Skills/Experience

Professor mineral economics Luleå University of Technology, 2009.
MSc Chemical engineering Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1974.

Founding partner of the Raw Materials Group (RMG), 1985.
RMG specialises in global analysis of the mining industry starting with the proprietary ownership and production database Raw Materials Data. Raw Materials Data covers both the global metals, iron ore and coal industries in great detail.

Magnus Ericsson has been engaged all around the world in his consultancy work. A special focus has been on Southern Africa where he has worked extensively in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. Similar work has also been done for UNCTAD, World Bank and the European Commission and other international organisations.

He has almost 20 years of management experience from Scandinavian industry prior to joining the RMG full time in 1991. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences of Sweden.

Role in the Project

ME is coordinating the input of RMG into the Polinares project. He has long experience in strategic aspects of metals and minerals and has been advising governments of Papua New Guinea, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Greenland in addition to the African countries mentioned above. Ownership and control linked to political developments and markets is his specialty in this project.