Michael Lockwood

Michael is a veteran industrial price risk manager with 35-plus years of hands-on experience identifying and managing price risk for mines, smelters/refineries, processors, end users and traders around the world.  He brings additional insight developed through his commercial experience with raw materials through to refined metals.

Over the course of his work, he’s designed, implemented, maintained and improved price risk management platforms for producing and trading businesses involved with a range of base and precious metals.  His years of experience in industry were spent with Noranda, Falconbridge Chile, Xstrata Copper and Glencore, and as an advisor since 2014, serving clients around the globe. 

Michael has post-graduate degrees in geoscience and business and has working experience ranging from office to plant to field.  He has lived and worked in different cultures, having resided in Canada, Chile and the UAE, and is known for his adaptive work style.  In addition to being co-editor of the LME’s “Managing Metals Price Risk”, he has contributed to the industry through his participation on the boards of organizations like the Copper Club, the Silver Institute, two LME committees and has been the invited Expert Member on the Board of the London Metal Exchange.