Robert L. Pritchard (born 1941) is a

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-based

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active in the energy and resources sector. He is managing director of ResourcesLaw International and executive director of the

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Career

Pritchard is the managing director of consultancy ResourcesLaw International, chairman of SMR Nuclear Technology and executive director of the Energy Policy Institute of Australia. He also works as a consultant for the Australian legal firm, Piper Alderman and is chairman of the board of the St Baker Energy Innovation Fund. He is also a fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy. Pritchard was founding Chairman of the Section on Energy and Resources Law of the International Bar Association and served on the Finance Committee of the

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for nine years. Pritchard lectures Masters Program students on Global Energy and Resources Law at the

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. He has written and edited various publications about the resources and energy sector and the law, including ''Economic Development, Foreign Investment and the Law'' (1996). He is a former member of the Advisory Committee of the

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Energy Transformed Research Flagship.

Nuclear industrial development

Pritchard is an advocate for the legalisation of

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. He is chair of SMR Nuclear Technology, which intends to develop and deploy small modular reactors in Australia. He previously worked on the acquisition of the

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's interest in the Ranger Uranium Project and the subsequent listing of

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Ltd on the

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References

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