Didier J. Rault
Founder & CEO
World Mining Investment (WMI)
Didier J. Rault is an international financier who has been working on complex government and corporate deals for the past twenty-five years. Mr. Rault has specialized in East-West projects across a range of industries, such as mining, real estate, and infrastructure. With an experienced team of high-level finance executives based in Beijing, Hong Kong, Geneva, and New York, he creates value across continents.
Mr. Rault established World Mining Investment (WMI) in 2009 as a platform to secure assets for Chinese entities. WMI has secured three major deals: a coal mine project in New South Wales, Australia, in 2009; a fully completed coal mine and real estate project, partially with China Resources, in Qinghai Province, China, in 2013; and a rare earths venture with Setai in Guangxi Province, China in 2019.