Pavel Shevchenko is a mining engineer with over 20 years of experience in the mining industry, has a mining engineer’s diploma in underground mining awarded in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the diploma in law awarded by Turan University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. As an IMC Montan staff member, participated in over 40 projects on reserve and resource evaluation, was involved in projects development in compliance with the international standards, optimisation of mining and other processes of open and underground mining operations.