Bryan Bille
Policy & Geopolitical Principal Benchmark Minerals
Bryan is an experienced trade policy analyst and is currently the principal policy analyst at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, one of the world’s leading providers of data and intelligence on the EV battery supply chain and broader energy transition. Bryan has been helping develop Benchmark's rapidly growing policy and geopolitical coverage of Africa’s critical mineral and cleantech industries.
Before his work in the critical mineral and cleantech industry, Bryan held various positions within the Belgian government, where he was involved in a wide array of trade-related policy issues, like the Brexit negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom, the trade negotiations between the EU and Mercosur, the post-Cotonou framework agreement (now called the EU-OACPS Partnership Agreement), and the EU’s Corporate Due Diligence Framework. He also worked as a special political advisor for the liberal party in Belgium.
Bryan is a qualified lawyer and obtained an additional master of International Political Economy at King’s College London, focusing his research on transition minerals like lithium and cobalt in Africa.
2025 Agenda Sessions
The symbiotic approach – strengthening global mineral supply through greater African industrialisati
- What is the current state of financial mobilization available to producers, and how can additional avenues provide mutually strategic benefit?
- What needs to be done to promote additional corridor development and regional market integration?
- How can external partners act competitively within the African CRM space to properly deliver on Africa’s mineral potential?
- Clustered development – in what ways will further industrialisation cataylse the development of connected economies & communities?
Tuesday 04 February 14:45 - 15:30 CTICC2
Intergovernmental Summit
- What is the current state of financial mobilization available to producers, and how can additional avenues provide mutually strategic benefit?
- What needs to be done to promote additional corridor development and regional market integration?
- How can external partners act competitively within the African CRM space to properly deliver on Africa’s mineral potential?
- Clustered development – in what ways will further industrialisation cataylse the development of connected economies & communities?
2024 Agenda Sessions
The African Free Trade Agreement – separating the fact from fiction
- With so many questions on the AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Agreement), how much progress has there been achieved since its signing?
- Individualism is isolation - How has the AfCFTA helped to foster working relations to share equity and seek financing on a combined basis?
- What are the practical steps nations are taking to ensure collaboration and reduction of barriers across the continent?
- Is the expansion of 2 new African states into the BRIC a positive for AfCFTA?
Wednesday 07 February 16:00 - 16:40 Governments Stage 1
Intergovernmental Summit
- With so many questions on the AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Agreement), how much progress has there been achieved since its signing?
- Individualism is isolation - How has the AfCFTA helped to foster working relations to share equity and seek financing on a combined basis?
- What are the practical steps nations are taking to ensure collaboration and reduction of barriers across the continent?
- Is the expansion of 2 new African states into the BRIC a positive for AfCFTA?
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