Program Committee
IMPC Council Members
Ralph Holmes (President)
Robin Batterham
Cyril O’Connor
John Marsden
David Deglon
Valentin Chanturiya
Jim Finch
Diana Drinkwater
Rod Elvish
Brij Moudgil
Romke Kuyvenhoven
Han Long
Pablo Brito-Parada
Jan Cilliers
Guven Onal
Barun Gorain
Ronel Kappes
Silvia Franca
IMPC Organizing Committee
John Marsden (IMPC 2024 Chair)
Ronel Kappes (IMPC 2024 Co-Chair)
Tarun Bhambhani (IMPC 2024 Co-Chair)
Jan Cilliers (IMPC Council, UK-based)
Romke Kuyvenhoven (IMPC Council, Chile-based)
SME Staff
Melanie Penoyar-Perez (SME COO)
Tara Davis (SME Director, Content Dev & Programs)
Shalea Hardison (SME Director of Marketing)
Cori Knasinski (SME Director of Meetings)
Technical Committee-Focus Area Leads
Energy Minerals – Martin Rudolph
Innovation, Research and Development – Courtney Young
Optimization
- Comminution – Mike Daniel
- Physical Separations – Teresa McGrath
- Flotation – Tarun Bhambhani
- Extractive Metallurgy – Janet Baron
Integrated Value Chain
- Geometallurgy and Process Mineralogy – Isabel Barton
- Plant Design – Dave Meadows
- Process Control, Modelling & Simulation – Aaron Noble
Sustainability
- Tailings – Dirk Van Zyl
- Dry Processing – Komar Kawatra
- Strategic Minerals/REE Processing – Rick Honaker
- Water Management – Robert Dunne
Human Capital – Diana Drinkwater
