Allan Trench is MBA Director and Professor at the UWA Business School, a non-executive director of several ASX-listed minerals companies – and the Perth representative for CRU Consulting, a division of independent metals and mining advisory CRU Group (allan.trench@crugroup.com). Allan has over 30 years industry and academic experience including previous exploration, corporate, consulting and executive roles with organisations such as WMC, Barrick Gold (KGCM), McKinsey & Company and Woodside Energy. Allan holds degrees in geology from the Royal School of Mines London, a PhD in geophysics from Glasgow University, a Masters degree in Mineral Economics from Curtin University and an MBA from Oxford University

Eleonore completed her PhD thesis at the Sustainable Minerals Institute in January 2018. Her project focused on applying industrial ecology thinking to the problematic of mining waste in the objectives of minimising waste and optimising resource extraction in the context of sustainable development. Eleonore then started a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship within the UQ-SMI's Complex Ore Bodies cross-cutting program. As part of this program, she contributes to building the new Complex Ore Bodies "database" by including social and environmental data exploring the multiple complexities associated with operating mines and new discoveries.