Commodity Markets Conference 2019

Keynote speaker Professor Ehud Ronn, University of Texas at Austin, began the conference with his presentation on A Financial-Economics Approach to Forecasting Crude-Oil Spot Prices.

The morning plenary session of the first day also included Dr Richard Matear, CSIRO, on the development of a climate analysis modelling system. This project was discussed further by Vassili Kitsios, CSIRO, on the second day of the conference, where he expanded on the use of the model for decision-making on climate-exposed investments.

Speakers at the Commodity Markets Conference ranged from academics, early career researchers, industry representatives, regulators and journalists. Topics covered a diverse spectrum of commodity-related topics, ranging from commodity price behaviour, carbon bubbles, renewable energy issues, mathematical modelling and the impact of developments in China on commodities as a consequence of the belt and road project.

Over two days the 50 delegates took part in three streams of themed talks and workshops, coming together for informal interaction at the conference dinner, held at the Little Snail French restaurant in Darling Harbour on Thursday evening.

The conference was organised by committee members Lurion de Mello, Stefan Trueck, Abhay Singh and Pavel Shevchenko with most speakers also involved in the program as session chairs or discussants to ensure a dynamic approach and robust critical analysis of the papers presented.