(Biography from 2008) Jeremy Richards is a professor of economic geology at the University of Alberta and is a registered professional geologist in Alberta. He received a BA in geology from Cambridge University in 1983, a M.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1986, and a PhD from the Australian National University in 1990. After holding a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Saskatchewan from 1990 to 1992, he was appointed as lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK, in 1992. He joined the
University of Alberta as associate professor in 1997 and was appointed professor in 2002.

His research interests focus on the genesis of hydrothermal mineral deposits, and in particular, regional tectonic and magmatic controls on mineralization. Current research projects include porphyry copper and epithermal mineralization in northern Chile, Argentina, Iran and Turkey.

In parallel with these studies, Richards is pursuing research in sustainable development as applied to the minerals industry, and, with his students, has conducted case studies in Alberta, Nunavut, Vietnam and Romania.

He is editor of the Exploration & Mining Geology journal, and was recently associate editor of the Economic Geology, the Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, and Mineralium Deposita journals.