Glenn Banks

Currently a professor of geography at Massey University, Glenn Banks has worked as a researcher on and consultant to the mining industry in the Pacific for more than 30 years. This includes work at some of the world’s largest copper and gold mines in PNG and Indonesia, visits to nickel mines in New Caledonia, 18 months leading the development of a PNG national human development report for UNDP that focused on turning their mineral resource into more sustainable forms of human development, advice to governments in Fiji and the Solomon Islands, and a stint on a short-lived advisory group to OceanaGold, New Zealand’s largest gold producer.