Speakers
Carrie Bone
Senior Reporter
Fastmarkets
Joe Carrabba
CEO
ElementUS
Tristan Clarke
General Manager Bauxite & Alumina Commercial
Rio Tinto
Ted Dickson
President
TAK Industrial Mineral Consultancy
Ted Dickson
President
TAK Industrial Mineral Consultancy
Ted Dickson has over 40 years experience in the industrial minerals industry. After obtaining a B.Sc in geology from Edinburgh University and an M.Sc in Mineral Exploration from the Royal School of Mines in London, he spent more than twelve years with Industrial Minerals magazine, split roughly evenly between the London and New York offices, latterly as American Editor. He then spent five years with a mining company, Cluff Resources, primarily assessing opportunities for the company to diversify into industrial minerals to supplement its gold mining activities. For the past 30 years, he has been working as an independent consultant from his base in the UK, specialising in the markets for industrial minerals. He has been involved with many aspects of the non- metallurgical bauxite and alumina sector including markets studies on various sub sectors for companies, acquisition due diligence and the publication of three multi-client reports, the last of which was published by Roskill.
Mark Hansen
CEO
Concord Resources
Duncan Hobbs
Research Manager
Concord Resources
Samuel Jinapor
Minister for Lands and Natural Resources
Ghana Bauxite
Samuel Jinapor
Minister for Lands and Natural Resources
Ghana Bauxite
Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor is a Ghanaian Lawyer and Politician, and currently Ghana’s Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and the Member of Parliament for the Damongo Constituency. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from the Kwame Nkrumah Univeristy of Science and Technology and a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws Degrees from the University of Ghana. Prior to becoming a Minister, Hon Jinapor worked as a Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of Operations at the Office of the President of Ghana for four years. He also worked at the law offices of Kulendi@Law, where he rose to the rank of a Senior Associate.
S. Kanakanand
President, MCOE
Hindalco Industries Limited
Saurabh Khedekar
President and CEO Specialty Aluminas & Chemicals
Hindalco Industries Limited
Ron Knapp
China Hongqiao Group
Andy Lee
Commodity Analyst
Australian Government
Andy Lee
Commodity Analyst
Australian Government
Andy Lee is an Economist and Australian Government Commodity Analyst at the Office of the Chief Economist, Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources, a position he has held since October 2015. In that role, he is the author of the aluminium chapter and gold chapter (until March 2021) of the Resources and Energy Quarterly publication – the Australian Government’s flagship publication that provides comprehensive analysis and forecasts of global resources and energy commodities, including aluminium, alumina and bauxite. Andy holds a Master of Public Policy, a Graduate Certificate in Project Management, and a Bachelor of Economics.
Liping Li
Senior Manager: Strategy and Markets
Alumina Limited
Alice Mason
European Base Metals Editor
Fastmarkets
Shanti Persaud
Senior Environment Officer
Jamaica Bauxite Institution
Miles Prosser
Secretary General
International Aluminium
Senior Representative
Hydro
Ami Shivkar
Principle Analyst: Aluminium Markets
Wood Mackenzie
Sandy Sutherland
SVP Strategy, Energy and Sourcing
Norsk Hydro