(Biography from 2008) Robert Dickinson is chairman of Hunter Dickinson Inc., a Canadian company that is one of the most successful mine development teams in North America.

Dickinson holds B.Sc. (economic geology) and M.Sc. (business administration) degrees from UBC. He is a director of the BC Mining Museum, a trustee of the BC Mineral Resources Education Program, a member of CIM and a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada. In 1990, he received the Mine Developer of the Year Award for Canada and was British Columbia’s Mining Industry Person of the Year in 2000. In 2007, Dickinson and the Northern Dynasty team received the Thayer Lindsley International Discovery Award for the Pebble East deposit in Alaska.