How does one get hired into a frontier private equity role?

Curious how one starts a career buying and selling copper mines and operating healthcare clinics across the frontier markets/emerging markets. Not a lot of stuff on this online but I've always liked learning about different cultures and how laws/economics are shaped in different countries. 

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