Mr. Naveen Jindal has many facets to his personality. He is a Member of Parliament, the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL), Chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University, a sports enthusiast and a family man.

The youngest son of Late Sh. O.P. Jindal, the steel visionary and former Minister for Power in the government of Haryana, Mr Naveen Jindal is the man behind the transformation of a moderately performing company into a world class organization. After consolidating its position as a leading player in the steel, power, mining and infrastructure sectors domestically, JSPL has now diversified into the oil & gas sector and internationally with operations in Africa, Bolivia, Oman, Australia, Mongolia, Indonesia and Georgia.

Recently, JSPL was rated the Second Highest Value Creator in the world by the Boston Consulting Group of USA. Mr Jindal has also been featured among the top ten of India Inc’s Most Powerful CEOs 2011 by a survey conducted by the Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) for Economic Times-Corporate Dossier. He has also featured in the Most Influential People’s List for the state of Haryana by India Today and has been conferred with the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2010 in the field of Energy and Infrastructure.

He is not only a successful entrepreneur but also a caring politician and an effective parliamentarian. He represents Haryana state’s Kurukshetra constituency in the Lok Sabha which has a population in excess of 2 million people. He has registered two consecutive wins by impressive margins from this constituency. He started his active participation in politics during his college days, during which he was the President of the Student Senate and recipient of the ‘Student Leader of the Year Award’ at the University of Texas, USA (UTD).

In recognition of Mr. Jindal’s exceptional distinction in the fields of entrepreneurship and public service, unqualified reputation for honesty, personal integrity and high standards of personal and professional character, the University of Texas has named its school of management in his name. It has now been christened as Naveen Jindal School of Management. The recognition has also lead to the establishment of the Naveen Jindal Institute for Indo-American Business Studies.

Mr Jindal is a management graduate from the UTD and was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2010 by the University for his contribution towards public service, being a responsible corporate citizen and guiding his company in becoming a global player.

Weeding out corruption, women’s empowerment, population stabilisation, aiming for a hunger free society, promotion of sports at all levels, advocating a clean environment and providing health and educational facilities across India top his agenda. His ideology is to incorporate best practices of business management into politics.

As issues of national pride and self-esteem have always been uppermost in his mind, Mr. Jindal single-handedly took up the cause of restoring in Indians a national pride, choosing the Tricolour as his symbol. As a result of his decade long crusade, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, in a historic judgment on January 23, 2004 held that the right to fly the National Flag freely, with respect and dignity is a Fundamental Right of every Indian Citizen.

Mr. Jindal’s next campaign was successful when in December 2009 the Home Ministry agreed to a proposal made by him to fly the flag at night where the flag is installed on a monumental / giant pole with proper illumination. Taking it forward, he campaigned and in Feb 2010 got the Rules Committee of the Indian Parliament through the Hon’ble Speaker to allow the Members of Parliament to display the National Flag as a lapel pin while seated in the House. Mr. Jindal is currently putting up monumental flags of 100 ft high across the country. More than 20 flags have been hoisted up till now.

Mr. Jindal is a national record holder in skeet shooting and an accomplished Polo player. He was also a part of the Haryana shooting team that won the Gold medal at the 54th National shooting Championship competition (Big Bore) in the civilian category held at Gurgaon in May 2011.

Mr Peter Varghese took up his position as Australian High Commissioner to India in August 2009.

Prior to his posting he was for five and half years the Director General of the Office of National Assessments (ONA) in Canberra.  This is a Secretary-level statutory office reporting directly to the Australian Prime Minister. ONA provides the Prime Minister and the National Security Committee of Cabinet with assessments of international political, strategic and economic developments affecting Australia’s national interests.  It is also responsible for coordinating and evaluating Australia’s foreign intelligence activities.

From June to December 2003 Mr Varghese worked in the Prime Minister’s personal office as the senior foreign and defence policy adviser to then Prime Minister John Howard.

Mr Varghese is a career officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade which he joined in 1979.  He has served in Vienna (1980-83), Washington (1985-88), as Minister (Political) in Tokyo (1994) and as High Commissioner to Malaysia (2000-2002).

In Canberra, Mr Varghese has held a wide range of positions, including Deputy Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs (2003) and several stints working on disarmament and arms control issues.  In 1996 and 1997 he led the drafting team which produced Australia’s first ever White Paper on foreign affairs and trade.  Mr Varghese also headed the department’s personnel branch (1991-2).  From 1998-99 he was seconded to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as head of the international division.

Mr Varghese was born in Kenya in 1956 to Kerala-born parents who went to teach in Kenya soon after they married.  He migrated to Australia as a young child.  Mr Varghese went to school in Brisbane and is a graduate and university medalist in History from the University of Queensland.  He is married to Margaret, who is on leave from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.  They have one adult son.

Mr Barry Buffier was appointed Deputy Director General in the New South Wales Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services (formerly Industry & Investment NSW), in July 2009 following a major reform of the NSW Public Sector into super-departments. He has responsibility for facilitating business investment; increasing business competitiveness; marketing the strengths of Sydney and New South Wales; supporting research, industry and innovation; advocating and developing tourism and the arts; and managing the portfolio of liquor, gaming and racing.

Barry was previously the Director General of the NSW Department of State and Regional Development from January 2008 to July 2009, and the Director General of the NSW Department of Primary Industries from 2004 to 2008.
He has an extensive track record in both the private and public sectors in industry developments, primary industries, agribusiness and finance.

Barry is a Churchill Fellow and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

He is also a member of the NSW Manufacturing Council and the NSW Innovation Council, and is on the board of the NSW Industry Capability Network, NSW State Contracts Control Board and the Small Business Development Corporation.

He began his career with the NSW Department of Agriculture after graduating with a Bachelor of Rural Science (Honours) and a Master of Economics from the University of New England. In 1991 he was appointed Deputy Director General of the NSW Department of Agriculture.

In 1993 he took up the position of National Manager, Agribusiness with Westpac Banking Corporation, and, subsequently was also appointed General Manager of Regional Banking for New South Wales.

Dr. Irani obtained a degree in M.Sc. (Geology) from Nagpur University in 1958, M.Met. in 1960 and Ph.D. in 1963 from the University of Sheffield, U.K. In 1968 he joined The Tata Iron and Steel Company Ltd. (TISCO), now Tata Steel, as Assistant to Director, Research & Development, where after he  rose to the position of Managing Director in 1992 and retired as Managing Director of Tata Steel in 2001. Recently he retired as a Director on the Board of Tata Sons.

Dr. Irani is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet (SAC-C) Government of India. He is a member of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE). He was Chairman of the Expert Committee set up by the Government to draft the new Companies Act, and was a member of the Expert Committee set up by the Government for recommending a roadmap for the Coal Sector in India.

In 1993, the University of Sheffield conferred upon him the Honorary Degree of “Doctor of Metallurgy”, and in 2004 The Banaras Hindu University (BHU) conferred on him the Degree of Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa. The Royal Academy of Engineering, London, elected Dr. Irani as a Foreign Member. Dr Irani has been decorated by several awards, which include, The Ministry of Steel and Mines Metallurgist of the Year Award in 1974, and the inaugural National Metallurgist Award in 1997 for his extraordinary achievements in the field of metallurgical industry. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 instituted by the Ministry of Steel, Government of India. He is also the recipient of the Twelfth Willy Korf Steel Vision Award instituted by The World Steel Dynamics and American Metal Market.

In 1997, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on him a honorary Knighthood (KBE), for his contributions to Indo-British Trade and Co-operation.  

Mr. Chandra Shekhar Verma is Chairman, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) since June 2010.
Mr. Verma has also taken over as the Chairman of International Coal Ventures Limited (ICVL) – a Joint Venture of five leading Public Sector Enterprises viz. SAIL, CIL, RINL, NMDC & NTPC formed with special approval of Govt. of India for acquisition of coal assets in overseas territories.

Mr. Verma has special interest in professional activities. He chairs the ‘National Committee on Steel’ of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) from 2010-11. He is a Governing Council member of the All India Management Association, Member on the Board of Governors & Society of Indian Institute of Management, Raipur, Council member of Indian Institute of Metals, etc.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Verma was Director (Finance) of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), India’s largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in the energy-related/infrastructure sector. 

Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and of the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India, Mr. Verma is a Commerce post-graduate with a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Bachelor’s degree in Law & Legislatures. 
He has received many awards during his career, including ‘Best CFO Award’ of CNBC-TV 18 in 2008-09 and ‘Top Rankers Excellence Award for Best Professional’ for the year 2008.  Recently, Mr. Verma has been awarded ‘Icon of the Year’ Award by ICWAI and ‘Trial Blazer Leader of the Year’ by World HRD Congress.

Steel Authority of India Limited – the largest steel producer in India, owns and operates eight plants – five integrated steel units and three alloy/special steel & stainless steel plants.  It also owns and operates the second largest iron ore mines network in the country, for its captive use. SAIL, which has been accorded the status of ‘Maharatna’ by the Government of India, is currently preparing for divestment of 10% of its equity in two tranches and is implementing a US $ 15 Billion modernization & expansion plan in its plants and mines.

Peter F. Marcus, Managing Partner of World Steel Dynamics Inc., is the founder of the World Steel Dynamics (WSD) information service.  He is a steel industry economist, a consultant and a security analyst.  He has worked with steel companies the world over on a wide variety of assignments over the years including steel company and facility competitive assessments, merger and acquisition strategies, strategic positioning, public offerings and road show presentations.  He also works closely with investment banking groups and institutional equity and high yield investors.   

Mr. Marcus graduated in 1960 with honors in economics from Cornell University and received an M.B.A. in investments and economics from New York University in 1965.

In early 1999, Mr. Marcus left PaineWebber after 28 years to take forward World Steel Dynamics as a separate and independent entity.  WSD has a staff of thirteen people and offices in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City. 

WSD’s trademark is breakthrough studies and action-oriented reports on the steel industry.  Among other things, it seeks to forecast how the “pricing power” of steel companies the world over will be influenced by changes in the structure of the industry. 

New products for WSD in recent years include the Global Steel Alert, Inside Track, Truth & Consequences, and the Steel Thermometer, which form our early warning system for flat and long products the world over; World Cost Curves, which estimate costs by process for producers of steel sheet, plate, wire rod and steel scrap substitutes; Global Metallics Balances, which tracks and forecasts the supply/demand balances for steelmakers’ metallics in 56 countries; Global Steel Finance, which analyzes the quarterly performance of leading international steelmakers; the Cyclone which models production cost for 16 different types of mills in three countries; Jinghai’s Juxtapositions, which looks into key industry trends in China, and Zhe Zhang Zone, which includes observations on the iron ore industry and the steel industry based on visits to iron ore mines and steel plants and discussions with those in the marketplace from WSD’s “Grassroots Investigator” in China.

Mr. Marcus is a regular contributor to Iron & Steel Technology and the Financial Times of London.  He has received much recognition over the years for his research efforts, including being selected six times as the leading steel analyst by Institutional Investor magazine in its annual “All Star” survey.

Mr Jeff Watkins is a consultant with more than 30 years of experience in the coal, utility and energy industries.  Formally Head of Coal Consulting for Wood Mackenzie, he was recently appointed Chairman of Coal.. 

Mr Jeff was President of Hill & Associates prior to their acquisition by Wood Mackenzie. Jeff began his career as an exploration geologist for AMAX Coal Company.  While there, he evaluated acquisition prospects throughout the US and South Africa. As Vice President of BXG, Inc. from 1980 to 1986, he managed the firm’s international coal supply studies and consulted on numerous domestic and international coal development and utility marketing projects.

Jeff received a BA in Geology from Wittenberg University in 1969 and an MS in Geology from Duke University in 1971.

Mr Ajay Mishra is the Sr. Vice-President and head of global coke business in Noble. He has been associated with Noble group for last 5 years. He holds a degree in Business management , Materials Management  and Business Management  IIM Kolkata .  Under his leadership, Noble has strengthened its market presence and Noble is currently the major holder of global sea-borne trade volume for metallurgical coke.

Prior to joining Noble, he worked with Tata group for about 15 years as  Chief of Coke & Coal  Biz.

Ajay dreams of taking Noble group ahead of competition and holding the status of market leader in his area of business.

Dr. Sanak Mishra  is Vice President of ArcelorMittal and  Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Greenfield Projects in India. Formerly Managing Director of the Rourkela Steel Plant and Member of the Board of Directors of the Steel Authority of India Limited.

Currently Chairperson of the International Organisation of Materials, Metals and Minerals Societies (IOMMMS). Also served as President of the Indian Institute of Metals.
 PhD degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in USA.  Awarded Alexander von Humboldt International Fellowship from Germany. Visiting Scientist at Aachen Technical University and University of Pittsburgh.

Recipient of numerous honours such as the National Metallurgist Award from the Government of India, Centenary Year Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Science, Distinguished Merit Alumni Award from the University of Illinois; Platinum Medal, JRD Tata Gold Medal, GD Birla Gold Medal ; Bharat Shiromani Award; Udyog Ratna Award, etc.

Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, All India Management Association, Institution of Engineers, Indian Institute of Metals, the Computer Society of India and the Institute of Directors.

Mr Prasun K. Mukherjee is the Managing Director of Sesa Goa Limited (SGL) since April 2006.  Mr. Mukherjee holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Calcutta University and has around 30 years of experience in finance, accounts, costing, taxation, legal and management services. Mr. Mukherjee joined SGL in April 1987 and held various positions in internal audit, corporate affairs, taxation, finance and accounts before taking up the position of Director Finance for SGL from July 2000 to March 2006. Prior to joining SGL, Mr. Mukherjee was associated with CEAT Tyres of India, Ltd. (now known as CEAT Ltd.), and Bridge and Roof Co. (India) Limited. Mr. Mukherjee is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and an associate member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

Mr. Mukherjee has been rated as one of India’s Best Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in the year 2005 by Business Today Magazine; he is one of the sharpest minds in Corporate India’s storm troopers and dreams of unfurling the National Flag in distant economies with dedicated hard work so that India may reclaim her rightful place in the powerhouse.  He has a series of first to his credit, both personally and as the guiding spirit of Sesa Goa, and has been decorated by various organizations for his clear vision and path breaking successes.

He is holding the reigns of Sesa Goa Ltd. from April 2006 till date. In fact, he is the first Indian at Sesa to lead the company at this coveted position. Besides the aforesaid, in November 2009 Businessworld declared Mr. PK Mukherjee as India’s most ‘Value‘able CEO and was rated as No. 1 in India. In July, 2010 ‘Star Ananda’ awarded him with the award ‘Sera Bengali’ in the business arena.

Mr. Mukherjee is associated with the following associations:

1. President of Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI),
2. Co Chairman of Mining Committee Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry(FICCI)
3. Managing Committee Member of Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI)
4. Member of Mentoring Committee of Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI)
5. Member of Managing Committee of Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI)
6. Chairperson of Mineral Foundation of Goa.
7. Executive Committee Member of Goa Mineral Ore Exporters’ Association (GMOEA)

Besides the aforesaid, he has attended various seminars and conferences on Finance, Mining, IT, etc not only as an attendee but as speaker both in India and abroad.

Mr.Mukherjee has got very special interest in classical music and soccer.

Mr Dilip Oommen is a B. Tech (Hons) in Metallurgy from IIT, Kharagpur and holds various certifications in Management. Mr Oommen started his career with  Mukand Iron and Steel in the Melt Shop.

He joined Essar Steel as the COO. During this period, Essar Steel showed a marked increase of Production, Cost reduction and quality improvement.

He has been CEO Essar Steel, India region since March 2008 and is also a member of Board of Directors of Essar Steel Ltd.

Mr. R. K. Goyal, an Engineering Graduate and M.B.A., is currently working as Managing Director of Kalyani Steels Ltd., Pune and is a Director on the Boards of Kalyani Carpenter Special Steels Ltd. and Kalyani Investment Co. Ltd., Pune.

Mr. Goyal is responsible for overall management of Kalyani Steels Ltd., Kalyani Carpenter Special Steels Ltd. and Kalyani Gerdau Steels Ltd. new 3M MTs Steel plant and Power plant project and mining business.

Before joining Kalyani Steels Ltd., Mr. Goyal was working as Director -Strategy and Corporate Affairs with JSL Stainless Ltd.  Mr. Goyal was responsible for overall Growth Strategy Formulation, Mining Business, Strategic Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions, Indirect Taxation and is monitoring performance of all companies  in the Group.

During 30 years of his professional career, he is associated with Steel industry, particularly stainless steel, for more than 25 years.  He has extensively traveled to over 60 countries and presented several papers in Global Conferences & Seminars.

Mr. Shuman Mukherjee, took charge as Director (Commercial) on the Board of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) with effect from December 23, 2010.

Mr Mukherjee had his primary education at Manchester in the United Kingdom.  Subsequently, after moving to India, he was educated at a premier school at Bhopal in State of Madhya Pradesh viz. Campion School and at the most reputed public school at Delhi viz. Modern School.

Mr. Mukherjee is an Economics (Hons) graduate from St. Stephens College, Delhi and a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.  He holds a Diploma in Management from the All India Management Association (AIMA).  He has also done a Certificate Course in Export Management from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT).

Mr. Mukherjee has over 34 years experience in the marketing of Iron & Steel Products.  Prior to the current position, Mr. Mukherjee was Executive Director (Marketing – Flat Products) at SAIL’s Marketing headquarters at Kolkata.  In his various assignments over the years, he has worked as SAIL’s Branch Manager at Delhi and Faridabad and SAIL’s Regional Business Manager of Northern and Eastern Regions.  Mr. Mukherjee has also served in the capacity of SAIL’s Regional Manager (Flat Products) in Northern as well as in Western Regions. Later, he managed SAIL’s exports as General Manager, International Trade Division.  He was also a member of the Core Group that chalked out SAIL’s Corporate Plan 2012.

Mr Mukherjee was a team leader of the Group from SAIL which attended a Training Programme conducted by British Steel (now Corus) at Ashorne Hill in the UK and at the Llanwern Works of British Steel.  He has also participated in the Advanced Management Programme for General Managers organised by the Management Development Institute (MDI), one of the leading Management Institutes in India, in the course of which he was trained at various foreign business schools in Europe viz. ESCP-EAP, European School of Management, Paris, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy; European Business School, Oestrich – Winkel, Germany and HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Leipzig, Germany.

Mr. Shuman Mukherjee participated in the “Indian Steel- 2011; Steel and Raw Material Forum” organized by the Metal junction in November, 2011 in Mumbai wherein the challenges before the steel industry, the price trends of raw materials, major growth segments etc. were deliberated upon. He has represented India at the Organisation of Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) Steel Committee Conference at Paris on several occasions, as a member of the Indian Delegation on behalf of the Ministry of Steel and SAIL.  Very recently he was nominated by the Ministry of Steel to attend OECD Workshop on Steel Making Raw Material, OECD Steel Committee Meeting and India-EU Steel Contact Group meeting held on 5-6th December, 2011 at OECD Headquarter, Paris.

Mr N. K. Nanda, presently Director (Technical) in National Mineral Development Corporation Limited (NMDC), a Government of India undertaking, under the Ministry of Steel, was born in the year 1960. After having early education in Orissa, he graduated - B.Tech. (Mining) - from prestigious Indian School of Mining, Dhanbad in the year 1982 and further he post-graduated - M-Tech. -  from ISM, Dhanbad during 2000. He submitted a thesis on “Reliability of Mine Operation”.

He has been posted as Project Manager, Donimalai during 2006 and has been promoted as General Manager during 2007.  During this period he implemented new technology like high rate thickener and Distribution Control system (DCS) in process plant.

He registered himself for Doctoral study at Gulbarga University in mineral processing. Under his guidance NMDC is now going ahead to set up a 0.3 MTPA Beneficiation Plant for BHJ (Bandend Heamatite Jasper), so far treated as a waste rock in iron ore mining. This may open up a new space for low grade mineral utilization.

After enriching experience to his credit, in various capacities, in various projects of NMDC, he has been elevated on the Board of NMDC as Director (Technical) in 2008.

Presently he is working as Director (Technical), NMDC, looking after, Research & Development, Investigation, Engineering, New Project Execution, apart from Joint Ventures, mergers and acquisitions.

Mr V R Sharma is Dy. M.D. & CEO - Steel Business. He has done his BE (Mechanical) and MBA (Marketing) from UK.   He has rich experience of 29  years globally in the Steel industry with various organizations.

Mr.V.R.Sharma started his career with Arrasate Steel Spain.  Subsequently he worked with Steel majors like Socialist Steel Ltd Libya, Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of Libya,  Lloyd Steel Group, India,   ISPAT Industries Ltd.,  Bhushan  Steel Ltd.,  and Bhushan Power & Steel Limited.

Mr V R Sharma has played a key role in managing large Greenfield Projects and expansions and driving the growth of the organizations  by  creating large business opportunities leading to exponential growth in marketing and operations in global scenario. Mr V R Sharma is also the Chairman of India Lead Zinc Development Association, New Delhi.

Mr. Jayant Acharya has a long drawn experience with the steel industry extending beyond two decades.  Starting his career with Steel Authority of India Limited as a Management Trainee, Mr Acharya has risen in his career graph to the Director on Board of JSW Steel Limited, India’s fastest growing steel company and ranked amongst Top-10 Worldclass Steelmakers by World Steel Dynamics for the past couple of years.

Mr Acharya has been with the JSW group throughout its journey from 0.8-million tonnes during the late nineties to 14.3 Million Tonnes today.  Mr Acharya heads the Commercial and Marketing portfolio at JSW Steel.  He has executed structured start-up operations, Market Development and a host of other strategic initiatives.  Mr Acharya believes in developing a strong and sustainable customer relationship.

Mr Acharya is also on the board of JSW Severfield Structures Ltd and JSW SMD Ltd., which are in the business of High-Rise Structural Steel Engineering.

Mr D R Dogra is the Managing Director & CEO of CARE Ratings, a leading credit rating agency in India. Mr. Dogra has over 32 years of rich and varied experience in commercial banking and extensive knowledge about the functioning of the corporate sector. Mr. Dogra holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Management (Finance) and is a gold medalist in his Post Graduate Degree in Agriculture from Himachal Pradesh University. He is also a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. Prior to joining CARE, Mr. Dogra held several senior positions in a public sector bank for over 15 years.

Mr Steven Randall heads The Steel Index (TSI) – a specialist price information service providing verifiable steel, scrap and iron ore reference prices based on actual transactions. TSI was launched in April 2006 and is now owned by Platts, part of the McGraw‐Hill Companies.

Today TSI’s prices are used by industrial and financial companies worldwide; providing the basis for index‐linked physical pricing arrangements and for the settlement of futures and derivatives contracts on commodities exchanges in Asia, Europe, North America and India.

Prior to founding TSI, Steven was the Director of Strategy at Corus, the major European steel producer taken over by Tata Steel in 2007. He was responsible for the Group’s corporate strategy and planning activities there for over four years. It was during this period that he identified the need for independent verifiable steel price information and the valuable role this could play in offering the steel industry price risk management tools.

Mr Steven started his career as a strategy consultant, working for over eleven years with Hatch Beddows (1988‐2000). There he specialised in steel industry strategy projects for clients in both Europe and North America. Following this, he was the UK General Manager of Steelscreen, an
independent metals e‐marketplace, before joining Corus in 2001.

Steven holds an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University.

Mr John Kearsey is the Head of Research at Simpson, Spence & Young (SSY), one of the world's largest ship broking organisations. SSY has offices in 17 locations around the world including Mumbai, where SSY India opened in July 2007 to focus on tanker and dry bulk chartering. Mr Kearsey co-ordinates SSY’s analysis and forecasting of the shipping markets, which specialises in cargo trade flows. Mr Kearsey began his career in the shipping industry in 1983 with Lloyd's Shipping Economist. He has spoken at a number of steel industry events in Europe and Asia.

Mr John Johnson joined CRU in September 1989. Between 1989 and 1994 he was a consultant in non-ferrous metals. & In 1994 he became Research Manager of the Steel team, and was promoted to Steel Group Business Unit Manager in 2003, with responsibility for all regular products covering steel and steelmaking raw materials. In 2000, Mr Johnson was responsible for developing the CRU steel price index (www.CRUspi.com), which has now become a leading global benchmark for steel pricing. In 2004, after spending ten years researching the steel industry, Mr Johnson was appointed as CRU's Manager in China, responsible for CRU Group affairs. He has been located in Beijing since April 2004, where he has opened and expanded CRU’s China Representative office. Mr Johnson has now gained extensive experience in China, where he has continued to build relations with all leading Chinese metals companies, industry associations and government departments, as well as managing and contributing to local research and consultancy projects in ferrous and non ferrous metals. He regularly presents on the Chinese economy.  He is learning Mandarin and currently manages a growing Beijing office of 21 full-time Chinese nationals and expats.

Mr Colin Hamilton is a London-based Commodities Analyst for Macquarie, where he holds lead responsibility for fundamental coverage of steel, iron ore and metallurgical coal.  Having joined in November 2009, Colin works within a research team which services the equity, LME trading and corporate advisory divisions of the bank with steel, coal, metals and minerals research and market intelligence.

Prior to joining Macquarie, Colin spent 3 years at CRU International Ltd in London where he headed up research in steel and steelmaking raw material costs.  Previously, Colin worked as a quality control manager at Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes.

Mr Colin holds a Masters degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Mr Peter Linford is the Senior Trade Commissioner, Australian High Commission, in India. As Senior Trade Commissioner of South Asia region, Peter is responsible for management of Austrade offices in 11 locations over 9 countries.

Ms Sue-Ern Tan is the Deputy CEO for the NSW Minerals Council, which is the peak industry association for the state’s $17 Billion minerals industry.

Sue-Ern is a former senior policy adviser to a NSW Minister for Minerals and Energy. Sue-Ern is legally qualified and practiced in employment law for a number of years before her change of career took her into policy development. Sue-Ern graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and with a First Class Honours in a Bachelor of Commerce.

Sue-Ern is an alternate Director of the Australian Coal Association and the Australian Coal Research Limited, which manages the Australian Coal Industry’s Research Program (ACARP). She is also a member of the NSW Coal Innovation Council and sits on a number of Government committees including the National Mine Safety Framework Steering Committee and the NSW Government Strategic Regional Land Use Reference Group.

Ms Kylie Bell is Austrade’s Investment Commissioner for South Asia, based in Mumbai.

Kylie is responsible for promoting and facilitating productive investment into Australia from India and the wider South Asian region. Kylie and her team work with leading Indian businesses across all industries, with a focus on mining and resources, renewable, infrastructure, and ICT.

Prior to the role India, Kylie was based in Sydney, where she managed Austrade’s Client Services Group. Kylie has also held a number of positions across Austrade’s international network, including a four-year assignment as Trade Commissioner Madrid, where she managed Austrade’s offices in Spain and Portugal. Kylie also has 5 years experience in South East Asia, where she undertook postings as Trade Commissioner for Austrade in both Manila and in Kuala Lumpur.

Mr Francis Browne joined Platts, the specialist commodity news and price publisher in 2006 to head their steel initiative as Global Managing Editor of the newly created newsletter Steel Markets Daily. He is now Director of Market Reporting for the metals group, with responsibility for price assessment methodology and market reporting across Platts growing metals portfolio.

Platts has been developing price assessments for the steel value chain since 2006 and introduced the IODEX assessment for iron ore fines in 2008, which has been adopted by miners and steel makers as the basis for pricing long term iron ore contracts globally.

Mr Jim Nicholson joined Argus in March 2004, having spent most of his career specialising in publishing and energy market price discovery. He is responsible for all Asian business development and editorial activity at Argus,
based out of the company’s Singapore office. He previously worked in the London headquarters as Global Business Development Manager, responsible for developing Argus’ coverage and use in contracts particularly for coal, natural gas, electricity and emissions markets. In that role he has been responsible for the launch of Argus Global LNG, Argus Biomass and Argus Freight amongst other services, as well as developing pre-existing products.

Before Argus, he held a variety of senior positions within Platts, the energy information business of McGraw Hill Inc, and has worked in Singapore and Washington DC. Jim began his career as a magazine journalist with Reed
Business Publishing and holds an MA from Oxford University in Modern Languages.

Mr Binod K Singh has joined Vale in late 2010 and is responsible to look after Vale’s business interests in India, middle-east and South Asian market.

Prior to joining Vale, Mr Singh has worked for Tata Steel Group for 21 years out of which last 5 years had been as its Representative in Australia and New Zealand as Director of Tata Steel Resources Australia Pty Ltd (TSR).

Mr Rob White has a B.Sc. in Chemistry and a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the United Kingdom. He is professionally registered in the UK. He also holds a post -graduate Business Diploma in Marketing Management from the University of South Africa.

He has over 35 years experience in various aspects of corrosion protection. He has worked in England (in the water industry and for the Royal Navy), the Middle East (in cathodic protection and corrosion monitoring) and in South Africa (in the mining, stainless steel, galvanizing and tube industry where he held the position of Marketing Director for Robor Tube). He is the past Executive Director of the Southern Africa Hot Dip Galvanizing Association. He currently manages The International Zinc Association’s office in South Africa, manages various IZA zinc industry development projects world-wide and has managed the corrosion protection schemes for GTL plants globally.

Rob is a past president of the Corrosion Institute of Southern Africa and one of only 9 Gold Medal recipients in its 40 year history. In 1999 he was Chairman of the 14th International Corrosion Congress. In October 2011 he was given Honorary Life membership of the Institute. He has sponsored workshops, published many papers and contributed chapters to books on corrosion protection.

Mr Vaseem Karbhari is TSI’s leading steel Analyst based in London.

TSI is a specialist price information service providing verifiable steel, scrap and iron ore reference prices based on actual transactions.  TSI was launched in April 2006 and is now owned by Platts, part of the McGraw-Hill Companies.

Today TSI’s prices are used by industrial and financial companies worldwide; providing the basis for index-linked physical pricing arrangements and for the settlement of futures and derivatives contracts on commodities exchanges in Asia, Europe, North America and India.

Vaseem is responsible for the compilation of TSI’s steel indices worldwide, working closely with physical and financial communities in providing real-time price information and price risk management solutions for the ferrous market.  He has driven the development of TSI’s daily steel indices in Europe and been instrumental in the growth of the associated swaps market for Hot Rolled Coil, for which clearing is now available on LCH.Clearnet.  More recently he has focused on the development of steel indices for the Indian domestic market, in response to growing local and international customer appetite for rigorous tradable indices for the region.

Prior to joining TSI Vaseem worked in the telecommunications sector.  He holds a BSc in Business and Management from Queen Mary University in the United Kingdom.

Professor Hodgson is the Director of the Institute for Technology Research and Innovation at Deakin University, Australia.  Prior to joining Deakin in 1996 he spent 16 yrs at the BHP Research Laboratories.  His research relates to the thermomechanical processing of steels, new processes such as strip casting. sheet metal forming, advanced high strength steels for the automotive industry, nanostructured metals and surface engineering.  He has over 600 research publications and has presented numerous keynote lectures at international conferences related to the physical metallurgy and application of steels.

In June 2009 Professor Hodgson was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship to undertake research related to sustainable metal production processes and products.

Sir Ganesan Natarajan studied Mechanical Engineeriing from the Prestigious Madras University. He has undergone extensive training and exposure in architecture and landscaping. Has done thesis on research and study for “Producing Hi-Quality Metallurgical Coke and selection aspects of Coals and its preparation”.

Having served Shaw Wallace as Production Head, he moved on in September 2007 to Ennore Coke Limited, to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer. In a short span of one and half years in the Company under his aegis became a Brand in India as well as in the International Steel & Coke market.

Mr.Natarajan has presented many papers in a cross section of seminars and conferences on Steel/coal/Iron Ores. ICC’s India Invest Summit at Singapore and Eurocoke 2011 at Vienna and Chairman of 3rd India Coal Summit at New Delhi. Also presented paper at Commonwealth Business Forum at Perth this October.

Mr Anjani K Agrawal is the Partner and currently is the Sector Leader for Mining & Metals sector of Ernst & Young in India. He established EY's Business Risk Advisory Services in India. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor (USA).

Mr Agrawal is the Global Client Service Partner for some of the Indian Multinational conglomerates particularly in the metals & mining sector.

He has worked extensively on engagements in USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, CIS as well as South – East Asia in addition to Indian sub-continent. His clients include several Fortune 500 companies across sectors.

Mr. Arunabh Das Sharma is working as the Executive President Advisor Strategic Initiatives with the Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd.  He is  a part of the top leadership team at BCCL, responsible for the front end of the business i.e revenue and related functions and heads a team of over 2000 people that includes media sales, marketing activations, integrated marketing services, art and edit, billing and recovery, scheduling operations, business intelligence unit and IT. He is currently handling over a $1B direct revenue responsibility.

Having worked in Media, Consumer Packaged Goods and Consumer Durables space with some experience in technology startups his expertise is in Brand, Product and Sales Management, Business Strategy and handling large businesses across a range of markets, Turnaround and change management, Handling cross cultural working and living environments. His past assignments have been with Whirlpool, Good Year , Intercept Technology to name a few; where he was holding the position of Senior Director / CEO.

He Has a great blend of working and living in both mature and emerging market environments. Has worked in India, China and the US and has intimate working knowledge of the entire Asia Pacific market including Australia. Has a fair working knowledge of the Western European markets as well as the Middle East.
Has handled businesses of various sizes and has been involved in a range of activities including M&A, JV formations and new market entry. Has significant experience in turnarounds and change management.

Mr. Atanu Sen joined in 1977 as a Probationary Officer in State Bank of India and has over three decades of experience in the Banking sector.  Mr. Sen is an MA in Economics from Calcutta University.  Mr. Sen has held a number of important assignments in SBI.

Currently, Mr. Sen is the Deputy Managing Director and Chief Credit & Risk Officer of the Bank.  He has 34 years of rich experience in various facets of Banking.  Presently he is incharge of Risk Management in the Bank which spans from  overseeing large value credit to implementation of BASEL guidelines.

Prior to this assignment he was the Chief General Manager, Mumbai Circle of the Bank and was incharge of banks business spread over the state of Maharashtra and Goa with more than 1200 branches under his jurisdiction.

Mr. Sen has also handled other critical assignments at various levels.  He has exposure in the International Markets  through his posting at Frankfurt as well as at the other end as General Manager of the Bank’s North East Circle.

Mr Sarbesh Kumar Das is a M.Sc.(Physics), M.A(Public Administration), Post Graduate Diploma in Sales & Market Management.

Dr Amit Chatterjee (66) was until recently Former Adviser to the MD, Tata Steel Ltd. He is a graduate in Metallurgical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University, India and then obtained his Ph.D. and D.I.C.(Met) Degrees from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. After working for two years in Thyssen, Germany, he joined Tata Steel in 1972 from where he superannuated on 30th September, 2011.

Dr Chatterjee is a Fellow of The Institute of Materials, England, The Indian Institute of Metals, India, The Indian National Academy of Engineers, India, and a Fellow of Imperial College, London. He is a Chartered Engineer of The Engineering Council, England. Dr. Chatterjee has been mentioned as one of the ‘Illustrious Alumni of Imperial College’ in its booklet ‘Imperial College, London – 100 Years of Living Science’.
 

Dr Neil Bristow has been actively involved in the steel and steelmaking raw materials industries for over 22 years.  During this time he has led numerous investigations in coal and iron ore technical and market research, minerals strategy development and market planning for BHP’s Coal business and was Chief Analyst for BHP Billiton’s Carbon Steel Materials group leading the Market Intelligence group in Singapore.  Prior to this he held various positions in BHP’s Marketing group in the US and Australia, including Practice Leader Market Analysis for Coal and Iron Ore, Strategic Marketing for Coal and several years in the raw materials research laboratories at Newcastle: he was also been Australia’s representative on the international ISO iron ore Standards committees for physical testing for both conventional ores and DRI.

His key expertise in steel, iron ore, metallurgical coal, and manganese ore and ferroalloy markets coupled with long term analysis on future directions in emerging markets, saw him as an early proponent of the rise of China and the rebirth of the global steel industry.  He has also been a strong supporter of India and India’s rise in global steel and seaborne met coal context and travelled widely across India.

In April 2009 he formed H&W Worldwide Consulting putting his strong market analysis and strategy skills to good use across bulk commodities, including iron ore and coal – for both coking and thermal.  As an internationally recognised expert in areas of steel and steelmaking raw materials, long term trends and scenarios; he has written and presented numerous publications at highly respected international conferences and meetings.

Mr Arun Kumar Jagatramka is a qualified Chartered Accountant with an all India 1st rank and gold medal. He has an industrial experience of more than a decade in production of coal and coke, besides a prior experience in management consultancy and merchant banking.

Mr Arun Kumar Jagatramka is the Chairman and Managing Director of Gujarat NRE Coke Limited. Under his able guidance, Gujarat NRE Coke, established in 1994, has become the largest independent producer of Met Coke in India – the only Indian entity to have moved backward into coal mine ownership in Australia and forward into steel making, coupled with wind energy and waste heat power generation.

A visionary of rare distinction, he has spearheaded the move by establishing Gujarat NRE Minerals Ltd. in 2004, a company involved in mining operations in Australia. Gujarat NRE Minerals Ltd owns and operates NRE No. 1 colliery and NRE Wongawilli Colliery in Wollongong currently. In a space of just a few years, the Company under his chairmanship has acquired world class hard coking coal resources in excess of 500 million tonnes.

He is also on various Boards like Port Kembla Coal Terminal, Wollongong Hawks and Executive Committee Member of NSW Minerals Council etc.

Mr Jagatramka has been appointed as an Honorary NSW “Sydney Ambassador” to India by the Govt. of New South Wales, Australia. He is a member of the New South Wales-Asia Business Council under the department of State and Regional Development and an active member of Confederation of Indian Industry. Mr Arun Kumar Jagatramka has recently been decorated with the prestigious “Person of the Year 2009” title by Illawara Mercury, a leading Australian publication.

Mr Jagatramka added another feather to his cap as an ambassador of Australia India relationship, when the Australia India Business Council (AIBC) acknowledged him at Parliament House in Sydney recently for his contribution in promoting relations between the two countries.