We present a Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026.
SmarterMarkets™ returned to Lausanne, Switzerland for the 15th edition of the Financial Times Commodities Global Summit, where we caught up with summit participants on the important issues of the day.
The theme for this year’s summit was ‘finding the advantage in a fragmented world.’ The conversations were focused on the state of our supply chains and the increasing stakes of the ongoing conflict in Iran.
We’ve compiled a selection of those interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. If you would like to listen to the full interviews, they are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal.
Our guests are:
- Leslie Hook – Natural Resources Editor, Financial Times
- Helima Croft – Managing Director and the Head of Global Commodity Strategy and MENA Research, RBC Capital Markets
- Robert Friedland – Executive Co-Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines & Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, I-Pulse
- Brian Menell – CEO & Chairman, TechMet
- Gracelin Baskaran – Founding Director, Critical Minerals Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Ruth Crowell – CEO, LBMA
- Alasdair Were – Head of Environmental Markets, Abaxx Exchange
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This week on SmarterMarkets™, we present a special episode Subterranean Supply Chain Blues with Robert Friedland, recorded this past week at the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Robert is Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines and Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse.
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sat down with Robert after his keynote at the FT Summit, where he shared his perspectives on the state of the world and the current role of metals, mining, and markets.
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On this week’s installment of Weathering Decarbonization, we welcome Martin Malinow, CEO of Parameter Climate, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Martin to discuss his work building weather and climate risk transfer markets from the days of Enron to today. They talk about where these markets are now, where they’re going, and what we need to be doing to get them there.
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This week, we continue our Weathering Decarbonization series by welcoming Mike Prokop back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Mike is Executive Consultant at the Clean Hydrogen Buyers Alliance. David Greely sits down with Mike to discuss the challenges and the progress that’s been made building U.S. Gulf Coast hydrogen and ammonia markets – and what comes next.
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We present a Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from S&P Global’s CERAWeek 2026.
SmarterMarkets™ was in Houston last week for CERAWeek to partner with S&P Global. We sat down with participants at the energy industry’s most influential annual conference. The theme for this year’s conference was Convergence and Competition: Energy, Technology, and Geopolitics – and the implications of the conflict in Iran were on everyone’s mind.
We’ve compiled a selection of those interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. If you would like to listen to the full interviews, they are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal.
Our guests are:
Arjun Murti – Partner at Veriten & Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack
Susan Sakmar – Visiting Professor at University of Houston Law Center & Board Member of Flex LNG
Jeff Currie – Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Pathways, Carlyle
Radhika Krishnan – Chief Product and Technology Officer, Quorum Software
Michael Greenstone – Director, Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)
David Keith – Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative, University of Chicago
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