Driving sustainable investment in African Mining

Dr. Olumide Abimbola

Executive Director Africa Policy Research Institute

Dr. Olumide Abimbola is a political economist and director of APRI – Africa Policy Research Institute, a Berlin-based African think tank. His areas of focus include climate adaptation, climate finance, trade policy, regional integration, and natural resources management. He has either conducted research or worked in Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo, and Nigeria. He has also worked with high-level government officials in several other African countries.  
Before APRI, he worked at the CONNEX Support Unit, a GIZ-hosted, G7 initiative funded by the German government and the European Commission. Prior to that, he worked on trade and regional integration at the African Development Bank, working on continental projects such as the Africa Visa Openness Index and the Africa Regional Integration Index, a collaboration between the AfDB, African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.  
Olumide currently sits on the International Board of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) at the University of California, Irvine, and is Member, Policy Working Group, at the Institute of Humanities in Africa (HUMA) of the University of Cape Town.


2025 Agenda Sessions

The role of local capital and entrepreneurship in mining and industrialising Africa

  • What do studies by AfDB, UNCTAD, AMDC, BloombergNEF, and others indicate about the feasibility of linking minerals to industrialisation? What are the key success factors? 
  • Can increased participation of local capital and entrepreneurs in the mining sector drive transformative impacts? How so? 
  • How does the involvement of local capital compare to foreign investment in terms of contributing to sustainable development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? 
  • What challenges or obstacles limit the effective participation of local capital and entrepreneurs in Africa’s mineral value chains? 

Wednesday 05 February 14:00 - 14:45 CTICC2

Intergovernmental Summit Track 1

Add to calendar 02/05/2025 14:00 02/05/2025 14:45 The role of local capital and entrepreneurship in mining and industrialising Africa
  • What do studies by AfDB, UNCTAD, AMDC, BloombergNEF, and others indicate about the feasibility of linking minerals to industrialisation? What are the key success factors? 
  • Can increased participation of local capital and entrepreneurs in the mining sector drive transformative impacts? How so? 
  • How does the involvement of local capital compare to foreign investment in terms of contributing to sustainable development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? 
  • What challenges or obstacles limit the effective participation of local capital and entrepreneurs in Africa’s mineral value chains? 
CTICC2 Africa/Johannesburg