Agenda
Presentations
4th Annual JPMCC International Commodities Symposium
August 16-17, 2021 held virtually on Zoom
Following a successful symposium in 2019, and a postponement due to COVID-19 in 2020, we are excited to come together (virtually) for our 2021 symposium. The symposium's objective is to bring together global thought leaders and prominent stakeholders in commodities from both academia and industry to discuss their critical thinking and new research related to commodities. The focus of research is on real-world relevance of commodities research with academic rigor.
Sessions are limited to outstanding research and comprise of competitively selected and solicited papers, as well as industry research leaders’ presentations and industry panel discussions. In addition to traditional paper presentation sessions, we will have poster presentation sessions to showcase quality papers.
Keynote Speakers and Distinguished Academic & Industry Participants, partial and confirmed:
Industry
- Keynote: Bluford Putnam, Managing Director and Chief Economist, CME Group
- Rodolfo Araujo, Sr. Managing Director, FTI Consulting
- Nick Cotts, SVP Sustainability & External Relations, Newmont Mining
- David Fyfe, Chief Economist, Argus Media
- Daniel Jerrett, Founder, Clear Futures
- Saad Rahim, Chief Economist, Trafigura
- Nick Vasserman, Founder, Integrated Portfolio Intelligence
Academic
- Keynote: Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia Business School and NBER
- John Baffes, World Bank
- Lutz Kilian, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas & CEPR
- Dong Lou, London School of Economics and CEPR
- Craig Pirrong, University of Houston
- Nikolai Roussanov, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
- K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Yale School of Management
- Ke Tang, Tsinghua University, China
- Robert Webb, University of Virginia
- Anthony Lee Zhang, University of Chicago
Program Committee
Submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee, which is primarily composed of our Research Council members. Research Council members include distinguished scholars from Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Yale, and other world top universities, along with industry leaders from Bosch GmbH, Bunge, CME Group, Encana Oil & Gas USA, J.P. Morgan, and Newmont Mining.
Contact us
If you have any questions, please email us:
Organizer Program Committee Co-Chairs
Jian Yang, J.P. Morgan Endowed Chair & Research Director, jian.yang@ucdenver.edu
Tom Brady, Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities, tom.brady@ucdenver.edu
Logistics Coordinator
Erica Hyman, Program Manager, J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities, erica.hyman@ucdenver.edu