On 7th October, BGN announced the appointment of Claire Blanchelande as the Group’s first Global Head of Metals, based in BGN’s Geneva trading office.
This appointment marks a significant milestone in BGN’s strategic expansion and portfolio diversification into critical minerals and metals essential for the global energy transition.
Claire Blanchelande has an impressive track record holding senior trading positions within the metals and mining industry, including 14 years at Trafigura where she was most recently in charge of launching and managing their Lithium trading division. In her new role as Global Head of Metals, for the BGN Group, she will use her proven leadership and extensive knowledge of the metals sector to help BGN achieve its ambition to build a world-class metals trading platform for the sector.
Ms. Blanchelande is the latest in a series of senior hires, in line with BGN’s people strategy drawing from the top talent across the energy and commodities sector globally. Blanchelande’s appointment also furthers BGN’s industry-leading target to achieve an even gender divide in senior management.
Read more in Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-07/bgn-hires-trafigura-s-ex-lithium-head-to-build-up-metals-trading
