Barnett New Nickel Institute President
THE MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO NICKEL AND ITS APPLICATIONS
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Stephen Barnett, incoming President of the Nickel Institute.
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Outgoing President, Dr. Ivor Kirman (left) and Nickel Institute Chairman, Aaron W. Regent (President of
Falconbridge Ltd.).
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Nickel Magazine, March 2006 -- Stephen Barnett has been appointed President of the Nickel Institute effective January 1st 2006.
Steve is on secondment to the Nickel Institute from BHP Billiton, where he was Vice-President, Health, Safety and the Community in BHP Billiton’s Stainless Steel Materials Division.
He was born in the U.K. in 1954 and graduated in metallurgy from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, UK, in 1975. He has a wide experience of non-ferrous metallurgical engineering and has had specific nickel-related responsibilities in Australia, Colombia and South Africa.
Steve will be based in the U.K. and in the Nickel Institute office in Brussels.
He takes over as President from Dr. Ivor Kirman, who retired from the Institute at the end of January
2006.
With many years of experience as Marketing Director, Inco Europe, Dr. Kirman was known for his ability to
lead the nickel industry’s response to the many marketing opportunities and environmental, health and safety
challenges that faced the industry in the past five years.
In June 2000, he joined what was then the Nickel Development Institute (NiDI), operating from an office in London. Ivor provided effective leadership as NiDI redirected its programs to deal with ongoing and emerging regulatory issues. He also successfully guided the reorganization which combined NiDI with the Nickel Producers Environmental Research Association (NiPERA) to form the Nickel Institute in January 2004.
He recently commented: "We now have the makings of an industry which can work in an intelligent way on an
international basis and we can pick our way through the incredible maze/minefield of which the world seems to
be constructed."
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