That was an amazing event to understand the latest trend in the field of coal and coke. - JFE Steel
2024 TESTIMONIALS:
Some of 2024 attendees:
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Ng Jing Zhi joined Argus Media in 2022 and is currently a deputy editor for the Asia ferrous scrap and coal markets. Jing Zhi has over ten years of experience in market analytics and price reporting, specializing in the ferrous sector and oil markets. Found in 1970, Argus Media is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets.
Dr. Arvind is an experienced ESG, CSR & Risk Management professional with more than 3 decades of experience in Fertilizers, Petrochemicals, Steel, Cement, Shipping, Glass, FMCG, Pharma and Automobile sectors in National and Multinational environments.
Arvind currently works as a Chief Sustainability Officer with Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel. Before joining AMNS, Arvind was working as an Executive Director-ESG and Chief Risk Officer with Dalmia Bharat Group..
Besides Risk & Sustainability Arvind has also worked in the area of Operations, Business excellence, Marketing and HR.
Arvind holds a Doctorate in Climate Science and Marketing. He is also a certified Independent Director from the Institute of Directors.
Mark Bolton is the General Manager-Marketing and Logistics at the Jellinbah Group and has twenty-nine years of bulk commodity marketing and supply chain experience.
Building on his formative years in industrial minerals, mineral concentrates and refined base metals, Mark has focused the past sixteen years of his career in senior marketing and logistics roles in the Queensland metallurgical and thermal coal industries.
Passionate about marketing value maximisation through optimisation of the coal chain, Mark brings a wealth of current operational and marketing insight from the perspective of a 15 Mtpa private and independent metallurgical coal producer.
Jellinbah Group, currently the World’s 5th largest seaborne coal supplier, operates across multiple coal export chains in Queensland’s Bowen Basin and sells directly to end users in the global metallurgical coke, steel and energy markets.
Dr. Bristow has been actively involved in the steel and steelmaking raw materials industries for over 22 years. During this time, he has led numerous investigations in coal and iron ore technical and market research, minerals strategy development, and market planning for BHP’s coal business, and was Chief Analyst for BHP Billiton’s Carbon Steel Materials Group, leading the Market Intelligence Group in Singapore.
His key expertise in steel, metallurgical coal, iron ore, and manganese ore and ferroalloys, coupled with strategic vision and long term analysis on future directions in emerging markets, saw him as an early proponent of the rebirth of the global steel industry, the rise of China and of coal’s growth story, together with a strong belief in China’s emergence as a major seaborne metallurgical coal importer. He has been a strong advocate for India’s growing coal demand.
In April 2009, he formed H&W Worldwide Consulting, putting his strong market analysis and strategy skills to good use across bulk commodities, including iron ore and coal –for both coking and thermal.
As an internationally recognized expert in areas of steel and steelmaking raw materials, long term trends and scenarios, he has written and presented numerous publications at highly respected international conferences and meetings.
Ernie Thrasher has over forty (40) years’ experience in the coal industry. His coal experience began in 1974 working for a family owned mining company with operations in Maryland. He held various positions in mine operations and mine management through 1981. Prior to forming Xcoal Energy & Resources in 2003, He spent twenty-two (22) years in various global marketing positions at Primary Coal and AMCI. Xcoal is the largest exporter of U.S.. origin coal. In addition to marketing U.S. origin coal to customers throughout the world, Xcoal activities include the financing and development of mining projects and related infrastructure projects. He founded XLNG Energy & Resources in 2015, which plans to market LNG originating from natural gas reserves in the Marcellus and Utica Shale basins in the U.S., to customers in South America, Europe, and Asia. He serves on the Board of Directors of Barrick Gold Corporation, the President’s Leadership Council-Boy Scouts of America, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves as a Director on the National Committee on U.S. China Relations, and serves as a Director of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum.
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Min Li is a senior research analyst with over eighteen years of experience in the international coal mining industry. She joined Wood Mackenzie in 2016 and is currently based in Singapore with responsibility for Asia Pacific metallurgical coal and global coke market research.
Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Min worked with Peabody in business development and investment analysis for ten years.
Min also has over several years of experience in sales and marketing in FedEx.
Min Li is a CFA Level III candidate with an MBA from the University of Missouri in St. Louis.
Ted O’Brien is Managing Partner and Chief Commercial Officer of Oluma Resources. Prior to launching Oluma Resources with Nick Cron in September 2021, Ted spent five years with Xcoal, most recently as Vice President – Pacific Basin Operations, based in Singapore. Ted has extensive experience in coal marketing and logistics, and is well versed in the interplay between geopolitics, macroeconomic developments, and global coal markets.
Prior to joining Xcoal, Ted spent 10 years at Doyle Trading Consultants, LLC, now part of McCloskey by OPIS, a Dow Jones Company, culminating in his role as CEO.
Ted serves as an Independent Trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee on the Board of the Goehring & Rozenczwajg Resources Fund.
Dr. Bristow has been actively involved in the steel and steelmaking raw materials industries for over 22 years. During this time, he has led numerous investigations in coal and iron ore technical and market research, minerals strategy development, and market planning for BHP’s coal business, and was Chief Analyst for BHP Billiton’s Carbon Steel Materials Group, leading the Market Intelligence Group in Singapore.
His key expertise in steel, metallurgical coal, iron ore, and manganese ore and ferroalloys, coupled with strategic vision and long term analysis on future directions in emerging markets, saw him as an early proponent of the rebirth of the global steel industry, the rise of China and of coal’s growth story, together with a strong belief in China’s emergence as a major seaborne metallurgical coal importer. He has been a strong advocate for India’s growing coal demand.
In April 2009, he formed H&W Worldwide Consulting, putting his strong market analysis and strategy skills to good use across bulk commodities, including iron ore and coal –for both coking and thermal.
As an internationally recognized expert in areas of steel and steelmaking raw materials, long term trends and scenarios, he has written and presented numerous publications at highly respected international conferences and meetings.
Dr Yukihiro Kubota obtained his PhD from Tohoku University in 2012. He has over 20 years of cokemaking research experience in Nippon Steel Corporation. His current role in NSC is the Chief Manager, Head of Coal & Coke Research Department, Ironmaking research Laboratory. He specializes in coal blending theory, coal preparation techniques, coke quality estimation, strength, size, and reactivity. His Keynote address at ISSCI 2023 focuses on current topics of development of ironmaking and cokemaking in Japan.
Graduation from university: 1992 (business administration)
1992: start of professional career with coke plant technology company Thyssen Still Otto (which in 1999 became Thyssen Krupp EnCoke and in 2004 was integrated in the company thyssenkrupp Uhde)
1992 – 2017: development of projects for new coke plants as well as coke plant revamps with an emphasis on Latin America, but also in Europe, North America as well Asia
2017: new position “Head of Sales”
Further engagement: board member of German coke plant experts association (VDKF)
Dr. Ahmed Shah Firoz served as Chief Economist at the Economic Research Unit of the Ministry of Steel till recently, studied Economics in India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, to acquire is his Masters (MA) ,M.Phil. and Doctorate (Ph.D.) degrees. He worked on the problems of disequilibrium states of the market specifically involving consumer behavior in shortage economies of the erstwhile USSR, Hungary and Poland. He also worked on the concepts of soft budget constraints in investment decisions in both centrally planned and market economies.
Firoz is currently a member of the Expert Group in the government project Mining 2035 undertaken under the auspices of Niti Aayog, the government’s most important think tank and policy driver. He is a Member of the Governing Body of Thought Arbitrage Research Institute ( TARI), a professional research body. He is also member of the Advisory and Governing Body of Steel User Federation of India ( SUFI). He continues to advise the government on various policy and strategic matters related to the iron and steel and coal and other related sectors. He is also seen as the architect of India’s new steel policy.
