By Marcus Williams
Former star gold fund manager Graham Birch has joined the board of miner Petropavlovsk as a non-executive director.
Birc, 49, recently retired as head of fund management group Blackrock’s natural resources team, where he was responsible for around $40bn of assets.
He managed Blackrock’s world mining trust and gold & general unit trust and was a director of its commodities investment trust until 2009.
Birch and the late Julian Baring paired up at Mercury Asset Management in 1993, where they launched a number of mining and natural resources funds.
In 1997, Mercury was taken over by Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, which was itself eventually acquired by BlackRock in 2006. Birch managed the world gold fund with Evy Hambro.
As a non-executive director, Birch will serve on the audit, nomination and risk committees.
Petropavlovsk, formerly known as Peter Hambro Mining PLC, is Russia’s third largest gold producer.
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