Simon has spent his working life in the copper industry having been educated in England and Belgium. He has travelled widely including to Burma, China, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Siria Lanka, Russia, parts of Africa where he lived for a few years, to USA, Canada, Chile, Brazil etc and now lives in Dubai.

He first visited China in 1993: every year until 2020 he visited around 80 factories in about 50 towns and cities and now speaks regularly to business friends in the country.

In piecing together his work on copper he has had not only to have independent views on the global economy but on geopolitical developments, the latter being an interest fostered by his father.

He produces regular reports on the global economy, China, the copper industry and geopolitics and has a Newsletter which can be found on simon-hunt.com

He can be contacted on simon@shss.com or on his website for Simon Hunt Strategic Services