Baltic Exchange Tanker Market Insights Webinar

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  Dag Kilen Head of Research @ Fearnleys

  With over 20 years of shipping and financial market experience, Dag started at Fearnleys in 2011 as lead analyst before becoming Head of Research in 2020. Prior to Fearnleys, he was at Platou Markets as a shipping equity analyst, which followed time as a broker and shipping analyst at two other broker shops. During his period at Fearnleys, pre-Covid, he travelled 150 days a year to be as close as possible to shipping market players. Before joining shipping, Dag spent 10 years in the armed forces, with 2 years stationed in conflict zones. The latter has proved useful in better understanding unstable/turbulent oil-producing countries.

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  Amir Alizadeh-Masoodian Professor of Shipping Economics and Finance @ Bayes Business School

  Amir’s research interest includes modelling freight markets and markets for ships, derivatives and risk management in financial and commodity markets, and forecasting. He has published in several academic journals in the area of transportation, finance and economics and has visiting positions at University of Geneva and Copenhagen Business School, ESCP Europe.

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  Matthew Cox Head of Benchmark Production @ Baltic Exchange

  Before joining the Baltic, Matthew has spent a 30 year career in the maritime sector, starting off at sea in the Royal Navy then moving to various global locations, working for a variety of tanker owners specializing in crude, chemicals, high heat vessels and smaller pressurized gas carriers.

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  Hugo DeStoop CEO @ Euronav

  Hugo joined Euronav in 2004 and was appointed Deputy CFO and Head of Investor Relations, CFO and now CEO. Hugo started his career with Mustad International Group working as a Project Manager. He founded First Tuesday in America (the world's largest network for high tech entrepreneurs, VCs and companies). He then joined Davos Financial Corp. London, as an external investment manager for UBS, specialising in asset management and private equity, where he later became Vice President.

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  Panos Dimitracopoulos CEO @ Signal Maritime

  Panos leads Signal Maritime's activities across their tanker pools covering Aframax and MR sectors. Prior to Signal, he worked at Greek owning company Thenamaris for 12 years where he was Head of Chartering for the fleet’s Dry Bulk, Tankers and container vessels. Panos holds an MSC from the University of Oxford in Engineering Science.

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  John Kemp Senior Market Analyst, Commodities and Energy @ Thomson Reuters

  John leads a group of specialist energy and commodities analysts for Reuters. John's expertise lies in oil and gas, refining, energy policy, international trade, and the financial and foreign policy aspects of energy. Before joining Reuters in 2008, John worked as a senior analyst for Sempra Commodities, now part of JPMorgan.

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  Mark Jackson CEO @ The Baltic Exchange Ltd

  Mark Jackson was appointed Chief Executive of the Baltic Exchange in 2017. He has over 40 years’ shipping experience and 20 years trading FFAs. After 18 years working as a shipbroker, he joined Greek Owner A.M. Nomikos in 1998. Mark joined the board of the Baltic in 2004 and was Chairman 2009-2012.

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  Henry Curra Global Head of Research @ Braemar ACM Shipbroking

  Henry has run the business intelligence activities of ACM Shipping and, later, Braemar ACM Shipbroking since in 2004. His career in the shipping and commodity space spans 22 years, including spells as a tanker market analyst with Poten & Partners in New York, a commodity analyst and journalist with Fairplay (now IHS Markit) in London and Maritime Direct in New York, and a tanker chartering manager for a Greek shipowner. Henry has a degree in International Studies from the University of Birmingham.

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  Claire Grierson Head of Tanker Research @ SSY

  Claire is a Senior Director at Simpson Spence Young, one of the world’s largest shipbroking companies, with tanker chartering operations in Europe, Asia and the U.S. Ms Grierson heads SSY’s research of the crude and product tanker markets. Ms Grierson began her career as a reporter and has covered the shipping, oil and soft commodity markets in London and New York for companies that included Argus Media and Dow Jones.