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About the Workshop Leader
Dr. Guj holds a dual appointment as Research Professor and Leader of the “Progressive Risk and Value Analysis” research theme at the Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) of the University of Western Australia and as Adjunct Professor in Mineral Economics at the Graduate School of Business of Curtin University. These academic roles followed a distinguished career in both the mining industry and Government.
He has held the roles of Deputy Director General of the Department of Minerals and Energy and Director of the Geological Survey of Western Australia with responsibility for their general governance and strategic direction in setting and achieving their support and regulatory objectives with regard to the mineral and petroleum industry in Western Australia. Prior to this, as a Financial Executive of the Water Authority of Western Australia, he was responsible for financial plans, policy and strategies for recurrent income, expenditure and capital investments amounting to some $650 million per annum and for the pricing and tariff policy reform leading to corporatisation of this authority.
These government roles were preceded by over 20 years in the field of geology, exploration and mining in Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Africa, Namibia and finally in Western Australia mostly for MIM Holdings. Dr Guj has a PhD in Geology from the University of Capetown and a MBA from the University of Western Australia. His main interests are in project evaluation and decision analysis as applied to the mineral and petroleum industries and in the formulation and administration of internationally competitive regulatory and fiscal regimes; fields in which he has lectured and consulted widely internationally.
