2024 Ministers & Ambassadors

H.E Cyril Ramaphosa

President Republic of South Africa

H.E. Hakainde Hichilema

President Republic of Zambia

H.E. Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde

Prime Minister Democratic Republic of Congo

Hon. Gwede Mantashe

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy South Africa

Hon. Diamantino Azevedo

Minister of Mineral Resources Angola

Hon. Lefoko Moagi

Minister of Minerals and Energy Botswana

QUALIFICATIONS: Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

Master of Science in Mining (MSc, Eng)

Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering (BEng, Hons)

Global Executive Development Programme (EDP)

Programme for Management Development (PMD)

An experienced and highly skilled leader focused in developing innovative solutions for professional challenges, optimising production, and maximising resources in various organisations including metals and diamond mines, construction and engineering firms. He has held higher positions in various mining companies. He has broad business skills set that include strategic planning, financial acumen, project management, engineering, operational efficiency, team management, and revenue generation.

Has a strong focus on people development and an ability for striking rapport with stakeholders. His focus is on ensuring sustainable power and energy availability for Botswana through use of generation, alternatives and climate friendly products.

• aims to create jobs across the whole value chain of the country’s mineral and energy economy.

• believes in improved service delivery at both national and constituency level, through innovative processes and servant leadership.

Hon. Moagi is the Member of Parliament for Ramotswa Constituency. He also holds memberships in different fields as follows:

• Board Member (President of the Synod)- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana
• Director-Jalopy (Pty) Ltd
• Member – Engineers Registration Board (Pr. Eng 20160542) (ERB-PC-02344)
• Member-Botswana Institute of Engineers (MBIE)
• Member-Intsitute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IOM3)
• Former Council (Board) Member-United Evangelical Mission, Wuppertal, Germany
• Former Financial Advisor-United Evangelical Mission, Wuppertal Germany
• Former Chairman-Majwe Mining Provident Fund

Amos J Hochstein

Senior Advisor to the President for Energy and Investment The White House

Amos J Hochstein serves as the White House Senior Advisor to the President for Energy and Investment and Deputy Assistant to the President. Amos previously served at the State Department as the Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security. Amos has also held the position of Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State for Global Energy Security. He began his tenure with the State Department in 2011, when he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Diplomacy. From 2014 to 2017 he served as Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs and led the Bureau of Energy Resources.
Amos has served in a variety of roles in the private sector and Capitol Hill. He was the Senior Policy Advisor to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and has also worked as an advisor to Senators Chris Dodd (CT) and Mark Warner (VA). Throughout his career, he has been a senior business executive and counselor for domestic and international companies, focusing on marketing, assessing potential new markets, the development of alternative sources of power, and the best strategies to bring them to market. Hochstein has served on the boards of the Atlantic Council and the U.S.-India Business Council, as well as a Non-resident Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.

Hon. Pierre Oba

Minister of State, Minister of Mining Industries and Geology Congo

Mr. Serge Herve Boyogueno

Director General SONAMINES, Cameroon

Hon. Rufin Benam Beltoungou

Minister of Mines and Geology Central African Republic

Hon. Abdelkerim Abdelkerim

Minister of Mines & Geology Chad

Abdelkerim Mahamat Abdelkerim is the Minister of Mines and Geology. He was appointed member of the Government of the Transitional Military Council on May 2, 2021. He was reappointed to the new Government of National Unity of the Transition on October 14, 2022. He did his higher education in Dakar, Senegal where he obtained a Diploma of Higher Studies in Social Sciences. He began his career at the Ministry of Public Health where he held several technical responsibilities. He held high positions including Director General at the Ministry in charge of Social Action. He also had extensive experience in a humanitarian organization where he held the position of Country Director for 13 years. He has a total of 29 years of alternating career between the public and private sectors and has good experience in the field of coordination, planning and management of sustainable development projects.

Hon. M Sangafowa-Coulibaly

Minister of Mines, Petrol & Energy Cote d'Ivoire

Mr. Mamadou Coulibaly Sangafowa has held the post of Minister of Agriculture of Côte d'Ivoire since February 2010. His department was expanded to rural development in January 2016 and his exact title is since then, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Côte d’Ivoire. Before becoming a Minister, he was the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Minister of Agriculture from 2003 to 2010 while being the Government Commissioner within the Fonds Interprofessionnel pour la Recherche et le Conseil Agricole (FIRCA - Interprofessional Fund for Agricultural Research and Counselling), Chairman of the Management Committee of Institut National de Formation Agricole (INFPA - the National Institute for Agricultural Training), Director at Centre de Démonstration et de Promotion de Technologie (DDT the Center of Demonstration and Promotion of Technology) and the Fund of Regulation and Control of coffee-cocoa. As Minister in charge of Agriculture, he sets priority goals and ambitions in the sector for the establishment of an efficient and competitive agriculture; a profitable agriculture and able to provide producers with a substantial and sustainable income; developing an agricultural sector mastered by better-trained farmers playing a full role with the State; the organization of the management of the sector; and that is part of a sustainable development. These objectives that are expressed in the National Agricultural Investment Plan implemented since 2012. Before working for the State of Côte d'Ivoire, he created his business in 1992 and he specialized in exporting agricultural products. That experience earned him, among others, the "Prize for the best mango brand" awarded by the Liaison Committee Europe-Africa-Caribbean-Pacific - (COLEACP).

As part of his departmental activities, he is appointed in April 2016, by his peers, President of the 29th FAO Regional Conference for Africa for a two-year term in which he will have to defend African positions in agricultural governance in the highest levels of decision making. The minister has been a member of the Politburo of Rassemblement Des Républicains (R.D.R. Rally of Republicans) since the creation of the party in 1994. He has held several senior positions. These commitments serving his country earned him the recognition of the State which raised him to the rank of Officer in the National Order and Commander of the Order of Agricultural Merit. It has just been decorated at the last international fair of agriculture of Paris as Commander in the Order of French Agricultural Merit by his colleague the Minister Stéphane Le Foll, Minister of Agriculture, Agro Industry and Forestry He holds a Master of Science and Techniques from the University of Abidjan and he also completed graduate studies in Accounting and Financial Techniques at Institut National Supérieur de l’Enseignement Technique de Yamoussoukro (I.N.S.E.T the Higher National Institute of Vocational Education of Yamoussoukro).

Hon. Antoinette N Kalambayi

Minister of Mines DRC

Hon. Million Matheos

Ministry of State Ethiopia

Hon. Eng. Habtamu Tegene

Minister of Mines Ethiopia

Hon. Antonio Oburu Ondo

Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons Equatorial Guinea

The minister Antonio oburu ondo has a degree in Business Administration and Management, Specializing in Business Economic Theory from the University of País Vasco in Spain, and a Master's degree in Financial Markets. He also has several Diplomas in crude oil market, International Law and International Relations. He has held the position as Director General of GePetrol, local company of petroleum from 2014 to 2023. Being the director of GePetrol, he focused all his efforts on generating greater income for the state, diversifying the company's business portfolio with the objective of converting GePetrol as the national leader in the presentation of services in the oil industry, as well as an important agent of social transformation in Equatorial Guinea.

The training of nationals and the transfer of technology are priorities for H.E minister, who is actively involved in the most important scholarship program in the country with students located all over the world, as well as in offering internships to finalist students located from the national university of Equatorial Guinea (UNGE). At the level of GePetrol employees, He was able to establish an English language teaching program for all employees.

Currently, now, the Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, where he thinks to do and work in the same way using the same dynamism to achieve government highlights in this department of mines and hydrocarbons which was granted to him  last February 2023.

Hon. Abdoulie Jobe

Minister of Petroleum & Energy Gambia

Hon. Benjamin Gallezot

Secretary of State for Critical Minerals French Republic

Mr. Emmanuel Kuilga Yameogo

Technical Director, Ministry of Energy, Mines & Quarries Burkina Faso

Hon. George Mireku Duker (MP)

Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Ghana

Hon. Dr. Franziska Brantner

Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Germany

Hon. Moussa Cissé

Minister of Economy and Finance Guinea

Hon. Moussa Magassouba

Minister of Mines and Geology Guinea

Honourable Moussa Magassouba has twenty years of experience in the mining sector in Guinea and internationally and was appointed as Minister for Mines and Geology in November 2021.

Mr. Magassouba graduated in 2001 from the Boké Higher Institute of Mining and Geology with a degree in Mining Engineering and began his career as a mining engineer at AngloGold Ashanti, Guinea (SAG) before being recruited by Kouroussa Gold (SEMAFO-GUINEE) in 2002.

He subsequently obtained a master’s degree in mining engineering and mineral economics from the Mackay School of Mines and from the Colorado School of Mines, and a master’s degree in international business from Columbia University, New York, USA.

Mr. Magassouba’s previous posts include Director of Mining for North America at the consulting firm ACCENTURE, Deputy CEO for mining for the Saudi Government from 2014 to 2020 and CEO at AngloGold Ashanti Guinea (SAG) from 2020 to 2021.

Hon. Hotna Cufuk Na Doha

Minister of Natural Resources Guinea-Bissau

Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor

Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Ghana

Hon. Taku Ishii

Parliamentary Vice-Minister Japan

Hon. Mohlomi Moleko

Minister of Natural Resources Lesotho

Mohlomi Moleko is the current Lesotho Minister of Natural Resources, which comprises mining, water and energy sectors. In the previous dispensation, the three sectors were fully fledged independent ministries but were consolidated into one Ministry of Natural Resources, when the Government reduced the number of Ministries to 15.

He has been a practicing Chartered Accountant for almost 2 decades as Managing Partner at Moleko & Associates and later Senior Partner at Moores Rowland (Lesotho), one of the largest audit firms in Lesotho. He is a commercially astute accountant and auditor with extensive experience in providing auditing, finance and accounting support services to companies and NGO’s in Lesotho and South Africa. He has served clients from small and medium enterprises to the largest companies. Utilizing his experience in finance and operational management, he has been pivotal in ensuring organizations and companies are equipped with the management tools necessary to achieve sales and growth plans.

He is highly competent in financial analysis, forecasting, pricing strategies, identifying new market opportunities and implementing internal controls to ensure corporate compliance whilst minimizing business risk. He has also served on various boards, committees and institutions most notable as President of the Rotary Club of Maseru, President of the Lesotho Institute of Accountants and board member of First National Bank Lesotho (serving as Chairman of the Audit Committee and the Risk, Capital and Compliance Committee).

He retired from auditing and consultancy in 2018 to pursue business interests full-time which included a wide portfolio spanning mining, medicinal cannabis, cement and real estate development. He had a keen interest and passion for the construction and mining industries thereby establishing Global Thrust (Pty) Ltd which was involved in numerous business ventures that cut across a broad spectrum of industries with its core assets being in construction, cement aggregation and mining.

His brief political career began in April 2022 culminating to his appointment to a cabinet minister position in October 2022 as Minister of Natural Resources.

Eductaion:

B.Comm. (Accounting)

Chartered Accountant (Lesotho)

Professional Membership:

Lesotho Institute of Accountants:

• President of the Institute;1998 - 1999
• Chairman of the practicing committee-1998
• Council Member-1997
• Member of education committee-1997

Community Service:

Member and past president of the Rotary Club of Maseru.

Hon. Monica Chang'anamuno

Minister of Mining Malawi

Monica Chang’anamuno is the Minister of Mining who is also a Member of Parliament for Lilongwe North Constituency in Malawi. Previously from January 2022 to January 2023, she served as a Deputy Minister of Education. Before her appointment by His Excellency Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera the President of the Republic of Malawi to cabinet, she held several parliamentary positions such as Chairperson for Women Caucus, Member of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, Member of the International Affairs Committee, Member of the Budget Committee, Vice Chair for Social Welfare, Vice Chair for Local Authorities Committee and Member of the Agriculture Committee. Monica before joining politics, was an Adjunct Lecturer at African Bible College and DMI University. She has also worked in several International and Local NGOS such as Habitat for Humanity Malawi, Pact Malawi, Network of Organizations for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (NOVOC), Korean Church Mission and Ministry of Hope. In addition, she is a national trainer on psychosocial support and several other tools. She has contributed to the development of several manuals being used by Ministry of Gender in Malawi. Other leadership positions that she currently holds are; member of the World Aquatics Bureau, member of African Aquatics Bureau, member of Zone IV Aquatics Bureau, President of Malawi Aquatic Union and Chairperson of Atsikana Pa Ulendo Girls Education.

Monica earned her first degree in Communications in 1997 at African Bible College and Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership in 2014 at Africa International University in Karen, Nairobi, Kenya. She did her primary school in the village and her high school at Lilongwe Girls Secondary. She was born in 1973 and raised by a single mother who raised 10 children in a village called Mdzibwa, T/A Kabudula in Lilongwe Rural West. She is a Presbyterian married to McAlly Chang'anamuno and have two girls Takondwa and Tayamika.

Her aspiration is to bring change to the lives of the disadvantaged people so that they can realize their full potentials.

Hon. Nani Ould Chrougha

Minister of Energy, Petroleum, and Mines Mauritania

Hon. Tom Alweendo

Minister of Mines and Energy Namibia

Hon. Dr Oladele Henry Alake

Minister of Solid Minerals Development Nigeria

Writer, author and a seasoned media professional, Mr. Oladele Alake, the Honourable Minister of Solid Minerals was the Honourable Commissioner for Information & Strategy in Lagos, Nigeria's most industrial and cosmopolitan state between 1999 and 2007.

In that capacity, he was involved in formulating the strategic and tactical initiatives which made the administration of Nigeria's president, Bola Tinubu, then the Governor of Lagos State to record outstanding achievements. These marked its record of excellence in industry, finance, education, health, employment and community development.

Among the celebrated achievements of the administration are the computerisation of government operations, environmental reforms, Bar Beach reclamation project, increase in revenue generation from N600 million to N7 billion in eight years, N15 billion rehabilitation of the Lagos Island Business District, Lagos Independent Power Project, construction of millennium schools, establishment of new general hospitals, construction of highways and inner city roads, introduction of the Bus Rapid Transfer system and massive employment of youths.

Born October 6, 1956, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and a Master's in Mass Communications from the prestigious University of Lagos, Nigeria.

A statesman par excellence gifted with the Midas touch to transform organizations and systems, Alake has been instrumental to the establishment and development of many media organizations, including Lagos Television, The Nation Newspaper, Television Continental (TVC), Max FM station, Adaba FM, and National Life.

Widely travelled and acknowledged as an influential and prodigious political communications guru, Alake rose to the pinnacle of his career as a journalist at the Concord Press of Nigeria, where he was the Editor of Sunday Concord and National Concord newspapers at various times. 

He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors and a former Vice President of the Guild.

He was a Consultant on Public Affairs to the African Finance Corporation, AFC, chairman of Statedgemax, a public relations firm, and director of Gravitas, a media company.

Until he was appointed the Honourable Minister, he was the Special Adviser on Strategy, Communications & Special Duties to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Mr. Ibrahima Gueye

General Secretary Senegal

Hon. Dr. Abdiwahab Abdi Omar

Deputy Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Somalia

I was born on September 8, 1982 in Jamame, Somalia. Since August 2022, I have held the position of Deputy Minister in the Federal Government of Somalia's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, where I am in charge of policy, investment attraction, and decision-making regarding the Ministry's operations. I am also a Member of Parliament of Somalia.

I am a highly driven professional with a plethora of understanding about business, corporations, and the establishment of Somali community organizations. I have worked and served in both the public and private sectors.

I have International Relations from the University of Science and Technology Yeman. With a solid background in linguistics, he speaks English, Arabic, Somali, and other languages with ease. Throughout the years, while occupying various roles, I have proven his leadership and people skills by managing, inspiring, and developing teams to accomplish goals.

Hon. Ebrahim Patel

Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition South Africa

Hon. Umaru Napoleon Koroma

Deputy Minister , Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources Sierra Leone

Hon. Enoch Godongwana

Minister of Finance South Africa

Hon. Fikile Majola

Deputy Minister of Trade South Africa

Hon. Kenneth Morolong

Deputy Minister in the Presidency South Africa

Hon. Mmamoloko Kubayi

Minister of Human Settlements, Department Human Settlements South Africa

Mmamoloko "Nkhensani" Kubayi is the Minister of Human Settlements and a Member of Parliament of the Republic of South Africa. She is the Co-Chairperson of Economic Sectors, Employment and Infrastructure Development (ESEID) cluster, a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) and the current Chairperson of the Economic Transformation sub-committee. Before her current role, she served as a Minister in five portfolios: Tourism, Science and Technology, Communications and Energy. She also acted as a Minister of Health at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kubayi started her career as a Community Developer in the non-governmental sector and subsequently joined the financial sector at First National Bank as a Skills Development Specialist. Later, she worked in the Business Banking Division at Nedbank. She joined the public sector as a Skills Development Facilitator at the National Health Laboratory Services. She was then recruited to become a director in the Office of the then Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. She later became the Parliamentary Advisor to then-Deputy President of South Africa, Mr Kgalema Motlanthe. As a leader, Kubayi served as Chairperson of the Transport Portfolio Committee at the City of Johannesburg council. In 2009, she became a Member of Parliament, assuming several roles, including Acting Deputy Chief Whip of African National Congress and Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Johannesburg (formerly Vista University), a Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management from Damelin College, a Masters Degree in Public and Development Management from the University of the Witwatersrand, and completed a Programme for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. 

She is currently pursuing her PhD in state-owned enterprises and corporate governance at the University of Johannesburg. Kubayi served a full term in 2019 as a member of the Global Artificial Intelligence Council established by the World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As part of the Council, she and other global leaders provided strategic guidance to the international community on priorities for Artificial Intelligence, machine learning governance, cooperation, and shaping global policy development.

In 2020, Kubayi joined other global leaders as a member of the Forum's Global Future Council on Sustainable Tourism - a multi-stakeholder knowledge network tasked to advance innovative thinking for a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable future. 

Hon. Dr. Nobuhle Nkabane

Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy South Africa

Hon. Ms Nomalungelo Gina

Deputy Minister South Africa

Hon. Zizi Kodwa

Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture South Africa

Hon. Martin Gama Abucha

Minister of Mining South Sudan

Hon. Dr. Steven L. Kiruswa (MP)

Deputy Minister of Minerals Tanzania

Hon. Anthony P. Mavunde

Minister of Minerals Tanzania

Hon. Anthony Peter Mavunde, a Member of Parliament for Dodoma Urban Constituency since 2015, is the Minister for Minerals of the United Republic of Tanzania.

Hon. Mavunde is a Professional Lawyer who holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Dodoma (UDOM), Post graduate Diploma in Legal Practical training (Law School) from University of Dar es Salaam and Bachelor degree of Law from Mzumbe University in the United Republic of Tanzania. He previously worked as the Chief Executive Officer in Federation of Miners Association of Tanzania (FEMATA) from 2013 to 2015.

He then worked as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of States, Prime Minister’s Office responsible for Policy, Parliamentary affairs, Coordination, Labour, Employment, Youth and the Disabled. He also worked as the Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture.

He has extensive experience in leadership, with an in depth understanding and passionate for youth development. He is well known of his excellency and innovation that contributed to the establishment of Kizimba Model and Block farming for youth engagement in Agricultural Sector in Tanzania.

Hon. Ruth Nankibirwa Ssetemu

Minister of Energy & Mineral Development Uganda

Admiral William Serantes Pinto

Minister of Ecological Mining Development Venezuela

Hon. Paul Kabuswe

Minister of Mines and Minerals Development Zambia

Hon. Zhemu Soda

Minister of Mines and Mining Development Zimbabwe

Hon. Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane, MP

Minister of Finance Zambia

Mr. John Humphrey

His Majesty's Trade Commissioner for Africa Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

John Humphrey is His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa. He was appointed in June 2022.

Prior to joining the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), John was the Group Chief Executive Officer of Kent HoldCo Limited (KHL).

Between 2012 and 2019 John was with the UK Hydrographic Office (an MOD Trading Fund). From 2015 he was Chief Executive and Accounting Officer. Before that he was Chief Commercial Officer, Deputy Chief Executive and Interim Chief Commercial Officer.

Earlier in his career, John worked in the technology sector in a variety of commercial, general management and executive roles in the UK and overseas.

He is also a Lay Trustee of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy and a Younger Brother of Trinity House.

HM Trade Commissioner for Africa

The HM Trade Commissioner for Africa works closely with the wider diplomatic network and other colleagues to coordinate the UK government effort to promote UK trade and investment across the African continent.

The Trade Commissioner has full responsibility for all Department for Business and Trade (DBT) work in Africa including:

• growing the overall bilateral trade and investment relationship between the UK and Africa
• improving market access for British companies, including small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs)
• developing finance and trade policy

H.E. Mr. Albert Muchanga

Commissioner for Trade and Industry African Union Commission

H.E. Albert M. Muchanga, born on May 21, 1959, a Zambian national was elected as the new commissioner for Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission. Mr. Muchanga was the Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office in charge of Parliamentary Affairs in Zambia. H.E. Muchanga was also a former Ambassador to Ethiopia with extra accreditation to the African Union. He has both at home and abroad dealt with issues broadly related to international economic policy analysis and implementation as well as regional integration, foreign policy analysis and implementation.

H.E. Ms. Alejandra Vlek

Deputy Ambassador Embassy of Argentina

H.E. Ms. Julia Niblett

Australian Ambassador to Ethiopia High Commission of Australia

H.E. Ms. Minoli Perera

Australian Ambassador to Zimbabwe High Commission of Australia

H.E. Tegan Brink

High Commissioner High Commission of Australia

H.E. Ms. Jenny Da Rin

Australian High Commissioner to Kenya High Commission of Australia

H.E. Ms. Leilani Bin-Juda

Australian High Commissioner to Nigeria High Commission of Australia

H.E. Dr. Sanji M. Monageng

High Commissioner High Commission of Botswana

H.E. Paul Jansen

Ambassador Embassy of Belgium

Mr. Armand Tiemtore

Charge d'Affaires Embassy of Burkina Faso

H.E. Sakaria Kone

Ambassador Embassy of Cote d'Ivoire

H.E. Tomáš Uličný

Ambassador Embassy of Czech Republic

H.E Andre Nzapayake

Ambassador Embassy of the Central African Republic

H.E. Mrs. Elsebeth Søndergaard

Ambassador Embassy of Denmark

H.E Erika Alvarez Rodriguez

Ambassador Dominica Republic

H.E Dr. Muktar Kedir Addu

Ambassador Embassy of Ethiopia

H.E. Ms.Sandra Kramer

Ambassador Delegation of the European Union

Sandra Kramer is the European Union’s Ambassador to South Africa 
since August 2022. She had previously been Africa Director at the 
European Commission’s Directorate-General for International 
Partnerships. 
Ambassador Kramer joined the European Commission in 1995 in the 
Directorate-General for External Relations. She served as 
Trade Counsellor at the EU Delegation to Indonesia and as Head of 
Economic Co-operation at the EU Delegation to India. 
Ambassador Kramer served as assistant to the European 
Commission’s Chief Spokesperson and assistant to the 
Deputy Director-General in the Directorate-General for Enterprise & 
Industry. She was nominated to Head of the Communication Unit of 
DG Enterprise & Industry in 2007. 
From 2010 to 2014, Ambassador Kramer was Head of Unit at the 
Directorate-General for Justice before joining the Cabinet of President 
Juncker as Director of Coordination and Administration with key 
responsibilities on Budget and Human Resources. 
Ambassador Kramer holds a Masters degree in Modern Literature 
from the University of Groningen, as well as a Masters degree in 
Economics and International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, 
School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna and Washington DC.

H.E. Mrs. Anne Lammila

Ambassador Embassy of Finland

H.E. David Martinon

Ambassador Embassy of the French Republic

H.E. Ms. Cecilia Ekholm

Ambassador for Sustainable Business Ministry for Foreign Affairs - Sweden

Cecilia Ekholm is Ambassador for Sustainable Business at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 15 January 2021. Her areas of responsibilities include promoting the Swedish Government’s Sustainable Business agenda in collaboration with relevant actors, as well as representing Sweden in international organisations such as the UN and OECD. She is chairperson of the Swedish National Contact Point for Responsible Business Conduct and representative in the GRI Government Advisory Board. Her previous post was Swedish Ambassador to Peru. Cecilia Ekholm has a MSc in European Politics and Policy from the London School of Economics as well as a degree in Political Science from Lund University. 

H.E. Andreas Peschke

Ambassador Embassy of Germany

H.E. André William Anguile

Ambassador Embassy of Gabon

H.E. Mr. Charles A. Owiredu

High Commissioner High Commission of Ghana

Mr.Vincent Kone

Chargé d'Affaires a.i. Embassy of Guinea

H.E. Prabhat Kumar

High Commissioner High Commission of India

H.E. Alberto Vecchi

Ambassador Embassy of Italy

H.E Shigeru Ushio

Ambassador Embassy of Japan

Rasa Jankauskaite

Ambassador Embassy of Lithuania

H.E. Jarr Inalla

Ambassador Embassy of Mauritania

H.E. Mrs. Sara Valdes Bolano

Ambassador Embassy of Mexico

Ambassador of Mexico to the Republic of South Africa since December 2021. Non-resident ambassador to the Republics of Angola, Botswana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and to the Kingdoms of eSwatini, Lesotho.

Born in México City, and career diplomat since 1990. At the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she was i.a. Director General for Africa and the Middle East (2008 -2012) and Director of Cultural Cooperation 1998-2000.

Abroad, she has been Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (2015-2021) and non-resident the Kingdom of Cambodia (2015-2019), director of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Paris (2012-2015), deputy head of mission at the Embassy to Ireland (2006-2008), political counsellor at the Mexican Mission to the European Union (2000-2006) and cultural attaché in Belgium and Luxemburg (1992-1997).

Before joining the Mexican Foreign Service, she worked as free-lance for the OECD Documentation Center in Paris.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris; a Master’s Degree in Social History from University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and PhD studies in Social History at University of Paris VIII, Saint-Denis. She also holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Bourgogne.

She is member of the Mexican Chapter of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC).

H.E. Jorge Ricardo Silén

Ambassador Republic of Panama

Mr. Mario Bustamante

Chargé d'Affaires Embassy of Peru

H.E. Adam Burakowski

Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Poland

Name and surname:  Adam Burakowski

Date and place of birth:  26 July 1977, Warsaw

Citizenship:  Polish

Education: University of Warsaw, field of study: history, title obtained: master’s
                                                          degree (2001)

University of Warsaw, East European Studies, field of study: cultural
studies, title obtained: master's degree (2004)

Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, title
              obtained: doctor of political science (2007)

Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, title
               obtained: assistant professor in political science (2015)

Languages:  English, Romanian - fluent in speaking and writing

Hindi, Urdu, Russian: advanced knowledge

Bulgarian, Italian, French, Czech - passive knowledge

Professional experience:

Other:

Many years of cooperation with:

1. 2011 - 2017 European Broadcasting Union (EBU) - it is an organization associating public media from the area of Europe and its surroundings
2. 2007 - 2017 Euranet plus - it is a project of a dozen or so European radio stations, financed by the European Commission, it has been operating since 2007 (then as Euranet). The aim of the project is to produce radio broadcasts with European content. Euronet plus acts as the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG).
3. 2003 - 2017 Woodrow Wilson Center Washington DC - it is one of the leading American think-tanks
4. 2016 -2017 - member of the Commission for Dissemination of Science at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education

27.02.2020 - awarded by the Minister of National Defence with the Bronze medal - "Merit for National Defence”

Publications:

1. Burakowski: Dictatura lui Nicolae Ceaușescu(1965-1989) Geniul Carpaţilor (ediţia a II-a revăzută şi adăugită), laşi 2016 (The genius of the Carpathians. Nicolae Ceaușescu's dictatorship 1965-1989)
2. 
   Cianciara, A. Burakowski, P. Olszewski, J. Wódka: Europeizacja partii politycznych I grup interesu w wybranych krajach Partnerstwa Wschodniego i kandydujących do Unii Europejskiej (Europeanization of political parties and interest groups in selected countries of the Eastern Partnership and candidate countries to the European Union), Warszawa 2015
3. 
   Burakowski: System polityczny współczesnej Rumunii (The political system of contemporary Romania), Kraków 2014
4. 
   Iwanek, A. Burakowski: Od kolonii do mocarstwa. Indie 1857-2013 (From colonies to superpowers. India 1857-2013), Warszawa 2013
5. 
   Burakowski, M. Stan: Kraj smutny, pełen humoru. Dzieje Rumunii po 1989 roku (A sad country, full of humor. The history of Romania after 1989), Warszawa 2012
6. Burakowski, A Gubrynowicz, P. Ukielski: 1989 – Jesień Narodów (1989 - Autumn of Nations), Warszawa 2022, editions in English, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech languages
7. 
   Burakowski: Geniusz Karpat. Dyktatura Nicolae Ceaușescu 1965-1989 (The genius of the Carpathians. Nicolae Ceaușescu's dictatorship 1965-1989), Warszawa 2008

Marital status: married, 4 children

H.E. Mr. Antony Phillipson

High Commissioner British High Commission

Antony joined the Civil Service in 1993 and began his career in the Department of 
Trade and Industry where his posts included Private Secretary and then Principal 
Private Secretary to the Secretary of State (1996-2000). 
After four years in the Embassy in Washington as First Secretary Trade Policy and 
then Counsellor, Global Issues (2000-2004), he returned to London as the Prime 
Minister’s Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs (2004-2007). 
He then moved to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as Head of the Iran Coordination Group (2007-2010). 
In April 2011 he was appointed High Commissioner to Singapore, a post he held 
until April 2015 when he returned to London as Director (EU External) in the 
European and Global Issues Secretariat (EGIS) in the Cabinet Office. 
After the EU referendum in June 2016 EGIS became the Department for Exiting the 
European Union. Antony served as Director, Trade and Partnerships in DExEU until 
November 2017 when he was appointed Consul General in New York and Her 
Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for North America.
In June 2021 Antony was appointed High Commissioner-designate to South Africa. 
He took up his post in July 2021

H.E. Mrs. Safiatou Ndiaye

Ambassador Embassy of Senegal

H.E. Yang Dong-han

Ambassador Embassy of South Korea

H.E. Mr. Hakan Juholt

Ambassador Embassy of Sweden

H.E. Mr James Gillawa Bwana

High Commissioner High Commission of Tanzania

Mr. John D. Fintakpa Lamega

Charge d'Affaires High Commission of Togo

H.E.Paul Amoru

High Commisioner High Commission of Uganda

H.E. Jose Luis Rivas Lopez

Ambassador Embassy of Uruguay

H.E. Mairin Moreno

Ambassador Embassy of Venezuela

H.E. David Hamadziripi

Ambassador Embassy of Zimbabwe