Professional panel session: Commodities Risk Management Trading & Hedging
April 26th, 2023 at FSJES-Souissi
Commodity prices had a super-cycle that started in the 2000s and lasted for over two decades. Since then, the landscape for commodity markets changed significantly. With the ensuing periods of volatility, many players face potential losses if they are on the wrong side of the trade. Uncertainties arising from ongoing geopolitical and commercial tensions among the world’s leading economies are expected to cause volatility in commodity prices.
This workshop looks to identify the different risks in trading and financing commodity trades, and develop strategies to manage and hedge such risk exposures so as to ensure profitability for professionals of different industries, such as manufacturing, airlines, and banking. This JEF'2023 workshop will be animated by investment bank risk managers, industrial hedging commodities professionals as well as commodity modeling consultancy experts.
Speakers
Marouane Ouardi has more than 17 years experience in Commodities trading, purchasing, Logistics and supply chain. He worked formerly for different large industrials like LVMH, Alstom, Valeo and SAFRAN. At OCP group, he was Senior Raw Materials Trading manager on raw Materials and commodities, and since 2020 he is Interim Vice President Shipping Trading & Downstream logistics. Marouane graduated in Engineering and Technology in collaboration between INSA STRASBOURG - UDS - HOCHSCHULE OFFENBOURG and holds an Executive MBA – Columbia Business School (USA) in collaboration with Africa Business School (UM6P, Morocco).
Mehdi Bouassab has more than 12 years experience in Fixed Income and Commodities Derivatives pricing and risk management. He was formerly a Senior Quantitative Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London within its Model Risk Management group. Mehdi graduated from ENSIMAG (Grenoble, France) as an engineer majoring in Applied Mathematics and Finance and holds a DEA from Université Pierre et Marie Curie & Polytechnique (Paris, France) in Mathematics and Finance.
Moderator
Adnane Moulim has acquired during 19 years rich and varied experiences in the financial sector, particularly in quantitative modeling, Advanced Analytics, investment banking, commodities, supply chain and risk Management and financial markets. He was formerly head of Quantitative Team at Natixis for commodities and portfolio Management. Adnane graduated from ENSIMAG (Grenoble, France) as an engineer majoring in Applied Mathematics and Finance and holds an Executive MBA – Columbia Business School (USA) in collaboration with Africa Business School (UM6P, Morocco).