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Melbourne, Aug 13, 2010 (ABN Newswire) - FINANCE VIDEO: Clean Global Energy (ASX:CGV) CEO John Harkins Speaks at The China-Australia Resources Summit 2010.

Mr Harkins commenced his professional career as a graduate health and environment specialist following a studentship with the government service in the United Kingdom. He later moved to the private sector as an internal corporate consultant with the Rank Organisation based in their corporate headquarters in London. This involved delivery of risk management advisory services to the Boards and executive management of Rank's diverse national and international manufacturing and processing companies.

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Mr Harkins relocated to Australia more than 25 years ago and established his own consultancy practice, specialising in the emerging area of risk management. He went on to act as an advocate in both State and Federal Industrial Relations Commissions with a particular focus on the issue of industry superannuation. During this time he served on a number of company Boards, later becoming inaugural CEO of CARE Super, one of Australia's largest pension funds with more than $1.6 billion dollars in investments under management at the time. He later established his own investment facilitation company, focusing on the areas of investor relations, private capital raisings and mergers and acquisitions. The company undertook mandates both in Australia and overseas across a range of sectors including gold mining, agricultural manufactring, biotechnology and construction.

Mr Harkins was appointed as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Linc Energy Ltd in September 2004 which was then an unlisted public company. During Mr Harkins' tenure at Linc he helped steer the company through its successful IPO in May 2006 and the commencement of its business plan, which included the use of UCG and GTL technologies. Mr. Harkin's resigned from Linc's Board in September 2006 to pursue a Senior Vice President role with a Seattle WA USA based company involved in gasification technology producing diesel fuels from a range of waste products. In that role he put together several joint ventures in the USA and Nigeria and was instrumental in preparing the company for a planned listing on the London AIM market. He relinquished this position in August 2008 to return to Australia and take up the position of Chairman and Managing Director of Clean Global Energy.