Chris Showalter
CEO Lifezone Metals
As CEO, Chris Showalter contributes an accomplished corporate finance and merchant banking background to the Lifezone Metals team. Uniquely, Chris brings a Wall Street career combined with extensive experience on the ground in Africa.
Chris has a core expertise originating, sourcing and developing relationships and transactions across Africa, having held the role as Director and Partner at merchant bank Hannam & Partners in Zimbabwe, where he focused on the African mining sector.
Chris led Lifezone Metals acquisition of the Kabanga Nickel project and is an integral part of the ongoing negotiations and development of relations with the Government of Tanzania, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security.
Over six years in Zimbabwe, he developed specific expertise in the platinum sector and advised a number of platinum mining companies on their current operations and future expansion potential, after relocating to the country as co-CEO of Renaissance Capital.
Prior to this, he spent nine years at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President in the New York office where he held various sales roles in equity and capital markets while also exploring opportunities for Goldman Sachs across southern Africa.
2025 Agenda Sessions
Who in Africa will get the best deal from the energy transition and why?
- Country, company and community perspectives on distribution of benefits and harms across the continent and within nations and communities
- The role of international involvement (and interference) in elevating certain countries over others (e.g. exploration, trade and investment privileging)
- What does a just transition offer for delivering energy security to Africa?
Monday 03 February 14:10 - 15:10 CTICC1
Sustainability Series
- Country, company and community perspectives on distribution of benefits and harms across the continent and within nations and communities
- The role of international involvement (and interference) in elevating certain countries over others (e.g. exploration, trade and investment privileging)
- What does a just transition offer for delivering energy security to Africa?
The big question - How Africa can develop globally competitive infrastructure platform
- As the continent looks to turbocharge economic development and mining activities, what does the current infrastructure deficit look like across Africa? Where is the critical access needed?
- How is infrastructure funding being attracted, and what are the funding mechanisms available to develop new infrastructure requirements?
- How can the maximisation of propulsive local and regional economic linkages help expedite infrastructure development?
- PPPs - how are Public/Private partnerships accelerating development of African infrastructure?
Tuesday 04 February 14:00 - 14:45 CTICC2
Intergovernmental Summit
- As the continent looks to turbocharge economic development and mining activities, what does the current infrastructure deficit look like across Africa? Where is the critical access needed?
- How is infrastructure funding being attracted, and what are the funding mechanisms available to develop new infrastructure requirements?
- How can the maximisation of propulsive local and regional economic linkages help expedite infrastructure development?
- PPPs - how are Public/Private partnerships accelerating development of African infrastructure?
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