Colin Bennett

Colin Bennett is an experienced industry and market researcher, a senior and successful leader with many years of combined industry, consulting, communications and management practice. Colin has experience in building and leading teams and creating highly professional and performing departments. Colin has a proven ability to inspire, build and manage, and with a unique mix of expertise and entrepreneurial spirit. Colin’s expert metal is Copper.

In this episode of The International Risk Podcast, Colin, Krisztina and Dominic discuss the copper industry and its impact on international relations. The recent thriving in the copper industry is not a surprise. With the high demand in the green energy transition, EV boom production, and AI development which requires copper in its semiconductor production, copper has become one of the most strategically important metals of the century. Top producers of copper are developing world states with unstable domestic situations, such as Peru or the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some of these producers pose a threat to U.S. national interests, such as

China, leading to economic or trade wars and instability in the business sector. Additionally, countries like Russia, involved in open military conflict with its neighbour and heavily sanctioned by other states, complicate the landscape.