DRC Online - Opening Keynote - The DRC’s investment rating: An inaccurate perception

Ministerial Address

• H. E Antoinette N’Samba Kalambayi, Minister, Ministry of Mines, DRC

The DRC investment rating: An inaccurate perception

The Fraser Institute’s Annual Survey of Mining Companies for 2020 continues to highlight the industry’s negative investment and ease-of-doing business perception in the DRC. But is this perception accurate? In this session, join our high-level panel of experts who will outline just how the DRC is growing in strength and building the foundation blocks to become recognised as a tier one mining investment destination.

Moderators:

• Olivier Delafoy, Managing Director, Mining and Business Magazine, DRC
• Laura Cornish, Editor-in-Chief, Mining Review Africa, South Africa

Panelists:

• H.E André Wameso, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Head of State in Charge of Economic and Financial Matters, DRC
• Lord Popat, the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to the DRC
• Louis Watum, President, Chamber of Mines, DRC
• Marie-Gabrielle Kalenga Opese, Deputy Chief Executive, Standard Bank in the DRC