Ian Satchwell is an Adjunct Professor at the Sustainable Minerals Institute of The University of Queensland.

Ian has more than three decades of experience in trade and investment, and minerals and energy in Australia and internationally.  He has worked on policy and projects in Australia, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Ian has been closely involved with trade and investment policy in his past roles as National President of the Australia Indonesia Business Council, Chairman of the Services Forum at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia, Director of the Australian Services Roundtable, Board Member of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia and Associate Member of the Business Advisory Council to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. He is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Canadian Northern Corridor project.