Pierre Voutsinos

Pierre Voutsinos joined the Volvo Group Purchasing organization in 2006 as flat steel segment leader before being appointed lead flat steel buyer in the Fossil Free Raw Materials Team in 2022, to accelerate contribution to Net Zero greenhouse gas ambition by 2040. He won the Volvo Group Purchasing award 2021 in category sustainable for real and the Republik HA Purchasing Trophy 2022 in co-working category for the launch in June 2022 of the world’s first low CO2e emission steel truck.

He has previously filled several positions in purchasing organization for 12 years, such as a mechanical commodity buyer at Alstom, plastic parts commodity buyer at Alcatel-Lucent and project buyer at Valeo. Since 2014, he has been serving the Lyon 3 University by providing courses to Purchasing Master 2 Degree students. Pierre Voutsinos holds a Strategic Purchasing Management Master Degree from the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (DESMA) in Grenoble and is a French citizen.

Gregory James Falzon

Greg Falzon has worked in infrastructure for over 20 years and is Co-Head of Investments at AIP Management, a Nordic energy transition investor with EUR 7bn AUM.

Greg oversees the origination and execution of investments, with a particular focus on debt investments and industrial decarbonisation. Before joining AIP, he was the Head of European Infrastructure at BMO, and previously, an MD leading RBC’s infrastructure debt advisory team in London. He holds a M.A. in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.

Greg led the team at AIP that acted as the lead second lien investor to H2GreenSteel providingEUR300m out of the 600m facility.

Aysemin Top Gül

Aysemin Top Gül started her professional career as a Project Assistant at a research center conducting projects in the field of aviation. Then, in 2019, she started working as a Product Development Engineer at Ford Otosan in different vehicle programs. Since 2022, she has been conducting sustainable material applications such as recycled and renewable plastics, biopolymers, bio-fillers, green steel, etc., following regulatory demands, contributing to the company's sustainability goals, leading and supporting funded projects related to sustainable material applications. She holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Materials Engineering.

Gilles Mirol

Gilles Miron is the Chief Commercial Officer of Hydnum Steel. He is an experienced Manager of international sales teams in the steel industry for all flat carbon product in EMEA and NAFTA . Has a strong management sales record in term of sales numbers and improving margins but also maintaining customer satisfaction and building strong customer relationship finding their steel solutions .
Gilles has developed advanced skills in International Project Management, Marketing Management, Operations Management, International Business, and Sales Management.

Otto Gernandt

Jose Noldin

José Noldin is the CEO of GravitHy, a company launched by a world-class and international industrial consortium that aims to accelerate the decarbonization of the global steel industry by producing direct reduced iron (DRI) from low-carbon hydrogen. He oversees the development of the company, including its first project in Fos-sur-Mer (south of France), which will require 2.2 billion euros of investment and is expected to create over 3,000 direct and indirect jobs. For over 20 years, José Noldin has impacted the iron and steel industry by leading successful and innovative industrial ventures, with special focus in business impact and decarbonization.

Mark Broderick

Mark Broderick is the Global Head of Procurement at Kingspan Group. He has extensive Global Procurement experience, working for multi-national companies across different industries and has also held Senior General Management roles. Mark leads the Kingspan Group steel decarbonisation agenda as part of Kingspan’s Planet Passionate programme. In 2021 he was appointed to the H2 Green Steel investment advisory board following Kingspan’s investment.

Dr Carmen Ostwald

Dr. Carmen Ostwald studied chemistry in Bochum, Brighton and at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin. She completed her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf. Furthermore, she holds an MBA in Business Administration from ESMT in Berlin.

Since 2001, she has held various management positions at thyssenkrupp in the areas of research and development, strategy, energy and production, including as team leader of energy management and optimization and head of the casting rolling mill.

Since 2020, Dr. Carmen Ostwald has been Head of Business Development for the CO2-reduced bluemint® steel products from thyssenkrupp Steel Europe.

Marian D'Auria

Marian is the Global Head of Risk & Sustainability at Liberty Steel Group – a global steel manufacturer with an ambition to be carbon neutral by 2030. Marian was previously Managing Director at Redington and, before that, led Deloitte’s Trustee Advisory business in London.

Marian is a Fellow of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries and a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals, with a certificate in Sustainability & Climate Risk Management. She is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of USS Ltd, a c. $100bn institutional investor based in the UK.

Stephane Tondo

Stéphane TONDO, General Manager of ArcelorMittal is currently head of climate change - governmental affairs and in that function, he contributes to the decarbonization roadmap of European entities and its financing. Stéphane joined Sollac, a former company of ArcelorMittal in the automotive sales division in 1998 where he held several positions, from market development engineer, through key account manager and finally heading an automotive sales area. Since 2013, he has been Chief Marketing Officer in charge of Packaging, Oil and gas, and Electrical Steel segments within ArcelorMittal Europe Flat Products. Additionally, in March 2020, he took the role of Chief Executive Officer of ArcelorMittal Avelino & Canossa in Italy. Stéphane holds a degree as sales engineer from the Esidec business school in Metz (France).

Uwe Hadwich

After finishing my engineering studies with a Master’s Degree, I started with a procurement job in the automotive industry 30 years ago. At the beginning I started with steel components as fasteners, tubular products, forgings and others while later I became responsible for the flat steel and aluminium procurement on a global base, which is also my current responsibility. During my professional life I also gained international experience and stayed some years in Brasil, Italy and China. Currently my main topics besides the standard procurement activities is the green transition, which comes with lots of topics like the CBAM, supplier and customer targets for decarbonisation, increasing trade barriers, setting up our own plan for the decarbonisation and concluding agreements to make it happen.

Martin Pei

Martin Pei has a bachelor of science in ferrous metallurgy from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China and a doctorate in process metallurgy from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Mr. Pei started his working experience in 1994 at Danieli and since 2001 he has been with SSAB, Sweden.

Since 2007, he has served as executive vice president and CTO at SSAB. During 2010 and 2014, he also served as head of SSAB Business Area APAC. Mr. Pei is the initiator of the HYBRIT initiative, a cooperation between SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall and served as the first-term chairman of board for Hybrit Development AB. He is currently chairman of board for SWERIM—the Swedish Research Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Metals Research. Mr. Pei is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy for Engineering Sciences.

Daria Solonina

Daria is a Senior Associate in Citi Metals & Mining industry team based in London. Daria has banking experience in global metals and mining, alongside broader industrials, public sector and sovereign advisory. She has been actively involved in providing capital structuring advice and executing transactions across debt capital markets, syndicated lending, acquisition and project finance for the global steel producers.

Immavera Sardone

Immavera Sardone is Policy Officer at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) since 2022. She works in the Unit on Energy Intensive Industries and Raw Materials, where she contributes to the development of policies for the competitiveness and decarbonisation of the steel industry.

Prior to joining the Commission, Immavera worked for over 10 years in the private sector, focusing on climate and energy policies for industry. Immavera holds a Master’s Degree in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe.

Christer Lindqvist

Christer Lindqvist has been the CEO of GRANGEX since 2020, he studied mining engineering and was previously Chairman of the Board at Copperstone Resources AB and CEO of Nordic Iron Ore AB

Théophile Podvin

Théophile Podvin is a seasoned Sales Manager at Eramet, specialized in manganese alloys with a customer base in Europe and Asia. With over four years of experience at Eramet, he has also managed sales of manganese ore and pig iron. Previously, Théophile worked as an Energy & Industry Consultant at Sia Partners, leading CRM development projects. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Grenoble Ecole de Management in France, complemented by an MSc in Finance and Management from the University of Exeter in England, as part of a double degree program.

Henrik Adam

Dr. Adam is Vice President of Tata Steel, President of Eurofer and Chairman of Tata Steel Netherlands Holding. He also chairs the Steel Institute VDEh in Germany. He provides a vast experience in the steel industry, including production, sales, marketing and leadership roles outside the company i.e. at WorldAutoSteel. Dr. Adam joined Tata Steel in 2011 as Chief Commercial Officer for the Tata Steel Europe, following his tenure as CEO of ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel and various roles at ThyssenKrupp before. Born in Essen, Germany, he holds a mechanical engineering degree and specializes in automotive engineering and materials application. Dr. Adam's career began in 1991 in vehicle safety technologies, later advancing to Managing Director of a German engineering consultancy. His contributions have shaped the industry's direction, emphasizing innovation and excellence in steel manufacturing.

Vincent Chevrier

Dr. Chevrier is General Manager – Technical Sales and Marketing for Midrex Technologies Inc., and is based at the Headquarters in Charlotte, NC. His role consists in studying of long-term market trends and evolution, which includes the transition from carbon-based to fossil-free steelmaking.

He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France), a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech (USA) and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (USA).

Anna Ekdahl

Anna Ekdahl is a visionary leader in the energy sector, with a rich background in strategic business development, project management, and innovation. At Ramboll, she spearheads initiatives aiding industries through their energy transition, providing solutions that ensure security of supply, affordability, and sustainability. She drives business opportunities, leveraging advanced technologies in heat recovery, electrification and conversion projects, carbon capture and P2X.

Jacob Couture

Jacob Couture is a member of the Industry Monitoring and Analysis Unit in the Office of Trade Agreements Policy & Negotiations within International Trade Administration and the U.S. Department of Commerce. As a member of the team, Jacob monitors the global aluminum and steel industries, follows trade actions taken around the world, and assists in negotiations, all to support U.S. industry efforts to compete on a level playing field in the international marketplace.

Jacob has a keen interest in data visualization and covers the growing environmental portfolio, monitoring international developments in steel decarbonization and its growing connection to U.S. trade policy.

Jacob began his career at the Department of Commerce in 2020. He graduated from Georgetown University with a BSFS in International Political Economy.

Chris Asgill

Chris is Head of Steel, leading a global team of over 50 analysts and prices assessors providing timely, topical and insightful research on the steel industry.

He oversees a portfolio of services covering the key points along the steel value chain, including prices, supply and demand dynamics, and costs. Previously, Chris was the Analysis Lead for CRU’s global research in crude steel and ferrous metallics, and was editor of CRU's Crude Steel Market Outlook and Metallics Market Outlook. Chris joined CRU in April 2014 after having worked in the steel industry for 14 years across a range of strategy, supply chain and operational roles.

Chris has a Master of Business Administration from a leading Australian University, the Australian Graduate School of Business (AGSM) and a Bachelor of Engineering (Materials) from the University of Wollongong. Chris is based in CRU's London office. 

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Erik Van Doezum

Erik heads ING's Frankfurt based Metals, Mining & Fertilizers sector coverage team. He has over 10 years of experience in covering the metals sector for ING. In this time, he has structured, coordinated, and executed a wide range of financial solutions for clients across the industry. In addition, Erik acts as Global Steel Lead within ING. As such he is responsible for setting the banks commercial strategy towards the sector.

It was in this responsibility that he led the development of the Sustainable Steel Principles, which were launched in the fall of 2022 and for which he acts as chair of the related association. The Sustainable Steel Principles are the first climate aligned finance agreement for the steel sector. This landmark agreement comprises a methodology for banks to report the carbon intensity of their steel portfolio, as well as engagement tools to facilitate client engagement to further decarbonization in the sector.

Christophe Roux

Christophe Roux has more than 30 years' experience financing and advising natural resources production and transformation projects and has worked in Frankfurt, Singapore, Paris and London.he has led SG's Batteries, Mining and Industries team in CEMA region since 2017 and has more particularly drove the shift of the team's focus towards investments into the energy transition and supervised the execution of several large multisource advisory and arranging mandates, many of whom were to support investments in low carbon metallurgy.

Eldar Aghayev

Eldar has over 20 years of banking and finance experience across Loan and Bonds structuring and advisory. He joined BNP Paribas in 2011 and is now part of the Transition Minerals, Metals & Batteries team in the Low Carbon Transition Group based in London. He is a Managing Director in charge of developing the bank’s investment banking activities with a particular focus on steel companies having advised and structured some of the largest acquisition and greenfield project finance transactions.

Pedro Raposo

Pedro Raposo is a seasoned chemical engineer  with extensive international experience in the hydrogen sector, where he has been making significant contributions since 2008. His expertise spans the development of electrolysis technology, proof of concept, and the management of hydrogen pilot plants projects and other hydrogen-based systems across various countries. In 2021, Pedro joined AFRY to spearhead the Power-to-X and Hydrogen Business Development area.

Pedro is passionate about engaging with the entire value chain of Power-to-X and hydrogen projects, consistently promoting the advancement of know-how, competence, and the vast potential of Power-to-X technologies on a global scale.

Peter Samuelsson

Peter Samuelsson is founder and chairman of the board of FerroSilva AB.  Samuelsson has a PhD in Metallurgical Process Science, and is Docent in Production technology – steel and metals industry, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He has some 35 years of experience from both Swedish and international steel- and engineering industry. Samuelsson has been CTO & VP of Sandvik Materials Technology. SVP R&D at Outokumpu, as well as various senior business-, production- and logistics management positions.

Rutger Gyllenram

Rutger Gyllenram is a Swedish process metallurgist focusing on resource conservation and decarbonisation. He is the founder of Kobolde & Partners AB, a company working on raw material assessment and optimisation, and co-founder of FerroSilva AB, an industrial project on producing DRI from pellets with a reduction gas from gasified biomass followed by CCUS of the biogenic CO2 to produce ship fuel.

Martin Vallstrand

Currently lead the corporate business development at Vattenfall. Our main focus is to realise the vision "Fossilfree Industry". Vattenfall can support heavy industry to shift away from fossil fuels and instead use fossilfree electricity and hydrogen. Previous experience include corporate strategy development at Vattenfall, Boston Consulting Group and Ericsson.

Matthew Poole

Matthew has over 20 years of experience working in both consulting and the global steel industry.Prior to joining CRU in 2016, Matthew held a number of senior management positions within Tata Steel in Europe and its predecessor companies. These included Strategy Director for the Long Products Division and more recently Head of Portfolio Development across all Divisions. Matthew also spent five years living and working in France whilst working within the then Corus Rail business unit.

Since joining CRU as Head of Steel and Steel Raw Materials Consulting, he has led assignments across for a number of leading international companies within the steel value chain in Europe, China, the Middle East, Australia, Japan and SE Asia. In 2018, Matthew moved to Singapore to head up CRU Consulting’s APAC regional teams in Sydney, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore alongside his steel role.

Since returning to the UK at the end of 2021, Matthew works as an Associate Managing Consultant for CRU Consulting, continuing to work on and develop major client accounts throughout the steel value chain and across the globe as well as further developing CRU Consulting’s offer in this ‘space’, especially in the area of decarbonisation and related ESG matters.

Matthew has a First Class Honours degree in Engineering from Loughborough University and a post-graduate diploma in Manufacturing and Management from Cambridge University. He holds an MBA from the ENPC School of International Business, Paris. He is a Sainsbury Management Fellow.

Max Menzel

Max Menzel holds a doctorate degree in Materials Engineering from RWTH Aachen University. His career started within Research & Development, focusing on the development of new products and processing routes. After being responsible for Outokumpu’s Product Management team he is currently in a commercial role and responsible for the team of Sustainability & Technical Customer Service. Clear priority on shaping a greener future for the stainless steel industry.

Alli Devlin

Alli Devlin is the Senior Decarbonisation Advisor at ResponsibleSteel, and last year completed her PhD in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford as a John Monash Scholar. Her thesis was titled, “The New Steel Map: Reconfiguring Supply Chains Around Renewable Resources.”

Before the PhD, Alli spent over 5 years with Lendlease in the construction industry as a Site Engineer, working on significant Australian transport infrastructure projects. She completed a Bachelor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Technology, Sydney, during which she received the 2017 New Colombo Plan Fellowship to study and work in Vietnam for 14 months

Thomas Koch Blank

Thomas Koch Blank is Managing Director of the Climate-Aligned Industries program at RMI, where he leads initiatives promoting green hydrogen adoption in heavy industry. Previously, he helped build consultancy McKinsey & Company’s Sustainability and Resource Productivity practice, advising the world’s largest companies in the decarbonization of production and supply chains, and serving as a senior advisor to national governments drafting and implementing sustainability strategies. He holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Thais Terzian

Thais joined CRU in August 2015 and is the editor of CRU's Crude Steel Market Outlook and Metallics Market Outlook. Thais has over 13 years' experience in commodities research.

Prior to joining CRU, she worked at Nexa Resources, a Brazilian mining and metals producer, where she was responsible for the analysis of base metals markets. She holds a Business Administration degree from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and is based in CRU's Santiago office.

Thomas Hörnfeldt

Thomas Hörnfeldt is Vice President Sustainable Business at SSAB. He has an MBA from Uppsala University and an MSc from KTH in Stockholm. He has vast experience in general management & sales, market intelligence as well as sustainability. He has been Managing Director of Ruukki Sverige, Senior Vice President Special Steels & International Sales at Ruukki Metals Ltd, Vice President at Atlas Copco Dynapac and Vice President Corporate Marketing & Sales at steel provider Ovako. The career started at ABB, which he left as Vice President in 2004, after almost 13 years of management positions in the metals industry activities. He has unique insights into the incorporation of sustainability into the business model of the organization.

Göran Nyström

Göran Nyström is a past EVP Marketing and Technology at Ovako, now working half time as Senior Advisor. Göran is also a partner of FerroSilva AB, a start-up that for producing fossil-free sponge iron energy-efficiently.

Ovako is a leading European producer of long special steel products for the bearing, hydraulics, automotive and other engineering industries. Ovako is part of the Nippon Steel Group, a leading steel producer in the world. Göran was 24 years with Sandvik in Group VP positions and holds a Master of Science in Materials Physics.

James Campbell

James has over 25 years steel industry experience in a variety of market-focused roles. He heads CRU’s finished steel analysis team, providing thought leadership and guidance across flat products, long products and industry decarbonisation, including green steel.Prior to joining CRU, James worked for Tata Steel where he fulfilled a number of commercial roles in the UK and the Netherlands.

As well as being a member of the UK strip products commercial management team, James has worked in both strategic and operational marketing roles. Industry experience includes managing market insight, price policy, forecasting and strategy.James joined CRU in 2017 and managed CRU’s sheet steel and long products forecast services before moving to his current role.He holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Chemistry from Aston University and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham, UK.

Erik Hedborg

Erik Hedborg is the editor of CRU’s Iron Ore Market Outlook and joined CRU in 2017.

He previously worked as an analyst in the iron ore industry with special focus on the pellet market and China. Erik speaks fluent Chinese and holds a MSc from the Lulea University of Technology in Sweden and an MA from the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Paul Butterworth

Paul moved to CRU's newly-formed Sustainability team in August 2021 where he is working closely with clients and internally on carbon market and energy transition issues. Paul joined CRU in 2012 and, latterly, was responsible for CRU's analysis across the whole steel value chain, from raw materials through to finished steel, as well as CRU's Steel cost services, a comprehensive suite of cost models covering iron ore mining, coal mining, steelmaking and ferroalloys operations worldwide.

Paul has 31 years' experience in the steel industry, having worked for Tata Steel, Corus, British Steel and the International Iron and Steel Institute (now the WorldSteel Association) in a range of environmental, strategic, business development, planning and technical roles.

Paul holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, a Ph.D in Theoretical Chemistry and a BSc. Honours Chemistry degree from Manchester University. He is a Chartered Chemist and Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem MRSC). Paul is based in CRU's Singapore office.

Dr Rizwan A. Janjua

Dr. Janjua holds PhD in Material Sciences from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. He joined the steel industry in 2002 and has been involved in process technology, energy efficiency, process yield and asset reliability. He is Head of Technology at World Steel Association and is responsible for leading worldsteel’s activities in the field of technology, energy efficiency, and CO2 breakthrough.

He is secretary to the worldsteel Technology Committee (TECO), CO2 Breakthrough Programme and leads the ‘StepUp’ programme which is aimed at improvements in mill operations to efficiency levels commensurate with the steel industry’s top performers for emissions and energy intensity using existing proven installed technology and best practices. He led the flagship project “Premature Wear of Copper Staves in Blast Furnaces” investigating ways of extending campaign-life of Blast Furnaces by minimising stave wear – the outcomes are highly acclaimed and frequently cited in publications. He has represented the steel industry in technical discussions on energy and climate change at IEA, IRENA and OECD and reviewed several technical reports.

Ronne Hamerslag

Ronne Hamerslag has previously held a managerial roles within Boliden’s raw materials supply and the procurement organization. Prior to that, he has held a number of operational and business leadership roles in international operations. Ronne also has experience from several start-up companies and board positions. He also holds a M.Sc in Metallurgy and Materials Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm

Gareth Beese

Gareth has over 20 years of experience working in businesses focused on the production and processing of steel. Before joining CRU Consulting, he held several senior leadership positions within British Steel, Tata Steel Europe and its predecessor companies, including strategy development, sales and marketing and supply chain director roles.Gareth has spoken at industry events, such as Eurometal World Steel Distribution Summit, sat on various UK Steel and Eurofer product committees and worked with UK governments on public procurement guidelines for steel.Gareth has recently joined the CRU Consulting team

Jamie McLeod

Jamie Mcleod is a Senior Manager in Crowe UK’s dedicated Customs team, advising and supporting clients from a broad range of sectors on managing their cross-border trade activities. The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has become an increasing area of focus for the team, supporting UK exporters and EU importers alike with understanding their CBAM obligations and developing management processes, with a particular focus on the steel industry. The team are also actively engaged in the plans for development of UK CBAM, which is due to be implemented in 2027.

Kostiantyn Golovko

Kostiantyn joined CRU Consulting in October 2018 as an associate consultant, based in Ukraine but working as part of the London team, where he manages a diverse set of projects in steel and ferrous raw materials with a focus on market feasibility studies, long term scenario evaluation, market segmentation and product strategies.Kostiantyn specialises in the CIS region and also provides support in other commodities such as aluminium and fertilizers.   

Kostiantyn has 15 years of experience in the industry ranging from steel and steel products to iron ore and manganese ferroalloys, having worked at Metinvest and Interpipe in a range of strategic analysis, business development and marketing roles based in Ukraine and in Europe, as well as in equity research in investment banking as a metals and mining analyst. Kostiantyn earned a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland (2014). He also holds a bachelor’s degree in International Economics from Dnipro National University in Ukraine.

Paulo Carvalho

Paulo Carvalho is a green steel and iron ore market expert, helping clients navigate the commercial and value chain opportunities emerging from steel decarbonisation. He has recently supported the financing of green steel & HBI plants in Europe and the Middle East, assisted a global steelmaker’s renewables and scrap usage claims, established a raw materials buyer’s supplier due diligence framework, and designed a global miner’s ESG data & disclosure strategy. 

Matthew Watkins

Matt Watkins leads CRU's forecast work on steel sheet globally and is also the European flat steel analyst.  He has worked in the commodities industry since 2001 in a variety of analysis, marketing and consulting roles including 13 years at CRU and over 6 years at Rio Tinto. 

Matt holds a BSc in Geology from the University of Durham, and an MSc in Mineral Exploration from Imperial College, London. 

Frank Eich

Frank joined CRU Sustainability in June 2021 as an external Consultant. He has over 20 years of experience as an economist working in both the private and public sectors. He has worked in the UK, Germany and the United States. Prior to joining CRU, Frank was Senior Advisor at the Bank of England. Frank started his career at the Economist Intelligence Unit. From there he moved on to HM Treasury, the UK's finance ministry, where he worked on fiscal frameworks and helped establish the UK's assessment of fiscal sustainability. He also worked at the German Federal Finance Ministry and helped set up a thought leadership programme at Pension Corporation.

Frank joined the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department in 2011. He was involved in the IMF's Romania programme and co-led on pension reforms. Frank is interested in the intersection between the real economy and capital markets, and how green finance can help the transition to a low carbon economy. Frank holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. Find out more about CRU’s services CRU's unique services are the product of both our in-depth understanding of the markets and close contact with our customers. We want to hear from you. Get in touchHead office1st Floor, MidCity Place71 High HolbornLondonWC1V 6EAUnited KingdomT: +44 20 7903 2000LinkedInTwitter