Mohan Vivekanandan
Group Executive: Organisation and Coverage Development Bank of Southern Africa
Mohan is a member of the DBSA’s Group Executive Committee, with accountability for pan-African deal origination/client management, having concluded over 60 projects with ZAR50Bn+ ($3bn) in past four years. His teams cover all economic and social infrastructure sectors with transactions concluded in over
15countries.Mohan was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the SADC Development Finance Centre in 2022 and has supported the WEF, OECD and UN in initiatives related to sustainable financing and infrastructure development. Mohan serves as an associateprofessor of development finance at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.
Mohan holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MSc in Global Finance from New York University Stern
School of Business. He earned a BA (Honours) in Economics and Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in Chicago, USA.
2025 Agenda Sessions
Future-Proofing African Mining: Building resilience across Nature, Water and Forests for People and
- The Interconnection of Water, Forests, and Nature: How is African mining contributing to the regeneration/preservation of ecosystems?
- Can leveraging voluntary Nature-related Financial Disclosures like the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) provide more transparency and accountability helping build more resilient business practices? Can we see tangible evidence of delivering action on the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) which includes 23 action targets and 4 high level goals?
- Government policy, regulation and global frameworks: What are governments’ plans to integrate protection of nature into their mining policies and actions? Will there be changes in regulations moving forward?
- Empowering local communities and enhancing social resilience: Collaborative approaches to sustainable mining.
- Will support the majority of this work?
Wednesday 05 February 10:00 - 11:00 CTICC1
Sustainability Series
- The Interconnection of Water, Forests, and Nature: How is African mining contributing to the regeneration/preservation of ecosystems?
- Can leveraging voluntary Nature-related Financial Disclosures like the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) provide more transparency and accountability helping build more resilient business practices? Can we see tangible evidence of delivering action on the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) which includes 23 action targets and 4 high level goals?
- Government policy, regulation and global frameworks: What are governments’ plans to integrate protection of nature into their mining policies and actions? Will there be changes in regulations moving forward?
- Empowering local communities and enhancing social resilience: Collaborative approaches to sustainable mining.
- Will support the majority of this work?
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