Baris is the Director of Industry Analysis at worldsteel. He is currently responsible for leading the Association's research activities on market fundamentals, business strategies and future prospects for the global steel, energy and steelmaking materials and steel consuming industries. Baris has conducted international level economic and market studies on topics that stand at the top of the research agenda for steel and steelmaking materials markets over the last 10 years. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey and a Ph.D. Degree in Economics from the Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He currently lives in both Turkey and Belgium.  

Alain has been working at Casier Recycling NV for the last 3 years. Casier Recycling is a recycling company, specialised in both non-ferrous and ferrous materials with a strong sourcing network in the industrial activities within Flanders, Belgium. After his studies (Master in Economic Sciences at Antwerp University), Alain joined the raw materials division of the Arbed Group, which later became Arcelor and ArcelorMittal. Alain was stationed in Brussels, later in Singapore where he joined the Group’s steel trading division and returned to Belgium 8 years later to join the logistics division. Alain subsequently joined an American company Tube City IMS, a provider of steel services, including scrap procurement for the Eastern European market, especially within the Czech Republic and Serbia. He later moved to Vienna, Austria to join FJ Elsner Trading as senior trader for raw materials. In 2018 Alain joined Casier Recycling in Belgium as commercial director with responsibilities on both the scrap sourcing as on the sales side.

Koray is the Purchasing Director of Çolakoğlu Metalurji A.Ş., responsible for the purchase of raw materials and semi products. Koray graduated from Middle East Technical University with a BS degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. In 1996, he has started his career in Borusan Mannesmann Boru Fabrikaları A.Ş. as a quality control engineer and then continued in Çolakoğlu Metalurji A.Ş. by taking different responsibilities in sales, planning, marketing and purchasing within the last 20 years. Dr. Günay holds a PhD degree in Management.

Hu Hongsheng is Director of Scrap Department at Fubao Information Company, Head of Fubao Scrap Research Team and Scrap Data Products. Hu Hongsheng has been engaged in bulk commodity and scrap industry research for more than ten years.

Gaku is the executive officer for Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the biggest Japanese electric-arc-furnace steel producer that makes both flats and beams. Tokyosteel has the top market share of H beams and is the first company to produce hot rolled coils from scrap in Japan. Tokyosteel’s pricing of steel scrap is regarded as a market indicator in the world. Gaku is responsible for export sales at the Tokyo headquarters. He has abundant experience in HRC trade with various areas such as North America, Europe, China and other Asian countries. Gaku is also in charge of sales development of flat products to promote of environmental-friendly green steel among Japanese steel consumers like global manufacturers. EAF steel is the first choice for steel users moving towards carbon neutrality. The company has the technology to recycle obsolete scraps into high-quality steel sheets, and Tokyosteel has a clear vision to expand its capacity. 

Ibrarul is a Director at German TMX. He is responsible for the financial, commercial & corporate affairs of the company. He has 7 years experience in the business & has helped in framing the success strategies for overall business activities for organisational growth. He received a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from GLS University. Ibraraul currently lives in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and overlooks all business units in Gujarat.

Derek is the Head of Research at Simpson Spence Young (SSY), one of the largest shipbroking organisations in the world, which has specialist teams working in 18 offices across the globe. Derek coordinates SSY’s analysis of the shipping markets and, in addition to staff based in SSY’s London office, is also responsible for research staff in Singapore. The focus of Derek’s analysis is the dry bulk shipping sector, where he specialises in trade flow analysis and fleet developments.

Osama is the Director of Ferrous Scrap at Better Deals which is the largest ferrous and non-ferrous brokerage house in Pakistan and acts as a sales arm of the world’s leading finished steel producers and recyclers. Osama joined Better Deals (his family business) back in 2005 at a mere age of 20 and has since helped the company grow to handling around 2 million metric tons of steel per annum. Osama has witnessed the market crashes of 2008, 2014 and of the most recent crash due to covid in 2020 and has successfully steered his company through these troubled times and helped his hundreds of business associates both in Pakistan and abroad do the same. He is also actively involved in building a not for profit cancer hospital in Pakistan.

Ian is a highly regarded industry analyst, with over 20 years experience in metals, starting at CRU in London. Since 2003 Ian was based in Shanghai, China initially with Steel Business Briefing and then Macquarie, before a five-year stint at Rio Tinto running their iron ore analysis. Since 2010 Ian worked as a sell-side analyst with CLSA, Macquarie and others based in Shanghai and Singapore and continues to bring his leading-edge thoughts on the markets as an unbiased independent analyst. 

Ali has 40 years experience in the steel and raw materials sectors throughout Europe, African & Latin American, Ukraine and Russia including foreign trade, and logistics. He has extensive experience in iron & steel, energy, cement and food industries especially in exports from Ukraine, Russia and Turkey to several other countries. Ali's various companies have a combined yearly turnover of USD650 million.

Pratik is the Senior Manager for MTC Group, a 50-year-old business group employing more than 5500 personnel. MTC Group is the largest Ferrous Scrap procurement, processing, recycling & steel manufacturing company in India, having various scrapyards across India, handling a yearly volume of over 2 million tons of Ferrous & Non-Ferrous metals/scrap and ferro alloys. Pratik brings a vast experience of more than 16 years in Metal Scrap Recycling trade in India & International trade. Having offices in the USA, UK, Singapore and Dubai, Pratik has travelled extensively all over the world, handling the international business of his MTC Group.

Andrii has 15-year experience in investment banking and commodities market analysis as head of research and head of trading department. Graduated from Donetsk University of Management Production management faculty in 2005. His expertise are in: global steel markets, oil & gas, financial markets, and industrial policy issues. Andrii covers financial and strategic issues, improving cost-management, budgeting systems building, and audit for steel companies in consulting projects.

Osman graduated from the Technical University of Istanbul in 1987 as a metallurgical engineer. He worked in different companies till 2001, like Kibar Holding, Ekinciler Steel, Habas Steel and Stemcor. Osman established Metkim Metal in March 2001. In the past 21 years, Metkim has been working as sale agent for different companies like S Norton Co, UK, Theo Steel, Germany, Log-Met, Italy, Rad & Comm, Canada and some other companies, especially for steel scrap and non-ferrous cargoes for Turkish and Greek markets. Osman also markets such cargoes to Middle East countries since the growth in steel mills in this region in recent years.

Furkan is the CFO and acting Procurement EVP of Kardemir Steel Inc., Turkey’s first heavy industry initiative and wholly publicly traded company. Prior to his current position, as an investment banker, Furkan has significant experience/roles on executive levels in different top level institutions and actively involved in specific Projects at more than 10 countries. His expertise are in: investment banking, corporate finance, financial markets, budgeting,  corporate strategy, business design, corporate governance, institutional capacity building.  

Dr Yayan earned B.A. degrees from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University in 1977 and the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University in 1987. He then received his PhD degree from Istanbul University Faculty of Economics in 1997. Dr Yayan has diplomas from the University of Michigan on Economy of Development and Population; from the University of Sussex on Labor Market Information System and Japan Int. Coop. Agency on development and improvement of employment. After serving 22 years in the government from expert to Under secretary levels between 1976-1998, he was appointed as Secretary General to the Turkish Steel Producers Association in 1998. On 25 September 2017, Dr. Yayan was appointed as Under secretary to the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. In August 2018, Yayan retired from the government and returned to his position of Secretary General at the Turkish Steel Producers Association.

After training as a journalist in Italy, Emanuele started covering the steel market back in 2010 when he joined SBB in London. In 2014, he became managing editor for the EMEA steel market for Platts. Emanuele joined Kallanish in 2016 and he is the editor for Kallanish Steel Weekly. He speaks five languages and love art as much as steel.

Paul is a Director and Co-founder of Kallanish, which he helped to create after working for Steel Business Briefing as General Manager for Asia. With the co-founders, he felt there was a gap for simple, good quality journalism and market intelligence combined with a focus on listening to customer needs. Kallanish aims to put the customer at the forefront of everything it does. Previously, Paul was a Commercial Director and negotiated strategic alliances for blue chip companies in the payments industry. He also holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. Paul is based in Kallanish’s London HQ and previously lived in Paris and Shanghai. He speaks fluent French and conversational Mandarin.

Burcak brings 15 years experience in covering global long products and scrap pricing. She is responsible for the Kallanish daily scrap assessment in Turkey, as well as European shredded and US domestic and export pricing. Prior to joining Kallanish she worked for SteelOrbis as Director of Research. She is based in Istanbul.

Burak is Middle East Editor at Kallanish. He looks after pricing analysis for all carbon and stainless steel products, pig iron and rebar for designated markets, with a particular focus on Gulf countries, South Africa and Egypt. He has over ten years of experience foreign trade business as entrepreneur and worked as coordinator in investment projects mainly in Turkey. Before pandemic he worked as lecturer-tourist guide in Turkey. Burak speaks English, Turkish and intermediate level German.    

Tomas is the Managing Editor Asia for Kallanish and produces editorial content on the region, with a focus on China, as well as overseeing Kallanish's operations in East Asia. He is based in Shanghai, where he has lived and worked for the last six years. Tomas speaks Mandarin as well as English and Spanish. He has also spent three years in Beijing studying and working. Previously, Tomas worked at Steel Business Briefing, where he joined shortly after graduating with a masters degree in Asian politics from SOAS in London.