David Deglon is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. He has a BSc Chemical Engineering (Wits, 1989), a PhD (UCT, 1999) and an MBA (UCT, 2002). He worked for some years within the Rand Mines group as a metallurgist on coal, gold and platinum operations. He left Rand Mines in 1992 and joined UCT as a research officer in the Department of Chemical Engineering. In 1996 he was appointed as a senior lecturer and was promoted to associate professor in 2006 and full professor in 2010. In 2013 he was appointed as the Anglo American Platinum Chair in Minerals Processing and Director of the Centre for Minerals Research. He is on the editorial board for Minerals Engineering and is Vice-Chairman Designate for the International Mineral Processing