About the speaker
Caspar Rawles
Analyst, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
Caspar has a long and varied history in commodities having studied Geology at the University of
Birmingham in the UK, moving on to work in the field as an exploration geologist in West Africa to
finally trading commodity markets in the financial world in London before joining Benchmark.
Caspar joined Benchmark in 2016 and is responsible for the coverage of cobalt, cathodes and battery
mega-factories, he developed Benchmark’s battery focused Cobalt Price Assessment as well as the
recently launched Lithium Ion Battery Megafactory Assessment.
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is an independent publishing company specialising in price and data
collection and analysis of cobalt, nickel, lithium and graphite for the lithium ion battery supply chain.
Benchmark is unique in its data collection methods – first hand from active industry participants
throughout the global supply chain.
