Bruce is currently director of metals research for Refinitiv with responsibility for managing research teams for base, iron ore and steel and precious metals across the group’s global locations.

He joined Thomson Reuters in February 2014 as base metals research manager. Prior to this Bruce spent over six years as a sell-side equity analyst at Société General, London and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, South Africa, covering gold, silver and platinum mining stocks.

Previous appointments include seven years as an exploration geologist in Africa and over six years as a Metals Analyst for GFMS, a precious metals consultancy.

Bruce holds a BSc in Geology and a Masters in Mineral Project Appraisal from Imperial College, Royal School of Mines..

Richard Lu joined CRU's Beijing office in 2015, following​ ten years in commodities trade and industry research, and specialises in the analysis of Chinese steel and raw materials markets.

Richard is the editor of CRU's Steelmaking Raw Materials Monitor, and a contributor to various Monitors and Outlooks.

Richard holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Economics, and is a candidate of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants.​

Andy Home has been writing about the metal markets and other commodity sectors since 1987. He started at Metals Week, progressing to Knight-Ridder Financial and then to Bridge over the course of the 1990s. In 2002 he co-founded Metals Insider, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2008. Since then he has been a regular Reuters columnist, writing across the industrial metals spectrum.

He is the author of “Siberian Dreams”, published in 2007, a book about the Russian mining city of Norilsk. The journey also featured on BBC Radio 4 and was the subject of a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Tamara Thorne has been covering the metals markets since 2016 since she joined the GFMS precious metals research team at Thomson Reuters, focusing on fabrication and investment demand in Europe and the UK. In 2018, Tamara joined INTL FCStone, where her primary focus was precious metals risk compliance and analysis of mining projects in South America, Middle East and Central Asia. She re-joined Refinitiv (currently LSEG business), in 2019 to continue contributing to the precious metals research and analysis, but her main focus has been expansion and development of the team’s iron ore and steel market coverage. Tamara holds a MSc in Mining Engineering, from the Camborne School of Mines and a MA in International Relations, both from the University of Exeter, UK.