LONDON, Jan. 21, 2020
/PRNewswire/ -- Global commodity price reporting and news
service Argus has appointed Neil
Fleming to head its global editorial division.
Neil has more than 30 years' experience in energy and
commodities markets. He began his career in 1985 at market
information provider Platts, where he worked as a market reporter,
news reporter, and editor. Neil also has extensive experience as a
general news journalist, as former East Africa Correspondent and
South Africa Bureau Chief for news agency UPI.
While at Platts, Neil was the London-based Editor-in-Chief of its real-time
oil information service from 1994, becoming global Vice-President,
Editorial, from 1997 to 2002. He was then Vice-President of
Strategy and Business Development until 2008. Neil won the
prestigious International Association for Energy Economics'
Journalism Award in 1995.
Neil became an independent editorial, markets and data
consultant in 2009, working as Strategic Adviser to Reed Business
Information's ICIS group until 2018, including a period as the
petrochemicals and natural gas specialist's interim Head of Content
from 2011-12. He has also consulted for the International Energy
Agency in Paris, and for
sub-Saharan African oil consultancy Citac, among others.
At Argus, Neil's role is to lead editorial strategy and to
manage and develop the company's coverage of commodities markets
worldwide. Almost half of Argus' 1,000 staff are reporters, based
in 25 offices around the world, supported by additional individual
correspondents in other global locations.
"Neil's knowledge of how to manage large, complex business
information organisations is unique," Argus Media chairman and
chief executive Adrian Binks said.
"He has unrivalled understanding both of the markets Argus serves
and of how to develop the quality of information that they need. We
are delighted to have him on board at a time when we are expanding
and broadening our expertise so rapidly."
"It is very exciting to be joining Argus right now," Neil said.
"The opportunities to grow both the business and what it can offer
are enormous. The next 10 years will be some of the most
fascinating and challenging in history for the world's energy and
commodities markets. I look forward to finding ways in which Argus
can help its customers navigate those challenges."
Contact Information
London: Seana Lanigan
+44 20 7780 4200
Email Seana
Moscow: Alexey Komarov
+7 495 933 7571
Email Alexey
Houston: Melanie Cruthirds
+1 713 968 0000
Email Melanie
Singapore: Tomoko Hashimoto
+65 6496 9960
Email Tomoko
About Argus Media
Argus is an independent media organisation with more than 1,000
staff. It is headquartered in London and has 25 offices in the world's
principal commodity trading and production centres. Argus produces
price assessments and analysis of international energy and other
commodity markets and offers bespoke consulting services and
industry-leading conferences.
Companies in 140 countries around the world use Argus data to
index physical trade and as benchmarks in financial derivative
markets as well as for analysis and planning purposes.
Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held UK-registered
company. It is owned by employee shareholders and global growth
equity firm General Atlantic.
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