|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Profile of MD & CEO |
| |
| |
| |
 |
|
MR. LAMON RUTTEN
Managing Director & CEO |
|
| |
MR. LAMON RUTTEN
is Managing Director & CEO
of MCX. A world-renowned authority on commodity
markets, Mr. Rutten’s main area of focus
at MCX is to drive the development of the
entire commodities market value chain in India.
Previously, Mr. Rutten was a part of the MCX
team as Joint Managing Director.
Mr. Rutten has served as Chief of Finance,
Risk Management, and Information in the Commodities
Branch of the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva. After
working on grain trade and collateralized
grain finance in Mali, he joined UNCTAD in
1990. In UNCTAD, he was responsible for developing
the organization’s work on commodity
price risk management and structured finance.
Since then, he has been doing extensive work
in the areas of commodity policies, commodity
market reforms, institutional developments
(for the private and public sectors), upgrading
the skills of the financial sector, and regulations
affecting the commodity and financial sectors.
He has published more than 40 papers on these
issues and numerous articles, has spoken at
well over a 100 seminars, and has conceptualized
and organized many high-level conferences
(among others, the first ever international
conferences on commodity exchange development,
and on warehouse receipt finance; and Africa’s
largest annual oil and gas trade and finance
conferences). He has given training and policy
advice on issues such as practical modalities
of the use of risk management instruments
and structured commodity finance, prudential
rules for the use of risk management markets,
the development of national and regional commodity
exchanges, and the improvement on the legal
and institutional framework for commodity
price risk management and collateralized finance.
He has been associated with UNCTAD till June
2006, excluding a period in 2000–2001
when he worked as a senior advisor with the
International Task Force on Commodity Price
RiskManagement of the World Bank and January–April
2002 when he consulted to the Common Fund
for Commodities.
Alongside his position at UNCTAD, for five
years Mr. Rutten taught commodity marketing
and risk management at the Institute of Banking
and Financial Management of École des
Hautes Études Commerciales, a part
of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
He has been a member of the board of advisors
of the International Investment Group, LLC,
a US$ 400 million hedge fund specializing
in trade finance, and was on the Advisory
Committee of the African Export-Import Bank.
He was a member, on a personal basis, of the
World Bank’s International Task Force
for Commodity Risk Management in developing
countries, convened by the bank’s president
in 1999 to revitalize global efforts to address
the problem of commodity sector price risk.
He has extensive experience in country-level
advisory work on issues related to commodity
trade, risk management and finance as part
of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
and World Bank teams. He is currently Member
of the Board of the National Bulk Handling
Corporation and the Bahrain Financial Exchange.
Mr. Rutten holds a postgraduate degree with
honors in international economic management
from Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
For Latest commodity futures prices, SMS “MCX
<space> <Commodity
Name>“ to 58888 |
|
 |
|
|
|
