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Panel 1

Extractive industries investment — Making it work for development

This panel will show how the potentially immense influx of investment into the EI sector (oil, gas and minerals) can be translated into sustainable development and will discuss the role that governments, civil society, the private sector and the international community play in that process.

The key note address will introduce the participants to the particular challenges governments in resource rich countries are faced with. These might include a sudden high influx of foreign direct investment (FDI), wind-fall taxes and “economic islands“ with insufficient integration of the local economy.

The discussion will then turn to specific issues, such as the problem of negotiating a fair contract, the perspective of investors in difficult investment environments as well as the special role played by national extractive companies in this setting.

Speakers

Beatrice Alperte
African Development Bank, Tunis

Beatrice Alperte is a Task Manager at the African Development Bank in Tunis.

Evelyne Tsague
Revenue Watch International, Yaoundé

Evelyne Tsague is the Revenue Watch Institute Deputy Regional Coordinator for Africa, with a special focus on francophone countries. In her position Evelyne Tsague assists in coordinating the organization‘s research, advocacy, technical assistance and capacity building for Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to RWI, Evelyne Tsague worked at Catholic Relief Services – Cameroon (CRS/CM) as a Human Rights and Extractives Industries Program Manager and has more than 7 years of human rights and Governance issues experience.

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Presentation: Investissements dans les industries extractives au profit du développement durable: Perspectives et recommandations de la société civile. By Evelyne Tsague
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Muntaga Sallah
Gambia National Petroleum Company, Banjul

Muntaga Sallah is a Senior Petroleum Officer at the Ministry of Petroleum in Banjul, Gambia. He reviews and approves project proposals within the scope of the Gambian Petroleum Act and serves as a member of the negotiating team that represents the government during negotiations with oil companies. In 2006 he was one of the negotiators brokering Gambias’ first deal with a foreign company for an offshore bloc license. He has a Master in Reservoir Evaluation & Management from the Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, UK.

Moderated by:

Alamine Ousmane Mey
Afriland First Bank, Yaoundé

Since 2003, Alamine Ousmane Mey has been Director General of the Afriland First Bank, Cameroon‘s first private bank that is not foreign-owned. A qualified financial expert and electrical engineer, Alamine studied in Germany, Belgium, Tunisia and other countries. He is a member of the board of a number of companies, including SAFAR S.A., an insurance company in Chad, and SACONETS S.A., a telecommunications company in Cameroon. Since 2004, he has been chairperson of the Gatsby Foundation in Cameroon.