World Mining Investment Congress 2012 - list of speakers

Mr Anagnostaras-Adams has served as Deputy Chairman of the Australian Gold Council, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He moved to Europe to lead EMED. His experience in the past 25 years has been as Managing Director of Gympie Gold Ltd, Executive Director of investment...

Mr. Anderson is an exploration geologist, entrepreneur and business executive with over 16 years of experience working in the resource sector. After graduating with a geology degree from the University of Toronto, he moved to Venezuela to work as the resident project geologist on a successful kimberlite exploration program. Since then, he has been ...

Gerald Cheyne is Director Corporate Development of Kalimantan Gold, an AIM and TSX.V quoted exploration company with copper and gold projects in Indonesian Borneo. Over his 25 year corporate finance career he has acted for a wide range of companies advising on mergers and acquisitions, flotations, buy-ins and buy-outs, fund-raisings and investor...

David C. Cliff has been Chief Executive Officer and President of Empire Mining Corp. since February 2008. Mr. Cliff served as Exploration Manager of Europe at Rio Tinto Exploration from 1980 to2006. He has been Director of Empire Mining Corp. since January 11, 2008.

Andrew Cranswick is the Chief Executive Officer of African Consolidated Resources PLC. A fourth-generation Zimbabwean, he has lived almost all of his life in the country. He has a geological background with extensive commercial experience in the mining and metals industry of Southern Africa. In addition, in the 1990s he established a successful...

Luis da Silva is CEO of TSX-V/AIM listed (symbol: AFF) Afferro Mining Inc. He gained his extensive international experience with multinationals Lafarge S.A. and Blue Circle Industries Plc. Since 2007 Luis has presided over the restructuring of the three commodities within the original Mano River company (more recently known as African Aura Mining ...

Angelos is Chief Executive Officer at Sector Investments. In 2004, he set up Sector Investment Managers Ltd (SIM), an FSA-authorised and regulated investment advisory company and launched the Junior Oils Trust which he advises. Junior Oils Trust focuses its investments in smaller oil and gas equities and grew from a launch Net Asset Value size of...

Mikhail Damrin is currently the CEO of Kopy Goldfields AB (former Kopylovskoye AB, a Swedish publicly listed gold exploration company with market cap of 17 MUSD and 45 personnel in Sweden and Russia). Previously he has worked with Central Asia Gold AB, Crimea Properties LLC, and is currently an acting partner with Amur Gold LLC.

Walter joined Standard Bank at the start of 2007 as Head of Commodities Research. As part of his current duties he interacts with corporate clients, institutional investors and hedge funds across the globe. The team covers base metals, precious metals and energy. The commodities research team draws substantial knowledge and market insights from...

Ric Deverell is a Director and Head of Commodities Research at Credit Suisse, based in London. He joined Credit Suisse in April 2010 after 10 years at the Reserve Bank of Australia, where he held several senior positions including Deputy Head of Economic Analysis and Chief Manager, International Markets and Relations. During the...

Ashley recently joined Control Risks as an analyst on the Africa desk. He provides political and security risk analysis on West Africa for Control Risks’ subscription services, Country Risk Forecast and PRIME, as well as undertaking bespoke services for clients operating in the region. Prior to joining Control Risks, Ashley worked in the office...

Jonas joined Mineral Invest in April 2010 as Head of Negotiations. He has a background from the Kinnevik Group where he worked with strategic and financial consulting in a daughter company within corporate finance for global companies. Later he cofounded a corporate advisory firm specializing in the metal, mining and oil sector. Jonas has studied...

Previously CFO for Alexander Mining PLC (AIM: AXM) and corporate finance manager at PKF (UK) LLP, Gardner is a qualified chartered accountant with a significant breadth of experience in financial management and corporate finance in the natural resources sector.

Mr. Gauthier has been President at Lara Exploration Ltd. since December 21, 2009.

“A chemist by academic training, Charlie spent a decade in the City as a mining analyst at Cazenove and a specialist mining salesman at T Hoare Canaccord, before joining Edison. He has extensive media experience, having written for MoneyWeek and The Business magazines, and The Evening Standard. He also presented LBC’s early morning radio...

Rajesh Goel is a Mining Engineer with about 40 years of experience in Mining Industry. He graduated with Honours from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1972. He worked for about 30 years in India with TISCO, NMDC and SAIL in different iron ore mines. He was also associated with the Modernisation of Bokaro Steel...

Dr Phil Gorey is the Executive Director Environment at the Western Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum. This is the primary State government agency for the regulation of mining and petroleum developments in Western Australia. Collectively, his team of around 70 professional officers assesses almost 3,000 applications each year, and...

Greg Hall is a Mining Engineer with 30 years’ experience in the resources industry, including 23 years in the uranium industry in operational management, senior marketing and MD roles. Mr Hall previously held senior operational management roles with WMC Resources at Olympic Dam and Nickel Operations, with Rio Tinto at ERA’s Ranger Mine, and in...

Mr Harris brings extensive mining experience to London Mining, as an exploration geologist with over 40 years experience at Anglo American (5 years), Cominco (14 years) and Rio Tinto (19 years). He is currently the Managing Director of iron ore company Zanaga UK Services Ltd, and is a non-executive director of AIM-listed Ncondezi Coal Company...

Dr. Antony Harwood (Tony) is an economic geologist with over 30 years of experience in the mining industry, and graduated from the University of Wales, Cardiff in the UK with a BSc (Hons) cum laude and a PhD degree in Economic Geology. Tony is currently Chairman of Universal Coal plc (ASX) with various near term Coking and Thermal coal assets in ...

Owen L HEGARTY was appointed as Vice-Chairman and an Executive Director of G-Resources on 19 August 2009 and 10 May 2009 respectively. Mr Hegarty has had 40 years’ experience in the global mining industry. Mr Hegarty was with the Rio Tinto Group for 25 years as the Managing Director of Rio Tinto Asia and Managing Director of the Rio Tinto Group’s...

David commenced his career in 1979 with the Stock Exchange of Melbourne and following a move to London he progressed to become an executive director of M&G Investment Management Limited. He became head of the International Desk at M&G in April 1995, where he was also responsible for M&G Group’s investments in the precious metals and commodities...

Didier J. Rault is a successful financier, international businessman and the founder and chairman of International Finance Capital (IFC), a global finance and investment firm based in Hong Kong. IFC specializes in the integral capital transactions that are essential in today’s rapidly evolving global business environment. These include project and ...

Julian Jessop is Chief Global Economist at Capital Economics, the leading macroeconomics and financial markets consultancy. He joined the company in 2004 from Standard Chartered Bank, where he was Senior International Economist responsible for analysing the G7 economies and the emerging markets of Asia. Julian has also held senior economist...

Bert Koth is a Director of Denham Capital and brings 13 years of experience to the firm. Bert is responsible for origination, analysis, structuring, and execution of investments in the metals, mining and energy sectors. Prior to joining Denham, Bert worked at ING Barings, Deutsche Bank and BHP Billiton. Bert received a graduate degree and a PhD in ...

Yong is the CEO of Inventis Investment Holdings (China) Co Ltd, a leading private equity firm based in China and one of the largest PE firms investing in the greater China region with more than USD1.0bn of capital under management. Yong's investment interests lies in a broad range of industries such as energy, manufacturing, retail, food and...

Adam Lucas is a Mining Analyst at Ocean Equities a specialist Natural Resources broking house in London. Adam covers Junior and Mid-Cap hard rock mining companies with a particular focus on the African continent. Prior to joining Ocean Equities Adam was the Lead Financial Analyst for Fortescue Metals Group, the third largest iron ore producer in...

Since graduating from UNSW with a Mining Engineering degree in 1988, Mr Lynch has held various positions within the coal industry in Australia, as mining engineer, project manager, mine manager, general manager and managing director, from January 2006 until January 2010, Peter was President, CEO and Director of Waratah Coal Inc., responsible for...

Graham Mascall has over 40 years of commercial, financial, and transaction experience in mergers and acquisitions, business development and project management in mining and mining finance. Over the course of his career he has worked as a senior executive for a number of companies in the mining and mine finance sector. He has worked in senior...

International Government Affairs Advisor, Anglo American London (joined Oct 2010). Previously Head of Public Diplomacy at the British Foreign Office (2008-2010). Seconded to Unilever as Director of Public Affairs for Africa, Middle East and Turkey (2005-2008). Posted to British Embassy Paris (Head of Press and Public Affairs 2000-2004), South...

Mr. Irwin A. Olian, Jr. serves as Chairman of African Queen Mines Ltd. and has been its Chief Executive Officer and President since April 2008. Mr. Olian has been a self-employed Consultant since July 1997. He has been Chief Executive Officer and President of NeoClassics Films Ltd. since November 2007. Mr. Olian serves as Chief Executive Officer...

Ajay Paliwal is a Director of Jiva Capital, a firm that invests and consults in the mining, metals and power sectors. The investment focus is on situations in which Jiva can play a role in the development of resources. In the consulting business, Jiva currently provides in-depth strategic support, transaction support and financial management...

Matt is a co-founder of TBA and Head of the firm’s Capital division. He served as a Non-Executive Director of the Company since 2003 before joining TBA as an Executive Director in 2009. Matt joined TBA from CREATE Ventures, the UK Venture Capital Fund Manager, where he was a co-founder and Investment Director since 2000. At CREATE Matt was a...

Professional back ground in the Dutch financial sector, including seven years as a Senior Investment Officer, of which four years as Vice-President, for a Dutch Investment House. Independent financial and gold analyst since 1975. Publisher and editor of: • Goldletter International, since 1987, a premier information and advisory source on...

Mr Reading has significant expertise in the global mining industry with over 35 years’ experience across the fields of exploration, feasibility, project development and mining. Mr Reading has an MSc in Economic Geology and has held senior positions with leading mining companies. He is the former CEO of European Goldfields and the former General...

John Robertson has worked as a business strategist and investment market professional for over 30 years. He was responsible for resources sector investment strategy at a leading institutional broker before being appointed chief economist. He has managed futures market trading activities for an international resources group. He has been chief...

Erlan Sagadiev (42) is well respected as a capable and responsible developer of Kazakh businesses, his economic advice and insight is regularly sought by both private business and government officials. He has extensive experience in the food, mining, oil & gas and education sectors as well as other entrepreneurial business activities. Erlan is or...

Mr. Ulansky commenced his career 17 years ago working for Dia Met Minerals Ltd. on the project which yielded the Ekati diamond mine. Since then Mr. Ulansky has led exploration programs in over 15 countries on four continents and is currently president of Cantex Mine Development Corp. Mr. Ulansky is also a graduate of the University of Cape Town.

Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Mr. Vermaak lead s IFC’s oil, gas, mining and chemicals investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mr. Vermaak is responsible for overseeing and developing the corporation's strategy, managing key client relationships and delivering, with the, industry and advisory teams, the IFC's Oil, Gas Mining and chemicals...

Chris has called markets, analyzed global economic cycles and quantified investor behavior for 7 years as CEO and Chief Market Strategist at Longview Economics. Prior to founding Longview Economics in 2003, Chris worked in the City (of London) for 12 years with Cazenove and then CAI Cheuvreux as a global economist and strategist. He also held...

John Welborn, is Managing Director and CEO of Equatorial Resources Limited (ASX:EQX). Mr Welborn is a former International Rugby Union player with more than 20 years’ experience as a senior executive in corporate management, finance and investment banking, including various roles in the resources sector. Previously Head of Specialised...

Michael Widmer leads the research coverage in metals markets at BofAML Global Research and publishes the Global Metals Weekly and Metals Strategist. Michael joined BofAML Global Research from BNP Paribas where he was Senior Metals Strategist. Before BNP, Michael was head of Metals Research at Lehman Brothers where he had been responsible for...