Managing Director, Head of Global Markets – Trading, Europe and Head of Commodities and Emerging Markets

Benoît de Vitry is a Managing Director and Head of Global Markets – Trading, Europe and Head of Commodities and Emerging Markets at Barclays Capital, based in London. He has global responsibility for the trading and risk management activities for Commodities, Emerging Markets and the Quantitative Analytics group. In his role as Head of Global Markets – Trading, Europe, Mr. de Vitry has regional responsibility for all the firm’s trading activities. He is a member of Barclays Capital’s Executive Committee. He is also the Barclays Capital executive responsible for Absa Capital, Barclays investment banking unit in South Africa, and is on the Absa Group board of directors. In addition, he has responsibility for Barclays Capital and Barclays Wealth in the Middle East and is also responsible for Barclays Natural Resource Investments.

Mr. de Vitry joined Barclays Capital in April 2000 as a Managing Director and Head of Commodities. Prior to joining Barclays Capital, Mr. de Vitry was at CIBC in New York where he was a Managing Director and Head of Commodities from 1996 to 2000. From 1993 to 1996 he was a Director in Global Commodity Derivatives at Merrill Lynch in London and New York. He began his career with Banque Paribas in 1987 in Los Angeles and then New York.

Mr. de Vitry holds an MS from M.I.T. and a diplôme d’ingénieur de l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

He was appointed Vice Chairman of AFME (Association for Financial Markets in Europe) in 2009. From 2004 to 2008, he was a board member of ISDA (the International Swaps and Derivatives Association).

He is married with five children.