Paul John Dowd

Biography

  Paul John Dowd is Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Dowd is a mining engineer with 50 years’ experience in the mining industry, primarily in the private sector, but also serving in the public sector as head of the Victorian Mines and Petroleum Departments. He is currently a non-executive director of Oz Minerals Ltd and Phoenix Copper Ltd. Paul has previously held senior executive positions as Managing Director of Newmont Australia Limited and Vice President Australia and New Zealand Operations for Newmont Mining Corporation and prior to that as Chief Operating Officer of Normandy Mining Ltd. He was previously Chairman of Adelaide Resources Ltd and a nonexecutive director of Macarthur Coal Ltd. Paul recently stepped down as Inaugural Chairman of the SA Resources and Engineering Skills Alliance (RESA), but remains on the Board. He is Chairman of the CSIRO Minerals Resources Sector Advisory Council, and an Advisory Board Member of the SA Minerals and Petroleum Expert Group (SAMPEG) and the University of Queensland – Sustainable Minerals Institute Advisory Board. Paul has a Bachelor of Science (Eng) from the University of NSW, is a Fellow of Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Research Interest

 Mining, Chemical Engineering