Speaker’s Profile:

Mr. Joseph Massey is Managing Director & CEO of MCX. His oversees strategic operations, and overall functioning of the exchange apart from strategizing the development of MCX with an ultimate objective of making MCX the “exchange of choice” for all commodity participants. Mr. Massey has over 20 years of diverse corporate experience and has been associated with leading financial organizations such as Life Insurance Corporation of India, the Reserve (RBI), Stock Holding Corporation of India, and the Stock Exchange. In his last assignment, he was heading Interconnected Stock Exchange of India—a collaboration of 15 regional stock exchanges—as its managing director.

Mr. Massey has also traveled to various global stock exchanges like the NYMEX, LME, CBOT, CME, NYBOT, CCX, EURONEXT-LIFFE, IPE, NYSE, NASDAQ, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, SEC, CFTC, LSE, Singapore Stock Exchange, and DTC and has brought best practices to India. He has been a part of various committees of FMC, SEBI, and the on various policy issues related to the development of the commodities and securities market.

Mr. Massey is actively involved in the field of education as a visiting faculty at leading institutions teaching primarily on commodities and securities market. Known for his perceptiveness and keen acumen, he has been invited as a speaker to several forums. He has also contributed his articles and views to various national dailies, such as the Economic Times and the Financial Express, and business magazines and journals. Mr. Massey is a postgraduate in economics and in financial management. He has attended diverse training programs on the securities and commodities market at various institutions such as CFTC, the International Law Institute in Washington, Derivatives Instruments at the New York Institute of Finance, and Research Methodology at the RBI Staff Training College.