Ian Satchwell is an Adjunct Professor at the Sustainable Minerals Institute of The University of Queensland and a Senior Fellow of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Ian has more than three decades of experience in policy and governance of trade, investment, minerals, energy and infrastructure in Australia and internationally. He has advised the private sector and governments in Australia, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Ian has been closely involved with trade and investment policy in his past roles as National President of the Australia Indonesia Business Council, Chairman of the Services Forum at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia, Director of the Australian Services Roundtable, Board Member of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia and Associate Member of the Business Advisory Council to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. He is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Canadian Northern Corridor project.