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Council

The Council comprises 15 to 25 Council members, jointly representing the various technical areas Bauxite, Alumina, Aluminium Production and Environment, Scientific areas and Regional areas.
The Council members play an active role in ICSOBA as ambassadors in their regional and professional network, they support the Board, can be asked to become a member of the Organizing Committee of an ICSOBA event, or they can take up a role as PR-officer, Newsletter Editor, coordinator of a special interest group, etc.
Council meetings are held during International ICSOBA events or conducted via tele-conferencing, and are chaired by the Secretary General.

COUNCIL MEMBERS OF ICSOBA

Name Designation Contact Details
Prof. Arthur Pinto Chaves  Full Professor, Mineral Processing, São Paulo, Brazil apchaves@usp.br
Dr. Yang Jianhong Vice President of Zhengzhou Research Institute, CHALCO, China Zyy_yjh@rilm.com.cn
Dr. Wanchao Liu Research director at Zhengzhou Research Institute, CHALCO, China zyy_lwc@rilm.com.cn
Mr. George (György) Bánvölgyi Technical Director, Bán-Völgy Limited Partnership, Budapest, Hungary gbanvolgyi@yahoo.com
Mr. Michael Emond Global Bauxite Resource Manager, Bauxite Alumina Technology Centre, BHP, Australia Michael.Emond@bhpbilliton.com
Ms. Rita Vaseur-Madhoeban  Director Bauxite Institute, Suriname dirbis@sr.net
Mr. Parris Lyew-Ayee Executive Director, Jamaica Bauxite Institute plyewayee@jbi.org.jm
Mr. Ashish Jog Project Manager Alumina, DUBAL, Dubai Ashish_jog@dubal.ae
Mr. Stef Sep General Manager, Hencon Handling (PTY) Ltd., South Africa stef@hencon.co.za
Mr. Leslie Leibenguth President LWL Technical Services, USA lwltech@yahoo.com
Mr. Fabio Araujo Mendes Process development Manager, Paragominas Bauxite Mine, Norsk Hydro, Brazil mailto:fabio.mendes@vale.com
Dr. Peter Smith Principal Bayer Technologist, CSIRO, Australia Peter.Smith@csiro.au
Dr. Yiannis Pontikes Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium pontikes@gmail.com
Mr. Dominique L. Butty Butty Herinckx & Partners BV, Switzerland dlbutty@bluewin.ch
Dr. Viktor Buzunov ETC Krasnoyarsk UCRusal, Russia viktor.buzunov@rusal.com
Mr. Wagner Brancalhoni Alumina Projects Hatch, Brazil wbrancalhoni@hatch.com.br
Mr. Michel Reverdy Independent consultants, currently at Dubal michelr@dubal.ae
Mr. Jeffrey Best Global Bauxite Manager, Hydro, Cananda Jeffrey.Best@hydro.com
Dr. S. Sankaranarayanan VP R&D Hindalco Innovation Centre Belgaum, India s.sankaranarayanan@adityabirla.com
Ms. Suziany Rocha de Souza Project generation, Rio Tinto Exploration, Australia Suziany.RochadeSouza@riotinto.com
Mr. André Pelland Refinery Technology, RTA, Canada
andre.pelland@riotinto.com
Mr. François Crevier VP Mining and Metallurgy, SNC Lavalin, Canada Francois.crevier@snclavalin.com
Mr. James MetsonLight Metals Research Centre, University of Auckland, Nw Zealand j.metson@auckland.ac.nz
Mr. Bernard AllaisDirector sales & marketing, RTA, France bernard.allais@riotinto.com
Dr. Bhagyadhar Bhoi Snr Principal Scientist, IMMT, India bbhoi@immt.res.in
Dr. Chitta Ranjan MishraRtd R&D, National Aluminium Company NALCO, India crmishra49@yahoo.in