At Oxford University's Museum of Natural History and live online

• A special hybrid event: Attend in-person or watch via Zoom.

• Renowned speakers from Anglo American Platinum, General Motors, Umicore, Valent Asset Management and the Responsible Jewellery Council.

• SFA's latest PGM market view and The Platinum Standard 2022

• Stephen Forrest's farewell and highlights from his 42-year PGM career.

• Enhanced Covid-19 protocol including limiting attendee numbers and providing a spacious venue for networking.

• Early Bird discount for in-person delegates who register and pay before 31st March.

Our guest speakers

Natascha Viljoen,
CEO, Anglo American Platinum

Natascha is an executive process engineer with over 25 years of experience, having held numerous senior processing roles across a variety of commodities before becoming CEO at Anglo American Platinum in 2020. She joined AAP in 2014 as Group Head of Processing. Other senior positions include Executive vice president and Vice President: Concentrators at Lonmin, General manager at Kilpspruit Colliery, and Metallurgy Manager at BHP’s South African chrome operations.

Dr Bernhard Fuchs,
Senior Vice President, Umicore

Bernhard was appointed in 2009 as senior vice president at Umicore, bringing over 15 years of expertise in precious metal markets, trading, financing, and risk management to the table. As senior VP Bernhard oversees the precious metals management and marketing services at Umicore. Prior to his current position, Bernhard held the position of CFO with Allgemeine Gold und Silberscheideanstalt AG and worked for five years in China where he was inter alia responsible for the creation of the first precious metals recycling plant established by a western company.

Fred Gersdorff,
Socially Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains Manager,
General Motors

Fred is an experienced business executive, with over 15 years of experience in management positions across the medical, food, power, and automotive industries. Fred currently oversees the sustainability strategy for GM’s purchasing and supply chain organization. Fred received a BA in chemistry and later an MBA in 2015, he is currently undertaking a PhD in Industrial engineering.

Iris van der Veken,
Executive Director,
Responsible Jewellery Council

Iris has a background in law and international relations. A sustainability pioneer, leadership executive, humanitarian, and coalition-builder, with more than 20 years of global experience working in fast-paced environments including technology, diamonds, jewellery, fashion, and government. She was appointed as RJC Executive Director in March 2019 and is dedicated to a ‘members first’ strategy and contributing towards the 2030 agenda and the 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). Under her leadership she launched the Generation Equality Campaign for the global jewellery and watch industry.

Terence Kooyker,
Founder and CEO,
Valent Asset Management

Terence co-founded Valent after serving as a partner, MD and portfolio manager at Blenheim Capital Management which he joined in 2007. He has extensive experience in the management of commodity funds and working in metals markets, having gained exposure across both precious metals, rare earth elements and other physical metals markets. As a partner at Blenheim Capital Management Terence has overseen risk exposure operations and served on their allocation committee which determined PM allocations of the $9 billion in peak assets. Terence has a background in sciences, gaining a BSc and MSc in neurosciences and an MBA in 2013.

Stephen Forrest,
Chairman, SFA (Oxford)

After 20 years at the helm of SFA (Oxford), Stephen is retiring from the company. He would like to take this opportunity to look back over some of the highlights of his 42-year PGM career, as well as bid farewell and thank those who have supported the Oxford Platinum Lectures now and over the many years.

The Platinum Standard

In addition, Beresford Clarke will present the latest issue of The Platinum Standard. This highly sought-after publication provides our latest market view and collates all the key industry data and indicators for the past 12 months. 

SFA (Oxford)’s associated publication, The Palladium Standard, was first launched in New York in September 2016 and is released annually.