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Alison Tran

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Sourcing Specialist- Battery Raw Materials at MTALX
📍 Greater Lille Metropolitan Area, France

Alison Tran is an Oxford and INSEAD-educated entrepreneur with extensive experience in international trade across four continents. After a career in the metals and minerals industry, she founded the award-winning Karma Tea Co. People who have worked with her describe her as market-oriented, reliable, and possessing strong organizational skills.

Inspired by her travels in South Asia and subsequent training as a tea sommelier, Alison is passionate about ethical sourcing and transparency in the tea industry. She is dedicated to connecting consumers with high-quality, single-garden teas while ensuring growers receive fair profits for their artisanal products.

Unique fact: Before becoming a tea entrepreneur, Alison built a successful career trading industrial commodities like bauxite, lithium, and coal.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Sourcing Specialist- Battery Raw Materials
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Greater Lille Metropolitan Area, France
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Ethical Sourcing
She founded her company to address the lack of transparency in the tea trade, focusing on direct relationships with growers to ensure sustainability and quality.
Specialty Tea
As a trained tea sommelier, she is passionate about educating consumers on single-origin teas and moving beyond mass-market commodity products.
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Career

Work history

1-2022 - 2-2023
Sourcing Specialist- Battery Raw Materials
MTALX
1-2021
Founder & CEO
The Karma Tea Co.
1-2018 - 3-2019
Business Development Manager, Metals & Minerals
Argus Media
4-2012 - 11-2017
Sales Manager, Middle East
Steinbock Minerals Ltd.
2-2012
Director
MinTradeCo.
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Education
2016 - 2017
Global Executive MBA
INSEAD
1999 - 2003
Master’s Degree
University of Oxford
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