Special Episode | Scenes from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026

About this episode

This special episode features exclusive interviews from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026, focusing on supply chains and the conflict in Iran.

We present a Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026. SmarterMarkets™ returned to Lausanne, Switzerland for the 15th edition of the Financial Times Commodities Global Summit, where we caught up with summit participants on the important issues of the day. The theme for this year's summit was ‘finding the advantage in a fragmented world.’ The conversations were focused on the state of our supply chains and the increasing stakes of the ongoing conflict in Iran. We've compiled a selection of those interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. If you would like to listen to the full interviews, they are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal. They’re also available on our second podcast channel, SmarterMarkets™ Presents. Our guests are: Leslie Hook – Natural Resources Editor, Financial Times Helima Croft – Managing Director and the Head of Global Commodity Strategy and MENA Research, RBC Capital Markets Robert Friedland – Executive Co-Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines & Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, I-Pulse Brian Menell – CEO & Chairman, TechMet Gracelin Baskaran – Founding Director…

People in this episode

Guests: Leslie Hook, Helima Croft, Robert Friedland, Brian Menell, Gracelin Baskaran, Ruth Crowell, Alasdair Were

Topics covered

• commodities
• supply chains
• global summit
• Iran conflict
• financial markets
• interviews

Keywords

• commodities
• supply chains
• Iran
• financial summit
• interviews
• global strategy
• natural resources

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Financial Times, RBC Capital Markets, Ivanhoe Mines, I-Pulse, TechMet, Center for Strategic and International Studies, LBMA, Abaxx Exchange

Places: Lausanne, Switzerland

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