2 – 5 June 2025, Jakarta
This month in Jakarta, I had the opportunity to moderate three distinct but deeply interconnected panels on ESG, sustainability, and strategic materials across two flagship industry events: the ESG Forum hosted by APNI and PERHAPI (with the backing of BAPPENAS and BKPM), and the SMM Indonesia Critical Minerals Conference.
8 November 2024
It was a pleasure to speak to Julienne Raboca from Fastmarkets on the challenges of traceability in mining and their supply chains. By Fastmarket: “Ahead of COP29, the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals (CETM) recommended a global traceability system, which experts told Fastmarkets will need to overcome challenges around data security, enforceability and stakeholder buy-in to be successful”.
Co-authored with Guillaume Feld. ASA Bulletin, Vol. 40, 4/2022 (December), Switzerland.
Over the last decade, commercial arbitration undeniably progressed towards more diversity on its arbitral tribunals. Mainly geared towards gender, ethnic and age, increased diversity was the result of a determined and relentless push by interest groups, themselves a product of the arbitration ecosystem. However laudable, the debate around diversity falls short of considering arbitral proceedings’ goal and arbitration users’ interests which imperils the institution’s legitimacy and future…
ICC Magazine: Echanges internationaux, Paris, France, October 2021
Up until a decade ago, the risks surrounding processing and supply of rare earths were overlooked by a large part of the world. With the advent of high tech and clean technologies these elements made their way onto the international political scene. Today, China produces at least 80% of the world’s rare earth elements, and for some rare earths such as Dysprosium, it remains the world’s only producer…
March 2021
With the advent of high-end and clean technologies, rare earth elements as a necessary commodity made their way onto the international scene. Today, China produces at least 80% of the world’s rare earths. It is accelerating international investments in rare earths mines to secure import of the unprocessed minerals while increasing control of downstream value-added production…