Who we are

The Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials is a global partnership between Rio Tinto and five of the world's leading universities: Imperial College London, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, The University of California, Berkeley, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and the Australian National University, Canberra. The centre is hosted by the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. 

The Centre management is led by the Co-Directors, Dr Sarah Gordon (Imperial College London) and Julie Bouchard (Rio Tinto) with support from the Centre team based at Imperial as the host university. Decision making at the centre is supported by the Steering Committee and the Social and Technical Committee, both of which have representatives from all partners.