Barbara Ortner
Head of Price Reporting Quality
ICIS pricing

Barbara Ortner is Head of Price Reporting Quality at ICIS pricing, the market-leading on-line price reporting service for the petrochemical industry. She is responsible for ensuring ICIS' global price reporting consistently hits the highest quality benchmarks. She works on the development of the company's reporting methodology, and handles direct communication with the market on price reporting standards.

She was previously Managing Editor of the ICIS pricing London editorial team, and has reported on fertilizers, olefins, glycols and aromatics in the European markets, and various chemicals in the Asian markets. For the past two years she has also written the ICIS Chemicals Confidential blog.