Alison is an industry leading expert with over 35 years of experience in strategic and critical minerals and metals, their markets and supply and demand dynamics. Her expertise includes pricing, deep market knowledge, research, and communications, gained through consultancy projects, minerals trading and commercial reports. She is an Independent non-executive director of Pensana Plc and runs her own consultancy business. Pensana is building a magnet metals supply chain, through a rare earths mine in Angola and a rare earth oxide separation plant in the UK, to meet the burgeoning demand for magnet metals for EVs and offshore wind. Alison was previously Managing Director of metals consultancy Roskill, where she led the strategic direction of the company’s research and products through a period of growth, with a focus on battery and critical materials. Last year she was a member of the UK government’s Critical Materials Global Expert Mission to both Canada and the USA for Innovate UKKTN and she has just published an educational course on critical metals for the battery industry. Alison originally trained as a Mineral Engineer.