Edward Fry has extensive experience within the Australian resource sector and is a specialist in Indigenous and Native Title issues. He holds a Diploma in Business Management from the University of South Australia and is a graduate of the International Lead and Zinc Study Group, conducted out of Belgium on international base metal global supply and demand trade. Based in Adelaide, Mr Fry is a former director and a retained consultant to TNG, an Australian resource company focused on the exploration, evaluation and development of a multi-commodity resource portfolio in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. He is an executive director of Gimbulki, a Native Title land access company he established in 2002 which has provided consulting services to a range of Australian exploration and mining companies including Rio Tinto, Barrick Gold, and Transfield Services. During his career, Mr Fry held senior executive roles with Normandy Mining, where he established the company’s Traditional Owner policy, and later became its manager of international logistics and marketing of Normandy’s base-metal portfolio. Mr Fry is chair of Indigenous Business Australia, chair of the Indigenous Land Corporation, chair of the Indigenous Advisory Board at Transfield Services Australia (since 2010), deputy chair of the Aboriginal Foundation of South Australia Inc (since 2007), and is an advisory member of the development team for the TNG's world-class ferro/vanadium Mount Peake project in the Northern Territory.
