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Speakers 
 Emanuel Balarie,
Senior Market Strategist,
Wisdom Financial, USA
A highly regarded advisor who has advised thousands of clients over his career, Mr. Balarie brings a wealth of knowledge to Wisdom Financial. As the firms Senior Market Strategist, Mr. Balarie often speaks at public engagements and his research is regularly published in investment newsletters. In addition, some of Mr. Balarie’s recent media appearances include CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, MSNBC, The Economist, and Money Week.
After graduating from UC Berkeley, Mr. Balarie started his career with Merrill Lynch, San Francisco. Most recently, Mr. Balarie was Vice President, Investments at Euro Pacific Capital in Newport Beach. As one of the firm's senior advisors, Mr. Balarie represented the firm at national investment conferences and managed an investment team within the company.
Currently, Mr. Balarie advises high net worth individuals and institutions on the commodity markets and managed futures investments.
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 Geoffrey Balfe,
Managing Director,
Midas Resources, Australia
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 Neil Banks,
Director of Exchange Development,
London Metal Exchange, UK
Neil Banks is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a Member of the Securities Institute. Following 14 years working for a variety of LME member metals trading firms, he joined the LME in 1989, initially as the LME’s Director of Finance/Company Secretary and later as Director of Compliance.
In 1999 he was appointed as Director of Operations with responsibility for all aspects of the management of the LME trading floor. This included price reporting and the establishment of official and closing prices as well as the enforcement of trader discipline. Neil also had responsibility for the LME’s delivery mechanisms, which includes the physical operations relating to brand registrations, warehousing and location listings and the management of the SWORD electronic warrant delivery system. More recently, he was involved in the concept, design and implementation of the successful TAPOs and NASAAC contracts as well as the extension of the LME prompt date system to 63 months for copper and aluminium. He was also responsible for conducting the recent review of the LME’s location and warehousing policy.
In January 2004 Neil was appointed as the LME’s first Director of Strategy. Since then Neil has focused on the development and implementation of new contracts, most recently leading the development of plastics futures contracts for polypropylene and linear low density polyethylene. In May 2005 Neil was appointed the LME’s Director of Exchange Development.
Neil is a member of the LME’s Executive Committee and is Chairman of the Exchange’s Plastics Committee. He has previously chaired the Warehousing, Lead/Zinc and Ring committees.
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 Fu Chi-Shan,
Director & Deputy Secretary,
Industry and Enterprise Competitiveness Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Science, China
- Director & Deputy Secretary of “Industry and Enterprise Competitiveness Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Science”
- Senior Journalist of «China Business Journal»newspaper, Circulation Officer of «China Economist»English magazine, Editor-in-chief of «CB Insight» industry magazine
- CEO of “China Business Media”, CB.com.cn
- Industry Economist of “ChinaCCM.com”
- Ph.D. of Industry Economics in “Chinese Academy of Social Science”
- M.A. of Economics Law & B.A. of Social Science in “Nation Taiwan University”
- Certificate of Business Administration in “Chinese University of Hong Kong”
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 Sean Corrigan,
Chief Investment Strategist,
Diapason Commodities Management, UK
Having studied science and engineering - including an emphasis on metallurgy and materials science while at Cambridge - Sean Corrigan began a 20-year career in financial markets as a fixed-income trader, working mainly in a proprietary function at various City institutions.
Changing direction in the 1990s, he became chief strategist for the major markets division of a well-known third-party research provider, before striking out on his own and forming Capital Insight in late 1999, just in time to warn readers of his Capita Letter of the likely consequences of the impending tech & telecom crash.
He recently joined Diapason Commodities Management as Chief Investment Strategist, having performed a similar role for Sage Capital, Zurich, managers of the Edelweiss fund, over the previous two years.
As a long-time devotee of the Austrian School, Sean has been published by, and has spoken regularly at, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and was honoured to deliver the Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture at its 2004 Scholars' Conference.
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 Kirby Daley,
Head of Sales & Capital Introductions,
Fimat Alternative Investment Solutions - Asia
As Head of Sales & Capital Introduction for Fimat Alternative Investment Solutions – Asia, Kirby Daley services hedge fund investors and managers all over the Asia-Pacific region, leveraging the resources of Fimat’s full prime brokerage group.
After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Kirby started his career as a trader for the Special Commodities Division of the Pillsbury Company in the early 1990's. He made a move to Japan in 1993, where his work experience included broking Japanese commodity futures and dealing foreign exchange, with a focus on Japanese yen crosses, before joining Fimat in 2001. At Fimat, Kirby worked initially as a Japan Strategist, but added the Hedge Fund Sales and Capital Introduction roles in late 2002, and currently handles all of these out of Fimat’s office in Hong Kong.
Kirby is featured prominently in the media for his views on the Japanese economy, markets and politics, with a four-year running, regular Monday morning weekly spot on CNBC Asia (Asia Squawk Box) and frequent appearances on the BBC, CNN and Bloomberg TV.
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 Xie Dan,
Vice General Manager,
Sinopec Gas, China
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 Wang Depei,
President,
Forecast Think Tank, China
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 Vikram Gupta,
Metals Markets Specialist,
Bloomberg L.P., India
Vikram Gupta is based in Mumbai since 2006. As part of the Asia Pacific Commodities Product Development team he works with various metal market stakeholders - corporates, commodity traders and brokers. He helps them to identify their research and trading needs and tries to fill the gaps using Bloomberg's product suite.
Vikram joined Bloomberg in 2006 as part of the sales team and has developed keen interest in the commodities space. Prior to this he has been a corporate finance analyst at McKinsey & Company's research center based in India and has also worked as a business strategy consultant with a London based Knowledge Process Outsourcing firm.
Vikram is a Post Graduate in Management from Management Development Institute, a premier b-school in India and a Bachelor in Business Administration specializing in Finance.
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 Liang Haisan,
Senior Analyst,
Haifu Futures Brokerage, China
Mr.Liang Haisan, the professional analist of Haifu Future Brokerage, has been focused on the research of stock index and engergy market. He has been the product analist of Shanghai CIFCO, and is a well known expert on local and international economic environment and the price trend of the commodity futures.
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 Garry Hawker,
Business Leader (Asia ex-Japan),
Mercer Investment Consulting, Singapore
Garry leads Mercer’s investment consulting business in the Asia ex Japan region.
Garry initially joined Mercer in New Zealand in September 1992 after having worked for seven years with another consulting firm. In New Zealand, he consulted to institutional investors on investment policy matters and the selection of investment managers. Prior to his transfer to Singapore in February 2000, Garry had been responsible for the management of Mercer’s investment consulting business in New Zealand. Since arriving in Singapore, Garry’s major clients have included the national social security funds, central banks and national reserve investment agencies of several Asian countries.
Garry is an associate member of the CFA Institute. He is also an actuary. He received his BSc. in mathematics and statistics from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
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Khoo Hock Aun,
Managing Director & CEO,
Cosmos Biofuels Group, Malaysia
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 Mei Hong Bin,
Vice President,
Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, China
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 Wang Hongyang,
CIFCO, China
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 Roland Jansen,
CEO,
Mother Earth Investments, Switzerland
Roland A..Jansen, from The Netherlands, holds a degree in Business Administration (lic.oec.HSG) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He worked in New York, London and Zurich, Switzerland, as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch and Cargill Investor Services. He has also been a Senior Vice President for the British bank Coutts & Co in Zurich.
From 1995 – 2000 Mr. Jansen was Director of Fund Management at the Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG, Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein. He was instrumental in developing the bank’s fund business from scratch to CHF 2.5 billion.
Mr. Jansen has been a 4 year Board Member of EMFA (European Managed Futures Association - former AIMA). and a founding Member of the Liechtenstein Fund Association. He served as a consultant to the Swiss Federal Banking Commission. He has been a featured speaker at asset management and alternative energy conferences in the USA, Europe and Asia. He has also lectured at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2004 Mr. Jansen organised the “First Conference on Natural Resources” in Liechtenstein, attended by 150 people from 10 countries and 3 continents. He has appeared on Swiss Television and CNBC Europe.
He is the author of : „Profits from Natural Resources“, John Wiley & Sons, New York. (1998) where he forecasted the end of the bear markets and a new upswing in commodities.
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 Lui Ji,
Honourable President,
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), China
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Zou Jian,
Chairman,
Metallurgical Mines' Association of China, China
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 Wang Jianmao,
Professor of Economics & Associate Dean, Director of the Case Development Centre,
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), China
Professor Wang joined CEIBS in February 1998 as Director of the MBA Programme. He is currently Professor of Economics and Associate Dean at CEIBS. Before studying in the USA, he was a Lecturer at Shanghai University. Professor Wang’s research is focused on Chinese economic reform and development, international technology diffusion, management education and price discrimination. Professor Wang is member of Decision Sciences Institute and served as Local Chair for the 7th International Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute in July 2003. He was a country expert for the project “China and the World: Scenarios to 2025” of the World Economic Forum and attended the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2006.
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Lv Jinshi,
Chairman,
China Commodity Market Union, China
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 Edgare Kerkwijk,
Chief Financial Officer / Head Asia,
Biox Group B.V., Netherlands
Edgare Kerkwijk, a BioX shareholder, has held previous positions as Director Institutional Sales for State Street Global Advisors and Associate Director for Rabobank's Corporate Finance Team in Southeast Asia. During this period in Southeast Asia, he gained 8 years of experience in investment projects in the palm oil industry. Edgare holds a Master in Business Economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Netherlands) and a Bachelor in Psychology from the Catholic University Brabant (Netherlands).
In his current position as Chief Financial Officer / Head of Asia, Edgare is responsible for the overall finance activities of the group and the BioX offices and activities in the Asian region.
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 Frederic Lasserre,
Head of Commodities Research,
Societe Generale, France
Dr. Frederic Lasserre is Head of Commodities Research at SOCIETE GENERALE Corporate and Investment Banking in Paris since 1997. He oversees a team of analysts covering energy, carbon emissions, precious metals, base metals and plastics.
He is a professional in oil-related issues. He has published numerous articles in financial reviews and is a regular speaker in commodity conferences.
Under his leadership, SOCIETE GENERALE was awarded the “Euronext-Thomson Financial Prize” for the best research in Europe on Energy in 2004 and again in 2005. SOCIETE GENERALE oil research has been ranked 1st among 12 banks in the 2007 Energy Risk Magazine rankings survey.
Dr. Frederic Lasserre has been a member of the Economic Analysis Council of the French Prime Minister for energy related issues in 2000 and 2001.
Frederic holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bordeaux (France) and a Master of Finance degree from the University of Birmingham (UK).
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Robin Lim,
Representative,
ADMIS, Hong Kong
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 Endre Markos,
Asia Pacific Management, Asia Pacific,
Bloomberg L.P
Endre Markos is based in Hong Kong since 2003. As part of the Asia Pacific Sales Management team in the region he focuses on emerging market trends in both developed and emerging markets. Bloomberg’s product suite is quite possibly the most comprehensive solution for the new global and highly integrated world of commodities. Helping Bloomberg users to get more insight into this is his very rewarding daily mandate.
Endre joined Bloomberg in Princeton in 1996 as a Portfolio Systems – R&D Analyst where he helped to create the Institutional Holders search database and the analytic suite for international funds. He then moved to Bloomberg Tokyo to the Business Development team in Equity Products as a Senior Asian Equity Market Specialist in 1999, where he contributed by designing numerous Asia specific market analytic screens and calculations currently running on the Bloomberg Professional system. He ran Bloomberg’s equity electronic trading team in Asia Pacific from 2004 to 2006 building the largest electronic trading network in Asia.
Endre graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1994 with a degree in Economics.
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 John Mathai,
Commodity Application Specialist,
Bloomberg L.P
John Mathai is Bloomberg's commodity application specialist for Asia and is based in Singapore. He has a Masters degree in Economics and a Diploma in Foreign trade Management from Bombay university.
He has more than nine years experience in Bloomberg and before relocating to Singapore and was responsible after Bloomberg business development in the Indian subcontinent.
Prior, to Bloomberg, John was an analyst focusing on industry and foreign trade at the centre for Monitoring Indian Economy in Mumbai.
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 Xu Mingqi,
Vice President,
Shanghai World Economic Committee, China
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 Patricia Mohr,
Vice President, Economics, Industry and Commodity Market Research,
The Scotiabank Group, Canada
Patricia Mohr is Vice-President, Economics, at Scotiabank’s Executive Offices in Toronto. Pat is
responsible for industry and commodity market research in Scotia Economics and works closely
with Scotia Capital’s Corporate and Investment Banking groups (including the Oil & Gas team),
with International Banking and with Global Risk Management. Scotiabank is Canada’s most
international bank.
Ms. Mohr developed the Scotiabank Commodity Price Index, which measures price trends for
Canadian commodities in export markets. Pat maintains a close interest in national and international economic & financial market developments.
Ms. Mohr holds an Honours B.A. Degree and a Masters Degree in Economics from
The University of British Columbia and originally comes from Vancouver.
Prior to joining Scotiabank, Ms. Mohr spent a number of years with Alberta Energy Co. Ltd. (now EnCana) in Calgary and with CP Ships and Canadian Pacific Bermuda in London, England as Corporate Economist. Pat began her career with Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa.
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John Reade,
Executive Director, Global Heads of Metals Strategy,
UBS Bank, UK
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 Qian Rong Jin,
Shanghai Future Association, China
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 Sumita Bose Roy,
General Manager, International Trade,
Bharat Petroleum, India
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Mu Runchang,
General Manager,
Beijing CIFCO, China
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 Sean Russo,
Managing Director,
Noah's Rule, Australia
Sean is one of the two principals of Noah’s Rule a specialist risk advisory firm based in Sydney, Australia.
Noah’s Rule was formed to fill what its principals see as a growing void between the strategic and operational needs of companies operating in environments where they are significantly exposed to financial and commodity markets and the hedging products and services they receive from their bankers and market counterparties.
The philosophy of Noah’s Rule is centered on the judicious use of hedging as a tool for harm minimisation and the base support for sound long term planning. As such Noah’s Rule assists companies in meeting their medium to long term corporate objectives by focusing at a strategic level, helping them to better understand their likely risks, the tools available to manage those risks and how best to manage their relationships and interactions with their counterparties.
Noah’s Rules’ customer base covers both producers and consumers across the full spectrum from start up companies needing to develop policy and strategy from the ground up to established companies seeking to examine their current practices or modify strategies relative to their current market and operating circumstances.
Prior to forming Noah’s Rule in 2004, Sean was employed by the Rothschild Group where he was the Managing Director of Treasury and a member of the Executive Committee of NM Rothschild and Sons (Australia) Limited. In over twenty years of service with the Rothschild Group Sean gained extensive experience in the international metals and financial markets working in trading, sales and management roles in Rothschild Group offices in Perth, Sydney, London and Singapore.
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 Greg Smith,
Managing Director,
Global Commodities, Australia
Greg has over 25 years' experience in the commodity industry that began in London at the International Commodities Clearing House. He returned to Australia in 1984 to study systematic investment techniques and option strategies.
From 1986 through to 1990, Greg was a commodity broker employed by Bain Refco a company that evolved into a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank in the late 1980s. He advised clients on various speculative and hedging strategies that were applied in the commodity futures and options markets using statistically based models. From 1990 he managed funds in commodity markets for US, European and Asian investors as a CTA. During this time he also managed capital for Commodities Corporation.
In 1999, Greg co-established a commodity funds management company that utilised systematic risk management strategies within a commodity index framework. December 2004 he moved on to establish his own commodity management company, Global Commodities Limited. As managing director, he continues to research and improve the index enhancement methodology utilising futures and option strategies. Global Commodities Limited manages an innovative product offering for Non-US investors, “The Enhanced Commodity Index Fund”.
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 Trevor Steel,
Managing Partner and Investment Manager,
Baker Steel Capital Managers, UK
Trevor Steel is Chief Investment Officer and a Managing Partner of Baker Steel Capital Managers LLP, an FSA regulated investment management company specialising in the natural resources sector, which manages over $600m in assets across a number of alternative and traditional mandates. Trevor was a senior portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) until 2001 when he and a senior colleague, David Baker, established Baker Steel Capital Managers.
Baker Steel manages the Genus offshore fund family comprising a long-short hedge fund, Genus Natural Resources, a long-short energy fund, Genus Energy and a long-only gold fund, Genus Dynamic Gold. David and Trevor worked for 10 years in helping build MLIM’s highly respected Natural Resources team and Trevor was specifically responsible for managing the award-winning ML World Gold Fund from its in inception in 1995 until he left MLIM.
Frequently quoted in the press and a regular speaker at conferences, Trevor graduated in Geology from the Royal School of Mines (Imperial College, London) before joining MLIM’s predecessor, Mercury Asset Management, as a graduate trainee in 1991 to work under Julian Baring. Trevor is a member of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR).
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 James Turk,
Founder and Chairman,
GoldMoney, British Channel Islands
James Turk is the founder and chairman of GoldMoney (www.goldmoney.com), which provides a convenient and economical way to buy and sell gold online using the digital gold currency for which he was awarded three United States patents. After graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in international economics, he has specialized in international banking, finance, and investments, including positions at The Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Since 1987, he has written The Freemarket Gold & Money Report (www.fgmr.com), an investment newsletter. His latest book is The Coming Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It (www.dollarcollapse.com).
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 Frank Veneroso,
Market Strategist for the Global Policy Committee,
Veneroso Associates, USA
Currently a global market strategist with Allianz Dresdner, Frank Veneroso has spent more than three decades as a top-level market economist. He has advised countless governments, as well as the World Bank, on economic policy, served as a senior partner in one of the world's largest hedge funds, and is a confidant and private advisor to many of today's most influential investors and economic leaders. In 1998, he authored the ground-breaking Gold Book Annual, detailing how years of central bank gold loans and sales had artificially depressed the gold price, and positioned the metal for a powerful rebound. Mr. Veneroso graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University.
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 Matthew Wong,
Head of Global Markets, Head of Private Investor Products, Asia,
ABN Amro, Hong Kong
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 Christopher Wyke,
Director and Product Manager, Commodities,
Schroders, UK
Christopher Wyke holds a MA (Economics & Politics) from University of Edinburgh, and is Kennedy Fellow in Economics from Harvard University. His Investment career commenced in 1981 when he joined Rothschild Asset Management. He became Head of US Marketing, New York in 1984. He moved to Bankers Trust Investment Management in 1988 as Head of Global Bonds. In 1991 he joined Paribas Asset Management, as Head of North America, and became Head of Australia in 1996. He joined Schroders in 2000 and is Product Manager for Commodities.
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 Zuo Xiaolei,
Chief Economist,
ChinaStock, China
Ms. Zuo Xiaolei served as the chief economist of ChinaStock. She gained her doctoral degree in 1992 from University of Illinois, and has been deputy professor of Asian Management College. She has deep research in Chinese economist environment, the currency policy and the exchange rate innovation.
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 Yuan Xiaowen,
CEO,
Great Wall Futures Company, China
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 Huang Xuming,
General Manager,
SGIS Songshan Co, China
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 Lin Yougu,
Information Director,
Shanghai Jinheng Future Brokerage
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 Wang Zhonghui,
President of Jingyi Futures and Chairman,
Beijing Futures Association, China
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