Driving sustainable investment in African Mining

Hiroyuki Tsuruno

Director for Development Issues, International Organizations Division, International Bureau Ministry of Finance, Japan

Mr. Tsuruno is the Director for Development Issues and is responsible for RISE (Resilient and Inclusive Supply-chain Enhancement) partnership as well as some other topics in macroeconomics and finance at the G7/G20.Prior to the current position, He spent two years at Prime Minister’s Office as Executive Assistant to the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary and also served as the Director of Office of Foreign Exchange Reserve Management, FX Markets Division. Mr. Tsuruno joined MOF in 2005, and since then, he held various positions such as a Deputy Budget Examiner at Budget Bureauwithin MOF, as well as served as a Deputy Director at Japan Financial Services Agency (2012-2015), and a Financial Attaché at the Japanese Embassy to the United Kingdom (2015-2018).


2025 Agenda Sessions

Beyond Extraction: Building Infrastructure, Skills, and Value in African Mining

Explore Africa’s unique geological wealth and the transformative potential of its minerals in global value chains at this World Bank-hosted session. This dynamic event will focus on harnessing Africa's resource endowments for long-term, strategic industrial planning, value addition and infrastructure development, emphasizing the critical link between understanding resource locations and enabling strategic investments. The event will share on selective activities the World Bank is undertaking to enable the realization of a responsible mineral development that fosters value addition in Africa.

Monday 03 February 14:00 - 15:30 CTICC1

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Add to calendar 02/03/2025 14:00 02/03/2025 15:30 Beyond Extraction: Building Infrastructure, Skills, and Value in African Mining Explore Africa’s unique geological wealth and the transformative potential of its minerals in global value chains at this World Bank-hosted session. This dynamic event will focus on harnessing Africa's resource endowments for long-term, strategic industrial planning, value addition and infrastructure development, emphasizing the critical link between understanding resource locations and enabling strategic investments. The event will share on selective activities the World Bank is undertaking to enable the realization of a responsible mineral development that fosters value addition in Africa. CTICC1 Africa/Johannesburg