About this event
Join us for an insightful journey into the world of shipping risk management and derivative products at the next in the series of global lectures brought to you by the Baltic Exchange and the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers. This event will be bringing together industry experts, financial professionals, and maritime leaders to explore the intricacies of managing risks in the shipping industry.
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Guest speaker
Nikos Nomikos Professor of Shipping Finance and Risk Management @ The Business School (formerly CASS), City UniversityG
Nikos began his career at the Baltic where he was responsible for developing shipping indices that are currently used in the market as pricing benchmarks today. His expertise is on the application of quantitative-based methods in shipping, in topics such as development of ship valuation models, designing shipping indices and market benchmarks, valuation of freight derivative contracts and big-data analytics for assessing market dynamics. He has published more than 50 papers in leading international academic journals and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers.
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Guest speaker
Brian Nixon Commercial Director @ Greenheart ManagementG
Before joining Greenheart Management, Brian was MD of Lavinia Bulk between 2013-20 and managed the Laskaridis dry bulk fleet. Between 2006-13 Brian was Executive Dir. at Morgan Stanley Commodities responsible for physical vessels, freight derivative trading and risk management of freight trading. Prior he was a dry Freight Trader in the physical shipping markets and FFA trading for Cargill.
The Baltic Exchange
The Baltic Exchange is the world's only independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts.
