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Speaker Profile: Simon Davidson, Managing Partner, Holman Fenwick & Willan Singapore LLP

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Simon Davidson studied law at St. John’s College Cambridge and subsequently obtained a master’s degree in maritime law at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Simon is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and of both the Hong Kong and Singapore Institutes of Arbitrators. He has been appointed by the ICC as sole arbitrator on a number of cases.

Simon joined the firm in 1985, when he took articles. In 1989, he transferred to Holman Fenwick Willan’s Hong Kong office and became a partner in 1994. He is now based in the firm’s Singapore office where he became the managing partner in 2000. He specialises in marine, commodity trading and energy contracts, litigation and arbitration.

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, 21 Jan
14:30 Damage, Delay and Market Claims and Dispute Resolution

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Speaker Profile: Syed Alwi, Vice President – Corporate Banking, The Islamic Bank of Asia

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Syed Alwi is the Vice President of Corporate Banking-Asia at The Islamic Bank of Asia Ltd. He has more than 12 years of experience within the Islamic financial services industry. He is responsible for business development, relationship management and origination of clients within the Asia Pacific region for IB Asia.

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, 21 Jan
14:00 Islamic Financing Solutions For Grains Trade

Speaker Profile: Lyndon Asser, Marketing Manager – Barley, Viterra

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Lyndon Asser has been with ABB Grain Ltd now Viterra for 20 years. He has a Bachelor of Economics Degree from the University of Adelaide.

After spending 9 years in Banking, Lyndon joined ABB as a Treasury Analyst. In 1994 he then set up the ABB Other Commodities desk, trading Pulses, Canola and Oats. In 1999 he then moved to the company’s Victorian office in Melbourne where he was responsible for trading feed grains, principally Barley and Wheat. Then in 2006 with further company expansion he returned to Head office in Adelaide to take the role of Marketing Manager – Barley. This role has both an international focus with feed barley and a major responsibility to source malting barley for the Viterra Malt malthouses.

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, 21 Jan
13:30 Global Barley Market Outlook

Speaker Profile: Arif Widjaja, Senior VP, Head of Trading Division, PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia

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Arif Widjaja a graduate with an MBA degree from th University of Portland, Oregon, USA. Since 1997, he has been heading the Procurement Department of PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk. Prior to that he was also involved in the setting up of Japfa Group’s International operations in India, Vietnam and Myanmar. He has worked with PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk. for more than 20 years.

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, 21 Jan
09:45 International Buyers’ Round Table : Challenges of Grains Purchasing in a Volatile/Uncertain Market

Speaker Profile: Willis Cheng, Chairman, Charoen Pokphand Enterprise Co. Ltd

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Willis Cheng graduated from Taiwan National PingTung University of Science and Technology with degree in Animal Husbandry and Veterinary. He started his career with American Cyanamid as the Head of Agricultural Dept. He was the founder of CP Taiwan and CP Turkey pioneered in the full integration of parents farm? feed-mill? slaughter-house and food processing plants with over 40 years of experience in CP Group specialized in business management and development covering countries of China, Thailand and Europe.

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, 21 Jan
09:45 International Buyers’ Round Table : Challenges of Grains Purchasing in a Volatile/Uncertain Market

Speaker Profile: HE. Eng. Waleed Elkhereiji, Director General, Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization

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H.E Engr.Waleed Elkhereiji was appointed as the Director General Grain Silos & Flour Mills Organization Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia on 28 February 2009.

Prior to that, he was appointed as Ambassador of the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia to the Netherlands between 2002 to 2009, as well as the Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). He was also Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program between 1990 to 1994, and he was Director-General of Agriculture and water at Makkah Region between 1995 – 2002.

H.E Engr.Waleed Elkhereiji represents the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in many international conferences, political and economic symposia and cultural and social activities.

H.E Engr.Waleed Elkhereiji was nominated as the “Ambassador of The Year 2006″ to be the first Arab ambassador receiving this prize in the Netherland.

H.E Engr.Waleed Elkhereiji was born in Medina- Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia in 1958 and finished his studies in civil engineering from University of Miami, USA. and appointed as Civil Engineer in Ministry Of Agriculture and Water Riyadh.

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, 21 Jan
10:45 Wheat Demand in Saudi Arabia

Speaker Profile: Mohammad Ismet, Director for Planning & Business Development, BULOG Indonesia

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Dr. Mohammad Ismet finished his Bachelor degree in Agricultural Economics from Gadjah Mada University in 1981; Master degree in Department of Agricultural Economics, University of the Philippines at Los Banos in 1988, and Ph.D in Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University in 1995.

He is now currently holding a position as Director of Planning and Business Development, BULOG Indonesia

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 1 – Wednesday, 20 Jan
15:45 Indonesia’s Rice Industry & its Challenges

Speaker Profile: Frederik Groth, Vice President, Toepfer International Asia Pte Ltd

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Frederik Groth was born in Hamburg Germany. He graduated from the foreign trade academy in Hamburg 1994 and joined TOEPFER International the same year.

After working for 4 years in the headquarters in Hamburg he was posted as a Grain Trader for TOEPFER in Paris until 2000. Coming back from Paris he spend 2 years in Hamburg as the responsible for the French and North African grain markets.

Since 2003 he is working for TOEPFER International Asia stationed in Singapore. In his position as a Vice President, Frederik is responsible for the Grain trade in Asia as well as TOEPFER’s activities and joint venture in Australia.

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 1 – Wednesday, 20 Jan
14:15 Global Wheat Market

Speaker Profile: Bob Hansen, Managing Director, Sabio Pronostico P/L

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Bob Hansen was been Managing Director of Peanut Company of Australia from1993 to jul 2009. His previous experience was in Poultry Processing and Marketing with Ingham’s Victoria. Bob’s training was in Poultry Genetics but commercial experience was in business recovery of agricultural enterprises to a profitable situation; Nuigini Tablebirds (1977 to 1985), Harvey Farms NZ (1986 to 1988), Ingham’s VIC (1989 to 1993) and Peanut Company of Australia (1993 to Current).

Bob has been instrumental in commercialising peanut breeding in Australia and introducing new international cultivars. PCA has released a minimum of one new cultivar annually.

Bob is an advocate of the scientific and innovation approach to business. He has introduced many new innovations to the business such as
a) Release of Cultivars annually
b) Statistical approach to food quality
c) New Generation of Electronic sorters
d) Mitigation and adaption to Climate Change Impacts
e) Developing Agricultural business’s in Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia.

Bob has established a consultancy focusing on the impacts of Climate Change on the Supply Chain, and the projection of Future Grain Prices, Rainfall, Crop Production and Currencies. He is a Director of several companies and Boards in Australia.

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 1 – Wednesday, 20 Jan
13:45 Global Weather Pattern & Change

Speaker Profile: Michael Jester, Managing Director, Peter Cremer (Singapore) GmbH, Agri

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Michael Jester was educated at the Kirchenpauer Gymnasium in Hamburg and has joined the Cremer-Gruppe in Hamburg as a trainee in 1986. After two years of apprenticeship he graduated at the Chamber of Commerce in 1988.

In 1993 he set up a trading hub for grain and agricultural products for the Cremer group in Singapore. Today, he is the Managing Director of Peter Cremer Singapore and is responsible for the trading activities of the group with special focus on Asia. In addition to his responsibilities in Asia, he is a Director of the Cremer Companies in Australia and Canada.

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 1 – Wednesday, 20 Jan
09:45 CEO Panel : Challenges of Managing Commodity Business Amid Market Volatility & Uncertainty

Speaker Profile: Vijay Iyengar, Managing Director, Agrocorp International Pte Ltd

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Vijay Iyengar is the Founder and Managing Director of Agrocorp International Pte Ltd; a Singapore based International Commodity Trading House with a footprint across the globe. The Company specializes in the physical trading of Agricultural Commodities such as Wheat, Rice, Pulses & Beans, Sugar, and Oil Seeds Handling 3 Million tonnes of physical commodities a year.

Mr Iyengar holds a B Tech (Chemical Engineering) from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology – Mumbai and an MBA from Cornell University. He is also one of the founding Directors of Parameswara Holdings Ltd & a Board member of Singapore Mercantile Exchange and India International Insurance Pte Ltd. Mr. Iyengar is currently the Chairman of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Vice Chairman of Singapore Business Federation, member of Steering Committee of Network India, Alternate Member of the National Wages Council and is on the PA Talents Advisory Council for the years 2007 to 2011.

2nd World Grains Trade 2010 Singapore Speaker
Day 1 – Wednesday, 20 Jan
09:00 Chairman’s Welcome & Introductions
Day 2 – Thursday, 21 Jan
09:00 Chairman’s Remarks