Rory Macdonald is Product Development Manager for Freight Investor Services (FIS), based in London. Prior to that he was Director, eMetals for Platts, based in Singapore. He started his career as an Iron Ore Analyst at The Steel Index (TSI), based in London, before moving to Shanghai as Head of Iron Ore Operations. Between TSI and Platts, he spent three years with FIS in Singapore as a commodity derivative broker.

Philip has spent most of his career with the CRU group, from which he has recently retired and is now an independent consultant. In recent years he was a Senior Managing Consultant for CRU Strategies, the consulting division of the group. He has been involved up to the highest level in strategic advice to clients, as well as projects involving due diligence for financial transactions and feasibility studies, improved product/market strategies, competitive analysis, product value in use, and infrastructure assessment for mining and metals projects. His product specialities have been steel, ferrous raw materials (iron ore, coking coal and coke, DRI/HBI, and scrap), and ferro-alloys. Prior to CRU Strategies he created the Steel Business Unit in CRU, which became the largest and most profitable part of the company's activities. He has spent his entire career working on commodity market issues. Prior to working for CRU, Philip worked for Inco (International Nickel), where he was responsible for market research in Europe, with a particular focus on stainless steel. He also has extensive experience of the base metals industry both at CRU and at the International Wrought Copper Council. He has an M.A in Natural Sciences and Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Roger Emmott is a highly regarded management consultant, business developer, innovator and advisor to the global metals and mining sector. For over more than 20 years he has advised more than 50 clients in over 50 countries. Roger has held senior positions with Steel Business Briefing, Atkins Plc in the UK and Hatch Associates of Canada. In these roles he gained in-depth experience of strategic, due diligence, market and feasibility studies including interview and research techniques, information synthesis, validation and presentation.

Jean-Luc Fiorenzoni is a founding partner of Commos Consulting Ltd a boutique coaching and consulting firm exclusively dedicated to provide innovative training solutions and advisory in the field of commodity price risk management. Through their proprietary online trading simulator HedgeTutor, Commos Consulting propose a unique and extremely practice-driven training approach. Fiorenzoni has over 20 years of experience in industrial commodities and raw materials price risk management having held various operational and management roles for leading trading, mining and industrial companies in the field of base and ferrous metals. Jean-Luc was, until recently, Managing Director of Stemcor Risk Management AG where among others he pioneered and developed the use of steel and iron ore derivatives. Stemcor is the world's largest independent steel and steel raw materials trading company. He holds a Master's Degree in Business and Finance from CERAM Graduate School of Business in Sophia Antipolis as well as a Post Graduate Degree in International Trade and Logistics from the Centre d'Etudes du Commerce Exterieur in Marseille.He is fluent in French, English and Swedish.

Stuart Hornes is a metallurgical engineer with more than 30 years of international experience in the metals industry. Stuart is Secretary General of the International Iron Metallics Association, a position he took up in January 2013. Previously Stuart was Managing Director of F.W Hempel Metals (UK), Ltd. and has also served in various management positions with Elkem companies and British Steel research and development. Stuart is married with two children and lives near Sheffield in United Kingdom.