Helima Croft

Managing Director and Head of Global Commodity Strategy

Managing Director and Head of Global Commodity Strategy and MENA Research at RBC Capital Markets, the investment arm of the Royal Bank of Canada. An American national with a doctorate from Princeton University, she began her career as an analyst at the United States Central Intelligence Agency working on energy and emerging markets, then moved into finance, working at the Council on Foreign Relations, Barclays and Lehman Brothers. Her specialism is what she calls geopolitical risk in commodity markets, reading the effect of sanctions, conflicts and producer decisions on supply. Her reports on OPEC, Iran, Venezuela and Libya are among the references traders follow, and she is a regular commentator on CNBC.