Richard Ness

Richard Ness is a mining executive with more than 38 years of experience in the energy, mineral resources and mining sectors, having been a senior executive at Newmont Indonesia and Freeport Indonesia. Mr Ness is the President Commissioner of PT Petrosea Tbk and Commissioner of PT Indika Energy Tbk; two companies in the Indonesian energy and oil & gas sectors. He is also the vice president & chief executive of PT Merdeka Copper Gold Tbk which recently commissioned, and now runs, the Tujuh Bukit gold project in Java, Indonesia. Mr Ness is the chair of mining division at the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia.