Eric Kalala Nsantu

CEO Enterprise Générale de Cobalt

Eric Kalala has a master’s degree in Management engineering from the Institute of Administration and Management at the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium. He has done a CEMS Master’s in International Management at HEC -Paris in 2004 and by a GMP at Harvard Business School at Harvard University in 2015. He has been became Managing Director of Bolloré Transport & Logitics from 2012 then Chairman to 2023. 

Since June 2023, he has been appointed CEO of the Enterprise Générale du Cobalt in charge of the exploitation of Congolese strategic minerals from artisanal origin. Cobalt, one of the strategic minerals from the Congolese law is an essential commodity to the electric battery industry with 55% of global production concentrated in the country. 
He is also Vice-President of the Chamber of Mines of DRC. He’s also Ambassador of Université Catholique de Louvain in DRC.