Robert Friedland

• Friedland holds both the United States and Canadian citizenships. 

• He is praised for finding profitable mines in remote areas like Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia.

• He has had a wide range of research and public policy experience.

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

• Chairman and Co-Founder of I-Pulse
• Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of High Power Exploration
• Co-Founder and a Director of Kietta
• Co-Founder and a Director of Ivanhoe Industries
• Co-Chairman of Clean TeQ
• Co-Chairman, SK Global Entertainment
• Co-Founder and Chairman of Ivanhoe Pictures
• Non-Executive Chairman of Gold X
• Founding Director of the Center on an Aging Society
• Board Member of the National Academy for State Health Policy
• Board Member of the Long-Term Care Education Foundation
• Board Member of the Editorial Board of Aging Today

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

• Chief Economist for the Medicaid Program at Maryland
• Senior Research Associate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute
• Director of the American Association of Retired Person's Public Policy Institute
• Research Director at the National Academy of Social Insurance
• Economist on the Staff of the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care

AWARDS

• Developer of the Year by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada in 1996

• Investor Envoy of the Year  by the Mongolian Government's Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency in 2002 and 2003

• Canada's Super Seven Dynamos by the Northern Miner in 2009 

• Dealmaker of the Year Award from Australia's Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum in August 2011

• Mining Personality of the Year by the Asia Mining Club and the Mines & Money in March 2012

• Jury's Award at the Mines & Money Asia Mining Awards in March 2013

• Top 20 Most Influential People by the Mining Journal 2015 and 2016

• Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in 2016

• Members of the Power List of Financial Post Magazine in 2016

• Lifetime Achievement Award by the Northern Miner in May 2017