4th Australasian Commodity Markets Conference

This year’s academic Keynote Speakers were Professor Dirk Baur from University of Western Australia, as well as Professor Tom Smith and Professor Vladimir Strezov from Macquarie University. Themes of the keynote presentations included the relationship between the price of gold and bitcoin (Baur), political connections and the transition to low-carbon sources in China (Smith) and the use of biomass for energy generation from a sustainability perspective (Strezov). Plenary presentations from industry included a talk on ‘The Transition of the Australian National Electricity Market’ by Sal Tringali (Head of C&I, Snowy Hydro) and on ‘Emerging Dislocations in Energy Markets’ by Daniel Hynes (Senior Commodity Strategist, ANZ).

Over two days more than 40 delegates took part in parallel streams of themed talks and workshops. Topics covered by academic speakers covered a diverse spectrum of commodity-related topics, ranging from the behaviour of commodity markets, carbon pricing, the transition of electricity markets, issues related to renewable energy, mathematical and quantitative models, risk management, and uncertainty in commodity markets.

The conference was organised by the Centre for Risk Analytics with Lurion de Mello and Stefan Trueck as conference chairs, and Rohan Best, Lin Han, John Inekwe, Marjan Nazifi, Pavel Shevchenko and Chi Truong as members of the organizing committee.