Jessica Roberts is Head of Forecasting for Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, leading a team of global analysts responsible for Benchmark’s forecast subscription services. She has spent the past 14 years demystifying the opaque world of critical materials, at global research and consultancy organisations including Wood Mackenzie, Roskill, and Fastmarkets. Jessica has worked across a range of critical minerals and metals, including cobalt, graphite, fluorspar, lithium, tantalum, tungsten, titanium and tin, both as an industry consultant and research manager. She is an authoritative voice on critical material supply chain dynamics, featuring in print and broadcast media, and regularly speaks at industry conferences. Jessica has a Master’s degree in Geology from the University of Leicester.