Eric Boudier
Managing Director & Senior Partner, BCG Fellow
Oslo
Eric Boudier is the global head of Commodity Optimization and Trading sector, and a member of Energy Practice leadership team.
As a BCG Fellow since 2014, Eric has been examining business model patterns in commodities. His focus is not only navigating volatility in commodity sourcing and pricing, but also turning that volatility into a competitive advantage.
This work builds on his years of experience helping energy and mining clients to model, forecast, and adapt their commodity trading, pricing, and risk management operations.
Before joining BCG in 2000, Eric worked as development project manager at Alcan Europe’s London office, as the metal risk manager in Alcan Europe’s Frankfurt office, as supply and risk manager/trader managing the global exposure of Elf Antar France, and as the assistant to the director of strategic planning and supply at Elf Antar France.
To overcome climate inaction, we must understand the rationale for individuals’ behaviors, identify the groups that could change those behaviors, and work with those groups to transform the vicious cycle into a virtuous one.
No matter where a company sits in the value chain, transformation is essential for thriving in the competitive world of commodity crops.
Think coal is history? Think again. Coal demand is likely to hold steady in the years ahead. The implications—for companies, for investors, and for climate change—are huge.
The era of steadily rising oil demand could end as soon as 2030. Oil companies, governments, and investors must prepare for all possible energy futures.
Digital forces are transforming commodity trading’s value chain and sources of competitive advantage, redistributing billions of dollars in trading value in the process.
Digital forces are deconstructing commodity trading’s value chain—and, in the process, changing what it takes for traders to succeed.
The trend toward hyperliquidity in commodity markets is creating an environment increasingly removed from commodity traders’ comfort zone.
Commoditization is inevitable for most businesses and is happening with increasing speed. How can companies survive—or even benefit from—the challenge?
Commoditization is inevitable for most businesses and is happening with increasing speed. How can companies survive—or even benefit from—the challenge?
For integrated oil companies, asset-backed trading can be a powerful source of competitive advantage, especially in today’s oil-price environment.
