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Critical Traceability: Ensuring Transparency in the Metals and Minerals Supply Chain

European companies will soon have a corporate due diligence duty to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for negative human rights and environmental impacts in the company’s own operations, their subsidiaries and their value chains. A key element of this duty relates to raw material procurement, which has long been a very opaque process.

Join industry and Bloomberg experts for a webinar discussing these topics.
  • The challenges of mineral traceability
  • Critical Raw Materials Act and Supply Chains
  • Policy changes and need for corporate action

Speakers

Matthew Ekroth

EMEA Corporate Data Strategy

Bloomberg

Matthew Ekroth leads the EMEA Data Strategy effort for Corporate clients. Matt specialises in helping clients solve supply chain problems with Bloomberg's Supply Chain, ESG and Sanctions products. Matt spent over 15 years as a quantitative equities Portfolio Manager at firms including Goldman Sachs and Engineers Gate in both London and New York. More recently he headed data strategy for equities trading at Morgan Stanley in London. Matt holds an MSc in Finance from London Business School.

Bernd Schäfer

CEO & Managing Director

EIT RawMaterials

Bernd Schäfer has more than 30 years of international business experience. Since 2020, he has served as CEO, Managing Director of EIT RawMaterials, the world’s leading innovation network in the raw materials sector, which manages the European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA). Before joining EIT RawMaterials, Mr. Schäfer was CEO of apt Group, a European leader in aluminium extrusion and processing. Prior to that, Schäfer held the position of Global Vice President Commercial for Transportation and Industry at Alcoa. He was a long-standing board member of the Aluminium Industry Association and the umbrella organisation of metal-producing companies in Germany until 2020.

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