Dr David Shaw has more than three decades of experience in the resource and finance industry, with specific emphasis on technical and financial due diligence of resource projects. He also has experience in West Africa, including work in the Birimian gold belt of western Mali. Dr Shaw graduated with a B.S. in Geology from the University of Sheffield, UK in 1973 and received a PhD in 1980 in Structural Geology from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada conferred for structural geological research he undertook in British Columbia.