• WPC 2024
  • March 18-22, 2024

Katie Elliot

S&P Global Commodity Insights

Director, Aromatics

With over eighteen years’ experience in the petroleum and petrochemicals industry, Katie currently serves as a Director, Aromatics in S&P Global’s Commodity Insights division in London, UK. Katie joined IHS Markit Chemical (now S&P Global) in 2014, and spent five years carrying out detailed analysis of the aromatics industry in EMEA followed by three years providing single client feasibility, market, due diligence and other studies, covering a range of chemical markets in IHS Markit Chemical’s consulting division until 2022. Before joining S&P Global, Katie worked for an integrated major oil and petrochemical producer for over ten years, including five years in aromatics trading, product management and strategy.  

Sessions With Katie Elliot

Thursday, 21 March

  • 10:30am - 12:00pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 03:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 05:00 pm

    Benzene Derivatives Emerge from the Capacity Glut

    10:30 AM: Session welcome remarks - Michel Molinier, Director, Americas Aromatics and Derivatives, S&P Global Commodity Insights
    10:35 AM: The great global phenol reset - Yazmine Khan, Associate Director, Aromatics, S&P Global Commodity Insights
    10:55 AM: Future horizons in the global PS and EPS market - Shaohua Feng, Director, Polymers, Asia Pacific, S&P Global Commodity Insights

    Sustainability at Crossroads: Unveiling Future Horizons, Exploring Growth and Challenges in the Global Polystyrene and Expandable Polystyrene Market.

    11:10 AM: The new world of styrene monomer - Kate Lee, Associate Director, Aromatics, S&P Global Commodity Insights
    11:30 AM: Taking benzene out of wonderland - Katie Elliot, Director, Aromatics, S&P Global Commodity Insights
    11:50 AM: Q&A

  • 04:00pm - 05:00pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 09:00 pm - 21/mar/2024 10:00 pm

    Sustainability: Who Holds the Keys?

    Panel Discussion - Aromatics Sustainability - Moderator: Katie Elliot, Director, Aromatics, S&P Global Commodity Insights

    • Carbon footprints in aromatics: a small fish in a large pond - Richard Charlesworth, Executive Director, Industry Processes and Cost Analytics, S&P Global Commodity Insights    
    • RPET pricing in 2023 -  Benjamin Brooks, Associate Editorial Director, S&P Global Commodity Insights
    • PET: circularity at what price? Shannan Billings, Director, Fibers, S&P Global Commodity Insights