Mark Mobius, Ph.D., executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, has spent more than 40 years working in emerging markets all over the world. He joined Franklin Templeton in 1987 as president of the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, Inc.

He is the author of the following books: Trading with China, The Investor’s Guide to Emerging Markets, Mobius on Emerging Markets, Passport to Profits, Equities – An Introduction to the Core Concepts, Mutual Funds – An Introduction to the Core Concept, Foreign Exchange – An Introduction to the Core Concepts, Bonds – An Introduction to the Core Concepts, Mark Mobius – An Illustrated Biography and The Little Book of Emerging Markets.

Dr. Mobius was named by Asiamoney magazine in 2006 as one of their “”Top 100 Most Powerful and Influential People.”” Asiamoney said, he “”…boasts one of the highest profiles of any investor in the region and is regarded by many in the financial industry as one of the most successful emerging markets investors over the last 20 years. Despite tough times during the financial crisis nine years ago, he still commands a strong following in the investment world and is influencing the direction of billions of investment dollars.”” Other awards include: (1) “”50 Most Influential People”” by Bloomberg Markets Magazine in 2011, (2) “”2010 Africa Investor Index Series Awards”” by African Investor, (3) “”Emerging Markets Equity Manager of the Year 2001″” by International Money Marketing, (4) “”Ten Top Money Managers of the 20th Century”” in a survey by the Carson Group in 1999, (5) “”Number One Global Emerging Market Fund”” in the 1998 Reuters Survey, (6) “”1994 First in Business Money Manager of the Year”” by CNBC, (7) “”Closed-End Fund Manager of the Year”” in 1993 by Morningstar and, (8) “”Investment Trust Manager of the Year 1992″” by Sunday Telegraph.

He is a member of the Economic Advisory Board of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is a member of the World Bank Group. Dr. Mobius earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Boston University, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in economics and political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For more than 25 years, international financier Robert Friedland has been recognized by leaders of the global financial sector and mineral resource industries as an entrepreneurial explorer and company builder. He is credited with key leadership roles in several world-scale mineral discoveries and minedevelopment projects, and with having guided strategic exploration and investment decisions that havesuccessfully contributed to significant economic growth in established and emerging markets in Asia, the Asia Pacific Region, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.

Mr. Friedland’s career achievements, enterprise and leadership were recognized in January 2016 when he was inducted into the prestigious Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, which cited his company-building and exploration achievements, declaring him “a dynamic, transformative force in the Canadian andinternational mining industries” and “one of the most recognized mining personalities and achievers in the world”. Mr. Friedland said at the ceremony that he shared the honour with several teams of dedicated individuals whose efforts with his companies during the past 30 years had contributed to a series of notable discoveries and new mines.

In December 2016, the U.K.-based Mining Journal reaffirmed its original December 2015 ranking of Mr. Friedland among the Top 20 Most Influential People shaping the future of the world of mining, describing him as “the undisputed king of junior development”. In October 2016, Canada’s Financial Post Magazine named Mr. Friedland one of 25 members of its inaugural Power List – termed “the biggest, buzziest and most influential movers and shakers in Canada and beyond”.

Mr. Friedland founded Ivanhoe Capital Corporation in 1987. He now leads his family’s private company from bases in Singapore, Beijing, London and Vancouver, specializing in the provision of venture capital and project financing for international business enterprises. With Mr. Friedland’s initiating leadership, executives from the affiliated Ivanhoe group of benefiting public and private companies, and an ensuing range of significant international projects, have raised more than US$25 billion in equity and debt financing on world capital markets since 1993. This capital has been invested in more than 30 nations, directed primarily at the discovery and production of mineral resources and the development and application of innovative exploration, processing and communications technologies.

From its founding in 1994, the Ivanhoe Mines enterprise brand has evolved as Mr. Friedland’s pre-eminent flagship for international mining and mineral exploration. He has served variously as the company’s Executive Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. Between 1996 and 2012, the original Ivanhoe Mines and its subsidiaries conducted or participated in mining operations in Mongolia, Australia, China, Myanmar, South Korea and Fiji, and built a large shareholder base through listings on North America’s Toronto, New York and NASDAQ stock exchanges.

Ivanhoe Mines’ exploration in Mongolia led to a decade of discoveries that revealed a 12.4-kilometrelong (7.7-mile) chain of world-scale copper and gold deposits. Construction of the Oyu Tolgoi miningcomplex began in 2010; initial production began in 2013. International mining giant Rio Tinto acquired control of Ivanhoe Mines in 2012 and renamed the company Turquoise Hill Resources.

Today, the new, and renewed, Ivanhoe Mines is advancing its three principal projects in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1) Mine development and ongoing exploration at the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project – already independently ranked as the world’s largest, high-grade copper discovery – in the Democratic Republic of Congo; 2) mine development at the Platreef platinum-palladium-gold-nickel-copper discovery on the Northern Limb of South Africa’s Bushveld Complex; and 3) upgrading of the historic, high-grade Kipushi zinc-copper-lead-germanium mine, also on the Central African Copperbelt in the D. R. Congo.

Mr Jay Hambro is the Chairman and Non-Executive Director of IRC Limited (Hong Kong Stock Exchange: 1029). He began his career as a metals and mining project financier at NM Rothschild and then as an investment banker at HSBC. In 2002 he joined what is now the Petropavlovsk Group and was subsequently appointed CEO of Aricom plc. Following the acquisition of Aricom by Petropavlovsk in 2009, he became the CIO there, a role he relinquished in 2010 to become Executive Chairman of IRC, until 20 January 2016 when he was re-designated as the Non-Executive Chairman of IRC.

Mr Hambro is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and an Independent Non-Executive Director of Winsway Enterprises Holdings Limited. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management.

Steve Letwin was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of IAMGOLD on November 1, 2010. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since joining the Company.

Specializing in corporate finance, operational management, and merger and acquisitions, Steve brings over 30 years of experience from the highly-competitive resource sector. Steve actively leads his executive management teams with a clear and pragmatic approach to driving business results, creating shareholder value, and achieving sustainable growth.

Prior to joining IAMGOLD, Steve was based in Houston, Texas, where he was the Executive Vice President, Gas Transportation & International, with Enbridge Inc. Steve was responsible for Enbridge’s natural gas operations, including overall responsibility for Enbridge Energy Partners, as the partnership’s Managing Director. In 1999, he joined Enbridge as President and Chief Operating Officer, Energy Services, based in Toronto, Canada.

Before joining Enbridge, Steve served as President & Chief Operating Officer of TransCanada Energy and was Chief Financial Officer, TransCanada Pipelines Limited, Numac (Westcoast Energy), and Encor Energy. Mr. Letwin holds an MBA from the University of Windsor, is a Certified General Accountant, a graduate of McMaster University (B.Sc., Honors), and a graduate of the Harvard Advanced Management Program.

Throughout his career, Steve has actively demonstrated his commitment to voluntary leadership. His most recent community affiliations have included Director, Corporate Campaign Committee of Texas Children’s Hospital; Patron, UNICEF Alberta, Canada; and Director, YMCA Calgary, Canada. For his commitment to the community, Steve was awarded the 2006 Alberta Centennial Medal.

Mr. Andrew Drager serves as Managing Director and Director at Qi Power Limited. Mr. Drager started his career at LC Engineering, a Brisbane based mechanical engineering consulting firm. He undertook a senior engineering role responsible for increasing productivity in the Australian mining sector. Since 2009, he was responsible for the start-up and management of LC Energy division within the LC Group. In 2012, he co-founded Qi Power which is focused on the development of utility scale solar PV. He serves as a Director of Regard Properties Pty Ltd which operates investments in commercial rooftop solar PV and real estate. He holds B. Mech. Eng. (Hons).

Mr. He is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of operational and investing experience. Mr. He has successfully completed a number of multijurisdictional joint venture transactions and has effectively conducted business in China, Hong Kong, North America, Africa, and Europe. The foundation of Mr. He’s businesses are manufacturing and international trade. In 2002, Mr. He began to invest in mineral exploration and mining in West Africa – Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger. Mr. He controls a gold tailings mine, the Tounte Project located in Burkina Faso. He was also instrumental in assembling a 250 sq km highly prospective gold property in Burkina Faso. Recently Mr. He has spent a significant amount of time in Niger establishing operations focusing on the exploration of uranium properties. Mr. He also worked a lot in Central and South American countries such as Mexico, Cuba, Bolivia, etc on Nickel, gold/silver and Lithium. Mr. He holds an MBA from Universite de Nice Business School in France as well as a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies from IAE Paris. Mr. He is the member of numbers of China/Canada business associations. He has been elected the 2014 best Asia Pacific Business Award in Canada. He also spent lots of time to the local community and charity work. He speaks four languages – English, French, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Mr. He is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of operational and investing experience. Mr. He has successfully completed a number of multijurisdictional joint venture transactions and has effectively conducted business in China, Hong Kong, North America, Africa, and Europe. The foundation of Mr. He’s businesses are manufacturing and international trade. In 2002, Mr. He began to invest in mineral exploration and mining in West Africa – Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger. Mr. He controls a gold tailings mine, the Tounte Project located in Burkina Faso. He was also instrumental in assembling a 250 sq km highly prospective gold property in Burkina Faso. Recently Mr. He has spent a significant amount of time in Niger establishing operations focusing on the exploration of uranium properties. Mr. He also worked a lot in Central and South American countries such as Mexico, Cuba, Bolivia, etc on Nickel, gold/silver and Lithium. Mr. He holds an MBA from Universite de Nice Business School in France as well as a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies from IAE Paris. Mr. He is the member of numbers of China/Canada business associations. He has been elected the 2014 best Asia Pacific Business Award in Canada. He also spent lots of time to the local community and charity work. He speaks four languages – English, French, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Mr. He is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of operational and investing experience. Mr. He has successfully completed a number of multijurisdictional joint venture transactions and has effectively conducted business in China, Hong Kong, North America, Africa, and Europe. The foundation of Mr. He’s businesses are manufacturing and international trade. In 2002, Mr. He began to invest in mineral exploration and mining in West Africa – Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger. Mr. He controls a gold tailings mine, the Tounte Project located in Burkina Faso. He was also instrumental in assembling a 250 sq km highly prospective gold property in Burkina Faso. Recently Mr. He has spent a significant amount of time in Niger establishing operations focusing on the exploration of uranium properties. Mr. He also worked a lot in Central and South American countries such as Mexico, Cuba, Bolivia, etc on Nickel, gold/silver and Lithium. Mr. He holds an MBA from Universite de Nice Business School in France as well as a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies from IAE Paris. Mr. He is the member of numbers of China/Canada business associations. He has been elected the 2014 best Asia Pacific Business Award in Canada. He also spent lots of time to the local community and charity work. He speaks four languages – English, French, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Simon Kidston has an investment banking background with more than 20 years global experience with groups such as Macquarie Bank, HSBC and Helmsec Global Capital. Simon is a co-founder and Executive Director of Genex Power, and has responsibility for project finance and business development. After successfully reaching financial close for the 50MW Kidston Solar Project, he is currently focused on securing funding arrangements with banks and equity partners for the 250MW Kidston Pumped Storage Hydro Project and the 270MW Kidston Solar Project.

Mr. Jarkas is a highly experienced financial services executive, with over 20 years of international banking experience. Currently, Mr. Jarkas is the Chairman and CEO of Cedrus Group, a global boutique investment firm, he founded over a decade ago. The Cedrus Group has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Jakarta, Cayman Islands and New York. The firm’s clients include tier-one institutions, family offices, governments and corporations in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North America and the Middle East.

Prior to founding Cedrus Group, Mr. Jarkas held senior-level asset management positions at some of the world’s leading investment firms, including JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch and CIBC Oppenheimer. During his tenure at CIBC, he was the Executive Director – Investments, a member of the exclusive Chairman’s Council and consistently ranked among the top-25 Portfolio Managers managing money for pension funds, family offices and sovereign funds. At Merrill Lynch, he was repeatedly ranked as one of the top Senior Financial Advisors for the firm. Mr. Jarkas’ clients are sophisticated investors, including corporations (public and private), pension funds and high-net-worth individuals from around the globe. During his tenure at JP Morgan Chase, Mr. Jarkas was a member of the executive corporate strategy team that took multiple Silicon Valley-based technology and Biotechnology companies public.

Mr. Jarkas is fluent in English, Arabic and conversational French. Mr. Jarkas is a Certified Financial Manager and holds B.A.s in Finance and Accounting from Georgia State University. Mr. Jarkas has a global outlook entrepreneurial spirit, a competitive nature and a history of success. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Mr. Jarkas was the number one squash player and among the top-ten players in the U.S. for six consecutive years.