Simon Hunt has spent his working life in and around the copper industry. First working for two major copper producers; second by helping to establish a European copper development organization (CIDEC); then founding a metals consultancy, Brook Hunt & Associates in 1975 during which he acted for the US copper producers in two International Trade Commission anti-dumping cases.

Twenty years later he founded Simon Hunt Strategic Services focusing on the inter-relationship of geopolitics and economic activity, China, where for twenty years on average he visited some eighty factories in and around about fifty towns and cities every year as well as focusing on the copper industry’s supply, demand and price dynamics.

Increasingly the focus is on how the world is moving from a unilateral structure into a multilateral one and what this means for business and copper activity.