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I'm a seasoned mining expert, with two decades senior advisory experience – most often as team lead - in over 25 countries and across over 70 projects and programmes in Europe, Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, South America, and Oceania. 

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Recent projects have focused on the energy transition and the governance of critical minerals. I led a team that supported the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) prepare its next 5-year mining sector strategy, with a heavy focus on decarbonisation and green mining.  Most recently, I have been supporting the establishment of a Presidential Delivery Unit in Zambia with a focus on critical mineral exploration and the electric vehicle battery value chain. 

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After completing his PhD in 1998, I started my career working in a senior management position for London-based digital strategy companies, providing advice to blue chip clients across financial services, the automotive and travel sectors and managing a team of content developers.

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In 2003, I was hired to be the Technical Advisor/Team Lead on the €12m European Commission funded Economic Management Capacity Building Programme (EMCAP) programme, based in Abuja, Nigeria.  I shifted focus to the extractives sector in 2007, becoming Technical Advisor for DFID’s support to the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). 

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I've advised on mining sector policy, legal and regulatory frameworks in Kenya, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea – being sole author of the latter’s transparency policy.  In 2022, I prepared an ESG due diligence audit of a privately held copper mine in Zambia using the Responsible Mining Index framework.