Nusrat Ghani was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Business and Trade and as the Minister of State responsible for the Investment Security Unit at the Cabinet Office on 7 February 2023.
She was previously Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 27 October 2022 to 7 February 2023, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport from January 2018 to February 2020.
In parliament Nusrat has been a member of a number of Select Committees including the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Armed Forces Bill Committee, the Home Affairs Committee and the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission.
Most recently, from 2020 to 2022, Nusrat has been a member of the Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee and has led on a number of enquires, including a probe into the use of Uyghur slave labour in UK supply chains. This culminated in a report calling for the creation of a government monitored blacklist of companies that fail to guarantee supply chain transparency.
Nusrat was the Vice-Chair of the 1922 Committee from 2021 to 2022.
Nusrat was part of the UK delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 2020 to 2022 and the Rapporteur of the Science and Technology Committee.
For her work raising the state organised violation and abuse of women, the forced sterilisations, and the incarceration of millions of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Nusrat was nominated for the NATO Women of Peace and Security Prize, finishing runner-up to the Honourable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Nusrat was also one of 5 MPs sanctioned by China and was recently sanctioned by Russia.

Outside politics
Nusrat was the first woman in her family to be formally educated. She attended state comprehensive school before studying at Birmingham City University (BA Government and Politics) and Leeds University (MA International Relations).
Before beginning her career in politics, Nusrat was employed by the charities Age UK and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, and later for the BBC World Service.

For more than 25 years, Robert M. Friedland has been recognized by leaders of the international financial sector as an entrepreneurial explorer, technology innovator and company builder. He has played key leadership roles in several world-scale mineral discoveries and mine development projects, including the Voisey’s Bay nickel discovery in Canada and the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold discoveries in Mongolia.

Today, Robert is Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, focused on advancing its three principal projects: the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mining Complex and the historic Kipushi zinc-copper-germanium-silver mine in the DRC, and the Platreef palladium-platinum-nickel-copper- gold discovery in South Africa. He is the Chairman and co-founder of I-Pulse, a private company that is commercializing proprietary, pulsed-power technologies aiming to achieve disruptive outcomes across numerous industries, as well as the Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Electric that develops mines from mineral deposits principally located in the USA to support American supply chain independence. Ivanhoe Electric's two main projects are the Santa Cruz copper project in Arizona and the Tintic copper-gold project in Utah.

Robert was the Director, Chairman and President of Ivanhoe Pictures, Inc. from May 2013 to December 2021, and a Director since December 2016, and Chairman, since June 2018, of VRB Energy. As one of the most recognised mining personalities and achievers in the world, Robert is dedicated to serving on numerous boards in the natural resources sector. These positions include serving as a Co-Chairman and Director of Sunrise Energy Metals Limited (formerly Clean TeQ Holdings Limited) since September 2016, a Director of I-Pulse since April 2008, and a Director of Kietta SAS since November 2009. From June 2020 to June 2021, Robert served as Chairman of Gold X Mining Corp., which was acquired by Gran Colombia in June 2021, at which time he left the board of directors. Robert founded Ivanhoe Capital Acquisition Corp., a NYSE-listed special-purpose acquisition corporation that completed its merger with SES AI Corporation (“SES”), a lithium-metal battery developer, in February 2022. He continues to serve as a director of SES.  Robert was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in 2016, cited as “a dynamic, transformative force in the Canadian and international mining industries. He graduated with a degree in political science from Reed College and currently resides in Singapore.

Scott Woodard joined the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service in 2002 as an Economic Officer. During his career, he has been posted to U.S. embassies and consulates in Manama, Bahrain; Vilnius, Lithuania; Chennai, India; Bern, Switzerland; and Munich, Germany, working on a wide variety of political, economic and commercial issues. During his most recent overseas tour he served as Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. Following that tour, he worked in Washington for U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire as a foreign affairs advisor. Currently, he serves as the Acting Director in the State Department’s office dedicated to promoting the diplomacy of clean energy. Scott earned a master’s degree from the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He speaks German, Hungarian, and some Lithuanian, Spanish, and French.

Rohitesh “Ro” Dhawan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). Under his leadership, ICMM has undertaken landmark commitments and action on critical sustainable development issues, including the first industry-wide net zero commitment, pioneering actions on diversity, equity and inclusion, and significant steps towards radical transparency of the industry’s contribution and performance, including on tax and contract disclosure.
Ro is a Fellow and faculty member of the Africa Leadership Initiative and a Raisina fellow at the Asian Forum on Global Governance. He serves on the Advisory Boards of the Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment, Concordia, and Resolve. He has served on the UK Government’s Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (PACT) Programme and was named one of South Africa’s climate change leaders for his work with the country’s mining sector.
Ro hold a Master’s in Environmental Change & Management from the University of Oxford in the UK and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Rhodes University in South Africa.

Tom joined London Stock Exchange in September 2013 and is Head of International Business Development within Primary Markets.  In his role, Tom advises UK and international companies and their owners on the process of going public and life as a listed company on London’s markets.  Prior to joining London Stock Exchange, Tom was at Citigroup for over 15 years as a Managing Director in the Equity Capital Markets division, originating, structuring and executing equity and equity-linked transactions across UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.  He has originated, structured and executed large number of IPOs and follow-on capital raisings over the years, including many involving a London listing.  Prior to Citi, Tom worked in Kleinwort Benson’s Equity Capital Markets team from 1994 to 1997. Tom graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Hons) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Andrew has significant experience in the mining, banking, and private equity sectors. Prior to co-founding Vision Blue Resources, he founded a natural resources advisory business which resulted in him negotiating and leading a number of mining private equity transactions. In addition, he has spent significant time in corporate development roles in the mining sector, as well as taking active roles in numerous mining technology businesses. Andrew began his career at JP Morgan in the UK Corporate Finance and Capital Markets division where he participated in more than US$30bn of transactions, principally focussed on the mining sector. Andrew has extensive experience in transaction execution, IPO processes, stakeholder engagement through project development, project financing, government engagement, and project technical oversight.