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[Speakers]Lamon Rutten |
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Lamon Rutten is coordinator, commodity marketing, risk management and finance in the Commodities Branch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva. After working on collateralized grain finance in Mali, he joined UNCTAD in early 1990, and was responsible for developing the organization's work on commodity price risk management and structured finance. Since, he has published as well as given training and policy advice on issues including the practical modalities of use of risk management instruments and structured commodity finance; prudential rules for the use of risk management markets; the development of national and regional commodity exchanges; and the improvement of the legal and institutional framework for commodity price risk management and collateralized finance. He has drafted or co-drafted more than twenty papers on these issues, and has spoken at over twenty-five industry conferences. He is member, on a personal basis, of the World Bank's International Task Force for Commodity Risk Management in Developing Countries, convened by the Bank's President to revitalize global efforts to address the problem of commodity sector price risk. He also teaches commodity marketing and risk management at the Institute of Banking and Finance of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, University of Lausanne. Mr. Rutten holds a M.A. degree, with honours, in International Economic Management from Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
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