IPSC Professional Development & CPD · Module 04
Supply Chain Risk & Critical Minerals
Track how resilience, chokepoints, industrial policy, and strategic resource exposure affect governments, firms, investors, and boards.
This 3.5-hour professional development module examines how concentration, processing dependence, geopolitical fragmentation, logistics vulnerabilities, and strategic minerals policy shape investment risk, board oversight, and long-term commercial positioning.
Module overview
A practical module for investors, directors, executives, advisers, and policy professionals who need to assess critical minerals exposure and supply-chain resilience as strategic risk issues.
3.5-hour live CPD intensive
Designed for boards, investment teams, legal advisers, risk professionals, policy practitioners, and institutions operating across strategic sectors.
Critical minerals as strategic exposure
The module focuses on how supply concentration, processing dominance, export restrictions, and geopolitical leverage affect valuation, resilience, and market access.
Board, investment, and policy application
Participants examine how mineral dependencies shape diligence, portfolio strategy, capital allocation, industrial policy, and board-level risk oversight.
Sharper resilience judgement
Participants leave with a clearer method for identifying chokepoints, mapping second-order exposure, and briefing decision-makers on strategic supply risk.
Learning outcomes
Participants build a practical framework for understanding how critical minerals and supply-chain concentration affect commercial, investment, and strategic outcomes.
Map concentration and chokepoints
Understand where critical mineral supply chains are concentrated and how mining, processing, logistics, and refining bottlenecks can create strategic vulnerability.
Assess investor and board exposure
Identify how concentration risk, offtake dependency, policy shocks, and infrastructure constraints can affect asset quality, portfolio resilience, and governance oversight.
Read policy and de-risking signals
Evaluate how allied coordination, industrial policy, strategic reserves, export restrictions, and investment screening shape long-term opportunity and risk.
Write decision-ready advice
Translate mineral and supply-chain complexity into concise briefings for boards, investors, deal teams, and policy audiences making capital and strategy decisions.
Session structure
The module moves from strategic context to applied exposure analysis, with a clear emphasis on board and investor judgement.
Critical minerals landscape
Overview of why critical minerals matter for energy, technology, defence, industrial policy, and strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.
Supply chain risk and chokepoints
How to identify vulnerabilities across extraction, processing, transport, refining, and downstream dependence, including exposure to concentrated actors and logistics disruption.
Board and investment implications
Application to portfolio construction, strategic partnerships, project diligence, long-term supply agreements, and governance questions for boards and investment committees.
Advisory application
Applied exercise in mapping exposure to a critical minerals scenario and drafting a short note for a board, investor, or institutional strategy team.
Enrolment
Enrol in Supply Chain Risk & Critical Minerals.
You can complete payment and enrolment online, or contact IPSC directly to discuss institutional bookings or invoicing.