Chris brings almost 40 years’ experience in the natural resources sector, including senior roles with Alcoa Australia Operations, Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Anglo American Marketing, Fortescue Metals Group and The Superpower Institute. After an 18-year career in operational roles spanning analytical chemistry, QA/QC, R&D and process control, Chris moved into technical marketing. At Rio Tinto, he led this function across the Japan, Korea and Taiwan and Southeast Asia regions, supporting product strategy, customer and competitor intelligence, and resource investment decisions. At Anglo American, Chris established the technical marketing function in London for Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East and North Africa markets, adding process emissions models to inform the decarbonisation context. He later joined Fortescue as Group Manager Technical Marketing, where he developed and led the Technical Marketing team and Green Iron and Steel program. Most recently, Chris was Technical Lead Green Iron at The Superpower Institute, contributing to research including ‘A Green Iron Plan for Australia’ and ‘The New Energy Trade’. His technical understanding of ironmaking and steelmaking, combined with deep industry relationships, gives him an exceptional understanding of the decarbonisation challenges facing the global iron and steel industry.