Our Team

About Our Committee

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  • Christine Boase Chair
    Christine Boase is a community relations advisor for Anglo Gold Ashanti Australia and a board member of the Goldfields-Esperance Development Commission. She is also a founding member of GEMIA.
  • Peta Osborne Deputy Chair
    Peta is the Education Officer at the Western Australian Museum Kalgoorlie-Boulder ad has previously chaired the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Urban Landcare Group.
  • Paula Palmer Treasurer
    Paula is a geologist at KCGM Pty Ltd.
  • Holly Phillips Secretary
    Holly is the Eastern Region Manager for the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia. She is also the Deputy Chair of Regional Development Australia Goldfields-Esperance and a member of the Central Regional TAFE Governing Council.
  • Cheryl Workman-Davies Committee Member
    Cheryl is a geologist at Northern Star Resources Ltd Kanowna Belle operations and a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
  • Clive Workman-Davies Committee Member
    Clive was previously employed as a Professor of Mining Engineering at the Western Australia School of Mines. He is a committee member on the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is currently retired.
  • Peter Burger Committee Member
    Peter is a geologist and is currently retired.
  • Dr Robert Fagan Committee Member
    Dr Fagan was previously employed as a Professor of Geology at the Western Australia School of Mines. He is currently retired.
  • Sarah Ciuk Committee Member
    Sarah is a science teacher at Kalgoorlie Primary School.
  • Christopher Gianatti Committee Member
    Chris is a metallurgist at KCGM Pty Ltd and Chairperson of the local Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Branch.
  • Tim Neeson Committee Member
    Tim is an IT entrepreneur and is passionate about active work spaces, gamification in education, drone technology, arts, sustainability and the maker and internet of things movement.
  • Ian Paynter Committee Member
  • Andrew Barker Committee Member
    Andrew is a mine project geologist at Northern Star Resources Ltd.
  • Andre Brady Committee Member