Principal Consultant, Ivy Chen examines the role of the mining professional across ESG. Are they a facilitator or a blocker?
With many ESG issues and decisions previously resting with the Board, an increased focus on ESG issues is now seeing a requirement for the mining professional to be more aware of what is happening across ESG related matters.
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Ivy is a corporate governance specialist with more than 30 years’ experience in mining and resource estimation. She served as the national geology and mining adviser for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) from 2009–2015 and is currently Principal Consultant at CSA Global. Ivy’s experience in the mining industry in Australia and China, as an operations and consulting geologist includes open pit and underground mines for gold, manganese and chromite. As a consulting geologist she has conducted mineral project evaluation, strategy development and implementation, through to senior corporate management roles. Ivy joined the VALMIN committee in 2015.