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Driving sustainable investment in African Mining

Isabela Nyoka

Mining Specialist Ecobank

Isabela Nyoka is a mining finance specialist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience across Africa’s banking and extractives sectors. She currently serves as Ecobank Group Mining Specialist, leading corporate and investment banking transactions across UEMOA, AWA, and CESA regions, with deals exceeding USD 680 million in 2023. Previously, she held senior roles at Standard Bank of South Africa (Stanbic), including Deputy Head of Client Coverage for East Africa, and Head of Mining Finance at Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe, where she structured landmark platinum-linked power purchase agreements and managed gold refinery accounts with turnovers of USD 600 million. Isabela has had the privilege of sharing her perspectives at international forums such as PDAC (Canada), the Nordic Africa Business Summit (Norway), and Africa Accelerate (Toronto). She is trained as a Certified Technical and Financial Auditor of mining projects, is an ACCA (UK) affiliate, and holds a BSc Honours in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University. Beyond mining finance, she is the founder of a thriving agribusiness with annual revenues of USD 3 million, recognized with Nestlé Essar’s Milk Supplier of the Year Award (2020). Passionate about public speaking and writing, she also won Destiny Magazine SA’s bloggers’ award in 2011. 

2026 Agenda Sessions

The Critical Minerals value chain: How did China do it?

The panel will zero in on China's experience, shedding light on key aspects of its experience, successes and failures, and on what it means for Western governments, OEMs in key industries, their supply chains and the mining industry. The panel will include experts on these topics with granular knowledge to provide actionable insights for navigating the strategic materials competition that will define the next decade of global economic development.

Tuesday 10 February 15:00 - 15:45 Ngorongoro Crater Stage (CTICC1 - Level 2)

Critical minerals

Infrastructure and industrialisation

Add to calendar 02/10/2026 15:00 02/10/2026 15:45 The Critical Minerals value chain: How did China do it?

The panel will zero in on China's experience, shedding light on key aspects of its experience, successes and failures, and on what it means for Western governments, OEMs in key industries, their supply chains and the mining industry. The panel will include experts on these topics with granular knowledge to provide actionable insights for navigating the strategic materials competition that will define the next decade of global economic development.

 Ngorongoro Crater Stage (CTICC1 - Level 2) Africa/Johannesburg
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