Mr Ed Meir is an Independent Commodity Consultant to INTL FCStone and a long-time collaborator with Italian-based International Commodities Club FARO. Mr. Meir has been in the commodities business for about 30 years in various capacities. After getting his BA in Economics from McGill University and his MBA from New York University, Mr. Meir started his career as a futures research analyst covering the sugar, coffee, and cocoa markets. He then spent the next 18 years in the physical markets, trading aluminium, tin and steel. Mr. Meir was ranked by Metal Bulletin as the #1 overall base metals analyst in 2011, 2014 and 2015 and was ranked number #2 in precious metals in 2014 and #3 in 2013.
He discussed trends in the global metal market and more specifically in the aluminium market with AlCircle and ArtValley team during Metef 2017 at Verona, Italy.
Here is an excerpt from the interview: