Expertise and career highlights

Dr Ralph Grimble leads the delivery of SFA (Oxford)'s market research reports. Ralph has been at SFA for 13 years becoming rising to Principal Commodities Analyst and leading SFA's macroeconomic and investment analysis for all of market intelligence assignments as well as metal price forecasts.

Ralph heads up SFA's contribution to the weekly commodity market report in collaboration with Heraeus Precious Metals, including gold, silver and PGMs.

Ralph has participated in PGM value chain and recycling consulting projects. Ralph authored SFA's Monthly Commodity Report which charts the price, supply, stocks and demand movements of nine key commodities across base and precious metals and oil. He has also been responsible for a major gold cost study, covering the production and peer-group rankings of over 340 operations worldwide, updated annually.

Ralph has maintained databases and analyses on cobalt mine production from copper and nickel operations for our battery materials research. He led the team to deliver timely analysis for the World Platinum Investment Council, which involves presenting the only quarterly data available to the market.

Prior to joining SFA, Ralph completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Oxford in chemistry and materials science. He is an experienced analyst with a background in science research at the University of Oxford, as well as experience in logistics markets and business environment analysis.