Alex Gordienko was born in Russia. He graduated in economics and management from N. Novgorod University. After his graduation, he worked in banking in Russia and the UK. In 1999, he joined Stemcor. In 2009, he began working at Celsa Group where he currently continues his career as an export director.
Bülent R. Hacıoğlu is a founder and managing partner at Trade Resources Company. He has advised numerous companies in United States, Canada and Europe in a full range of trade remedy cases as well as on trade policy and compliance. Mr. Hacıoğlu is one of the most notable exports in antidumping investigations and has won numerous victories for its clients in various jurisdictions including U.S., Canada, EU, Australia, Brazil, Turkey, Singapore, Egypt and Indonesia. He has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal several times as a leading economist and antidumping consultant and a global elite thought leader. Mr. Hacioglu has participated in several high profile U.S. and EU trade remedy investigations involving steel products such as OCTG, hot rolled coil, rebar, wire rod and corrosion resistant steel.
Jamie Mcleod is a Director in Crowe UK's Customs and International Trade team. With over a decade of experience in customs and trade compliance, Jamie specialises in advising clients on managing their cross-border trade activities. He has a particular focus on the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), assisting businesses in understanding and meeting their CBAM obligations, with a strong emphasis on the metals sector. Additionally, Jamie supports clients with supply chain optimisation and customs duty mitigation strategies.
Matt Nolan is a leading trade lawyer at Arent Fox LLP in Washington DC, with more than 30 years of experience. He is nationally recognized in Martindale Hubbell, Chambers USA, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, and Best Lawyers. Mr. Nolan has represented clients in dozens of trade litigation proceedings, including antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, administrative reviews, sunset reviews, Section 201 Safeguards cases, Section 301 unfair Trade Practices cases, and others. He is the lead counsel in Transpacific v United States, the ground breaking constitutional case invalidating 50% section 232 tariffs against Turkish steel imports. Mr. Nolan has represented Turkish, Austrian, South African, Indian, and Mexican steel producers in proceedings involving several pipe products, rebar, hot rolled steel and corrosion-resistant steel, and in cases involving numerous other products, such as softwood lumber from Canada and tomatoes from Mexico. He has acted as lead counsel on several appeals resulting from these proceedings before the US Court of International Trade, CAFC, and NAFTA Binational Panel reviews. Mr. Nolan has represented foreign governments in various proceedings, including the Government of Canada in the NAFTA negotiations, the Government of Mexico in disputes involving the United States and China, the Government of Korea in connection with the Korea-US Free trade Agreement, and the Government of Argentina in WTO cases involving the United States. He has advised Turkish steel producers for over 14 years. He is currently advising several companies in the U.S., Turkey and the EU on the 232 tariffs and has been active in lobbying the issue as well as in submitting exclusion requests and in court challenges.
Nikolay Mizulin focuses on international and EU trade law, including trade remedies, ESG and supply chain regulations. WTO dispute settlement, customs, and sanctions. He represents corporations and governments in trade investigations before EU institutions and the investigating authorities of Brazil, China, India, the United Kingdom, the United Sates, and other countries, covering all stages from complaint preparation to legal challenges. In his sanctions and export controls practice, Nikolay assists clients in developing and implementing internal compliance policies, handling applications with national authorities, and managing sanctions-related internal investigations and disputes in national and international courts. Nikolay provides guidance on customs matters, particularly on the classification and origin of imported products. His work includes applications for tariff suspensions, binding tariff classification and origin information, as well as customs compliance investigations. Nikolay Advises on ESG-related regulations, including Deforestation Regulation, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, Forced Labor Regulation and CS3D. He also supports clients on issues under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, Critical Raw Materiels Act, and Taxonomy Regulation. Nikolay speaks Russian, English, and Spanish. Experince: Assisting private parties and governments in several significant WTO disputes involving trade in energy, subsidisation trade defence measures,trade in services, basic non-discrimination principles, as well as technical barriers to trade, representing various stakeholders in more than fifty EU trade defence investigations, acting for foreign exporters and domestic industry in the anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and safeguard investigations conducted by Brazil, Canada, China, the Eurasian Economic Union, India, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States, and other countries.
Nikos Vettas is the General Director of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE, an independent, public-benefit, research foundation, Athens) since 2013. He is also a Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business, since 2003, where he has served as the Chairman of the Economics Department and a member of the Senate and the University Council. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and has been an Associate Professor at Duke University, USA and a visiting Professor at INSEAD, France and Singapore. He serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics and is a Research Fellow at CEPR, UK and a Research Associate of the Hellenic Observatory at the London School of Economics. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, of the Journal of Industrial Economics, a member of the Hellenic Competition Commission and of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy at the European Commission (DG-Comp.). His expertise is primarily in the areas of microeconomics, industrial organization, regulation and competition policy and his research is published in leading international journals. He is a co-organizer of the annual ‘Conference for Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics’ since 2002 and a co-editor of Beyond Austerity: Reforming the Greek Economy, MIT Press 2017. He has served as a vice-Chair of the Committee for the Growth Strategy for the Greek Economy, 2021, the ‘Pissarides Report’.
Su Changyong graduated in English literature and mechanical engineering from Luoyang Institute of Technology, where he received his bachelor’s degree in engineering in 1993. He also has an MBA from the University of Science and Technology in Beijing. Mr. Su started his career at Shougang Central Design Insititute as a project coordinator in 1993. In 1997 he continued his career at China’s Ministry of Metallurgical Industry as foreign affairs officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs. In 1998 he became officer-in-charge at State Administration of Metallurgical Industry of China. Between 2000-2002 he served as director at the State Economic and Trade Commission of China. He gained further experience at US Steel China LLC between 2003-2005 as business development manager. In 2006, he became conference director at Metallurgical Council of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (MC-CCPIT). He has held many roles at MC-CCPIT and at the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA). Since 2015 he has been working as conference director and director for international cooperation at MC-CCPIT and CISA.
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