Africa

Investment Manager Orion Resource Partners Michael is an Investment Manager at Orion Resource Partners, one of the world’s leading metals-focused private equity businesses. Michael is responsible for the identification, evaluation and execution of new investments for Orion, as well as portfolio management. Michael has experience in transactions covering public and private equity, streaming, royalties, offtake… read more »

Research Co-ordinator Economic Reseach & Policy Institute NUMSA Economic Research & Policy Institute Ms Melanie Roy, is the Snr Research coordinator at the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa Research and Policy Institute. Her research expertise are in Policy, Project Management, Macroeconomics, and labour markets.  She has extensive experience in the Trade Union movement… read more »

Executive Southern Africa AECI Meagan matriculated in 2003 from a technical high school in the Eastern Cape and was able to pursue her interest in engineering after being awarded a bursary by the De Beers Groups to study towards a BSC. Mining Engineering degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. After graduating, Meagan was offered… read more »

Lecturer Wits University Matsobane Nong is a lecturer in the school of Mining Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests are in blast optimisation and structure response to blast vibration. She graduated with a BSc in Mining Engineering in 2013 and began her career as a graduate Mining Engineer at Impala Platinum… read more »

Senior Mining Specialist World Bank Dr. Martin Lokanc is a Senior Mining Specialist in the World Bank’s Energy and Extractives Global Practice. He currently supports and leads mining sector development activities across Africa, in addition to managing a number of research and global knowledge projects. Trained as a mining engineer and economist, he has global… read more »

President Ivanhoe Marna Cloete is a registered Chartered Accountant and holds a Master’s Degree in Taxation from the University of Pretoria.  In 2006, Marna joined Ivanhoe Mines, and in 2009 she was promoted to Chief Financial Officer and to President in 2020.  Marna played an instrumental role as part of the Ivanhoe leadership team achieving… read more »

President & CEO Barrick Gold Corporation Mark Bristow is the president and chief executive of Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:GOLD) (TSX:ABX).  Formerly, he was chief executive of Randgold Resources, the company he built from a small Africa-focused exploration business into one of the industry’s most profitable and best managed gold miners. Following the Barrick and Randgold… read more »

Interim Director African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC), African Union Commission Ms. Marit Kitaw, PhD  is the Interim Director of the African Minerals Development Center (AMDC), a Specialized Agency of the African Union, and a panafrican Center dedicated to harnessing Africa’s mineral resources for sustainable development and structural transformation in Africa, through implementing the Africa Mining… read more »

Gender Analyst IGF Marion Provencher is an anthropologist by training and works as a gender analyst with the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, metals, and Sustainable Development (IGF). Her work is to ensure that gender dimensions are taken into account in all aspects of mining governance, including the development of gender equality policies, programmes, and… read more »

Head of Communications Cobalt Institute Marina focuses on increasing the Cobalt Institute’s visibility in media, developing compelling messages to external audiences and leading on strategic communications projects. She holds a Masters degree in Political Communications and Strategy from the University of Kent. She speaks English, French and Russian.

President Glencore DRC Mrs Marie-Chantal Kaninda joined Glencore DRC 3 years ago as Vice-President of Corporate Affairs . Since January 2023 , she is The President of Glencore DRC  and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kamoto Copper Company-KCC(since July 2022) ,a joint venture between Gécamines ( 25%) and Glencore (75%) in the DRC. … read more »

Country Director for Southern Africa World Bank Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly, a French national from Martinique, is the Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini. Since joining the World Bank in 1994, Marie-Nelly has held a variety of positions focused on public enterprise restructuring, support to private sector development, regional integration, and management… read more »

Manoli Yannaghas Founder and Managing Director Voltvision Manoli is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of VoltVision, a fast growing technology company that specialises in the digitization of high and medium voltage industrial power networks, transforming power data into actionable information. Prior to founding VoltVision, Manoli spent 20 years managing operating mines and mineral exploration projects… read more »

CEO Moshe Capital Mametja Moshe has over eighteen years finance experience in corporate finance, equities capital markets, debt capital markets, accounting, auditing, corporate tax, strategy and black economic empowerment. She is the founder and CEO of Moshe Capital (Pty) Ltd – a South African based advisory and investments company. Over the last 8 years Moshe… read more »

Graduate Student Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government As a mechanical engineering graduate from King’s College London, Lynda began her career in 2010 in Public and Government Affairs at ExxonMobil where she built and maintained relationships with local stakeholders around the company’s refining operations in the South of England. She later moved… read more »