Daniel Gros is a professor of practice at Bocconi University, director of the university’s Institute for European Policymaking, and distinguished fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). He previously served as director of CEPS for twenty years. Gros is also an advisor to the European Parliament. He recently served as a member of the European Systemic Risk Board’s advisory scientific council, held a Fulbright fellowship, and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a visiting research fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence. Gros previously worked at the International Monetary Fund and at the European Commission as economic advisor to the Delors Committee, which developed plans for the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union. He has been a member of high-level advisory bodies to the French and Belgian governments and has advised numerous central banks and governments, including those of the United States, Greece, and the United Kingdom. He has published extensively on international economic affairs, including monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rates, banking, and climate change. He is the author of several books and editor of Économie Internationale and International Finance. He has taught at several leading European universities and contributes a globally syndicated column on European economic issues to Project Syndicate. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Acting as an intermediary between end-users and the wholesale markets, Louis has been responsible for trading over 8 billion tonnes of carbon emissions permits. As a thought leader, his insights are regularly sought by governments, legislatures and corporations. Louis has been actively involved in the carbon emissions trading markets since before their inception in Europe in 2005. While Managing Director responsible for Environmental Markets at Barclays Capital, a post he held for 10 years, he created the world's largest carbon business, by traded volume. Louis has been a true ‘first mover’ in the carbon markets, driving forward innovative and ground breaking wholesale market and investor products including the standardisation of trading terms for both EU Allowances and Certified Emission Reductions, as well as assisting development of the GRN iPath ETN. In 2014, he established Redshaw Advisors Ltd, which has grown to become one of Europe’s leading environmental market advisory and procurement businesses. He has been a Director of the Climate Markets & Investment Association (CMIA), a Director of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) for 4 years and a Director of emissions reduction project developer Tricorona. Louis enjoys helping companies of all types to understand the increasingly complex world of environmental markets risk management, and shows them how they can manage those risks. Whether companies require simple hedging or have more complex and strategic ambitions, Louis can help. He is regularly invited to give his views on this fast evolving sector by major news outlets, at conferences, by writing articles and by running emissions trading workshops.
Luciano Giua is an economist/policy analyst at the Steel Unit of the OECD, specializing in global steel markets, industrial policies, and China’s steel sector. His work focuses on analysing market trends, analysing industrial strategies, and providing insights to support informed policy decisions in the global industry.
Mr. Yeoh Wee Jin is the Secretary General of the South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI), a Singapore entity with its operating branch in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. He has been in the steel business for more than 20 years, covering General Management of Regional Business Units as well as Corporate Strategy, Market Research & Analysis, Project Feasibility Studies, M&A and Government Relations. He has a wide knowledge of the ASEAN steel market as well as industry experience in the various countries where he managed the business units. He has also actively participated in SEAISI activities at regional as well as at ASEAN level in the past. Mr. Yeoh is also a Member of the Independent / Special Committee (ISC) for the Iron and Steel Industry in Malaysia. Set up by the Malaysia’s Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry, the ISC is tasked to review and provide proposals on the short, medium and long term roadmap for the entire value chain of the iron and steel industry in accordance with the New Industrial Master Plan (NIMP 2030), and to provide a blueprint for the green transition of the steel industry. Mr. Yeoh holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia), a Graduate Diploma in Computing Studies from the University of Canberra and a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School Management at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
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