Scenes from the FT Live Commodities Global Summit 2023
This week, we present a special episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from last month’s FT Live Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely attended the summit and worked with the Financial Times to record interviews from this gathering of commodity experts, practitioners, and trading houses. The Financial Times’ Natural Resources […]
Bruce Tozer, Former Head of Environmental Markets, JP Morgan and NED, Agribusiness & Carbon-Related Boards
We continue exploring Carbon Frontiers this week with Bruce Tozer, Former Head of Environmental Markets at JP Morgan, Carbon Advisor at Abaxx Technologies, and a Non-Executive Director on a number of agribusiness & carbon-related boards. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Bruce for a conversation about the future of our food systems and to […]
Yao Huang, Investor and Board Director at Carbon Optimum
This week on Carbon Frontiers, we dive in with Yao Huang, Investor and Board Director at Carbon Optimum. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Yao to discuss her perspective on the different financing needs of carbon removal tech versus other tech startups, as well as her company’s experience deploying new technology that uses algae […]
Leslie Biddle, Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Infrastructure at the US Department of Energy
We continue our Carbon Frontiers series this week with Leslie Biddle, Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Infrastructure at the US Department of Energy and former partner at Serengeti Asset Management. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Leslie to discuss how the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill of 2021 […]
Nat Bullard, Venture Partner, Voyager Ventures and Senior Contributor, BloombergNEF
For our third installment of Carbon Frontiers, we welcome Nat Bullard into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Nat is Venture Partner at Voyager Ventures and Senior Contributor at BloombergNEF. He recently collected his thoughts on decarbonization in a 140-page presentation deck, capturing the state of climate and covering how we got to now, where we are going, […]
Peter Fusaro, Founder, Wall Street Green Summit and Founder & Chairman, Global Change Associates
We continue our Carbon Frontiers series with Peter Fusaro, the founder of the Wall Street Green Summit, which brings together the leading practitioners in sustainability with the goal of building a more sustainable finance system for responsible investing and the changing role of business. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Peter to discuss where […]
David Shukman, Journalist & Former Science Editor, BBC
We kick off our new Carbon Frontiers series with David Shukman, a distinguished journalist and the former science editor of the BBC, where he reported from the climate frontlines for over 20 years. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Shukman to catch up on his continuing experiences on the frontlines of climate, government policy, […]
Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance, University of Houston
This week, we kick off our new series, A Smarter Way, exploring better paths forward to solve our concurrent crises of commodities and climate. Our first guest in the series is Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance at the University of Houston. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Craig to examine both the implications of […]
Energy Investing in 2023 | Arjun Murti, Former Head of Energy Equity Research at Goldman Sachs and Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack
We kick off the new year with Arjun Murti, the Former Head of Energy Equity Research at Goldman Sachs and the Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Arjun to discuss some of the big issues facing energy investors in 2023. Download full transcript → Hosted By
John Goldstein, Head of the Sustainable Finance Group, Goldman Sachs
We continue our Financing the Energy Transition series by welcoming John Goldstein back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. John is Head of the Sustainable Finance Group at Goldman Sachs. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with John to discuss how ESG and impact investing has evolved over the past two years and where we need to […]