Professor Corby Anderson is a registered engineer with over 40 years of global experience in industrial operations, corporate level management, engineering, design, consulting, teaching, research and professional service.

He currently serves as the Harrison Western Professor in the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy as part of the George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and the Mining Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. He is a Fellow of both the Institution of Chemical Engineers and of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

In 2015 he was awarded the International Precious Metals Institute’s Tanaka Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2016 he received the Distinguished Member Award from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Colorado School of Mines and also became a Distinguished Member of the University of Idaho Academy of Engineering. In 2017 he received the EPD Distinguished Lecturer Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.