

The team publishes research on market developments and on the outlook for base metals, bulk commodities, precious metals and battery metals.

Amy joined Morgan Stanley in 2013, starting in the Commodities division in Sales and Trading. She joined the Oil Research team in June 2017, looking at  crude oil and refined products markets.

She moved over to cover metals markets in 2021 and has a particular focus on base metals and battery metals. Amy graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA in French and Management and is a CFA Charterholder.

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.

Barry heads the LME’s Buy-Side and financial client coverage.

He has extensive experience in capital markets, OTC and Exchange Traded Derivatives, commodities and fintech, having previously served in senior leadership and advisory positions with UBS, TP ICAP and Trust Payments.

Barry holds an Executive MBA from Cass Business School and is a graduate of King's College London.

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.

Christian Mildner is the Head of Corporate Sales at the London Metal Exchange where he focusses on the physical end users.

He has over 10 year’s industry experience and has in-depth knowledge of corporate commodities and metals hedging. Prior to joining the LME, Christian worked at Commerzbank in London where he headed up the Commodity Corporate Sales team.

Christian has a Msc. in Financial Markets from University Paris Dauphine.

Christophe Allain is Group Portfolio Vice President, Non-Ferrous Metals, at Nexans, a role he has held since January 2012.

The bulk of the commodities managed by Christophe are copper, aluminium and lead with the total spend ranges between €4.0 billion and €5.0 billion. Previously, Christophe was in charge of Group Purchasing Control and Offshore Sourcing within Nexans for five years. Before joining Nexans, Christophe worked for Safran, one of the leading French Aerospace & Defense companies and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He has been a member of the London Metal Exchange Copper Committee since 2018. He was also a Board member of the ICA between 2013 and 2018.

Christophe is a graduate of the French business School ESCP Europe where he majored in Finance and Industrial Marketing.

Ella Cullen is Co-founder & CMO of Minespider a blockchain-based traceability platform helping actors in the raw material supply chain capture key data in digital Product Passports.

Companies such as Google, Cisco, Renault, Ford, and Minsur use their platform to track carbon emissions, critical documents, and supply chain histories of their materials/products to distinguish their products in the market. Ella is a UNECE expert in blockchain traceability, a mentor for DLT Talents and CV Labs Incubator, was awarded Young Female Mining Professional of the Year 2024 (Eira Thomas Award) and was recognized as one of 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining 2023. 

Georgina is the Chief of Staff and Chief Sustainability Officer for the LME Group, incorporating the LME and LME Clear, where she plays a central role in all aspects of the LME's operations and strategic initiatives. She is also responsible for leading the LME’s work on sustainability, incorporating LME responsible sourcing – delivering an industry-wide programme in partnership with the OECD to ensure globally accepted standards for the sourcing of metals are embedded for production of LME-listed metals.

Georgina has worked at the LME since September 2012, initially in research and analytics. She began her career at Euromoney Institutional Investor and has a doctorate in psychology.

Jenny heads up European Metals Sales at Bank of America, focusing on developing both financial and physical-based solutions for corporate clients across the spectrum of ferrous, non-ferrous and precious metals. Jenny previously spent 15 years at BNP Paribas working in Corporate Metals Sales.

Jigna Gibb is Head of Commodities and Crypto Index Products at Bloomberg. In her role, she is responsible for the flagship Bloomberg Commodities (BCOM) family index suite, which is linked to products totalling over $107bn AUM, as well as the roll out of new index launches.

Prior to joining Bloomberg Mrs. Gibb was Head of Origination for the Quantitative Investment Solutions team at Deutsche Bank. Her responsibilities included Portfolio, Cross Asset and FICC QIS product development, marketing, and origination to institutional investors globally. She has created and innovated risk premia and quantitative investment solutions at the bank since the platform’s inception in 2012 and worked in collaboration with the DB Quant Research team.  

Mrs. Gibb worked at Barclays for eight years both in London and New York. In a structuring sales role, she was integral in developing the Commodities Investor Solutions business. Over her tenure at Barclays she delivered a diverse range of investment solutions such as index strategies, collateralised commodities obligations, structured products and fund solutions to institutional investors.

She started her career at Goldman Sachs as a Financial Sales Analyst in the Securities division. 

Mrs. Gibb received her M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.

Jim and his team at Macquarie were regularly ranked number one in various surveys of commodities research among equity investors for over a decade.

Prior to Macquarie, Jim worked for 10 years at CRU International, where he headed up a team specialising in Special steels (including stainless steel) and steelmaking alloys (mainly manganese, silicon, chrome, nickel and molybdenum). While at CRU, Jim also undertook major studies on metallurgical coal and iron ore. Jim’s current major specialisations are the main base metals and steel industries and their raw materials including nickel, chrome, molybdenum, iron ore and coking coal.

Before joining CRU, Jim worked as a marketing analyst at New Zealand Steel. He has also worked as an Associate Director of Metals and Mining Research at Shearson Lehman Hutton Securities. Jim has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has a strong interest in development economics.

Jonathan Price was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Teck on November 1, 2023, and has been a member of Teck’s Board of Directors since July 26, 2022.

Previously, Mr. Price was Chief Executive Officer, having been appointed to that role in September 2022. He has also held the roles of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Price joined Teck in October 2020 and brings extensive experience in the resources sector through a variety of finance, commercial and business development roles spanning Europe, Asia and Australia, with a focus on strategy, transformational change and business improvement. Prior to joining Teck, Mr. Price was employed by BHP from 2006 to 2020 where he was Chief Transformation Officer, Vice President Finance and Vice President Investor Relations working in Asia, Australia and the UK.

He has also worked in the Metals and Mining team at ABN AMRO Bank and held various production and technical roles with INCO. Mr. Price holds a Master of Engineering (Honours) in Metallurgy and Materials Science from the University of Oxford and a Master of Business Administration from Cardiff University.

Jorge Vazquez started in 1995 as an aluminum industry analyst. In 2007, founded HARBOR Aluminum and became Managing Director of Market Intelligence and Industry Consulting. Jorge is an advisor to the world’s largest aluminum upstream and downstream companies on topics related to aluminum market intelligence, trade, prices, procurement/marketing strategy, and industry competitiveness. He has become the world’s most sought-after aluminum expert for legal disputes, arbitration cases, and government hearings. Mr. Vazquez has been an advisor to the US Senate (Carl Levin and John McCain), US Department of Justice, US Department of Commerce, US Department of Defense, US International Trade Commission and the Canadian Trade Tribunal on matters related to the aluminum industry.

Mr. Vazquez is the only aluminum market expert that has ever been invited to testify on matters related to the aluminum market before the US Senate.

Kerry Deal is a director at Flack Global Metals in London, where he is building up ferrous and dry bulk trading as well as expanding Flack's growing steel and scrap trade footprint in Europe.

A frequent speaker and panellist at industry events, he has been closely involved in the steel and iron ore futures market since their inception, and has over 19 years of experience working as both a trader and a broker globally.

Michael sits within LGIM’s ETF business, focusing on the creation and ongoing support of investment strategies for LGIM’s ETFs across Equities, Fixed Income, and Commodities, as well as the strategic role for ETFs within the business.

Michael joined LGIM in 2019 with an initial focus on Product Strategy across LGIM’s Index business and incorporating a variety of LGIM’s pooled vehicles. Prior to this role, Michael worked in ETF Product Development at Invesco developing and supporting a wide range of ETFs across all asset classes.

Michael holds an MBA from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), University of London, and is a CFA Charterholder.

Natalie Scott-Gray is a Senior Metals Analyst in the Market Intelligence department of StoneX Financial Ltd.

Based in the London office, she complements the existing StoneX commodity research presence by specialising in the LME and battery material metals markets, and has built up a regular following across clients, the press and in the wider market space. Prior to StoneX, Natalie was a Senior Metals Markets Analyst in the GFMS team at Refinitv.

She specialised in precious metals activity among central banks and international financial institutions, in addition to following demand for bullion both in the paper and physical investment markets. Natalie covered precious metal fundamentals across Europe, including analysis on the automotive markets, along with the chemical and petrochemical sectors.

She was also the key analyst covering materials used in rechargeable batteries, predominately utilised in both the automotive and power grid sectors. Prior to GFMS, Natalie was an oil and gas upstream analyst. She holds a Masters Degree in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh.

Phillip is an experienced ferrous metals trader, commodity derivatives market maker and member of the LME Steel Committee.

He manages the Recycled Steel Scrap Trading Team at Anglo American, which is developing the company’s commercial activities in this space. Prior to Anglo American, Phillip traded for Stemcor, Marex, his own firms and was CEO and co-founder of Ferrometrics. He also served as the Steel Editor of Metal Bulletin.

Tom Langston is Senior Market Analyst at the International Tin Association; he joined in September 2023 and is based in London.

Tom holds a degree in Geology from the University of Bristol and before joining ITA, he worked in financial services as a business analyst and capital markets consultant across several top investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and UBS.

He is responsible for delivering all the ITA markets team’s analysis, reports, and publications. 

Viral Shah is the Managing Editor for the Low Carbon and Base Metals team in EMEA at S&P Global Commodity Insights, with a special interest in recycled commodities from ferrous scrap to the nascent black mass market.

He has nine years of experience covering a variety of ferrous and non-ferrous markets.