Leadership & Governance

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For more than 30 years, Mr. Friedland has been recognized by leaders of the international financial sector and mineral resource industries as an entrepreneurial explorer, technology innovator and company builder. He has successfully developed a portfolio of respected public and private companies whose initiatives have led to several of the world’s most significant mineral discoveries and mine developments, applications of disruptive technologies and contributions to significant economic growth in established and emerging markets in the Asia Pacific Region, Southern Africa and the Americas.

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Mr. Hao Weibao, aged 54, joined CITIC Limited (Stock Code: HK 267) (a company listed on the Main Board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange) and its subsidiaries (the “CITIC Group”) since April 2008. Since April 2023, he has been serving as the Vice Chairman and General Manager of CITIC Metal Group Co., Ltd. and the Chairman and President of Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed company CITIC Resources Holdings Limited (Stock Code: HK 1205). He served as the Assistant to the General Manager, subsequently as the Deputy General Manager and then as the General Manager of CITIC Investment Holdings Ltd. between 2008 and 2015, during which period Mr. Hao also served as the General Manager of CITIC Environment Protection (Investment) Co., Ltd.. He served as the Chairman and General Manager of CITIC Environment Investment Group Co., Ltd. from 2015 to 2023. Prior to joining the CITIC Group, Mr. Hao held several positions at Sinopec Engineering Incorporation from July 1992 to November 1997, and was mainly in charge of financial and project management. Mr. Hao worked at China International United Petroleum and Chemical Company Limited (“UNIPEC”) as a Director and the Chief Financial Officer of the United Kingdom branch (“UK Branch”) from December 1997 to April 2002, the Deputy General Manager of the UK Branch from April 2002 to June 2006, the Deputy Manager of the crude oil department of the head office from September 2005 to March 2007, the acting General Manager of the UK Branch from June 2006 to February 2007, and the Vice Chief Accountant of the head office from March 2007 to March 2008. During his employment at UNIPEC, he was mainly responsible for financial management, futures market operation and internal risk control. Mr. Hao has over 30 years’ experience in overseas business management, financial management, investment and project management, international financing, and international trading.

Mr. Hao holds a Bachelor degree of Economics from Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Tadeu Carneiro became a Director on the Ivanhoe Mines Board in September 2018. He was appointed Lead Independent Director in April 2019.

He is Chief Executive Officer of Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation, and an invited lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Before retiring as Chief Executive Officer of Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM) in December 2016, Mr. Carneiro spent 30 years with the company in progressively senior leadership positions. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in the United Kingdom.

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Jinghe Chen is the founder of Zijin Mining and has been its Chairman since 2000. Mr. Chen is a professor-grade senior engineer, and was the main exploration organizer and discoverer of the Zijinshan Mine in the 1980s, the largest open-pit gold and copper mine in China. He graduated from Fuzhou University with a Bachelor’s degree in Geology and obtained an Executive MBA degree from Xiamen University.

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William Hayden has served as a Director of Ivanhoe Mines since March 2007. He is a geologist with more than 38 years’ experience in the mineral exploration industry, much of it gained in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. His involvement with the current Ivanhoe Mines began in 1998; he served as first President of the corporate predecessor, African Minerals, from May 1998 to November 2001 – and as a Director from 1998 to 2002. (African Minerals, which evolved to Ivanplats, subsequently assumed the Ivanhoe Mines name in 2013.)

Mr. Hayden has worked in a management capacity with several exploration and mining companies in Australia and internationally since 1986. He was President and a director of Ivanhoe Philippines from July 2005 to December 2011 when it was a subsidiary of the original Ivanhoe Mines (renamed Turquoise Hill Resources in 2012).

Mr. Hayden presently has a directorship with publicly-listed Palisades Goldcorp and Trilogy Metals. He was a non-executive director of Ivanhoe Australia from November 2006 to May 2010.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons), Geology, degree from Sierra Nevada College, Nevada, USA.

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Martie Janse van Rensburg joined the Ivanhoe Mines board of directors in August 2020.

Ms. Janse van Rensburg is a Chartered Accountant based in Johannesburg South Africa. She has over 40 years of experience in finance and more than 25 years’ experience in senior-level executive positions and as a director with a number of leading South African companies, with a particular focus on capital markets, project finance and infrastructure development.

Since 2008, Ms. Janse van Rensburg has worked as an independent consultant to government, banks, and companies with respect to governance, water, financial, funding and institutional arrangements and transformation. She last served as a consultant to ASISA (Association for Savings and Investment South Africa) to promote investment in water infrastructure from 2016 to 2019. Previous to this, Ms. Janse van Rensburg worked for Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority, a South African state-owned entity charged with financing and implementing mega bulk raw water infrastructure projects, from 1994 – 2008; initially as its Chief Financial Officer until1998 and then as its Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2008.

Ms. Janse van Rensburg is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (South Africa) and the Institute of Directors. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelor Honours of Commerce degree and a Certificate in the Theory of Accounting (CTA). She qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1987.

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Manfu Ma joined the Ivanhoe Mines board of directors in August 2019. Mr. Ma, CITIC Metal Group’s Vice President, played an important role in CITIC Metal’s two strategic investments in Ivanhoe Mines in 2018 and 2019. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the mining industry, specializing in geology and mine management.

Mr. Ma joined CITIC Metal in 2007 and has served in various positions, including Chief Geologist, Deputy General Manager of Investment Department, and Assistant General Manager. Prior to joining CITIC Metal, he held senior management positions with China Gold Group and the Gold Bureau of China’s Inner Mongolia province.

Mr. Ma holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Geology from Changchun Institute of Geology.

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Peter Meredith has served as a Director of the current Ivanhoe Mines and its corporate predecessors, including Ivanplats, since May 1998.

He also was involved in overseeing business development and corporate relations for the original Ivanhoe Mines in his dual roles as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He was a Director and CFO from May 2004 to May 2006, and from June 1999 to November 2001. He was Deputy Chairman from May 2006 until April 2012, when Rio Tinto acquired control of the original Ivanhoe Mines and renamed it Turquoise Hill Resources later that year.

Mr. Meredith also was Chairman of Asia-focused SouthGobi Resources, a former subsidiary of the original Ivanhoe Mines, until September 2012, and Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to October 2009.

Before joining Ivanhoe Mines, Mr. Meredith spent 31 years with Deloitte LLP, chartered accountants, and retired as a partner in 1996.

Mr. Meredith was certified as a Chartered Accountant by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1968.

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Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is the former United Nations (“UN“) Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women from August 2013 to August 2021, where she served as a global advocate for women and girls by establishing initiatives such as the HeForShe for men and boys to address gender equality. She was appointed Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg in January 2022.

From June 2005 to September 2008, she served as Deputy President of South Africa, overseeing programs and policies to reduce inequality, with a particular focus on women. Before this, she served as Minister of Minerals and Energy from June 1999 to June 2005 and Deputy Minister in the Department of Trade and Industry from 1996 to 1999. She was a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 1996 as part of South Africa’s first democratic government.

Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka began her career as a teacher and gained international experience as a coordinator at the World YWCA in Geneva, where she established a global programme for young women. She is the founder of the Umlambo Foundation, which supports leadership and education. A long-time champion of women’s rights, she is affiliated with several organizations devoted to education, women’s empowerment and gender equality.

Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka completed her PhD in Technology and Education at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science and Education from the National University of Lesotho. She also is a Hauser Leader at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.

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Kgalema Motlanthe became an Ivanhoe Mines Director in April 2018. Mr. Motlanthe was President of South Africa for a period between 2008 and 2009, and subsequently served as the nation’s Deputy President from 2009 to 2014.

He heads the Motlanthe Foundation that is dedicated to a range of public-benefit activities, including conflict resolution, promotion of human rights and democracy and the provision of care for pre-school-age children, along with buildings, equipment and educational support for public primary schools. Mr. Motlanthe also is a trustee of Liliesleaf Trust and the Brazzaville Foundation.

Mr. Motlanthe led the African Union’s Election Observer Mission to Sierra Leone to help ensure that the 2018 Presidential run-off election complied with international standards. He was Deputy President of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) from 2007 until 2012, and Secretary-General of the ANC from 1997 to 2007.

His role in the international movement against South Africa’s apartheid system led to a 10-year incarceration on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela also was held. Following his release in 1987, Mr. Motlanthe worked for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). He succeeded Cyril Ramaphosa as the union’s General Secretary in 1992. (Mr. Ramaphosa was elected President of South Africa in February 2018.)

During his 10 years with the NUM, Mr. Motlanthe was credited with helping to establish the Mineworkers Investment Company, which was wholly-owned by the NUM and made investments in companies that did not pose a conflict of interest for the union. Mr. Motlanthe played a crucial role in forming the Mineworkers Development Agency, which dealt with the developmental and social needs of retrenched miners and their families. He also helped to form initiatives to provide bursaries to miners and their dependents, as well as education and skills training.

In January 2021, Mr. Motlanthe was appointed as Head of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Nelson Mandela in 1999 to promote Mandela’s vision of freedom and equality for all.

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Delphine Traoré is the Regional Chief Executive Officer of Allianz Africa since November 2021, overseeing development across the continent. She joined the Board of Management of Allianz Africa as Regional Chief Operations Officer in February 2017 and served as CEO of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) Africa from September 2012 to February 2017. Ms. Traoré is currently a non-executive member of the Board of Management of AGCS Africa. She has been serving as a board member for Allianz for a Green Revolution in Africa since February 2022, African Reinsurance Corporation since November 2021, and African Risk Capacity since June 2018.

Ms. Traoré served as Vice-President of the African Insurance Organization from May 2018 to June 2019, before becoming its President from June 2019 to September 2021. She has been recognized as one of the top women economic leaders in Africa, having been featured in Forbes Africa magazine’s portraits of women economic leaders in 2019 and included in the Jeune Afrique magazine’s list of the 50 most influential women in Africa in 2018. Ms. Traoré was also President of the Insurance Institute of South Africa from 2015 to 2017. She was awarded the Woman Leadership Award from the Africa Leadership Awards in 2015 and was named in the Choiseul 100 Africa annual independent study of top economic leaders of tomorrow by the Institut Choiseul in both 2014 and 2015.

Ms. Traoré began her career as a Senior Commercial Multi-Lines Insurance Underwriter and Marketing Representative and later as Regional Underwriting Manager with Ohio Casualty Group of Insurance from June 1996 to June 2003 after which she service as Commercial Umbrella/Excess Regional Underwriting Manager with Ohio until May 2005. She joined Allianz Group in Group in August 2005, specifically with AGCS Canada. She held positions of Liability Underwriter and Head of Market Management where she was responsible for identifying potential markets to support business development across Canada.

Ms. Traoré is a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter from the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters. She also holds a Master of Science in Insurance Management from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science in Business and Accounting from the University of Pittsburgh.