Adrian Day is a British-born writer and money manager, a graduate of the London School of Economics, and President of his own money management firm, Adrian Day Asset Management, where he specializes in global diversification and resource equities. He has been a frequent guest on CNBC and Wall Street Journal radio. His latest book is Investing in Resources: How to Profit from the Outsized Potential and Avoid the Risks (published by Wiley & Sons).

Philip Klapwijk has close to 25 years experience analysing the gold, silver and PGMs markets, most of this time working for GFMS (since August 2011 part of Thomson Reuters), which is the leading specialist research consultancy on the global precious metals markets.  (Thomson Reuters GFMS, for example, is the prime source of statistics on gold and silver markets worldwide.)  Philip is responsible for all precious and base metals markets analysis and research at Thomson Reuters GFMS. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on precious metals and commodities and the print and electronic media regularly quote his views on the gold, silver and PGMs markets. He holds degrees in economics from the London School of Economics and the College d'Europe, Bruges.

Jeffrey M. Christian is Managing Director and founder of CPM Group. He has been a prominent analyst and advisor on precious metals and commodities markets since the 1970s.  He is the author of Commodities Rising, in 2006. In 1986, after six years with Goldman, Sachs and its commodities trading arm J. Aron & Company, he founded CPM Group through a management buyout of what was then the Commodities Research Group at Goldman Sachs. CPM Group provides research, consulting, investment banking, asset management,  and commodity management services to corporations, governments, and institutional and individuals with exposure to precious and base metals, agricultural, and energy commodities.  He has advised the World Bank, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and numerous governments. Mr. Christian is considered one of the most knowledgeable experts on precious metals markets, commodities in general, and financial engineering using options for hedging and investing purposes.

Daniel Brebner is Head of Metals Research at Deutsche Bank. He has been consistently ranked as a top gold forecaster by Bloomberg and Reuters and recently topped Metal Bulletin's Apex ranking of forecasters for precious metals. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Daniel spent 10 years as an analyst at UBS where he held various positions, the most recent as co-head of Commodities Research. He was a geologist with Buenaventura Ingenieros in Lima Peru before working in the banking industry. Daniel has an honours BSc in Geology (University of Toronto) and an MSc in Mineral Exploration (Queen's University); he is also a CFA charterholder.

Walter joined Standard Bank at the start of 2007 as Head of Commodities Strategy. As part of his current duties he interacts with corporate clients, institutional investors and hedge funds across the globe. Together with the rest of the team he does fundamental research and commodity trading strategies on the global commodities markets. The team covers base metals, precious metals and energy. Walter is currently based in London.
The commodities research team draws substantial knowledge and market insights from Standard Bank’s global presence in the physical commodity markets in both precious- and base metals.
Walter holds a PhD in Econometrics. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Nic Brown is head of commodities research at Natixis. As well as precious metals, his team covers energy and base metal markets too.
Nic began his career at the Bank of England, contributing as an analyst to the Bank’s Quarterly Bulletin before managing the Deutschmark portfolio in the Bank’s reserves management team.  After three years on the proprietary trading desk at BNP Paribas, Nic joined Natixis in 2001 as a global-macro hedge fund manager.  Following a further stint as a fixed-income proprietary trader, Nic joined Patrick Artus’ Economic Research team in 2009.

Dominic assumed the responsibility as head of the macroeconomics APAC in September 2010 with his move to Singapore. In addition, Dominic continues
his role as head of commodities on a global level. For economics, his research priorities are on South-east Asia as well as India and for
commodities, the focus is on energy and precious metals. Prior to that, Dominic was a forex analyst for four years at the firm’s headquarters inZurich and in Singapore where he focused on G10 and Asian currencies. He
also worked as an equity analyst in UBS WMR and in the research department of Bank Leu (Credit Suisse).
Dominic's teams are in charge of providing forex, interest rates and commodity forecasts for UBS Wealth Management, investment advice and recommendations for private as well as institutional clients.

Mr. Jiang Shu has a B.A. and an M.A. in economics from Fudan University and a Ph.D in management science and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is Senior Gold Analyst for Industrial Bank Co., Ltd. head office.
Mr. Jiang has delivered frequent commentaries on manipulation of the futures market and financial markets through China’s prestigious journals like ‘The Journal of World Economy’, ‘The Journal of Financial Research’ and ‘Economic Perspectives’. He has also contributed over 100 gold and forex commentaries to the newspapers and publications such as ‘China Securities Journal’, ‘Financial Times’, ‘First Financial Daily’, ‘Futures Daily’, ‘Finance Weekly’, ‘Investment & Finance’ and ‘Shanghai Gold Exchange - Gold Market Observation’ since 2008. As a gold commentator on CCTV, Mr. Jiang was awarded Best Gold Analyst by the Shanghai Futures Exchange for two consecutive years in 2009 and 2010. He is the author of ‘Practical guide to gold investment’, a book for gold research published by Citic Press Corporation in December 2010.

Ken Wang is a Managing Director in RBC’s Hong Kong/Beijing investment banking team. He has over 24 years of professional experience as a geologist and consultant in the natural resources space. He was previously a Managing Director and the Co-Head of Natural Resources at Bank of China International (BOCI), a top-ranked Chinese investment bank based in Hong Kong and mainland China. Mr. Wang was educated in both China and Canada with B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Peking University and Ph.D. from University of Alberta, and previously worked for China Minmetals and various Chinese and international mining companies. Mr. Wang’s previous advisory experience includes advising many large Chinese SOEs in M&A and equity/debt raising, including Minmetals, Jinchuan, Shougang, Hebei Steel, China Gold, Shandong Gold, Zijin Mining, Shandong Energy etc.

Nicholas is head of research and investment strategy for the ETF Securities group of companies. Nicholas has over 15 years experience as a global economist and strategist, covering a wide range of markets and asset classes. Prior to joining ETF Securities, Nicholas was a senior member of Henderson Global Investors asset allocation and strategy team based in London. Before that he was senior economist on Deutsche Bank’s Global Markets strategy and economics team. He started his career at Citibank in New York. Nicholas has a B.A. from Brown University, an M.A. from Columbia University, an MSc in Economics from the University of London, and has completed work on a PhD thesis examining financial fragility and the dynamics of financial crisis.