2026 Speakers

Name: Mining Indaba
Start: 2027-02-08
End: 2027-02-11
Location: CTICC

Ignacio de Calonje

Chief Investment Officer, Global Energy & Metals & Mining

World Bank Group

Ignacio de Calonje is a Chief Investment Officer for IFC’s Global Energy and Global Metals & Mining teams. He is based in London and, amongst other responsibilities, is responsible for managing a number of IFC's key European-based clients in the energy and mining sectors. Prior to his posting in London, Ignacio was based in Istanbul, Cairo and Washington DC for IFC. Ignacio has extensive experience in the field of international finance, having worked on numerous equity and debt investments in emerging markets across a range of sectors. Before joining IFC in 2004, he worked for Lehman Brothers’ investment banking division in London and Madrid advising Spanish and UK corporate clients in mergers, acquisitions and debt capital market transactions. Ignacio was also a non-Executive Director of Alcazar Energy (a renewable energy company with 400 MW of solar and wind assets in operation in Egypt and Jordan) from 2019 to 2021 and non-Executive Director of Kuwait Energy (an oil & gas company with operations in Iraq, Egypt and Oman) from 2017 to 2019. He has a Bsc in Business Administration from Universidad San Pablo-CEU (Madrid) and a Masters Degree from Columbia University (New York).

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09 Feb 2026

11:50 - 12:35

Investment Programme

River Nile Stage (CTICC1 - Ground Floor - Investment Village)

Investment

Strategic partnerships – The new model for mine financing

10 Feb 2026

16:30 - 17:30

Intergovernmental Summit

Sahara Stage (CTICC2 - Level 2)

Infrastructure and industrialisationJust Energy Transition