Rory Johnston is the founder of Commodity Context.
Business Q&A: Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 7:00pm-8:00pm
Location: Cooper Auditorium (Thomas Hall), Marietta College
Topic: A Most Unbalanced Oil Market
ERT Luncheon: Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 11:30am-1:15pm, Marietta Country Club, 705 Pike Street, Marietta, OH
Luncheon topic: A Most Unbalanced Oil Market
Rory Johnston is a Toronto-based oil market researcher, the founder of Commodity Context, a lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, host of the Oil Ground Up podcast, and a Fellow with both the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. He is a leading voice on oil market analysis, advising institutional investors, global policy makers, and corporate decision makers. His views are regularly quoted in major international media including the Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Reuters, BNN Bloomberg, CBC, and Financial Post, and he frequently appears on market and industry podcasts including Bloomberg’s Odd Lots and Hidden Forces. Prior to founding Commodity Context, Johnston led commodity economics research at Scotiabank, where he set the bank’s energy and metals price forecasts, advised executives and clients, and sat on the bank’s senior credit committee for commodity-exposed sectors.