INTERVIEW: ‘First and foremost, we’re a commercial trading company’ - Jeremy Weir

摘要

Trafigura’s revenue was $171.5-billion in 2019, with group businesses in metals, oil, power & renewables and shipping. Andrea Hotter talks strategy with the man at the helm, CEO Jeremy Weir Jeremy Weir’s career at Trafigura almost stumbled before it began. The Melbourne, Australia-born geologist-turned-derivativestrader was heading to meet one of the commodities trading house’s founding partners, Claude Dauphin, for dinner and already had an idea that the dinner was effectively an interview, on both sides, for a role at the company. But a rail strike meant Weir was delayed, arriving 45 minutes late to the meeting at Wiltons, a restaurant in Jermyn Street, London.