Simon David Moores is a British businessman and entrepreneur, specializing in the

lithium ion battery A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery which uses the reversible reduction of lithium ions to store energy. It is the predominant battery type used in portable consumer electronics and electric vehicles. It also se ...

and electric vehicle industry. He is founder and CEO of

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Benchmark Mineral Intelligence also known as Benchmark Minerals, founded by Simon Moores in 2014, is a London-based IOSCO-regulated Price Reporting Agency (PRA) and specialist information provider for the lithium ion battery to electric vehicle (E ...

, an independent market intel and price reporting agency for the lithium ion battery to EV supply chain. Benchmark sets the lithium industry’s benchmark pricing as well as for

cobalt Cobalt is a chemical element with the symbol Co and atomic number 27. As with nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in a chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. The free element, pr ...

graphite Graphite () is a crystalline form of the element carbon. It consists of stacked layers of graphene. Graphite occurs naturally and is the most stable form of carbon under standard conditions. Synthetic and natural graphite are consumed on large ...

nickel Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive but large pieces are slow to ...

and battery cells.

Career

Moores began his career in 2006 at ''

Industrial Minerals Industrial resources (minerals) are geological materials which are mined for their commercial value, which are not fuel (fuel minerals or mineral fuels) and are not sources of metals (metallic minerals) but are used in the industries based on th ...

''. He was named Assistant Editor and three years later he became

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, where he worked with non-metallic mineral industries. During his time as Deputy Editor, he was responsible for creating the lithium industry’s first ever annual conference, and he also broke the news that

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had blocked rare earth exports to

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in 2010. In 2014 Moores established Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a price report agency (PRA) that specialises in setting prices for the lithium ion battery to electric vehicle supply chain. He testified to the US Senate three times, in 2017, 2019 and 2020, where he was focused on the impact of critical mineral supply chains in the wake of the rise of energy storage and electric vehicles, and outlined the percentage of global capacity controlled by the US at each stage of the lithium ion battery supply chain, with the answer for most being zero. Moores has given guest lectures at

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and

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, and introduced the battery and electric vehicle supply chain subject to the UK public at the

Royal Institution of Great Britain The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often the Royal Institution, Ri or RI) is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, inc ...

. In 2021, Moores was appointed to the UK Government’s first ever Expert Committee for Critical Minerals.

References

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