FT Commodities Summit Tokyo 2017 | Financial Times | 5 December 2017 | Mandarin Oriental Tokyo, Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Japan is the world's largest raw material purchasing country, importing millions of tons of coal, oil, LNG, agricultural products every year. It goes without saying that Japan is an important market in commodity trading as well as producers. This time, the FT Commodities Summit to be held for the first time in Tokyo, together with the cooperation system of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, together with the factors and trends of demand formation in the Japanese energy industry and materials industry, and the domestic support of global trade and commodity industry financing support I will explore the role of banks and investors.

2017 Speakers:

Akira Sumoto
Director of Energy Planning Department (Resource Strategy Officer), Power supply development

Yuki Sato
Executive officer sales procurement supervision, JERA

Peter Freyberg
Head of Coal, Glencore

David Nipe
Head of Global Gas, BP

Jean Pierre Mateille
Vice President Trading Gas & Power, Total

Hadi Halch
Head of LNG Trading, Trafigura

Christoph Salmon
CFO, Trafigura

Sunny Bergese
Olam International Chief Executive Officer

Yasuta Ono
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Nobuo Tanaka
President of Sasakawa Peace Foundation, former secretary general of International Energy Agency (IEA)

Hiroyuki Takai
Sumitomo Corporation Global Research President and Representative Director, Sumitomo Corporation Executive Officer

Shigeto Nagai
Representative of Oxford · Economics in Japan, former international director of the Bank of Japan

2017 Sponsors:

• LDC
• SpencerStuart
• Trafigura
• GFG Alliance
• Mizuho
• Nikkei