Ron Knapp has been the CEO of the Australian Aluminium Council since 2001, after heading the World Coal Institute.
In a speech given in Adelaide on 20 February 2006, Clive Hamilton (director of The Australia Institute) identifies Knapp as one of Australia's climate change "dirty dozen", a group of climate change skeptics with considerable influence over Australian Government policy. Others among these dirty dozen are Hugh Morgan, John Eyles, Alan Oxley, Peter Walsh, Meg McDonald, Ian MacFarlane, Barry Jones, Chris Mitchell, Alan Moran, Malcolm Broomhead, and John Howard. [1]