FERROUS SEMINAR & MARKET-ON-CLOSE WORKSHOP 2019

Julien Hall

Content Director, Regional Metals
S&P Global Platts

Julien Hall leads the Asia metals team for S&P Global Platts, which includes oversight of iron ore, coking coal, steel and non-ferrous metals.

Julien has spent 10 years at S&P Global Platts in a variety of roles, including in steel, iron ore and metallurgical coal. Between 2015 and 2017, he headed the Asia agriculture team, helping to build out coverage of grains, biofuels and sugar. Before working for S&P Global Platts, he was editor of a specialized newsletter focusing on the French private equity industry.

Jeffery Lu

Managing Editor, Metallurgical Coal
S&P Global Platts

Jeffery Lu is S&P Global Platts Managing Editor, Metallurgical Coal, based in Singapore. Jeffery has been in the international commodity business for more than 10 years and has hands-on experience with building supply and demand models, analyzing trade flows as well as producing price forecasts. Before starting his career in the metals business, Jeffery spent the past decade in agriculture as research analyst with some time spent as a trader, for some of the largest commodity firms globally including Noble Group, Czarnikow Group and RCMA Group. Jeffery has a master’s degree in intercultural business communication.

Jun Kai Heng

Associate Editor, Metals – Steel Business
S&P Global Platts

Jun Kai is an Associate Editor with the S&P Global Platts Iron Ore team, being responsible for the pricing valuation of iron ore products. He graduated with a Business Management degree from Singapore Management University in 2017.

Niki Wang

Team Leader – Iron Ore
S&P Global Platts

Niki joined S&P Global Platts’s iron ore pricing team in 2017 as a senior analyst. Before that, Niki has 7 years working experience in metal industry. She has been a non-ferrous trader in large international commodity trading houses such as Trafigura and Gunvor. During which she has built good skills on market intelligence, risk management and knowledges on commodity and financial markets. Niki holds the qualification of CICPA and ACCA.

Pradeep Rajan

Senior Managing Editor, Asia Pacific Shipping & Freight
S&P Global Platts

Pradeep Rajan leads the team of editors based in Singapore who are responsible for Platts coverage of the Asia Pacific shipping markets. He was the first tanker market editor to join the team, and was closely involved in the launch of the Dry Freight Wire – Platts’ first publication covering Capesize, Panamax, Supramax, Handymax and Handysize segments. Pradeep has spoken extensively at Platts and international oil and shipping forums and with the media. Prior to joining Platts, Pradeep worked for Singapore’s national newspaper – The Straits Times – as a financial journalist at its Money Desk. He has a Masters in journalism and mass communication from India’s University of Mysore.

Jingjing Wu

Deputy Director, Market Research Dept
CISA

Jingjing has 25 years working experience in iron and steel industry. He is the Head of China Iron and Steel Association (CISA). He does market research and develops policies in steel products exports and imports, iron ore imports, and steel products derivatives. Jingjing also leads prosecutions and responses to the investigation of the WTO Trade Remedy Measures, and negotiations and studies of bilateral and multilateral economic and trade arrangements in Free Trade Zones (FTZs). He develops articles for the Antitrust Law – a component of the Competition Law. Jingjing has made production plans and deals with exports and imports of iron and steel for the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry and the State Bureau of Metallurgical Industry in China.

Pei Wang

Senior Trading Manager
CITIC Metal

Wang Pei has 10 years working experience in ferrous industry. She has been working as an iron ore trader in CITIC METAL for 7 years. During which she has built good skills on market intelligence, risk management and knowledges on commodity and financial markets

Miki Ding

Deputy General Manager — Mineral Resource Department
Shougang International

Miki Ding has been working as the Vice Director of the iron ore resources department in Shougang International. She has 13 years’ working experience on iron ore procurement and import related business.