Julian Perkins

Julian Perkins has over 40 years of experience in operations and management with major companies in the international minerals industry. He was manager of mining & technology (Australia) for AngloGold Ashanti, one of the world’s largest gold mining companies, until 2006. His career includes underground mining engineering in South Africa and management of metallurgic operations on the Zambian Copperbelt. Mr Perkins led the mineral processing department of Shell Research in the Netherlands for three years before moving into corporate management in the Netherlands and then in Australia. Mr Perkins is chair of Parker Centre which manages the Parker Cooperative Research Centre (‘CRC’) for Hydrometallurgy. He was previously a director of CRC Mining and the Australian Centre for Mining Environmental Research.