Asia Agriculture Week from S&P Global Platts

Speakers

Ritesh Kumar
Head, Aastar Trading

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Minh Vu
Senior Manager-Trade, ADM

Minh Vu is Senior Manager-Trade for ADM Rice Inc. based in Singapore. Minh manages the rice trade for ADM Rice in Asia. Prior to ADM, Minh was Senior Manager- Grains Trade of Toepfer International Asia. Minh started his career with food trading business in Moscow, Russia in late 1990s.

Minh graduated his Bachelor of International Law from Moscow State Social University in Moscow, Russia then gained his Master Degree of Public Administration from Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus, The Netherland.

Minh likes running, playing tennis and spending times with children.

Arup Gupta
Founder and CVO, Agventures

Arup Gupta spearheads , AGVENTURES , which is established as a Vietnam and South East Asia centric firm, focusing on 3 impact areas: - Supply Chain Management and Merchanting of soft commodities - ESG and Circular Economy Projects - Tech – Agri & Nutrition AGVENTURES team is built upon decades of experience, diverse skillsets, backgrounds and perspectives needed to transform and capture the growth opportunities as industries & businesses are reimagined.

Arup have had a successful corporate career over 20+ years at International Business with emphasis on ESG & sustainability , Supply chain management of commodities, providing Strategic Planning , management and new business development that has consistently achieved results.

He is a result oriented leader with, proven expertise in International Market Development, opportunity identification, strategy definition , implementation , organizational transformation through cross sector management experience and various leadership roles.

Rami Bitar
Managing Partner, Bitar International

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Shirley Mustafa
Economist, Markets and Trade Division, Food and Agriculture Organization

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Richard Watts
Director, HR Maritime

Richard has over 20 years experience in shipping, trading, insurance, finance and legal matters relating to physical commodities.

Richard started his trading career in 2000 working for two of the leading independent rice trading companies. During this time Richard worked in various sectors of the business including contract execution, legal, insurance and shipping.

In 2008 Richard created HR Maritime, based in Geneva to provide bespoke professional services to the trading and shipping community. HR Maritime presently offers consulting, outsourcing and training to the industry. Richard works tirelessly to improve the industry through technological advances, efficiency enhancement and error reduction.

Richard is the President of the Geneva branch of The Propeller Club and a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers. Unrelated to his daily work, Richard is also the President of SOS Mediterrannee Suisse.

Ashok Agarwal
Director, KLA India

Ashok Agarwal – Director, KLA India Public Ltd has 25 years of diverse experience of entire food value chain - farming, food processing ranging from rice to frozen vegetables, corporate retail and exports. He has been part of the journey of India from being a net importer of food grains to net exporter and today contributing to 30% of global requirement of rice. He is also helping and guiding for cultivation of food-grains in Africa.

He is invited in prestigious agriculture and management universities as a guest lecture on international business and various government forums for formulation of government policies at central and state level regarding to export of rice.

He is presently member of Rice Export Promotion Council, Government of India; Food Processing Committee, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).

He did his B.Tech from IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, India with a Gold Medal.

Sebastien Camara
Broker, SCB

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Saminder Bedi
Director, Visvasa Agro, 3D Ecolutions

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Peter Bachmann
Vice President of International Trade Policy, USA Rice Federation

Peter Bachmann is based in Washington, D.C. and has served as the Vice President of International Trade Policy for USA Rice for the last two years, responsible for addressing barriers to trade and expanding rice exports for the U.S. rice industry. USA Rice is the global advocate for all segments of the U.S. rice industry dedicated to promoting and protecting the interests of rice farmers, millers, merchants, and allied businesses. Before taking on this role, Bachmann worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the Senior Advisor to the Secretary, responsible for trade and farm policy and before that, spent more than two years working on domestic farm program policy at USA Rice.

Platts Speakers

Bao Ying Ng
Global Managing Editor, S&P Global Platts

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Charlotte James
Managing Editor, Rice, S&P Global Platts

Charlotte is the Managing Editor for Rice pricing at S&P Global Platts.

She covered rice markets for the Live Rice Index (LRI) as a market reporter from 2014 and in 2017 was promoted to Managing Editor. She joined Platts in 2019 through the company's acquisition of the LRI.

Charlotte graduated from the University of Warwick with a BA in History.

Daniel Rebelo
Sugar Analyst, S&P Global Platts

Daniel is a sugar analyst at S&P Global Platts where his main areas of focus include supply and demand forecasts, tracking global trade flows and other trends in the sugar industry, with a key focus on EU and CIS markets.

Daniel has joined Kingsman – now part of S&P Global Platts – as a biofuels analyst in June 2011, where he covered for more than 7 years the European biofuels market, as well as biodiesel in Latin America. He graduated from University of Lausanne (HEC Lausanne) with a Bachelor degree in Management.

Peter Storey
Senior Editor and Engagement Lead, S&P Global Platts

Peter is Senior Editor and Engagement Lead for Rice at S&P Global Platts. He joined Platts following the acquisition of the Live Rice Index (LRI) in September 2019.

During his time at the LRI (2015 – 2019), Peter spearheaded the introduction of both the Japonica Report, which takes an in depth look at this niche sector of the market, and price assessments in Myanmar and Paraguay. He also served as the company’s Internal Audit and Compliance Officer, managing the company’s path towards IOSCO compliance.

As a part of S&P Global’s EMEA Agriculture team, he continues to engage with the global rice market on a daily basis, with a focus on forging relationships.

Peter graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BA in History and Politics and from Aberystwyth University with an MA in International Politics.

Rob Beaman
Associate Editorial Director, S&P Global Platts

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Rohan Somwanshi
Head, Agriculture & Asia Metals News, S&P Global Platts

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