Areas of Expertise:

Energy Economics, Energy Storage, Environmental Policy, Innovation, Power Sector

Simon Moores is the managing director of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, an independent price assessment company that is most famous for setting the lithium industry reference price, together with graphite, cobalt, and nickel prices and analyses specifically focused on the lithium-ion battery supply chain.

Simon is one of the world’s leading voices in this space and has specialized in the upstream portion of the supply chain, from mine to battery cell, since 2006. His key focal points include graphite, lithium, cobalt, cathodes, and battery cells.

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has advised some of the world’s biggest actors in the lithium-ion battery industry from cell manufacturers, to electric vehicle producers to mining companies.

Through a series of subscription offerings and private consultation, Benchmark’s analysts and independent market data has enabled raw material and battery contract execution, multi-billion-dollars of supply chain investment, and the build-out of the 21st Century lithium-ion battery supply chain.

Simon has been invited as an expert witness to testify to the US Senate, regularly gives guest lectures at the University of Oxford.

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