Our Associated Fellows

Ivo is a non-executive board member at Adecoagro and Sucafina and a lecturer on soft commodities and market intelligence and a professor of Agricultural Commodities.

Wayne is a strategist and analyst in the global gas industry and he is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.

Robert is the Global Sustainability Director agricultural supply chain and Head of Environmental Markets at Cargill.

Joel is an energy commodity trader with twenty years of experience at merchant trading companies, deregulated utility subsidiaries, a hedge fund, and an international oil producer.

Dr Cyril Widdershoven is a long-time Middle East energy, defense, and investment analyst. He has over 30 years of experience in the EU-NATO-MENA region and focuses on oil-gas markets, OPEC, SWFs, geopolitics, geo-economics, military, and security.

Bert den Ouden is the Project Director of the “HyXchange” Hydrogen Exchange initiative. The initiative aims at a liquid market for the trading of Hydrogen on the main Dutch hydrogen infrastructure, including the global imports there and the European countries associated with it.

Albert is a professor in Trade and Logistics at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has worked both in academia as a professor and manager, and in the public sector as a director and senior consultant involved in innovation projects in transport, logistics, and trade.

Mat is currently the non-executive director and Global Business Strategist at Group Sopex, as well as being the program leader for Liverpool Business School Commodity Trading Hub. He is a member of the ICE Futures Europe, Authorisation, Rules and Conduct (ARC) committee.

Maarten is one of the initiators and founders of the Erasmus Trade & Commodity Center, where he now acts as trusted advisor to the management team.