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The Confucius Institute Lecture Series

CHINA’S EMERGING ROLE IN AFRICA:
DEVELOPMENT IMPACTS AND CHALLENGES

Michael Komesaroff has over 30 years’ experience in Asia’s mineral industries of which nearly 20 years was with Rio Tinto. His last two roles in Rio Tinto were as President of Rio Tinto Japan and Vice-President of Strategy for the firm’s aluminum business group. In 1997 Mr. Komesaroff was recruited by an arm of the China National Nonferrous Metals Corporation to work in China. Returning to Australia in 1999, Mr. Komesaroff established Urandaline which has now provided services to many or the world’s largest mining companies as well as investment banks and government agencies.


Mr. Komesaroff is also a free-lance journalist being a regular contributor to the Metal man column in the China Economic Quarterly. He also contributes to other authoritative industry publications including American Metal Market, Far East Economic Review, Metal Bulletin, Metal-Pages, Metal Bulletin Monthly, Industrial Minerals, Trusted Sources and The Diplomat.

Contact
Ziyan Lou
Graduate Assistant
The Confucius Institute at Stony Brook University
Melville Library, Room E5340
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3397
(631) 632-7653
Ziyan.Lou@stonybrook.edu