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China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA)
BYD
Bryce Lee
Global Lead of ESG & Sustainability
Huayou Cobalt
Dr. Gangfeng Liu
VP Research & Development
Botree Recycling Technologies
Dr. Gangfeng Liu is an expert in waste power battery recycling and recycling, catalyst precious metal recovery, spodumene lithium extraction, solid waste treatment and resource recycling research, including metallurgical tailings treatment and comprehensive utilization, recovery of precious metals and rare earths, XRT and XRF sorting, and basic research on electrical crushing. He participated in research of new and efficient dry coal preparation technology with the Ministry of Science and Technology focused on large-scale direct liquefaction of coal. He has led large R&D teams focused on recycling precious metals, waste batteries, lithium slag, and preparation of high-quality lithium materials, with multi-million-dollar technology development funds. He has published multiple papers in international conferences and journals and won multiple provincial and municipal awards.
Meidy Katrin
Secretary General
Indonesian Nickel Miners Association (APNI)
Leon Farrant
CEO & Co-Founder
Green Li-ion
Leon Farrant is the CEO and co-founder of Green Li-ion, a battery recycling and remanufacturing technology provider at the forefront of the industry. With over 20 years of strategic leadership in the energy and service sectors, creating and scaling businesses across diverse regions, Leon is known for his consensus-building prowess, vision, and rigor for global business. He drives Green Li-ion's mission to make battery recycling commercially viable with scalable, on-site solutions. Leon's expertise in innovation and technology application and his active involvement in assessing the financial feasibility of recycling lithium battery circularity, propel Green Li-ion’s efforts to efficiently close the loop on recycling critical battery materials around the globe.
Dr. Alawi Swabury
CEO
Africa Battery Initiative
Dawei Li
Chief Commercial Officer
Li-Cycle
Carsten Obermann
Project Manager EU Battery Cell Projects
Gotion Global
Carsten Obermann 专注于锂离子电池领域，自 2017 年起，他在整车厂、电芯制造商及电池回收等众多岗位积累了涵盖整个电池价值链的经验。当下，他正在推进国轩高科海外拓展计划。针对欧洲市场，他尤为着重构建国轩高科的生产及回收布局。Carsten Obermann 持有亚琛工业大学电气工程和工商管理硕士学位，并在韩国延世大学和台湾科技大学攻读 MBA 课程。
Wei Xiong
Lithium Advisor
Traxys
Starting from 2002, Mr. Wei Xiong has long time experience in the lithium industry. He has held executive positions with several lithium producers including General Lithium and Eastern Lithium. Mr. Xiong is extensively engaged in the commercial activities with major miners, OEMs and cathode producers. From 2022 on Wei has worked with Traxys as a lithium advisor, and presented independent reports on lithium market.
David Wang
Associate Director
SGX
Ting Wu
Lead
The McKinsey Center for Future Mobility, China
Ting is a partner based in Shenzhen. He currently leads McKinsey Center for Future Mobility China and is also the leadeStrategy & Corporate Finance practice in Greater China Region. Ting serves global and Chinese leaders in the automotive and assembly space and advises private equity funds extensively on related investment opportunities. Ting holds a Ph.D. degree in economics with specialization in econometrics and industrial organization and a B.A. in mathematics, both from Columbia University in the City of New York.
Lu Qing
General Manager of New Energy/Materials
MySteel
Putra Adhiguna
Managing Director
Energy Shift Institute
Putra Adhiguna currently leads the Energy Shift Institute, an energy finance think tank focused on Asia's energy transition. His insights are frequently sought after by both public and private stakeholders as well as the media. He holds a bachelor's degree from ITB and master's from LSE.
Dennis Gallus
Senior Project Manager
Roland Berger
David Chen
China Chief Representative, Public Policy Manager
Nickel Institute
Tom Fairlie
Senior Sustainability Manager
Cobalt Institute
Martin Ma
China Representative
International Lithium Association (ILiA)
Martin Ma holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Henan University. He is a lithium veteran with over twenty years’ experience in the industry gained at Huanyu Power Company, Sony China Company, Boston Power Company, Galaxy Resources and Allkem. Martin has worked with lithium chemicals and with lithium-ion batteries which has given him a deep understanding of the full lithium value chain. Martin speaks Chinese and English.
Liu Wenwen
Vice President of Global Business Division
Myande Group
Liu Jia
Industry Research Department General Manager
Gotion
Liu Jia, a graduate of Fudan University with a Master’s degree, has been deeply involved in the automotive and new energy sectors for over a decade. She has held positions in market insight, industry research, and product strategy at several Fortune 500 multinational corporations. Currently, she serves as the General Manager of the Industry Research Department at Gotion High-tech, where she is responsible for market analysis and strategic insights in the upstream and downstream of lithium batteries.
Dr. Cormac O'Laoire
Co-founder
Electrios
Daniel Jimenez
Managing Partner
iLiMARKETS
Daniel has an extensive experience in the Lithium and Iodine markets, ranging from commercial to exploration. He worked 28 years at SQM, the world´s largest iodine and, until recently, lithium producer, holding the global commercial responsibility for the business for more than 10 years and prior to that 10 years of regional responsibilities in Europe and Asia. Having been deployed in the USA and Europe, and with intensive travel through Asia, he has a deep understanding of the markets of both businesses. Over 8 years, Daniel also headed SQM´s Exploration Group with focus on iodine, lithium, nitrates, copper and gold. He has been board member of several of SQM´s subsidiaries, private and publicly traded. Currently Daniel heads iLiMarkets, a Lithium and Iodine focused consulting firm. He is a board member at Galan Lithium (GLN.ASX). He is a qualified Civil Engineer and MBA.
Jingtai Lun
Managing Editor, APAC Non-Ferrous Metals
Fastmarkets
Working in the commodity sector for 17 years, Jingtai Lun’s experience encompasses project development, pricing, intelligence reporting and analysis. Joining Fastmarkets in 2022 as Managing Editor for APAC Non-Ferrous Metals, Jingtai leads the Asia pricing and editorial team on pricing and reporting of battery raw material market, as well as the base metal and minor metal markets. Prior to Fastmarkets, Jingtai worked for two other price reporting agencies on reporting and analysing the energy market. Earlier, Jingtai worked for Peabody Energy, a US-based coal producing company, on developing its coal mining projects in China and Australia.
Paul Lusty
Head of Battery Raw Materials
Karen Shi, CFA
Senior Market Development Manager – Products & Strategy, China
Dr. Luke Sweeney
Senior Battery Recycling Analyst
Luke Sweeney joined Fastmarkets after working for five years developing direct recycling techniques for end-of-life commercial EV batteries. With a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in LIB recycling from the University of Birmingham, Luke has a deep knowledge of battery technologies and recycling techniques. Luke has previously worked as an LIB recycling consultant at Benchmark Minerals and as a research associate developing solvent-free, selective metal extraction from EOL cathodes.
Carrie Shi
Senior Price Reporter
Nina Hu
Price Reporter
Nina Hu currently covers battery materials such as graphite, fluorspar and lithium as well as Asia's EV industry. Prior to joining Fastmarkets, Nina interned for Reuters and received her MA degree from Columbia University.
Sybil Pan
Editorial Team Leader
Zihao Li
Zihao Li is the Senior Price Reporter at Fastmarkets Asian TEM team. He has been working at Fastmarkets for over three years with expertise in markets like lithium, iron phosphate and cobalt.
Chandler Wu
Senior Analyst, Battery Raw Materials
Chandler is responsible for metals and mining research in Fastmarkets based in Shaighai/China. Chandler got a bachelor degree in Tongji University, CFA holder. Chandler has served for consulting companies, private equity and mining companies for over 15 years including Ganfeng Lithium, Yiran Fund etc. He has skills of S/D analysis, cost analysis, assets evaluation, pricing forecasting, financial modelling and derivatives trading.
Yanlei Chen
Research Analyst
Yanlei is a research analyst at Fastmarkets. She is responsible for different aspects of research on China and Japan’s energy storage market, including market fundamentals and trend, policy reading, cell analysis, etc.
Dylan Duan
Price Analyst
Georgi Georgiev
Analyst
Angeline Shi
Chenguang Guo
Lithium Product Manager
GFEX
Hannah Burke-Tomlinson
Senior Conference Producer
Mike Zhang
Managing Director, Global Head of Metals and Mining
DBS Bank
Mike Zhang joined DBS Bank in 2011 as General Manager of DBS Bank Shanghai Branch and Head of China Commodities Industry Team. He was appointed as Global Head, Metals & Mining of DBS Bank in 2019. Mr Zhang is a seasoned banker, he comes with over 30 years of banking experience and held numbers of senior positions in Standard Chartered Bank and BNP Paribas prior to joining DBS Bank. Mr Zhang graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with Bachelor degree major in Mechanic engineering and finished his Master Course in Macro Economy in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Catherine Zhang
Vice President
LME Business Development
Catherine Zhang is a Vice President and responsible for LME Business Development based in Hong Kong SAR. Ms. Zhang has more than 17 years of financial experience in both Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR by starting her career at China Guangfa Bank in Beijing. Since joining HKEX Group in 2013, she has been performing multiple roles in commodity sector covering sales and marketing as well as derivatives products development. Currently she manages regional clients in Greater China for the LME, with a focus on financial and physical institutions who are active in non-ferrous and EV markets. Ms. Zhang holds M.Phil from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Dr. George Q. Fang
Executive Vice Chairman
Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co.
方启学先生，工学博士，教授级高级工程师，香港证券及期货事务监察委员会签发的业务持牌人士。曾任北京矿冶研究总院矿物工程研究所所长；五矿有色金属股份有限公司技术总监兼投资部总经理，南非标银亚洲有限公司副主席、亚洲区矿业与金属投资银行业务负责人、紫金矿业集团股份有限公司执行董事、副总裁。2020年1月起，任浙江华友钴业股份有限公司董事、副董事长、高级副总裁，主要负责集团国际投融资业务与法务。
Elmer Liu
Chief Technology Officer
Mirattery
Elmer Liu is an experienced technology leader specializing in battery systems. He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Mirattery Co., Ltd. Previously, he worked in Battery System Research & Development at Saic Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation, where he contributed to the advancement of electric vehicle battery technologies.
Vicky Zhao
Senior Analyst
Vicky, based in Fastmarkets’ Beijing China office, has over 14 years’ experience in the metal and mining sector. She focuses on battery raw material industry research, specifically lithium, cobalt, nickel sulphate and other cathode materials. Vicky’s responsibilities include overall market analysis and insights, building supply/demand models and short and long-term price forecasts for electronic vehicle.
Muchtazar , M.S.
Head of Sustainability
Nickel Industries Limited
Muchtazar is a seasoned sustainability professional and has worked for several industrial enterprises since 2014. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and a Master of Environmental Science from the University of Indonesia. On top of that, he received an SDG Pioneer award in 2019 from the United Nations Global Compact, being just the second Indonesian in the award history to receive the accolade. Currently, he is working as the Head of Sustainability at Nickel Industries Limited, an Australian public company emerging as a globally significant, low-cost nickel producer.
Lu Hong
Senior Research Manager
IXM
Vice General Manager
Hunan Cloud Energy Storage Recycling New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
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