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Les marchés des minerais et des métaux post Covid-19 avec Yves Jégourel (2/5)

May 12, 2020
Related topics: 
Commodities & Energy
Natural Resources

Retrouvez les analyses de nos expert-e-s au sujet de l'impact de la crise Covid 19 en une série de 5 entretiens

Speakers
Yves Jégourel
Senior Fellow
Yves Jégourel is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South as well as Full Professor and head of the Chair in “Economics of Raw Materials and Sustainable Transitions”, at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. He was previously a professor at the University of Bordeaux, where he directed the Master program in Banking, Finance and Commodity Trading (BFCT) and was vice-dean in charge of relations with companies in the Faculty of Economics, Management and ESA (EGAES). He devotes his teaching and research activities to the economics of commodities, with a particular focus on the common dynamics that characterize the agricultural, energy, and mineral and metal sectors: the internationalization of physical markets, the macroeconomic dependence of exporting countries ...

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