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GLOBAL COMMODITY CONFERENCE
2022

Global Commodities Conference

by Lugano Commodity Trading Association (LCTA)
will take place on June 23-24, 2022.

The annual international conference on commodities and commodity trading, organised by Lugano Commodity Trading Association (LCTA) will be postponed on June 23 and 24 2022.

With a new format, the Global Commodities Conference will gather world-renowned special guests, international trade experts, commodity traders, banking institutions and service providers. It is a unique platform in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland for networking and deepening of issues related to this sector.

LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura

Maps

23 JUNE 24 JUNE INFO

Day 1 | Thursday, June 23, 2022

17:30 – 21:00

17.30-18.00 / Sala 1
Registration

18.00-18.20 / Sala 1
Welcome Statements

Michele Foletti
Mayor of Lugano, Switzerland

Christian Vitta
Head of Department of Economy and Finance, Canton Ticino

Matteo Somaini
President, LCTA

18.20-19.20 / Sala 1
Commodity Trading – the challenging geopolitical landscape

Antonio Caprarica, Journalist

Interviewed by Roberto Grassi, Vice President, LCTA

Born in Lecce, after graduating in Philosophy, he launched a long and award-winning international journalistic career. Author of novels and essays, political commentator. He has a past that saw him as a war correspondent for the Italian state broadcaster RAI in Afghanistan and Iraq, as a correspondent from the Middle East and later, in the times of the convulsive post-Soviet transition, for several years from Moscow. Finally, he is remembered for his years as a correspondent from London.

19.20-21.00 / Sala 3
Standing dinner

Next day and other infos

Day 2 | Friday, June 24, 2022

08:30 – 14:30

8.30-9.00 / Sala 1
Registration and welcome coffee

9.00-9.05 / Sala 1

Welcome statements

Marco Passalia, Secretary General, LCTA

9.05-9.30 / Sala 1
Conflict in Ukraine: what’s next? A different point of view
Matthew Bryza
Former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan

Ambassador Matthew Bryza completed a 23-year career as a U.S. diplomat in 2012, culminating as Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
Earlier, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (2005-2009) and Director on the National Security Council Staff at the White House (2001-2005) for Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus.
During 1998 to 2001, Ambassador Bryza was the Deputy Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Caspian Basin Energy Security.
Bryza served in the U.S. Missions to Russia (1995-1997) and Poland (1989-1991).
Currently, Ambassador Bryza serves on the Boards of energy, mining, and telecommunications companies operating from the Greater Caspian Region to Texas.

Simultaneously, Bryza is managing director of the Istanbul office of Ballard Partners, a major US and lobbying and public affairs firm that helps companies navigate political and legislative issues.He is also CEO of Lamor Turkey, a Finnish-Turkish joint venture that provides solutions to environmental problems.
Bryza is a Board Member of the Jamestown Foundation, a think tank headquartered in Washington, DC. He was Director of the International Center for Defence and Security in Tallinn, Estonia, during 2012-2015, where he founded the Center’s energy security and cyber security programs.
He is a frequent commentator in media outlets including CNN International, Al Jazeera, The BBC, Fox News, The Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Chicago Tribune, as well as numerous outlets in Turkey and the South Caucasus.
Bryza is the recipient of Estonia’s Cross of Terra Mariana (Fourth Class) and Georgia’s Order of St. George.
He received his bachelor’s degree in international relations from Stanford University and his master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Personal presentation

Matthew Bryza was a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and the Atlantic Council in Turkey.
He was the director of the International Center for Defence studies in Tallinn, Estonia. He resides in Istanbul, where he also works as a business consultant and board member of several private companies.
Ambassador Bryza completed a twenty-three-year career as a US diplomat. His final assignment was as US ambassador to Azerbaijan from February 2011 to January 2012. From 2005 to 2009, Ambassador Bryza served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, with responsibility for the South Caucasus, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, and Eurasian energy. Ambassador Bryza simultaneously served as the US co-chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group, mediating the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and as US mediator of the Cyprus, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia conflicts.
During 2001 to 2005, Ambassador Bryza served in the White House as director for European and European Affairs on the National Security Council staff. His responsibilities included the South Caucasus, Central Asia, Eurasian energy, and political Islam in Eurasia.
Previous assignments include deputy to the special adviser to the president and secretary of state on Caspian Energy, and political officer at the US missions to Russia (1995-97) and Poland (1989-91).

9.30-10.20 / Sala 1
Shipping and Logistic: Are we still sailing stormy waters?

Harris Antoniou, Founder & Managing Director, Neptune Maritime Leasing Ltd

Gemma Carbone, Business Development Executive, Ifchor

Andrea Organista D’Amato, Principal & Chartering Manager, Armator Shipping

Moderator: Michel’Angelo Piccinini, President, Propeller Club Lugano

10.20-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-12.00 / Sala 1
Compliance and sustainability in war and resource shortage times.

Sarah Hunt, Partner, HFW

Taylor Konkin, Head of Commodity Trading Audit EY Geneva

Deia Markova, Head of Trade Commodity Finance, SGCIB

Thomas Patrick, CFO, DITH