What is SMG 2019

Symposium Mines Guinea (SMG 2019), will take place from 24 – 26 April 2019, in Conakry, Republic of Guinea. The event is organised by the Ministry of Mines & Geology, Republic of Guinea, in association with AME Trade Ltd, United Kingdom.

Theme for Symposium Mines Guinea 2019 is:

“The synergy between mining & infrastructure: the challenge for Guinea’s integrated and sustainable development”

2019 Sponsors

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NEW TO SYMPOSIUM MINES GUINEA

Finance Lounge

Mining Projects Finance lounge will present a diverse of projects from large to small scale, enabling you to evaluate bankable ventures.

Mine Site Visits

Technical Visits to Guinea’s ﬂagship mining projects will offer you a first hand and on the ground insight.

Our new app: Organise your meetings

Our new meeting application will allow you to book meetings prior to the event and target who you want to meet directly.

A venue entirely dedicated to the event

The SMG will take place at the prestigious Sheraton Grand Conakry hotel. The hotel is very well located, close to the international airport, in the Kipé district of the capital in the largest city in Guinea.

2019 Speakers

Mr. Mohamed Seinkoun GASSAMA

Director General, Authority for Development and Administration of Special Economic Zones

Mr. El Hadj Adama TOURE

Director, Enclave Project, World Bank

Mr. Nicolas Di BOSCIO

Chief Executive Officer, Ergo Strategy

Jason Peirce

Environmental and Social Director, Alufer Mining

Mr. Peter AUSTIN

Consultant at Creativa

Mr. Jean-François ARSENAULT

Managing Partner, CPCS

Ms. Marie GUIS

Partner at Lincoln Legal Services

Mr. Bertrand LIARD

Associate Attorney, Partner at White and Case

Mr. Richard CHEVALIER

Project Manager Mutualization (GAC, CBG, Rusal)

Mr Denis REYNARD

Project Director, SETEC International

Mr. Saadou NIMAGA

Secretary General, Ministry of Mines and Geology

Mr. Guy de SELLIER

President, HCF International

Mr. Kelvin TAN

Consultant at Core Advisory, Singapore

Mr. Andrew ALI

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SouthBridge

Mr. Pascal AGBOYIBO

Director of the Africa Department, Orrick

Mr Stéphane BRABANT

Associate Attorney & Chairman of the Africa Group, Herbert Smith Freehills

Alain EBOBISSE

Chief Executive Officer, AfrIca50

Mr. Youssouf UWAMAHORO

Senior Specialist, Energy Department, World Bank

Mr. Souleymane TRAORE

General Manager, Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée

Dr. Cheick Taliby SYLLA

Minister of Energy and Hydraulics

Mr Driss MOUNJI

General Manager, Mandiana Mining Company

Mr. Joseph Siba DOPAVOGUI

Deputy Director General of Geo-Services

Mr Boubacar THERA

Executive Director, Toro Gold Limited

Mr. Alhassane TOURE

Director General, National Agency for Financing Local Authorities (ANAFIC)

Mr. William LESHILO

Vice President, Community Affairs, Anglogold Ashanti

Ms. Rachel Gomez CAMARA

Country Director, CECI

Mr. Guy FONDJO

President, Professional Association of Banks and PCA of the Subcontracting and Partnership Scholarship DG Bourse de la Sous-Traitance

Mr. Bella KEITA

Chief Executive Officer, Belco Corporation

Mr. Tibou KAMARA

Minister of State in the Presidency, Special Advisor to the President of the Republic, Minister of Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises

Mr. Olivier BUYOYA

Mr. Abdourahmane DIABY

General Manager, Société Anglogold Ashanti de Guinée ( SAG)

Paulo CASTELLARI

Chief Executive Officer, Guinea Alumina Corporation / EGA

Mr. Ismaël DIAKITE

General Manager, SMB Winning Consortium Refinery

ZHANG Chengzhong

Directeur Général Adjoint de Chinalco

Ms. Carine GRACIA

Director of Community Relations of Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG)

Mr. Bernard SHEEHAN

Consultant, Former Director Infrastructure and Natural Resources, IFC

Dr. Gillian DAVIDSON

Director, New Gold Inc

Professor Jeffrey SACHS

Professor, Economist, Public Policy Analyst and former Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University

Mr. Abdellah MOUTTAQI

, Secretary General, National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines of Morocco

Mr. Daouda DIAKITE

Assistant Minister of Mines and Geology

Mr. Jean François LABBE

BRGM Consultant

Mr. Mohamed Lamine SY SAVANE

Director General, Center for Mining Promotion and Development, Ministry of Mines and Geology;

Mamady FOFANA

General Director - SOGUIPAMI

Mr. Alan CLARK

Director, CM Group

Carl FIRMAN

Aluminium Analyst, Wood Mackenzie

Mr. Baba Moussa DIALLO

Head of Governance and Internal Audit, Total France

Mr. Aliou MAIGA

Director of Operations, West and Central Africa, IFC

Mr. Ashok VASWANI

Chief Executive Officer, Topaz Multi Industries Group

Dr Soukeyna KANE

Regional Director, World Bank Group

Mr. Carlos LOPEZ

High Representative of African Union Commission, Former Executive Secretary United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Malick N’DIAYE

President, Guinea Chamber of Mines

Bouna SYLLA

President of the Organising Committee, Symposium Mines Guinea 2019

Donald Kaberuka

Co-Chair of the LSE-Oxford Commission on Fragility, Growth and Development of State

Benoit Garrivier

Head of Development and Transaction, AEMP

Justin Hughes

Head, Aluminium Raw Materials, CRU Group

Baboucar Therа

Director General, Toro Gold

Lei Song

Deputy General, Henan China

Chris Bayliss

Deputy Secretary General, International Aluminium Institute

Oleg Pelevin

Director of Strategy and Corporate Development, Nordgold

Evgeny Tulubensky

Board member of Nordgold Chief Legal Officer, Corporate and Regulatory Affairs of Nordgold

Oumar Togueyeni

Regional Vice-President, West Africa

Petra Muehlen

Co-Owner, SpectraFlow Analytics

Ruben de Meijer

Managing Director of Vermeer West Africa

Adrian Mill

Team Leader, Moore Stephens

Gustavo A Montero

Chairman/Co Founder, Agar LLC/Pockero Network

Hervé Lado

Country Programme Manager, Natural Resources Governance Institution

His Excellency Prof. Alpha Condé

President of the Republic of Guinea

Fréderic Bouzigues

Managing Director, Société Minière de Boké (SMB)

HE Abdoulaye Magassouba

Minister of Mines and Geology

Mr. Cheick SAKO

State Minister, Minister of Justice, Keeper of Seals, Republic of Guinea

Dr. Alkaly Yamoussa Bangoura

Councilor for Mines, Presidency of the Republic

Dr. Pascal Rey

Chief Executive Officer, INSUCO

Dr Vera SONGWE

Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa

Gabriel Curtis

Minister of Investments and Public and Private Partnerships, Guinea

Boubacar Bocoum

Chief Expert on Mining Issues, World Bank

Paulo Gomez

Counsellor of the Government of Guinea

Veronica Nyhan Jones

Global Head, Advisory Services, Natural Resources, SFI

Aguibou Ly

Chief Executive Officer, IBS Group (International Business Solutions)

Seydou Bari Sidibé

Secretary General, Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests

Paul MacLean

President, EEM Inc

Exclusive touristic tours in Guinea for SMG participants

If you would like to visit Guinea, come and enjoy one of the two touristic tours available for SMG participants:

Tour 1: Tourist tour to the Loos Islands on 23rd April 2019

Tour 2: Tourist tour of Boké, 1 Overnight and 2 Days from 26 to 27 April 2019

Click here for more information

SMG 2019

Will take place at the conveniently situated

SHERATON GRAND CONAKRY

Venue & Travel

Organised by

In recent years, the Republic of Guinea has undergone a major overhaul of its institutions. The democratic and economic reforms initiated have transformed the investment environment. Guinea can accomplish more, and much more quickly, in collaboration with foreign investors. Today, as the country has become more open and outward looking, it has strengthened its partnership with investment partners to accelerate its progress in terms of development. At the same time, Guinea has created the conditions for partners to better leverage their investments through profitable, win-win projects.

AME Trade Ltd is an international events organizer, specializing in B2B conferences with over 20 years’ experience working in emerging economies. With headquarters in the United Kingdom, AME Trade has regional offices in Angola, Cameroon, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia, and further representation in more than 15 countries in Africa.