Sanctions, Shifts, and Shockwaves: How the Ripple Effect of Evolving Geopolitics Situations are Reshaping Global Oil Trade Flows.

Yingzhi Zhang is a specialist for shipping and commodity flows within S&P Global Commodity Insights, supporting world-wide clients navigating freight and trade flow data. She has 15 years’ experience in corporate supply chain, ERP Procure-to-Pay implementation, and cross-border trade electronic data interchange. She primarily works as subject matter expert in maritime and trade with continual contribution to data-driven insight generation and single window cases. Yingzhi holds BEng in Transportation / Civil Engineering and MSc in Supply Chain Management, continuing professional development in supply chain finance and digitisation.

Ravi Amin is a trade compliance subject matter expert within the Global Insight division of S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Ravi is responsible for providing expertise, knowledge, and valuable insight to customers, helping them to reduce global supply chain compliance risk, and provide transparency in the Maritime and Trade Finance sector through incorporating in-depth risk and compliance procedures. Ravi has more than 10 years’ industry experience in relation to trade finance compliance, covering global sanctions compliance, regional export control regulation including dual-use and military goods and vessel compliance covering sanctions and behavioural analytics to name a few. He has provided comprehensive trade compliance knowledge to multiple clients including trade finance banks and freight forwarders across North America, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Ravi has a background working in trade finance compliance, where he previously was pivotal in the innovation and building of risk monitoring products fit for multiple industries, including the financial and transport industries. He has also written several whitepapers; examples include: high risk good being imported into Russia via transshipment risk countries, the impact of expansive sanctions on financial institutions in relation to trade finance compliance, the expectations of parties within the global supply chain following extensive amendments to goods classifications and, analysing whether the trade finance and global supply chain industries are equipped to manage sanctions screening for complex military and dual-use goods technologies.

Ravi holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from City, University of London, United Kingdom.

Ivy Llena has over 14 years of experience in the learning and development field, providing capacity-building and professional development programs for corporate and social service agencies in the US and the Philippines.
Before joining ACSS, she was a program director at a non-profit organization in the Philippines, where she co-designed and co-implemented economic empowerment programs and services for survivors of human trafficking and their families. Ivy also served at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, where she led and contributed to inclusive economic growth initiatives.