Molefi Motuku

Chief Executive Officer, Mintek

Molefi Motuku is Chief Executive Officer of Mintek, in the role since 2019.

Mintek, the Council for Mineral Technology, is South Africa's national mineral research organisation, specialising in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy under the Mineral Technology Act. Its technology is used in more than 60 countries.

In the job

  1. The Mintek board reappointed him as chief executive for a further five years. Source

Career before

  1. from 1986Mining apprentice, JCI
  2. Assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, Tuskegee University
  3. Director, Fort Hare Institute of Technology, University of Fort Hare
  4. to 2010Manager, Advanced Materials Division, later General Manager: Research and Development, Mintek
  5. from 2010Chief Executive Officer, National Metrology Institute of South Africa
  6. Group Executive: Research, Development and Innovation, later Acting CEO, CSIR

Education

PhD and MSc in Materials Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham; BSc in Mechanical Engineering and BSc in Physics, Tuskegee University

Sources

  1. mintek.co.za
  2. m.miningweekly.com
  3. m.miningweekly.com

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