Wood Mackenzie LME Forum 2025

Gavin Thompson

Vice Chairman, Energy – Europe, Middle East & Africa

Wood Mackenzie

Patrick Barnes

Vice President, Head of Metals & Mining Consulting

Wood Mackenzie

Patrick is a practiced consultant with over 10 years of experience helping mining companies, financial institutions and governments to foster development of stable and equitable mining sectors. As director of our metals and mining consulting team, Patrick leads our consulting engagements on topics related to copper, other base metals, precious metals, steel, coal and infrastructure. He has also focused extensively on public policy development and investment attraction in projects with government clients in Latin America, North America and the Middle East. Patrick joined Wood Mackenzie in 2014 as principal in the metals and mining consulting team. Over his tenure, he has worked with such clients as major and junior mining companies, private equity firms, banks and other financial institutions, steel producers, infrastructure operators and investors, governments, and others. Patrick began his mining sector career advising senior management of Kennecott Utah Copper on investment decisions at the Bingham Canyon mine. After pursuing an MBA and helping to launch a healthcare technology startup, Patrick returned to mining and joined Rio Tinto's Copper headquarters as part of its global business analysis and strategy team based in Salt Lake City, where he led projects and analyses in strategy and valuation in Mongolia, Australia, North America and Europe.

Andrew Thomas

Head of Zinc Market Research

Wood Mackenzie

Peter Martin

Head of Economics

Wood Mackenzie

Valerie Purvis

Executive Vice President, Head of Commodities

Wood Mackenzie

Valerie Purvis leads the Chemicals, Metals and Mining, Oils, Gas and LNG divisions at Wood Mackenzie. Val’s teams provide customers with unique data and insight that drives smarter, more strategic decision-making. She builds and strengthens customer relationships, enhancing Wood Mackenzie’s reputation as a leader and trusted partner in the natural resources industry. Val joined the Chemicals division in 2016 to lead the integration of Wood Mackenzie’s acquisition of PCI – a consortium of five specialist chemicals companies. Under her leadership, the combined division has begun generating profits and shown a compounded annual growth rate of 15% over four years. Since then, Val has expanded her leadership remit to other commodity divisions of the business. Her first position with Wood Mackenzie was leading a team of Upstream energy analysts, focusing on exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico. She went on to lead multiple teams at the company in Russia and the Caspian Sea. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Val was a geophysicist in the upstream oil and gas industry. She gained experience working in numerous offshore locations, with a focus on Nigeria and the South China Sea. In addition to her primary roles, Val is the executive sponsor of the sustainability initiative at Wood Mackenzie. Val holds a BSc with Honours in Geoscience from the University of St. Andrews.

Suzanne Shaw

Head of Energy Transition & Battery Raw Materials

Wood Mackenzie

Peter Osbaldstone

Research Director, Europe Power

Wood Mackenzie

Derryn Maade

Global Head of Metals & Mining

Wood Mackenzie

Max Reid

Principal Analyst, Head of Electric Vehicle & Battery Supply Chain

Wood Mackenzie

Stéphane Bassene

Vice President, Strategic Materials

TotalEnergies

Stéphane BASSENE is a 47-year-old executive of French and Senegalese citizenship with 23 years of multicultural working experience on four continents. He is currently Vice-President, Strategic Materials at TotalEnergies in Paris, France. Previously, he held the position of Managing Director and Country Chair at TotalEnergies EP Gabon and was Vice-President of the Gabonese Employers’ Confederation (CPG), in charge of the development of the extractive sector. Prior to joining TotalEnergies, Stéphane has spent 17 years at Rio Tinto in various positions in Aluminium, Copper & Diamonds. Stéphane BASSENE is a Graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds an executive MBA from TRIUM (HEC Paris, New York University, and the London School of Economics).

Andrew Mitchell

Head of Nickel Research

Wood Mackenzie

Jimena Blanco

Chief Analyst

Verisk Maplecroft

Jimena is Verisk Maplecroft’s Chief Analyst. She frequently provides advice to multinational companies and multilateral institutions on geopolitical and country-specific political risk. Jimena has undertaken numerous field projects, including Human Rights Impact Assessments for clients across the globe. Jimena participates in diplomatic, academic and business forums, addressing issues of global, regional and country-specific concern. She is an experienced public speaker and is often invited to deliver analysis to some of the world’s largest industry shows and conferences. Jimena also makes regular contributions to the British and foreign media. Prior to working for Verisk Maplecroft, Jimena edited several publications at Latin News and wrote extensively on Latin America. She was also a contributor to the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ special dossier, The Farc Files: Ecuador, Venezuela and the Secret Archive of ‘Raúl Reyes’. Jimena studied History and Political Science at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and obtained a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London.

Daniel Carvalho

Director, Metals & Mining Consulting

Wood Mackenzie

Based in London, Daniel Carvalho serves as Wood Mackenzie’s global research director for Metals and Mining Processes, bringing over 16 years of experience as a global operations, process and technology leader in the iron and steel industry. With a solid track record in structuring new operations, managing crises, executing operational turnarounds, and defining new strategies in dynamic and uncertain environments, his career’s highlights encompass scaling up new li-ion battery factories for Northvolt in Sweden, designing and launching the global upstream R&D for Ternium in Latin America, and managing operations and process technologies for ThyssenKrupp CSA in Brazil. Prestigious industry awards recognize his commitment to innovation, excellence, and the advancement of the iron and steel industry, which include the 2021 AIST Hunt-Kelly Award and the 2020 AIST Charles H. Herty Jr. Award, among other recognitions.

Ami Shivkar

Principal Analyst – Aluminium Markets

Wood Mackenzie

Daniel P. Kravets

Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer

Freeport McMoRan

Dan P. Kravets, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, is responsible for managing corporate development and strategy, copper sales and marketing, global supply chain, and mineral exploration. Mr. Kravets has been with the company for more than twenty years in various leadership roles, including managing mergers and acquisitions and international business development. He has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources, a Juris Doctor and a Master in Studies of Environmental Law from Vermont Law School and a Master in Business Administration from the University of Arizona Eller College of Management.

Nick Pickens

Research Director, Global Mining

Wood Mackenzie

Yann Ropers

Global Head Natural Resources Finance

Deutsche Bank

Emily Olson

Chief Sustainability Officer and Corporate Affairs

Vale Base Metals

Emily Olson is Chief Sustainability and Corporate Affairs Officer of Vale Base Metals. Previously, she worked as Vice-President, Global Strategic Relations at Freeport-McMoRan, responsible for driving global strategic initiatives inclusive of governments, partners, and various external organizations. Prior to joining Freeport, Emily spent nearly 15 years with BP in both the US and London, most recently as Senior Vice President for Europe and Russia managing BP’s corporate interests across the regions. She has a degree in Political Science from Loyola University of Chicago and a Masters’ Degree in International Strategy & Diplomacy from the London School of Economics.

Emily Brugge

Senior Analyst, Copper Supply

Wood Mackenzie

Emily joined Wood Mackenzie’s Copper Markets team in 2021 and is based on London. Since then, her focus has been on copper supply. Emily contributes to the Copper Markets and Copper Concentrates services. She joined Wood Mackenzie through its acquisition of Roskill, where she also worked as an analyst on copper supply.

Lindsay Grant

Vice President, Head of M&M Markets Research

Wood Mackenzie

Lindsay is the Head of our Metals & Mining Markets Research team. She contributes to the strategic direction of the M&M business and leads a global team that delivers market research across our suite of mined commodities. Lindsay has also previously led the Metals & Mining Assets Research team, which produces detailed analysis across 16 commodities covering more than 4,000 mines, smelters, refineries and steel mills globally. Lindsay has over 15 years of experience analysing Energy and Natural Resources. She joined Wood Mackenzie in 2008 as an analyst covering UK upstream oil and gas research. Since then she has held a variety of leadership roles within the research business where she has led teams through geographical expansion, team restructuring and the development and launch of new products and processes, all while keeping focus on delivering our industry-leading research. She is a passionate advocate for inclusion, diversity and belonging and has led the WoodMac Women's Network for EMEA.

William Husband

Managing Director, Global Head of Metals and Mining, Corporate Banking

Citi

William joined Citi over 10 year ago. He now runs the Global M&M Corporate Banking team out of London after running the European business. William has 25 years of banking experience focused on Corporate Finance to Natural Resources companies across Capital Structuring Advisory, Acquisition financing, Bonds, Loans transactions in both Developed and Emerging Markets. William has been providing capital structuring advice to the worlds largest Metals and Mining companies for several decades and can offer advice on optimal capital structures as well as ESG strategies.