Bert Cooper
Mr Cooper has been active in the African natural resources sector for over 25 years. During the 1980s he devised and led an initiative to restructure what, at the time, was Liberia's biggest industrial project - an iron ore mining company with capital investment of over US$600 million. Mr Cooper also formed Liberia's mining parastatal, whose management, marketing and financing requirements were contracted to Mr Cooper's companies. Mr Cooper - a West African national - was a principal member of the team that founded Afren.