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SmarterMarkets™ Presents: Scenes from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026

Full interviews from the conference

Brought to you in part by Abaxx Exchange

SmarterMarkets™ Presents brings 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.

Click here to listen to our Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™ featuring a compilation of these interviews

Table of Contents

Leslie Hook – Natural Resources Editor, Financial Times

Gracelin Baskaran – Founding Director, Critical Minerals Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Helima Croft – Managing Director and the Head of Global Commodity Strategy and MENA Research, RBC Capital Markets

Ruth Crowell – CEO, LBMA

Robert Friedland – Executive Co-Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines & Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, I-Pulse

Brian Menell – CEO & Chairman, TechMet

Alasdair Were – Head of Environmental Markets, Abaxx Exchange

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