Bangalore, India
Tuesday, June 6 – to Friday, June 9
We are happy to confirm that the International Manganese Institute (IMnI) conference in Bangalore is scheduled from Tuesday, June 6 to Thursday, June 8 with optional technical visits on Friday, June 9
The theme this year is “India, the new engine driving the Manganese industry?” and the program can be found below.
For additional information, please email us at events@manganese.org
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Madhavi Arora
Madhavi Arora is the Chief Economist at Emkay Global Institutional Equities desk, one of the leading Indian brokerage houses. She spearheads the Macro research for India and major developed and emerging nations, focusing on policy arena, FX and rates and asset allocation strategies. She has over 15 years of rich experience as a macro economist with reputed banks and brokerages, namely, Kotak, J.P. Morgan and Edelweiss. She also played a pivotal role during formulation of the 11th Five-year plan with the Planning Commission and shared space with eminent economists and policymakers. She is regularly featured in domestic and international print and television media for her markets and macro views. She has also been ranked as the top India growth forecaster Economist and one of the top three women economists in India by Bloomberg.
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Dr. A S Firoz
Dr. A. S. Firoz, retired in 2019 from the post of Chief Economist at the Economic Research Unit of the Ministry of Steel, after having put in more than 20 years at that position. He had studied Economics in India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, to acquire is his Masters (MA) ,M.Phil. and Doctorate (Ph.D.) degrees.
He is a well-known expert and scholar in industrial development and growth issues focused on metal and natural resource industries, energy as also energy related products. He has been working for over 34 years on steel, aluminium, coal ( coking and thermal), metallurgical coke, petroleum coke, iron ore, manganese ore, natural stones, graphite electrodes, etc.. in both Indian and global context.
While on sabbatical from his government position and prior to that, he worked on several important research projects involving coal, iron ore, steel, manganese ore and oil with industry behemoths such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, POSCO, the Aditya Birla Group, etc.. In addition, he was deeply involved in pathbreaking research works with organizations such as Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER), Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI), Hatch (UK and China), etc..
Firoz advised the government on various important policy and strategic development matters related to the iron and steel and coal and other related sectors. He is also seen as the architect of India’s Steel Policy 2017.
Currently, he is a strategy adviser on policy and economic affairs and works for multiple organizations on industry and policy related research projects of global importance, including issues such as climate change and decarbonization strategies.
Along with over five hundred publications in academic journals and newspapers, web based research publications, etc., he has addressed over one hundred and fifty international and national seminars and conferences in India and across over twenty five other countries.
S. Firoz博士于2019年从钢铁部经济研究单位的首席经济学家职位上退休,他之前已经在该职位上工作了20多年。他曾在印度著名的贾瓦哈拉尔-尼赫鲁大学(新德里)学习经济学,获得硕士(MA)、哲学硕士和博士学位。 他是工业发展和增长问题方面的知名专家和学者,重点研究领域金属和自然资源产业、能源以及能源相关产品。他在印度和全球范围内从事钢铁、铝、煤炭(焦炭和热能)、冶金焦、石油焦、铁矿、锰矿、天然石、石墨电极等方面的研究工作已超过34年。 在从政府工作之余和之前,他与必和必拓、力拓、浦项、阿迪雅-贝拉集团等行业巨头合作,开展了涉及煤炭、铁矿石、钢铁、锰矿和石油的若干重要研究项目。此外,他还深入参与了印度国际经济关系研究委员会(ICRIER)、国家应用经济研究委员会(NCAER)、印度矿产工业联合会(FIMI)、Hatch(英国和中国)等组织的开创性研究工作。 Firoz博士就与钢铁和煤炭及其他相关部门有关的各种重要政策和战略发展事项向政府提供建议。他也被看作是印度2017年钢铁政策的设计师。 目前,他是政策和经济事务的战略顾问,为多个国际组织工作,从事具有全球重要性的行业和政策相关研究项目,包括气候变化和脱碳战略等问题。 他在学术期刊和报纸,网络的研究出版物上发表了五百多篇文章,他在印度和其他二十五个国家的一百五十多个国际和国家研讨会和会议上发表过演讲。 -
Manish Sarda
Mr. Manish Sarda aged 46 years belongs to a business family which has been involved in the Steel Trade since last six decades.
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Sirsendu Mukherjee
Mr. Sirsendu Mukherjee currently holds the position of Chief Operations, Ferro alloy & mineral division (FAMD) at Tata Steel. He has 25 years of enriching experience in Manufacturing, Marketing & Sales, Procurement and Total Quality Management. Tata Steel India aspires to be 40 million tonnes company by 2030 and FAMD has been entrusted to take a pivotal role in fulfilling the requirement of manganese alloy, key ingredient of steel making. Accordingly, FAMD has firms plans to scale up its captive capacity. Mr. Mukherjee has been instrumental in setting up new plants through organic or inorganic route. Currently, Tata Steel is the largest producer of Ferro Alloys in India with an annual capacity of 450 KTPA.
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Abhishek Murali
Abhishek Murali is an electric vehicle and battery analyst with Rystad Energy, an energy consultancy based out of Norway. He covers the EV market including trends, chemistry evolution and long-term forecasts. He graduated as a gold medalist in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from VIT, Vellore. He has experience in the automotive manufacturing industry, heading EV pilot line testing and transition to BS6 emission norms. He is the co-author on a paper titled “Assessing Finite Control Set Model Predictive Speed Controlled PMSM Performance for Deployment in Electric Vehicles".
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Shri Ajit Kumar Saxena
Shri Ajit Kumar Saxena is Chairman-cum-Managing Director at MOIL Limited. He has over 36 years of wide experience in technical, operational, project management and mining domains related to Steel Sector. Under his short stint of about a couple of months, MOIL Limited has achieved praiseworthy performance in terms of Manganese Ore production on monthly basis.
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Sri Abdul Saleem
Saleem is a graduate in Commerce (B. Com) and Law (LLB) from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, New Delhi. He garnered vast experience working with an organisation dealing with ferroalloy and power businesses before joining SMIORE as a Company Secretary in 2005. While serving as Company Secretary and later as the Chief General Manager of Mines, Saleem played a crucial role during the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s suspension to resumption of mining operations arising due to a PIL regarding illegal mining.
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Teboho Sebetlela
Teboho is a Research Manager at Wood Mackenzie with experience encompassing market research, asset cost analysis as well as consulting and project management. Throughout his career, he has gained deep multi-commodity experience covering several steel alloys as well as some of the raw materials that will be key to driving the energy transition. Currently, Teboho's main focus is on market research and consulting covering the global chromium and manganese markets. This includes new energy applications across these metals.
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Jeffrey Donald
Jeffrey Donald is the Head of Onshore Development at The Metals Company, an explorer of the world’s largest estimated undeveloped source of manganese and critical battery metals, in the form of high-grade deposits of seafloor polymetallic nodules. He has over 25 years of international experience in the mining and metallurgy business as specialist in the interface between business strategy, capital project scoping, technology, and operational excellence. He is an expert at managing the business case development of complex strategic projects in challenging international environments with multiple stakeholder interests. Dr. Donald has a broad knowledge of all aspects of the mining business, with a basis in metallurgy and process engineering, and has managed a $2.5 billion portfolio projects including greenfield, major expansion, cost optimization, environmental compliance, and de-bottlenecking projects as well as operations and maintenance improvement programs. Dr Donald holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Materials Science at the University of Toronto and is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mining at Queen’s University at Kingston, ON.
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Dr Doreen McGough
Dr Doreen McGough has over 20 years' work experience in the industry, 14 of which have been spent dealing solely with manganese. She was HSE Director of the International Manganese Institute (IMnI) from 2009-2017, where she had the responsibility of enhancing industry’s understanding of the toxicological/ecotoxicological profile of many manganese-based substances and the corresponding risks and benefits associated with their use. As the Institute’s chief scientist Dr McGough published over 10 peer-reviewed articles concerning manganese. Alongside her work at the IMnI she worked for the Manganese REACH Administration (MARA) on lease as its main scientific advisor where she eventually became the Secretary General in 2017 to Present. As the Secretary General of MARA, Doreen manages and works with over 10 health/safety and regulations consulting firms worldwide made of some 15 renowned scientists. Their work mainly focuses on supporting industry towards smooth regulatory compliances aimed at acquiring a license to trade in the EU. An Anglo-Cameroonian, Dr McGough holds a BSc in biology, an MSc in environmental pollution control, and a doctorate in environmental toxicology from the University of Nottingham (UK) where she began her career as a lecturer. Doreen McGough 博士在该行业拥有超过 20 年的工作经验,其中 14 年专门用于锰产品的处理问题。 2009 年至 2017 年,她担任国际锰协会 (IMnI) 的 HSE 主任,并负责加强行业对许多锰基物质的毒理学/生态毒理学概况以及与其使用相关的相应风险和益处的理解。 作为协会的首席科学家,McGough 博士发表了 10 多篇关于锰的同行评议文章。 除了在国际锰协的工作,她还以合约顾问的形式在锰产品 REACH 管理局 (MARA) 工作,担任其主要科学顾问,并最终于 2017 年成为秘书长至今。 作为 MARA 的秘书长,她管理着全球 10 多家由约 15 位知名科学家组成的健康/安全和法规咨询公司并与之合作。 他们的工作主要侧重于支持行业顺利遵守旨在获得欧盟贸易许可的监管合规性。 作为英语喀麦隆人,McGough 博士拥有英国诺丁汉大学的生物学学士学位、环境污染控制硕士学位和环境毒理学博士学位,她的职业生涯始于诺丁汉大学。
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Agnieszka Leopold
Dr. Agnieszka Leopold holds a Master of Science in Engineering in Chemical Technology from the Poznan University of Technology in Poznan, Poland and a PhD degree in Chemical Process Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. She has an extensive knowledge of the world of chemistry gained having worked in the following fields: research and development in chemical engineering, chemical products safety and regulatory affairs compliance, intellectual property (patents, trademarks, confidential agreements) in chemistry. Agnieszka Leopold 博士在波兰波兹南理工大学获得化学技术科学工程师硕士学位,随后在西班牙巴塞罗那加泰罗尼亚理工大学获得化学工艺工程博士学位。 她在化学领域拥有相当广泛的知识,并具有丰富的从业经验,包括在化学工程研发、化学产品安全和法规事务合规、化工行业中的知识产权(专利、商标、保密协议)等方面。



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