Six industry luminaries to keynote celebrated Iron Ore Conference

Christiaan Heyning

Director Decarbonisation
Fortescue Future Industries (FFI)

Christiaan has extensive experience in decarbonisation in the mining and power sector including system design and planning. As the Director of Decarbonisation at FFI, Christiaan is responsible for ensuring that Fortescue meets their decarbonisation commitments.

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Chrisine Hass

Manager Strategic Airsheds
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

Christine Hass is an accomplished scientist with a wealth of experience in environmental management, specifically focused on iron ore ports. Currently serving as the Manager Strategic Airsheds at the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, Christine's primary focus is on airshed management in Port Hedland. Her work is at the interface of environmental sustainability and economic growth.

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Darren Matthews

Manager Steel Decarbonisation
Rio Tinto

Darren currently manages a range of Rio Tinto’s scope 3 initiatives related to its iron ore sales. This includes partnerships with steelmakers, research providers and universities to find product and processing solutions that reduce carbon emission across the ore to steel value chain.

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Professor G.J. 'Gus' Nathan

Director, Centre for Energy Technology
Professor (Mech. Eng.) University of Adelaide, 
Research Director, Heavy Industry Low-carbon Transition CRC

Gus Nathan is the Research Director of the national $215m Heavy Industry Low-carbon Transition Cooperative Research Centre. Following his leadership on an ARENA-funded program to develop solar thermal technology to decarbonize the Bayer alumina process in partnership with Alcoa, Hatch and CSIRO, and an innovative hydrogen production technology in methane pyrolysis within the Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre. 

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Kerry Turnock

MAusIMM

Global Practice Lead - Resource Knownledge, BHP's Resource Centre of Excellence

Kerry Turnock is responsible for the transformational characterisation of in-situ and transformed rock mass at all stages of a deposit’s life cycle with front end loading of geoscience knowledge for superior decisions. Kerry’s has a proven track record of successfully delivering break-through projects with functioning solutions that have resulted in realised benefits from resource identification through to improved mining practices. 

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Paul Zulli

BE (Hons I), PhD, FTSE

Director, ARC Research Hub for Australian Steel Innovation (Steel Research Hub)

Responsible for leading the second Steel Research Hub which engages major stakeholders across industry to effectively progress steel innovation in Australia and to facilitate the industry's transformation towards a resilient, environmentally sustainable and economically competitive position across the entire steel supply chain.

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