尹中林，工学博士，中国铝业公司氧化铝首席工程师，郑州大学硕士研究生导师，中国轻金属冶金学术委员会氧化铝专业委员会秘书长，ICSOBA（国际铝土矿、氧化铝及铝工业技术学术委员会The International Committee for Study of Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminum ）理事。一直从事氧化铝领域新技术新工艺研发及产业化，特别是一水硬铝石型铝土矿生产氧化铝新技术新工艺的研究开发等工作。
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汤昌廷先生毕业于东北大学冶金工程硕士
1999年至2011年在中国铝业贵州分公司工作。
2011年1月至今任山东南山铝业公司三、四电解厂厂长、总经理助理、总工程师。汤先生主要从事铝电解生产工艺、质量、技术研发方面的工作，注重对电解铝行业市场行情分析及研判。

Lingling Wei is an award-winning journalist with The Wall Street Journal’s China bureau. She focuses on China’s central bank and other economic policy makers, some of the country’s — and the world’s — largest commercial banks and deepest pools of capital. A graduate of New York University, she has also covered U.S. real estate and finance.

Scott McLean is BP’s Director of Coke Products North America with 28 years of experience in the oil and carbon industries. His has spent the past ten years on the leadership team of BP’s North American coke business located in Huntington Beach, California. He is a graduate from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Scott leads BP’s vision to deliver value that is aligned with customer needs both now and into the future.

BP markets over 1.5 million tons of calcined coke produced primarily from its refineries in Europe and North America as well as over 2 million tons of green coke with full technical service to assist customers maximize value from BP offers.

Stu has been in the coal, metcoke and petcoke business for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the oldest engineering school in the United States. The company he started, Pacific Basin Coal and Carbon, was purchased by Bill Koch in 1984 and became the core business around which Oxbow Carbon and Minerals was formed. He has worked for Kennecott Copper, California Portland Cement, SSM, Occidental Petroleum and Koch and has worked in China, Singapore and Holland. He is currently the Director of Cascade Resource and Consulting’s industrial carbon and consulting business located in Anacortes, Washington. Stu has degrees in both Geology and Civil Engineering and a Master’s in Mineral Economics from Arizona School of Mines. He is an avid boater, private pilot and scuba diver. Both he and his wife Judy enjoy life in the Pacific Northwest but are also avid adventure travelers having journeyed to Antarctica, the Amazon, Greenland, Africa, Indochina and India. Stu’s latest challenge is learning how to catch a 20 pound steelhead on a 12 lb test line!

Ron Knapp was appointed Secretary General of the International Aluminium Institute, London in December 2008.

Prior to this, Ron was Executive Director of the Australian Aluminium Council from 2002 to 2008 – and earlier roles include the World Coal Institute (London) and the Minerals Council of Australia.

The International Aluminium Institute is the global forum of the world’s aluminium industry. Through the Institute, the aluminium industry aims to promote a wider understanding of its value and that of its products to society – and seeks to demonstrate its responsibility in relation to all key sustainability issues . . . environmental, health, safety and recycling.

Paul Adkins is founder and Managing Director of AZ China Ltd, a leading China-based consultancy on China’s primary aluminium industry.

AZ China provides strategic consulting on the China primary aluminium and raw materials markets. AZ China publishes multi-client reports on a weekly and monthly basis, as well as regular client briefing notes. We conduct competitive analyses, gather market intelligence, perform pre-feasibility studies and other high level consulting. AZ China also holds a biennial conference, with the next conference coming up in Shanghai in 2016.

Our clients include most of the major aluminium companies, raw materials suppliers, trading companies, and commodity analysts.

Our blog, the Black China Blog (www.az-china.com/black-china-blog) is widely read, with readership from more than 90 countries around the world.

Paul has more than 30 years experience in the aluminium industry, including almost 14 years with Alcoa, 5 years with the former Alcan (now part of Rio Tinto) and 4 years with Tomago Aluminium in Australia. Paul holds an MBA from Newcastle University GSM.

Matt Powell holds a bachelors degree in Biology and Mathematics from the

University of Rio Grande. He has been the primary aluminum business for 21 years.

Matt has worked previously with Century Aluminum as the Vice President of U.S.

and Asian Operations along with Global Commercial Services and Business

Development. Mat was also the Chief Commercial Officer for Ormet Primary

Aluminum Corporation. Matt is currently the President of International Aluminum

Solutions.

Mr. Gerard Sweeney is President of Rain Carbon Inc. and has 30 years experience with leaders in the industrial carbon industry. Over the last 15 years, Mr. Sweeney has been instrumental in the global expansion of CPC production throughout Asia, especially in China, India, and Kuwait. Mr. Sweeney sits on the board of Rain Commodities (USA) Inc., Rain Carbon Inc., Rain CII Carbon LLC, Rain Global Services Inc., Rütgers N.V., Ruetgers Polymers Ltd., and Ruetgers Canada Inc. He also serves on the boards of several local charities and non-profit organizations. Mr. Sweeney aspires to build the world’s most Resourceful, Reliable, and Responsible industrial organization. He leads Rain Carbon Inc. with the belief that leadership means more than being recognized for industry accomplishments and rankings; it means stepping forward and doing the right things for customers, suppliers, employees, the environment, and the communities in which we live and work. Mr. Sweeney resides in Stamford, Connecticut.

Stian is currently responsible for Elkem Carbon’s global cathode materials business area. He

has more than 10 years experience from various positions within research and development,

process management and international marketing and sales. With a true passion for carbon

materials and a solid understanding of the industry’s requirements and challenges, Stian has

successfully led the development and market introduction of several high value added

products to the primary aluminium industry. He has dedicated much of his time working with

the Chinese market, where he has built up extensive knowledge and management

experience over the last years.

Before joining Elkem Carbon, Stian held a post doctoral research fellow position at the Light

Metals Research Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. He has a PhD degree from the

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, specializing in pitch carbonization

chemistry and structure of carbon materials.Marketing and Sales Director, Elkem Carbon AS

Christopher Balding is an associate professor finance and economics holding tenure with Chinese

characteristics at the HSBC Business School of Peking University Graduate School. A recognized expert

in the Chinese economy sovereign wealth funds, he has written a book entitled Sovereign Wealth Funds:

The New Intersection of Money and Power published by Oxford University Press. He is a columnist for

BloombergViews as well as a regular contributor to the Financial Times. His work has been cited by a

variety of global media outlets including the CNBC, Wall Street Journal, and the BBC where he speaks

regularly on the Chinese economy and financial markets. His scholarly work has been published in such

leading journals as the Review of International Economics, the International Finance Review, and the

Journal of Public Economic Theory on such diverse topics as CDS pricing, the WTO, and the economics of

adoption and abortion. Prior to entering academia, Prof. Balding worked in private equity focusing on

turnaround and special situations across industries including mining, high technology, water and waste

water, natural resources, and food processing becoming junior vice president of operations and finance

for portfolio holdings. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine and worked in

private equity prior to entering academia. He is happily married with two daughters and one son, (all of

whom speak Chinese) and lives in Shenzhen, China.

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Emeritus Professor Barry Welch’s more than half a century of involvement with the aluminium smelting and extractive metallurgy industries, has been a continuous blend of academic research and industrial involvement.

The Light Metals division of TMS have recognised his distinguished contributions through awarding him both its Distinguished Service and Technical Service awards. He is the most cited author in its recent “Essential reading for the aluminium industry” series and the recipient more “Best paper” awards than any other contributor or company. Recently TMS-AIME awarded him the James Douglas Gold medal for extractive metallurgy and mineral processing, while he was also elected both a Fellow and honorary member of TMS one of the very few people outside North America are to be elected.. Internationally his contributions have been recognised by being elected an Honorary Academician of the CIS, an Honorary member of the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences, and an honorary Professor at North East University Shenyang PRC. His involvement with the Chinese smelting industry dating back more than 30 years.- Throughout his career he has simultaneously served as a consultant to aluminium smelting companies on performance enhancement and improved materials and technology, including involvement with development of all the DX series

Anne Stevenson-Yang co-founded J Capital Research in late 2007 to provide independent, bottom-up research on China’s listed companies and macroeconomy. Her areas of expertise include China’s political economy, Internet, property, and direct-sales, and alternative energy. She also covers global companies in fast-developing industries such as online payments, new energy sources, and automotive technologies

Anne was formerly co-founder of a group of online media businesses called Blue Bamboo Ventures and also founded and operated a CRM software company, Clarity Data Systems, and a publishing company whose flagship magazine is City Weekend. Over 25 years in China, Anne has also worked as an industry analyst and trade advocate. Anne is author of the 2013 book China Alone: China’s Emergence and Potential Return to Isolation, written while she served a guest lecturer at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Over 26 years of experience in the Commodities and financial industry

Director of Research at Touradji Capital Management

Head of Research at Catequil Asset Management, focusing on metals, shipping and China

Research at Mitsui Bussan Commodities (subsidiary company of Mitsui & Co. Ltd.), as Head of base metal derivatives operation then and as Head of sales EMEA base metal derivatives trading unit

Base metal futures and metal index derivatives trader at Metallgesellschaft AG

Holds a degree in Business from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland