Africa

ESG Insurance Partner Deloitte Jayne is a Chartered Accountant by profession and became involved in the broad areas of corporate governance, sustainable development, and climate change in 2002.  Since then, she has worked across a variety of industries including mining, oil and gas, banking, insurance, telecommunications, technology, construction, real estate, and state-owned entities. Jayne has… read more »

CEO Veracity Worldwide Jay leads Veracity’s global operations and serves as a top advisor on geopolitical risk and market intelligence. Prior to joining Veracity, he was a leader at McKinsey & Company on strategy and risk management topics spanning five continents and multiple industries. He served as Chief of Staff at the US Embassy in… read more »

VP, Sustainability Ivanhoe Mines Jasmine is the Vice-President Sustainability for Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. She joined Ivanhoe in 2010, assuming progressively senior responsibilities roles within the Company.  She is an established and highly accomplished professional with over ten years’ experience leveraging legal acumen to provide in-house counsel, direct compliance, and support sustainable development in the mining… read more »

CEO Dwyka Mining Services Jamie is a passionate African and advocate that technology can be a positive catalyst to empower teams by augmenting human effort. As the founder and CEO, Dwyka Mining Services has grown to operate across Africa and the Middle East, representing a number of pioneering global technology companies. With a primary focus… read more »

Executive Director, Research Lead McCloskey by OPIS Dr. James Stevenson is Head of Research in Coal, Metals & Mining at McCloskey by OPIS, a Dow Jones Company. Dr. Stevenson’s expertise includes supply, demand, and price dynamics of global coal, iron ore, steel, and ferrous scrap. He also has extensive experience in trading, M&A, and business… read more »

Chief Executive Officer DRA Global James is a highly experienced and qualified executive with more than 25 years’ experience in the mining, industrial and financial sectors. Originally a process engineer in the mining industry, James has held various consulting, investment advisory and operational leadership positions. He has extensive experience in strategy development and execution, operational… read more »

Head of Corporate Responsibility Trafigura James is Head of Corporate Responsibility at Trafigura, having joined the company in 2010. Responsible for driving Trafigura’s social performance agenda worldwide, James’ focus has included developing the company’s leadership position on commodity trading transparency and responsible value chains.  In 2014, Trafigura became the first independent commodity trading company to… read more »

CLO Africa Legal James Leach is the Chief Learning Officer at Africa Legal. James graduated from the University of Cape Town with an LLB in 2012 and a Master of Laws in Commercial Law (LLM) with distinction in 2013.  He became a lecturer at UCT in the Faculty of Law’s Commercial Law Department and has… read more »

Co-founder and CEO, Frontier Rare Earths James is a Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Rare Earths and has over 25 years’ experience in the natural resource sector in senior executive, advisory and Board roles. James has overseen the development of Frontier Rare Earths, including its listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2010,the… read more »

Managing Director and CEO Amira Global Jacqui Coombes is the CEO of Amira Global. Amira Global leverages R&D investments on behalf of its members by building collaborations across industry, government and academia; developing capability of businesses and people; and integrating ideas into systems to add value, improve efficiency and productivity, and maintain momentum for ongoing… read more »

Principal Consultant and Subject Matter Expert – Process Safety and Operational Risk DSS+ Jaco Pieterse is an operations management consultant with over 17 years of experience in operational excellence, organisational risk management, and organisational transformation. Jaco holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, and has worked in the mining and metals… read more »

Chairman of the Board of Directors Angola National Agency for Mineral Resources Jacinto Ferreira dos Santos Rocha Chairman of the Board of Directors of Angola’s National Agency for Mineral Resources. Born in Angola, he graduated in Geology from Gustavus Adolphus College, in the State of Minnesota. In addition to studying geology, he completed a second… read more »

Social Performance Specialist De Beers Itumeleng Mogale is a Social Performance Manager at Venetia mine. The mine, which is part of De Beers Group Managed Operations business, is currently transitioning from open pit to underground operations. An important aspect of Itumeleng’s job is implementing the Social Way Policy, which provides a framework for social performance… read more »

Chief Representative SMB-Winning Consortium Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chamber Of Mines of Guinea, Mr. Ismael Diakite is the High-Representative of the SMB-Winning Consortium. He is in charge of the Business Development and Compliance, Key Stakeholder’s management and the management of the corporate image. His contribution to the recent negotiations and approvals… read more »

Global Lead: Metals and Mining Kearney Igor Hulak is a partner based in Dubai predominantly responsible for supporting clients active in the resources and energy value chain, in both private and public sectors across the MEA region and globally. Igor is a member of global leadership of the Energy and Process Industry Practice and is… read more »