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Webinar: Will Europe’s drought deepen the global food and energy crisis?
Europe’s ongoing drought is having a serious impact on food production at a time when there is already a food crisis and energy costs are soaring due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In this installment of the ‘Commodity in Focus’ webinar series, our experts discuss the impact of the drought on gas and food prices.
During the webinar, we explore:
– The energy crisis: an overview plus the natural gas outlook and expected impact on key categories
– The drought crisis: an overview plus the outlook for corn, sunflower oil, milk and its derivatives
Host: Sidharth Kalia
Commodities experts: Nishita Sharma and Kumar Amit
Date of recording: 19th October 2022
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Sidharth Kalia
Sidharth leads our procurement and supply chain enterprise sales for the European consumer packaged goods sector. In his nine years at The Smart Cube, he has worked with functional excellence teams in driving cost reduction, strengthening commodity price control, enabling more intelligence-led sourcing, and supporting high-value transformation projects. He loves researching food innovation and sustainability, and is an avid culinary experimenter.
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Nishita Sharma
Nishita is a Senior Specialist in the commodity intelligence team at The Smart Cube. She has been tracking the crude oil and resin market movements and providing actionable insights to clients across multiple sectors. With a master’s degree in Economics, Nishita’s in-depth understanding of the macroeconomic fundamentals as well as the supply-demand dynamics, helps her keep a close tab on recent developments in commodities market.
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Kumar Amit
Kumar Amit is a Senior Specialist at The Smart Cube. Over the last 10 years, he has worked extensively in the commodity domain, focusing on research and analysis, price consulting and risk management. He is responsible for managing project-specific research approaches aligned to clients’ objectives, and identifying opportunities to provide added value to manufacturing and industrial clients.