2012 Mining Indaba – Featured Speakers

Chief executive since the incorporation of Randgold, which was founded on his pioneering exploration work in West Africa. Has subsequently led the company’s growth through the discovery and development of world-class assets into a major gold mining business and one of the 100 largest companies on the London Stock Exchange.

Has also played a significant part in promoting the emergence of a sustainable mining industry in Africa. A geologist with a PhD from Natal University, South Africa, he has held board positions at a number of global mining companies and is currently a non-executive director of Rockwell Diamonds Inc.

Tom leads IFC's investment activities in mining exploration and development. His team oversees a $500 million debt and equity portfolio spanning over 37 projects in 25 countries. Tom joined IFC in 1997 and has focused on the financing of oil, gas and mining projects, mainly in Africa and Latin America.

Tom spent five years in IFC's infrastructure department, financing projects such as airports, shipping, and power companies, again with a focus on Africa, where he was based for three years between 2006 and 2009. Tom was appointed IFC's head for Mining in March 2011. Tom has a degree in engineering from Cambridge University, England, and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He is based in Washington DC.

Mark Calderwood has been MD of Perseus since it listed in 2004. He is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and has 28 years’ experience exploring for and developing gold deposits with 16 years’ experience in West Africa.

Mr. Calderwood had played a key role in several world class gold discoveries including Tarmoola in Western Australia, Moto in DRC and Ayanfuri in Ghana.

Michael Carrick is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and has overseen the development of CGA from a $2M shell to a member of both the S&P/TSX Global Gold and Mining Indices.

He was previously Executive Chairman of AGR Limited, which owned and developed the Boroo Gold Project, the first major gold mine in Mongolia, and CEO of Resolute Limited, one of the largest Australian based gold producers, which developed Golden Pride the first major gold mine in Tanzania. Prior to joining Resolute, Michael was a senior international partner in corporate finance for Arthur Andersen.

Mr Couto joined Vale in 2010 to take over a role on the Strategic Procurement Department. He currently manages a group of over 100 professionals and handles more than USD 8 billion in expenditure a year.

Before joining Vale, he handled positions in Whirlpool, Inbev, Bain & Company and Accenture. He has a BA as Production Engineering and MBA in Harvard.

David, as corporate representative, has held SNL Metals Economics Group’s Senior Sales Executive position since 1999. He was a Senior Research Analyst and Director and Editor of SNL MEG’s Corporate Exploration Strategies study from 1990 to 1999.

SNL MEG has been providing comprehensive mining industry information and analysis for more than 30 years. He was an editor and comptroller at a publishing company prior to joining SNL MEG and has a degree in comparative religions.

Mr. Cox has presented keynote speeches and talks at the UNCTAD Commodities Forum, Mining Indaba, Canadian Mines Ministers Conference, CESCO Santiago, China Mining, MINEX Moscow, PDAC, and at LBMA Conferences.

Mark Cutifani was appointed to the Board of AngloGold Ashanti on 17 September 2007 and as Chief Executive Officer on 1 October 2007.

Mark has considerable experience in mining, having been associated with the industry since 1976. Prior to joining AngloGold Ashanti, he held the position of Chief Operating Officer at CVRD Inco, a Toronto based company, where he was responsible for Inco's global nickel business and Chief Operating Officer of Inco Ltd in Canada before CVRD's takeover of Inco.

Prior to his Vale and Inco roles he held senior executive positions with the Normandy Group, Sons of Gwalia, Western Mining Corporation, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines and CRA (Rio Tinto). Mark is a mining engineer by training with several published papers and presentations. In his 34 years in operations, business development and corporate roles he has had responsibilities across 6 continents, more than 25 countries producing more than 20 commodities.

Mark is also very active in the industry associations and educational institutions. He is currently a Vice President of the South African Chamber of Mines, an Executive member of Business Leadership South Africa (and the designated spokesman for health reform in SA) and he is involved in or on advisory committees with University of Pretoria(SA), University of Cape Town(SA,), FDC(Brazil) and Kellogg (US).

AngloGold Ashanti was one of the founding members of the International Council on Mining & Metals in 2001. Mark is also very active in the industry associations and educational institutions. He is currently a Vice President of the South African Chamber of Mines, an Executive member of Business Leadership South Africa (and the designated spokesman for health reform in SA) and he is involved in or on advisory committees with University of Pretoria(SA), University of Cape Town(SA,), FDC(Brazil) and Kellogg (US). AngloGold Ashanti was one of the founding members of the International Council on Mining & Metals in 2001.

Aidan Davy joined ICMM in June 2007. He has responsibility for ensuring that ICMM’s strategic planning is responsive to both current and emerging issues and for encouraging synergies across ICMM’s program areas. He also leads ICMM’s work on social and economic development, investor engagement, sustainability reporting and independent assurance.

Aidan has 25 years of cross-sectoral experience on sustainable development issues, working with a range of private, multi-lateral and not-for-profit organizations, including the World Bank and International Finance Corporation in Washington DC.

For the past 15 years, his primary focus has been on social responsibility and accountability issues, with a strong emphasis on the extractive industries. During this period, he has worked:

• as an independent consultant for a range of multi-lateral/bilateral and private sector clients on many of the emerging challenges for the sector
• as a senior specialist with the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) in Washington DC, the external accountability office for the two private sector institutions of the World Bank
• as Director of Corporate Services for the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), where he developed practical CSR engagement strategies for a variety of multinational companies and represented IBLF on the Secretariat for the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
• with the World Bank on the social dimensions of extractives and the value of tri-sector partnerships, in delivering social and community development and the integration of social concerns into privately financed extractives projects.

For the first decade of his career, Aidan primarily worked on environmental issues, in an international consulting company, a multinational manufacturing company and the World Bank.

His initial focus was on environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs) for projects in a variety of sectors, including mining, initially for an environmental consulting practice and later for the World Bank. In the intervening years, he worked on environmental audits, environmental management systems and the then emerging sustainable development agenda.

Aidan has an Honours BSc in Environmental Sciences and Technology from the National University of Ireland.

Paulo de Sa is the Sector Manager of the Sustainable Energy Department, Oil, Gas and Mining Unit at the World Bank, where he coordinates and leads the Bank’s oil, gas, and mining lending activities and technical assistance in more than 50 countries. He also heads three global programs and partnerships in the oil, gas and mineral sectors including: the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR), and the Extractive Industries Technical Advisory Services (EI-TAF).

Prior to that he was a Lead Operations Officer for the Latin America region of the World Bank and also a Lead Industrial Economist.

Before joining the World Bank, he worked in Strategy and Operations for Usinor-Sacilor, a leading steel producer in France. He holds a Doctorate in Mineral Economics from the Paris School of Mines.

Walter joined Standard Bank at the start of 2007 as Head of Commodities Research. As part of his current duties he interacts with clients and investors across the globe, and together with the rest of the team provides frequent research updates on the global commodities markets.

Research coverage extends to base metals, precious metals and energy. Consistent with Standard Bank's business focus, the commodities strategy team leverage off the bank's presence in the physical metals markets. Before joining Standard Bank Walter was Head of Economic Research and Risk at Pan-African Capital Holdings (PACH). At PACH the main focus was private equity, investment banking advice and economic research consulting.

Walter holds a PhD in Econometrics. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Barry Eichengreen is one of the world's foremost experts on the international monetary system and global finance. His research and writing have illuminated the current financial crisis and uncovered many of its far reaching consequences. An expert on financial crises, Dr. Eichengreen has written extensively on their histories, causes and cures. Some of his recent research compared the early stages of the current financial crisis with the Great Depression, ominously finding that our 21st century crisis started off being much more severe than the previous one.

Dr. Eichengreen's writings have appeared in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and numerous other newspapers and periodicals. He writes a regular monthly column for Project Syndicate. His credentials include: George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund, 1997-98 Convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials

Josef joined Centamin in 2002 and held the role of MD and CEO for seven years. Prior to that he had a ten year career in stock broking and was a director of both CIBC Wood Gundy and Paterson Ord Minnett. His expertise in international capital markets has greatly assisted Centamin in its fundraising and development activities.

Magnus Ericsson is co-founder of the Raw Materials Group (RMG) and an executive director of IntierraRMG. He is professor of mineral economics at the Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. His interest in the social, political and economic impacts of mining goes back to the 1970s. Magnus Ericsson has a special focus on iron ore and mining in developing countries. He advises companies and countries all over the world. His involvement in African iron ore includes projects in Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Liberia, Mauritania, Nigeria and others. Magnus Ericsson has been building a network in China since over 10 years and the annuaöl iron ore market study by the RMG is being translated into Chinese beginning 2013.

He obtained his MSc in biochemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1973. He is a member of the European Union’s European Innovation Partnership Raw Materials and also engaged by the African Union Commission in setting up the African Mineral Development Centre.

Dr David Evans consulted full-time for the Australian Greenhouse Office (now the Department of Climate Change) from 1999 to 2005, and part-time 2008 to 2010, modeling Australia's carbon in plants, debris, mulch, soils, and forestry and agricultural products. Evans is a mathematician and engineer, with six university degrees including a PhD from Stanford University in electrical engineering.

The evidence supporting the idea that CO2 emissions were the main cause of global warming reversed itself from 1998 to 2006, causing Evans to move from being a warmist to a skeptic. His wife Joanne Nova, a science communicator, runs joannenova.com.au, the 9th largest climate website in the world and 4th biggest skeptic site. Evans founded GoldNerds in 2007, providing information to investors on Australian gold mining companies.

Ian joined Lonmin in 1986 and was appointed FD of Lonmin Platinum in South Africa in 1995, holding this role until he joined the Lonmin Plc Board in 2001. He was appointed as CEO in September 2008, following seven years as Chief Strategic Officer. Ian is a Chartered Accountant with a B.Compt (Hons) degree.

Pascal Grenier is currently Director, Product Engineering at CAE Mining. He has over 15 years of experience in simulation engineering and training in the aviation industry. Pascal oversees all product development for CAE Mining, from the mining software solutions such as CAE Datamine Studio to the newly created CAE mining simulator.

Eddie Grieve is Senior Manager, Listing Business Development at ASX. He has had extensive experience in all aspects of capital markets over a period of 30 years.

Eddie has served in a number of senior roles at ASX including Head of Listing. He has been closely involved in major floats and primary equity market raisings throughout his career and in his current role at ASX he is responsible for growing the ASX listing business and developing and promoting access to the ASX equity capital market.

Eddie frequently presents on IPO and listing issues and works closely with companies considering listing on ASX to help them achieve their objectives.

David Hale is a Chicago-based global economist and founding chairman of David Hale Global Economics. His clients include financial institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Hale writes for major publications and is a member of various institutions and organizations such as the National Association of Business Economists, Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Competitive Markets Advisory Council of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and many others.

China Takes Off, published in Foreign Affairs in 2003 and written jointly with his wife Lyric Hughes Hale, is one of the most oft-cited surveys of China’s economic ascendency. Their newest publication, “What’s Next? Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the Global Economy” published by Yale University Press in 2011.

Nick Holland has been CEO of Gold Fields – the world's fourth largest gold miner – since 2008. Prior to that he was CFO of the company for 10 years. Under Nick the company has introduced its vision of “Being the global leader in sustainable gold mining” and has made significant strides in becoming a truly global mining company with operating mines in four countries and advanced stage development projects in another four. An all-or-nothing approach to safety – “we will not mine if we cannot do so safely” – underpins the company's production, while there has also been a strong emphasis on sound community relations and significantly reducing the company's environmental footprint. Sustainability is engrained in the company's way of doing business.

Before joining Gold Fields Nick held senior position in other South Africa mining companies, including Impala Platinum and Gencor. He joined the mining industry in 1990 from accounting firm Deloitte where he spent the first 11 years of his professional career after graduating with a B.Com and B.Acc from Wits University. Nick matriculated at King Edwards VII School in Johannesburg.

Michael Hopley is the President and CEO of Sunridge Gold. He is a geologist with 30+ years of mineral exploration experience for companies in the precious metals and base metal sector. Michael has held a number of executive and board positions with companies conducting exploration in various parts of the world.

Dr. Dennis Hosack is a Programme Officer in the Business & Biodiversity Programme at the International Union for Conservation of Nature's headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. Dr. Hosack has spent the last three years working at the interface of biodiversity conservation and natural resource utilization by the private sector, leading IUCNs private sector engagements with ICMM, Rio Tinto, and Royal Dutch Shell.

The bulk of Dr. Hosack's time is spent working with the private sector on efforts to reduce their footprint, especially where conflicts arise between protected areas and resource exploitation. Prior to joining IUCN, Dr. Hosack worked in a variety of positions, all of which focused on the conflicts that are commonly involved with the use of natural resources and the desire to conserve biological diversity. Dr. Hosack holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry from Kent State University, a Master of Science degree in Natural Resources from Humboldt State University, and a Ph.D. in Forest Resources from the University of Georgia.

Mr Hughes is a Geologist with 20 years experience including; development and mining management of potash, gold, base metals and uranium deposits. His expertise includes geological resource interpretation/estimation, project generation, mine planning/optimisation, near mine resource development and environmental management. Mr Hughes has experience throughout Australia, Malaysia Indonesia and Eritrea.

Gregory Isenor, the President and CEO of Merrex Gold Inc., is a professional geologist, NI43-101 qualified person and businessman. He has over 35 years experience in the mineral and oil and gas resource industries and has worked throughout the world including North America, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Tom is senior commodities analyst at Credit Suisse where he leads the coverage of precious metals. He is responsible for fundamental market analysis, generating tactical and strategic trade ideas, and advising clients on purchasing, trading, investment and hedging strategies for gold, silver and platinum group metals. He is regularly quoted in the financial and business press, including the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.

In 2010 he topped the Reuters annual poll of analysts as the most accurate forecaster of the gold price. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in April 2010 he spent 3 years as global precious metals strategist for Mitsubishi Corporation and before that was manager of market research for the leading precious metals refining group Johnson Matthey PLC. Tom previously gained extensive experience as a business journalist with Metal Bulletin PLC and began his career with Roskill Consulting group in London as an analyst covering the minor metals markets. Tom holds a BSc in Geology from Southampton University, UK

Mr. Lamb has almost 20 years experience in the mining operations and project development industry. Mr. Lamb has held positions with DeBeers in Johannesburg and DeBeers Canada prior to his joining the Lundin Group of Companies in 2008. Mr Lamb was appointed President and COO of Lucara Diamond Corp in 2008, and President and CEO in 2009.

Mr Leslie has been involved in the mining industry for the past 35 years with considerable experience of uranium mining and marketing. He was Managing Director of Rössing Uranium in Namibia, and subsequently an executive director of Rio Tinto for nine years, and more recently, Executive Chairman of Nikanor plc.

Mr. MacQuarrie has 36 years’ mineral exploration experience, the last 18 years in West Africa. An explorationist, Mr. MacQuarrie and his associates in Asante Gold have been responsible for assembling land packages in Ghana that have yielded 15 million ounces of new NI43-101gold resources over the last 8 years. Asante will be working deeper and smarter to discover many new mines in areas previously unexplored.

David Meehan joined Sundance Resources in July 2011 as Project Director for the M'Balam project development. David studied mining engineering in Edinburgh and trained as a mining engineer with the National Coal Board in the UK. Since graduating in 1971 he has spent 40 years in the development of major projects in the civil infrastructure, oil and gas and mining industries and has extensive experience in Africa, China, the Middle East and Russia. His recent experience includes leading a number of multi-billion dollar projects and also a period as corporate business unit Director of Major Projects for a large international project management contractor.

Kevin Norrish is a Managing Director in the Commodities Research team at Barclays Capital. Based in London, his expertise lies in metals and energy markets. Lately, he has focused on the analysis of commodities as an asset class and presenting of the Research team strategic views to Barclays Capital’s investor client base. Mr. Norrish joined Barclays Capital in 1998 as a Minerals Economist in the Commodities group with the brief of starting up the bank’s research for clients in the commodity markets. Prior to Barclays Capital, he was at CRU International, where he was Research Manager for Copper and carried out research in a number of different industrial metals markets. Mr. Norrish has an MSc. in Agricultural Economics from Reading University.

Before joining Norilsk Nickel in 2009 Roman Panov in the period from 2007 to 2009 was a Deputy Head, Head of Investment Project Department and was responsible for realizing of projects within the framework of East Gas Program, Company's business development in East Siberia and Far East, Cooperation with Asian Pacific Region, including Sakhalin1 and Sakhalin 2 projects and construction of regional gas pipeline. In 2003-2006 – Federal Agency for International Economic Scientific and Cultural Cooperation – Head of Economics and Scientists Programmes (including regional representative office in Middle East and North Africa). Deputy Head of Business Development Division in LLC “Interma” in period from 2000 to 2002. In 2009-till date – OJSC “MMC “Norilsk Nickel”: Head of Business Development of International Production Assets Department, Director of International Production Assets Department.

Steve Parsons is the Managing Director and founder of Gryphon Minerals, one of the new generations of successful gold companies operating in West Africa.Steve successfully listed Gryphon in April 2004, and before that he held technical positions for a number of major mining houses, including Rio Tinto and Placer Dome.

Mamphela Ramphele, a South African national, is the Founder of Letsema Circle, a Cape Town based specialist Transformation Advisory Company in both the public and private sector. She is Chair of Technology and Innovation Agency, established in 2009, to help stimulate greater use of technology to address socio-economic challenges and promote sustainable economic growth.

She was appointed Chair of Goldfields in November 2010. She is also Chair of Eduloan and Director of Anglo American Plc. She was Chair of Convenors of the Dinokeng Scenarios sponsored by Nedcor/Old Mutual (see www.dinokengscenarios.co.za) that have energized national debates on South Africa’s future, launched in May 2009. The key message is that futures are created by citizen-leaders.

She served as a Managing Director of the World Bank from May 2000 to July 2004. She served as Co-Chair on the Global Commission for International Migration (GCIM) between 2004-2005. Prior to joining the Bank, Mamphela Ramphele was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, a post she took up in 1996, becoming the first black woman to hold this position at a South African university.

She joined the university as a research fellow in 1986, and was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor five years later. She is an author of many important titles about critical socio-economic issues in South Africa. She has received numerous prestigious national and international awards, including 23 honorary doctorates acknowledging her scholarship, her service to the community, and her leading role in raising development issues and spearheading projects for disadvantaged persons throughout South Africa.

She qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Natal in 1972. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town, a BCom degree in Administration from the University of South Africa, and diplomas in Tropical Health and Hygiene, and Public Health, from the University of Witwatersrand.

Mr Ritchie is the Chief Executive of Rio Tinto's Energy business, which incorporates coal and uranium. He is a member of Rio Tinto's Executive Committee, and is the Group Executive responsible for China. He is also a Director of Rossing Uranium Limited, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Member of the Coal Industry Advisory Board, and a Director of the World Coal Institute. Mr Ritchie holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland, and is a qualified barrister and solicitor.

He joined Rio Tinto in 1986 from the coal industry and has held a number of management positions in various Rio Tinto businesses, including Exploration, Project Development, Energy, Industrial Minerals and Aluminium. He was appointed as Managing Director of Dampier Salt Limited (1997 – 2001), Head of Business Evaluation for Rio Tinto (2001 – 2005), Managing Director of Rio Tinto Diamonds (2005 – 2006), Chief Executive of Rio Tinto Coal Australia (2006 – 2007), and Managing Director of Strategy for Rio Tinto (2007 – 2009).

Until recently, he was also Chairman of the Rio Tinto Staff Superannuation Fund. During this time Doug has lived and worked in most States of Australia, as well as Japan, the United Kingdom and Belgium.

Dana Roets is a qualified Mining Engineer and an alumnus of the University of Pretoria, who also holds an MBA through the University of Cape Town. He was appointed VP Corporate Development with GBG in February 2010, before joining Anglo Platinum in mid-2011. In October 2011, Dana Roets replaced Johan Oelofse as COO.

Hendrik studied Geology in Germany and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of mineral exploration and gold exploration in Africa is his passion. Working for Aurelian Resources Hendrik made a significant contribution to the discovery of the impressive Fruta Del Norte gold deposit in Ecuador (6.8 Moz @ 8.1 g/t Au). Later during his career he became Harmony Gold Mining's exploration manager for the African continent. In his present position with GoldStone Resources Hendrik was instrumental in building a new portfolio of gold exploration projects in Africa.

John Seaberg was designated Vice President, Investor Relations in February 2008, having previously served as Group Executive, Investor Relations since July 2007. Since July 2006 he had served as Group Executive, Internal Audit. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Corporate Development.

Mr. Seaberg joined Newmont Mining Corporation in 1994 as an Internal Audit Manager and later became Financial Manager, Newmont Capital. He holds a master's of business administration from the University of Denver, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Colorado State University.

Susan Shabangu is the Minister of Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa as well as a member of the African National Congress’ National Working Committee. She serves on the National Executive Council (NEC) of African National Congress. Shabangu sat on the Board Directors of the 2010 FIFA World Cup LOC.

• Minister of Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa since 11 May 2009.
• Member of the African National Congress (ANC) National Working Committee since December 2007.
• Member of National Executive Council (NEC) of African National Congress (ANC).

Academic Qualifications

Attended Madibane High School in Soweto (1977).

Career/Positions/Memberships/Other Activities

• Became involved in political career since 1980.
• Assistant Secretary, Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), Federation of Transvaal (1980).
• Active member of the Anti-Republic Campaign Committee (1981).
• Involved in the formation of the Release Mandela Campaign Committee (1982).
• Organiser/Administrator for the Amalgamated Black Worker’s Project (1984 – 1985).
• Representative of the Transport and General Worker’s Union (T and GWU) at the Industrial Council.
• National Women’s Co-ordinator for the Transport and General Workers Union (T and GWU).
• Member of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) National Women’s Sub-Committee working with women’s issues and representing the T and GWU on National level.
• Involved in the voter education programme with COSATU National Election Task Team aimed at workers during the election campaign.
• Served in the ANC National Election Steering Committee. – Elected at a COSATU Special Congress as a regional candidate to the National Assembly (1994).
• Advisor to the September Commission assigned to look at future of the unions during transitional stage and later Member of Parliament.
• Has actively participated in committees such as Labour, Transport and Trade and Industry since 1994.
• Served in the ANC East Rand PCO Management Committee (1995 – 1996).
• Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Afrrica (April 1996 – April 2004).
• Vice-Chairperson of the National Labour and Development Institute.
• National Treasurer of SANCO
• Deputy Minister for Safety and Security of the Republic of South Africa from April 2004- 10 May 2009.. Source:The Presidency

Ms Short was elected Chair of the international EITI Board in March 2011 at the EITI Global Conference in Paris. Ms Short was the UK Secretary of State for International Development (1997-2003) and was the first person to hold this position. She played a key role in elevating the UK's profile and budget for sustainable development and poverty elimination.

Ms Short entered the House of Commons in 1983 as the Member of Parliament for her native Birmingham Ladywood. She was Shadow Minister for Women (1993-1995) and Shadow Secretary of State for Transport (1995-1996). She was Opposition spokesperson on Overseas Development (1996-1997). In 2003, Ms Short resigned from her role as Secretary of State for International Development over the Iraq war. The following year, she wrote “An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power”.

After nearly thirty years serving as a Member of Parliament, Ms Short stood down in 2010. Since 2006, Ms Short has been a member of the Advocacy Panel of Cities Alliance, an alliance of the World Bank, UN-HABITAT, local government and development partners committed to meeting the UN target to develop cities without slums. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of International Lawyers for Africa and a Trustee of Africa Humanitarian Action.

Mr. Simpson is the Exec-Chairman of Peninsula Energy Limited a Wyoming and RSA focused energy developer. He is both a Science and Arts graduate from Curtin University, Western Australia. Mr. Simpson has over 25 years of experience in the management of listed resource companies with a focus on either minerals or energy; including uranium, oil, gas, gold, vanadium and mineral sands. Mr. Simpson has had a principal involvement in a number of successful mineral discoveries in Africa, Australia and North America. Previously held positions include senior executive roles with Gindalbie Mining NL, Australian Minerals Sands NL, Panorama Resources NL and Tanganyika Gold Limited.

Mr. Sisay joined Sierra Rutile in 2001, he started his career at the Central Selling Organization (CSO) of De Beers. He has served as President of the Sierra Leone Chamber of Mines and periodically serves as an advisor to the Government of Sierra Leone on mining-related issues.

Lara is Core Consultant’s Managing Director and founder. Lara began her career as an analyst for an asset management company in Cape Town, Foord Asset Management, where she gained experience in analyzing the South African platinum, gold and oil and soft commodity sectors. During this time she also edited a financial text book for Rhodes University as well as started a Mathematics Tuition project for 300 disadvantaged matric learners, through Mark Shuttle worth’s LEAP Science and Maths School.

She was then head hunted by the Steinmetz Group as the lead analyst, where she was responsible for sourcing, analysing and valuing potential mining acquisitions in Africa and the Baltic regions. The Steinmetz resource portfolio principally included diamonds and ferrous metals, but they did also have a small portfolio of base and minor metals including nickel, cobalt, copper and lithium. Lara also contracted to Ernst & Young where she produced a consolidation template for the National Treasury and reviewed excel models for African Rainbow Minerals, Eskom and South African Government Infrastructure Projects. She also contracted to Metal Bulletin and produced the Metal Bulletin Lithium Markets Outlook report.

This contract work formed the inception of Core Consultants. Since this time, Lara has engaged in a number of projects, including authoring the Metal Bulletin Coking Coal Study as well as market entry studies in coke, ferroalloys, manganese and lithium markets. She is presently co-authoring a quarterly publication on Lithium and Rare Earth Metals with Peter Harben, which will be available in April 2011. Lara holds an Honors Degree in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management and a BSc-Ed in Chemistry, Statistics, Economics and Science and Mathematics Education both from the University of Cape Town (UCT). She is currently a CFA level 2 candidate.

Gordon Thompson is the CEO of private pre-resource gold exploration company Taurus Gold, whose activities are focused in the West African region of Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. He has extensive experience in mining, mining construction and mining exploration. He was a senior Goldfields engineer, and has previously worked for ENRC and CAMEC as Chief Operating Officer.

Clifford leads PwC's cross border capital markets IPO Centre in London, which advises overseas companies, particularly with operations in the emerging markets, on capital market transactions on the main global stock exchanges. Clifford has many years of experience working on capital market transactions and has led the reporting accountant work on many large IPOs. He has advised on a significant number of IPOs of both UK and overseas companies including from the USA, Russia, Kazakhstan, Africa, Indonesia, Iraq, Scandinavia, and Australia. He also has a focus on the Energy, Utilities and Mining sectors.

Mr Turvey is a mining executive, with more than 27 years experience in the coal industry. His career includes senior management roles in production, project execution, business development, minerals resource management mainly with BHP Billiton. He spent most of his time in SA with exposure in countries like Australia, North America and Indonesia. He is past President and member of the SA Colliery Managers Association, member of the SA Institute for Mining and Metallurgy and member of the University of Pretoria Mining Advisory Committee.

Mark graduated and worked as a metallurgist for 12 years before joining the IDC of South Africa in 1996 where he developed and lent to large mining metal processing projects. In 2001, he joined the Nedbank Group and headed the resources lending unit until earlier this year. He is now responsible for developing Nedbank’s international resources investment banking offering.

Kobus is the Founder and Group Managing Director of The Beijing Axis (www.thebeijingaxis.com), a China-focused international advisory and procurement firm operating in four principal areas: Commodities, Capital, Procurement and Strategy. Clients include global multinationals with a ‘China/Asia agenda’; and Chinese/Asian multinational firms with a ‘go-global agenda’.

Kobus has been working in Asia for over 18 years and is based in Beijing. Before founding The Beijing Axis, he was Head of Investment Strategy and Global Market Research for Asia Pacific for Standard Chartered Bank Plc and, prior to that, he was a Senior Strategy Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Asia. In his early career, he was an Emerging Market Investment Strategist in London; a Treasury Economist with Standard Merchant Bank in Johannesburg; and an Economist with the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria.

He holds an MBA from INSEAD in France, a Master of Business from Curtin in Australia and BCom Honours degrees in Finance/Investments and Economics, respectively from UJ and Unisa in South Africa.

He is regarded as a thought leader in China cross-border business, has published extensively and has been invited to present as the keynote speaker and to lead discussions in over 20 countries.

Luuk van Duijse has been responsible for developing Caterpillar's Electric Power business in the Mining Industry since 2009. Prior he was leading transformational change projects for Caterpillar's Electric Power Division across EAME and was regional sales manager in Dubai, Hamburg and Geneva with Caterpillar since 2011.

Under Luuk the company has introduced its vision of being a total solution provider of electric power for mines optimizing mining customer's CAPEX and OPEX. Before joining Caterpillar, Luuk held a number of positions including global sales manager, with Norwegian company Schat-Harding – a world leader in Marine Safety systems- after graduating in Mechanical Engineering from TH Rijswijk in the Netherlands.

Mr. van Hoeken is a Dutch citizen and obtained a BSc in Mining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1991. His early career included positions in the maritime construction industry in Nigeria, Malaysia, Qatar, and several European countries, after which he was involved in the establishment of gold and copper exploration and mining ventures in Indonesia, Mexico, and Oman.

He has been active in the mining industry in various management and consulting positions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the gold, diamond, and copper sectors since 1999 and has extensive experience with remote operations. Mr. van Hoeken has been a director and managing director of several private companies and subsidiaries of listed companies since 1996. He is fluent in French, and is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining as well as a UK Chartered Engineer, and a Professional Member of the US Society of Mining Engineers.

Mr Vulis has been Chief Executive Officer at ENRC since August 2009. He has been Chairman of the Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability Committee since August 2009. Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer Mr Vulis was Chief Operating Officer of ENRC from December 2006. Between 2002 and 2006 Mr Vulis was First Vice President of Eurasia Industrial Association. Before joining the Group in 2001, Mr Vulis was President of UNICHEM K, LLC. From 1990 until 1995 he was President and CEO of AGC Group, Inc.

Dr Paul Walker is the Global Head of Precious Metals of Thomson Reuters GFMS. He joined GFMS in 1995. After graduating with degrees in commerce and economics from the University of Cape Town, Paul worked as an economics researcher for a Member of Parliament in the UK House of Commons before joining the United Nations affiliated International Lead and Zinc Study Group, where he was involved in a wide range of economic studies and forecasts.

He has a PhD in the application of mathematical optimization to large non-linear economic systems from the University of Nottingham in the UK.

Mitchel Wasel, Vice President Exploration, has acted in various roles with the Company since 1993. He was at one time involved in the assessment of the Gross Rosebel project in Suriname from the early stages of exploration through to feasibility studies. Since his transfer to Ghana in 1999 he has been involved with the Bogoso, Prestea, Wassa, Hwini Butre and Benso resource evaluations and feasibilities.

He currently directs the exploration activities for the company in Africa and South America. Prior to joining the Company in 1993 he had worked for a decade exploring for both gold and base metals in Northern and Western Canada.

Jay Wileman, a resident of South Africa, is the President for Sub Saharan Africa, GE Energy Infrastructure. Since joining GE in 1994, Jay has held positions in engineering, manufacturing, industrial services, and financial services in the U.S., Japan, Italy, and Australia.

André Wilkens was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of ARMgold. He was then appointed the Chief Operating Officer of Harmony following the merger of ARMgold with Harmony in 2003. André subsequently served as Chief Executive of ARM Platinum, a division of ARM. André was appointed as Chief Executive Officer to ARM in 2004 and was appointed to its Board of Directors in the same year.

The balance of André's 40 years mining experience was gained with Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, where he commenced his career in 1969 and culminated in his appointment as Mine Manager at Vaal Reefs in 1991. African Rainbow Minerals was founded by Patrick Motsepe as South Africa's first black owned mining company. In 2009 African Rainbow Mineral joined the International Council on Mining and Metals.

Prior to ABG, Andrew was employed by JP Morgan Cazenove in the Corporate Finance Team and has over 10 years of experience in advising a range of mining and other companies in their capital-raising activities and in other strategic objectives. Prior to joining JP Morgan, he worked for the Kuwait Investment Office in London.

Mr. Young most recently served as Vice President and CFO of Gabriel Resources Ltd., from May 2005 to March 2010. From 1991 until 2003, Mr. Young served in a series of positions of increasing responsibility at Barrick, rising from positions in the finance group, mine development – primarily the Goldstrike and the Pierina projects – through corporate development, before becoming Vice President, Investor Relations.

A Chartered Accountant, Mr. Young is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario with a graduate diploma in public accountancy from McGill University.