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.

Julian Kettle

Senior Vice President, Vice Chair Metals and Mining

Wood Mackenzie

Julian brings 30 years of experience in the analysis of metals and mining to his current role as Senior Vice President, Vice Chair Metals and Mining, where he is responsible for senior stakeholder engagement and relationships. He is a recognised authority on the aluminium industry across the value chain from bauxite mining through to end-use analysis. His in-depth understanding of the key factors influencing the industry and issues that stakeholders face is of critical importance in his work providing strategic advice to clients. Since joining Wood Mackenzie, he has carried out the role of Manager – Metal Market Services, Global Head of Metals Research, and Global Head of Metals and Mining Research. Julian travels extensively and regularly presents to senior industry and financial community stakeholders on our analysis across the value chain of the metals and mining space, covering aluminium, copper, lead, nickel, zinc, iron ore, steel and coal. He also supports consulting assignments and specialises in market environment assessment, expert witness, raw materials sourcing, contract pricing, portfolio optimisation and strategic advisory relating to brownfield and greenfield investments in the metals and mining space. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Julian worked in British Aerospace Commercial Aircraft Division, where he was a development engineer responsible for the development and evaluation of advanced materials and processes for aerospace applications.

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

Mikael Staffas

President and CEO

Boliden

Mikael Staffas is the President and CEO of Boliden since 2018. He has been a member of the top management group at Boliden since 2011, first as CFO and then as Head of Business Area Mines. Before joining Boliden, Mikael was the CFO of the Swedish forest products group Södra and before that he was a Partner at McKinsey & Co in Stockholm and in Moscow. Mikael holds a MSc in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleu, France.

Andrew Mitchell

Head of Nickel Research

Wood Mackenzie

Peter Schmitz

Director, Global Copper Markets Research

Wood Mackenzie

Peter leads our copper markets, helping clients in their decision making in an exciting and evolving sector. The team delivers critical insights into a commodity that underpins modern and electrified life as we know it, based on data and bespoke in-house analysis. Peter joins from a boutique consultancy providing macro and commodity insights to the resources industry. Topics covered included implications of climate change, geopolitical and trade concerns and the energy transition, across various commodities. He has experience from mine site to boardroom, having headed macro and commodity research at Anglo American, and worked at Norilsk Nickel International and BHP.

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

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.