Jean-Raymond Boulle

Jean-Raymond Boulle COR (born 10 October 1950)[1] is a Monaco-based Mauritian businessman, the founder of four publicly traded companies with deposits of nickel, cobalt, copper, zinc, titanium and diamonds.

[4] Boulle was chairman, founder and CEO as well as a major shareholder of Diamond Fields Resources (TSE:DFR)[5] which commenced trading on the Vancouver Stock Exchange on 6 April 1993 and, in late 1994, discovered nickel, copper and cobalt ore bodies at Voisey's Bay Mine in Labrador, Canada.

[15] In December 2014, Boulle's company Tendyne Holdings Inc. announced the first successful human Mitral Valve implant at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, England.

[28][29] In December 2017, Base Resources signed a $75m agreement to acquire an 85% interest in the Toliara Sands project in Madagascar from World Titane Holdings Limited.

'[38] In 1999 and 2000, Boulle was a 'prime mover in the creation of America's primary governing law on trade with Africa: The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)'.

[41] At the request of the Mauritius Government in February 1997, the World Bank, together with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, financed and produced a Management Plan for Saint Brandon in 1998.

The World Bank Management Plan recommended the creation of the ''Marine Protected Area of Saint Brandon'' based on the Great Barrier Reef Model.

(See Page 18, Section 6 (d)) In April 2016, Boulle's Jean Boulle Group funded and organised a seven-day fact-finding mission in the Mascarene Islands for three of the world's conservation experts to Île Raphael, one of the Thirteen Islands of St. Brandon held in permanent grant by the centenarian Raphael Fishing Company[43][44] in the Cargados Carajos on the Atoll of St Brandon:[45][46] Professor Henk Bauwman[47] (Ecotoxicology, Environmental Pollution, Bird Ecology); Professor Tony Martin[48] (world's foremost expert on marine mammals) and Dr. Nick Cole[49] (herpetologist; MWF Islands Restoration Manager).

These experts inspected the St Brandon islands to raise awareness about the need to protect their unique biodiversity and to investigate, for the longer term, the effects of plastic and heavy metal pollution in the Indian Ocean.

Moving the reptiles to Jersey offered a lifeline in establishing assurance populations of these animals and their unique genes, well away from the disaster zone until the long-term impacts of the MV Wakashio oil spill are fully understood.