Argus Agriculture & Feedstocks Conference

Michael Losch

Coordinator for Bioeconomy, European Commission

Glauco Bertoldo

Agricultural Attache, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Mission of Brazil to the European Union

Fernando Candia

VP Carbon Solutions, BUNGE

Kenichi Miyanagi

General Manager, Food Grain & Oilseeds Department, Mitsui & Co

Ryan Easterbrook

Head of Grains & OIlseeds, ADM Investor Services

Paolo Torelli

Head of Market Analytics and Sustainability, ENI

Tiago Manuel Proenca

Senior Grains Trader, Avere Commodities

Yuri Yambanis

Director, Camelina Company

Sara Alonso

Head of Novel Vegetable Oils, Neste

Eirik Pitkethly

VP of Regulatory Affairs Bioenergy, BP

Eirik has been Vice President, of regulatory affairs, and bioenergy at BP since 2023. His role oversees the development of the company’s approach to bioenergy regulation and advocacy.
Prior roles at BP include developing country strategies and leading BP’s approach to transport energy policy. Before joining BP Eirik was a senior civil servant with the
UK government, dealing with aviation and climate change policy and developing the programme of analysis undertaken by the UK’s Airports Commission.
As a diplomat at the UK’s Representation to the EU in Brussels, he represented the UK in the various European institutions, negotiating legislation such as Aviation
Emissions Trading and other climate-related dossiers. Many careers ago he was once a journalist.

Stephane Bernhard

Global Head of Trading, ETG Commodities

Paul Wightman

Senior Director Research and Product Development, CME Group

Paul Wightman is Director of Product Development for US firm CME’s commodity products. Paul has developed a wide range of products across the commodity markets and is heavily involved in some of the latest initiatives around renewables and alternative fuels. Prior to joining CME Group, Paul headed up the commodity sales team for French bank Natixis where he worked with a number of leading commercial clients in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and advised them on hedging and risk strategies. In a career spanning more than 20 years, Paul has worked for trading platform the Intercontinental Exchange in a product development capacity as well as for leading price reporting agencies in the commodities markets. Paul has an Economics degree from the University of Southampton and speaks French.

André Paula Santos

Head of EU Policy, Nuseed

André is an experienced Brussels lobbyist who has worked in European affairs for a decade. Having represented the EBB since 2016, he works on EU climate and energy, trade and sustainability policies. Before this, André worked for several years as a consultant and public affairs adviser for EU associations, focusing on the challenges facing the energy sector. He is a qualified lawyer who holds a law degree and a master’s degree in administrative law and procurement. Besides his native Portuguese, André speaks fluent English and Spanish, as well as some French.

Daniel Lieberman

Global Sustainability Strategy and Engagement Lead, Nuseed

Aleksandra Błazeusz

System Manager, ISCC System

Aleksandra Błazeusz is System Manager at ISCC System, focusing on the certification of sustainable fuels under the RED II (Renewable Energy Directive). With a strong background in environmental policy and a keen focus on social and ecological sustainability criteria, Aleksandra has been at the forefront of further developing sustainability requirements for the production and use of agricultural and forest biomass under ISCC certification.

Arezki Djelouadji

Partner, Greenea

Arezki joined the biofuel ecosystem six years ago. His work has encompassed projects ranging from defining a long-term growth vision to commercial due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, for multinational client companies across the petroleum and biofuels value chain. He holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering, graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO, the French Ecole Polytechnique and the University of Berkeley in California.

Claude Soude

Vice Chair of both Copa-Cogeca Bioenergy Working Party and Oilseeds/Protein Crops Working Party, Copa Cogeca

Charles Hary

Trading Manager, Agriculture, Medara Trading

Martin Clemesha

Technical Advocacy Lead, Braskem

Dr. Evgeniya Dudinova

Procurement Director Commodities/Grains, Agthia

Dr. Evgeniya Dudinova was born in the South of Russian Agriculture Farm. Her initial University education is in Economy and Management of Agri Industrial complex & Her Further PhD education in World Economics has boosted the view and main understanding of key elements of Global market environment. Nowadays after 6 years with Cargill (joined in July 2010) and 2 years with Al Ghurair Resources (Dubai), then CAFI (Dubai), she has joined in Jan 2019 Agthia Group to protect (59% of Abu Dhabi Government company) their rights as one of the biggest food, feed, and beverage company in Arab Gulf in terms of commodities procurement. In total as of today Dr. Evgeniya has more than 14 years of successful experience in Agri business worldwide what is giving Her a confidence to stay at the stage of trading main grain commodities to perform the best value of money for final consumers and grain suppliers. Strong view in terms of local markets as well as strong worldwide view allow us to build up right positions among multiple origins: US, Brazil, Argentine, Paraguayan, Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Canadian, Baltic, Australian, Indian, Tanzania, etc. Quality focus remains Her first and main key to success!

David Carpintero

Director General, ePURE

Volodymyr Korchun

Head of Trading, LNZ Trading

Angel Alvarez Alberdi

Secretary General, EWABA

Angel Alvarez Alberdi has been Secretary General of European waste-to-advanced biofuels association EWABA since its creation in 2013. EWABA is a Brussels-based trade association defending the interests of waste-based biofuel producers using feedstocks such as used cooking oil (UCO), tallow and other wastes to produce sustainable biofuels with greenhouse gas savings ranking among the highest available on the market. Angel has been working in EU government and institutional affairs in Brussels for the past decade, with a particular focus on energy matters and on EU legislative procedures. He started his career in Brussels with a stint at the European Commission’s Secretariat General, then worked for an international public affairs consultancy, the trade association European Biodiesel Board and a global law firm. A lawyer by training, Angel has an MA in European interdisciplinary studies with a major in EU governance from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

Xavier Noyon

Secretary General, European Biodiesel Board (EBB)

Brussels-based EBB is the association for companies producing biodiesel (HVO and FAME) in the EU and represents producers using all feedstocks — food/feed crops, waste, residues and other biogenic materials. Xavier has experience from previous roles at PEFC International, the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation, Logos Public Affairs and Orgalime. He holds a master’s degree in European public policy from Institut d’études politiques de Strasbourg.

Katharina Geiger

Policy Advisor Crop Production, German Farmers Association

Michael Carus

Executive Manager of RCI and Founder of nova-Institute

Carlo Hamelinck

Partner, studio Gear Up

David Fyfe

Chief Economist, Argus

David has more than 30 years’ experience of working in energy markets. Prior to joining Argus, David was most recently chief economist at commodity trading company Gunvor. Before this, he managed the oil industry and markets division of the International Energy Agency and edited its influential monthly Oil Market Report. David has a master’s degree in energy policy and economics from Imperial College London.

Fiona Poynter

VP Agriculture, Argus

Maxence Devillers

Senior Analyst, Argus

Fabricio Cardoso

Principal, Consulting, Argus

Michel Portier

, Argus

Gautier Le Molgat

SVP, Head of France, Argus