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Neil Murray |
Neil Murray has been working for Informa since September 2001. He originally trained as a lawyer, studying at the universities of Sussex and Grenoble (France), and then the College of Law, but gave it up to become a journalist. Prior to joining Foodnews, he spent 10 years as editor of a frozen foods industry title, and has also edited a logistics magazine, a commercial vehicle journal (for which he had to get his truck driver’s licence), a motorcycle industry title, and a market-leading consumer ski magazine. His core area of expertise on IEG Vu is the global market for fruit juices and concentrates. |
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Cristina Nanni |
Cristina Nanni joined the Informa editorial team in 2016 as a specialist reporter focusing on tomato-based products, frozen fruit, and vegetables. In this role she monitors and analyses the main commodities in these sectors, identifying market trends and their possible impacts on producers and buyers. |
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Julian Gale |
Julian has been a specialist commodities reporter with Informa since 2001, covering many of the key agricultural commodities. He currently reports on the global dried fruit and nut, spices and exotics market sectors for IEG Vu. Major broadcasters, including the BBC, have called on him a number of times to provide expert comment on the markets in radio interviews. He has extensive experience in business journalism, having previously worked for trade magazine publisher and exhibitions organiser Miller Freeman. He is a BA Honours graduate in Radio, Film and Television. |
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Estela Cuesta |
Estela is IEG Vu’s specialist reporter on canned foods, covering the markets for a range of products including canned fruits, vegetables, fish and meat. Originally hailing from the small town of Pastrana in central Spain, Estela studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and worked as a local news reporter before moving to London in 2012. Her interests include photography, video editing and international relations. |
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Richard Dillon |
Richard Dillon is Head of Dairy with IEG Vu. He specializes in the supply and demand of dairy commodities, such as cheese, skimmed milk powder and butter. Reporting on market, price and policy developments that impact on the dairy sector. Richard writes for managers who have a need to develop a strategic view of the direction of the sector on a day-by-day, week-by-week basis. Richard has been a dairy industry writer and analyst for more than a decade, taking the helm of the operation five years ago. His approach is journalistic as well as analytical – highlighting key events each week which have the most impact on the sector. He moved into agri-commodity reporting 18 years ago, covering the intricacies of food law and the rise of the organic food movement. |
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Sandra BogaSandra.Boga@informa.com |
Sandra Boga joined Informa in 2013, after spending several years as a senior reporter in the steel commodities sector in both London and São Paulo. Her specialist area in IEG Vu is the grains market, including corn, wheat, barley and rice, although she also covers sugar. Sandra has created a template for weekly Market Reports across the grains, oilseeds and softs sectors in IEG Vu, which cover price analysis, supply, demand and outlooks. Sandra regularly covers key global grain events across Europe, Latin America and Asia, providing in-depth, extensive coverage and live tweets for her followers. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. |
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Roger Bernard |
Roger Bernard analyzes policy developments on agriculture, trade, energy, transportation, taxes and US economic and monetary policy for IEG Policy, and more widely for IEG Informa Economics. As a Policy Analyst, he provides clients and subscribers with accurate, concise and timely analysis of events and policies to help them make market and business decisions. |
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Richard Morrison |
Richard Morrison is based out of the Informa Economics Washington, D.C. office, where he contributes to IEG Policy and other Informa Economics products and client services. He maintains a keen interest in the intersection of politics and economics, a passion of his since before college. Since joining Informa, Richard has written extensively on the effect that government policy and market dynamics have on the agriculture and food sectors – in the US and globally. Being a Millennial, Richard leads the Washington news team in monitoring and developing items for social media. He is a native of rural central Virginia and received his bachelor’s degree in economics from George Mason University. |
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Sabine CrookSabine.Crook@informa.com |
Sabine covers the markets for rapeseed/canola and sunflower seed for IEG Vu, as well as analysing company developments. She regularly reports from European grains and oilseeds events. Having joined the The Public Ledger team in 2012, Sabine previously worked on various Informa food and drink titles, including a stint as editor of Chocolate & Confectionery International. She is a fluent German speaker. |
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Max Green |
Max writes on a range of issues affecting the meat and livestock industry for IEG Policy and IEG Vu. He began overseeing Agra Europe’s coverage of the sector in 2010 after eight years editing other Informa titles. He previously lived and studied in South America and has worked on specialised meat and animal feed newsletters for Brazil’s Informa Economics FNP and Germany-based FO Licht. He has two Masters degrees – one from the University of London and the other from Brunel University. As well as market trends, he likes to explore the intersection between trade, politics and regulations on animal health and welfare. He most often writes about developments in the EU, but really enjoys uncovering news from further afield, especially Latin America, Asia and Russia. |
Eugene Vorotnikov |
Eugene covers multiple agri-food sectors and has a deep knowledge of the markets and the agri-politics of Russia and the CIS countries. | |
John Buckley |
John is a long-time analyst of agricultural and soft commodities markets worldwide. He is a former Editor of The Public Ledger, an Informa publication | |
Mainbayar Badarch |
Mainbayar Badarch writes on the latest developments in the Mongolian processed food industry. He graduated from the National University of Mongolia, majoring in finance and economics in 2001, and worked as a consultant at the Mongolian Ministry of Finance from 2011-14. | |
Obafemi Oredein |
Obafemi Oredein is based in Lagos, Nigeria, and contributes to IEG Vu, specialising in the West African cocoa sector. | |
Shirish Nadkarni |
Shirish Nadkarni is a freelance contributor to IEG Vu. He writes extensively about the Indian markets for a wide range of commodities. | |
Vladimir Pekic |
Vladimir Pekic has many years’ experience as a freelance journalist covering a wide range of agri-food and commodity sectors across Europe and Latin America | |
Chris Lyddon |
Chris Lyddon is a freelance contributor to IEG Vu. He is a UK-based agri-business reporter who focuses on key developments in the important German dairy sector, as well as issues related to Brexit. | |
Bob Edlin |
New Zealand-based Bob is a seasoned agri-business journalist who writes extensively on dairy sector politics, economics, trade and science. | |
Louis Harkell |
Louis is an accomplished agri-business journalist with a deep understanding of the Chinese dairy market. | |
Andrew Ciclitira |
Andrew Ciclitira writes for IEG Vu on the dried fruits markets. He is the the Managing Director of Demos Ciclitira, one of the leading UK importers and distributors of dried fruits. | |
Eugene Vorotnikov |
Eugene is a freelance journalist writing for IEG Policy and IEG Vu. He covers multiple agri-food sectors and has a deep knowledge of the markets and the agri-politics of Russia and the CIS countries. |
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Vladimir Pekic |
Vladimir Pekic is a freelance journalist who writes for both IEG Policy and IEG Vu. He has many years’ experience covering a wide range of agri-food and commodity topics across Europe and Latin America. |
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