About this event
Watch our leading commentators at International Energy Week (previously IP Week) to hear forecasts and views for 2023 onwards as we transition towards a cleaner fleet and endemic Covid status for many oil regions. We will dig deeper into the impact of tensions in Ukraine, sustainability of the high oil price and expectations for post-pandemic demand. We will also hear analysis on the orderbook as owners attempt to meet IMO targets and look at options for offsetting emission costs in future.
Agenda
14:00 - Welcome: Crispin Eccleston, Head of Business Development & Sales EMEA – Baltic Exchange
14:05 - Baltic Update: Mark Jackson, CEO – Baltic Exchange
14:15 - Oil Markets Keynote – High price sustainability and demand outlook: John Kemp, Senior Market Analyst, Reuters
14:35 - Tanker Supply-Demand Balance: Dag Kilen, Head of Research – Fearnleys AS
14:55 - Tanker Market Panel: “Post Covid demand, the midterm market and commercial adaptation to lower emissions in freight”
15:30 - Offsetting Freight Price Risk using FFAs: Amir Alizadeh-Masoodian, Professor of Shipping Economics and Finance at Bayes Business School
15:40 - Closing comments
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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