Alastair Neill is an international operations and business development professional with more than 25 years of experience managing all facets of rare earths and critical materials. Alastair has negotiated a foreign joint venture in China for a metals company and led the turnaround of a Chinese operation for an American company. He is the author of several market review sections of PEAs for rare earth companies in South America, Africa, Canada and the USA. Alastair lived in China and Mongolia for over 10 years. He graduated as a material science engineer and has an MBA.