Jan Klawitter received his first degree in Business and his second degree in International Relations from universities in Germany, Spain and China. In 2007, he joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Leadership Fellows program and headed up the Forum’s Mining Industry Group. Prior to the Forum he worked in China for six years, first for a large FMCG company and subsequently mostly with the Ministry of Land & Resources. Since 2012, Jan has been with Anglo American in his current position as their Government Relations Manager, with responsibility for stakeholder relations for corporate activities in the Far East as well as North America and corporate engagement with multilateral processes and institutions.