Sven Renner
Program Manager World Bank Group
Sven has been with the World Bank for 7 years. Before that, he held various positions in German government and was, among others, in charge of designing the federal policy on raw materials. Between 1996 and 2009 he managed the bureaus of the German Cooperation in the mining sector in Chile and Bolivia. He initiated his career in the mining industry in 1986 as an exploration geologist in the Pijiguaos bauxite deposit in Venezuela. Sven is a geologist by training and holds a Ph.D. from Tübingen University. Since 2017 he has been an honorary lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law (CEPMLP), University of Dundee.
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 - 16:00 CTICC1
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