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In The Right Advice Podcast Arthur Katalayi discusses with world-class industry pioneers and executives about the importance of natural resources, financial markets, the future of the mining industry and how green energy is gradually electrifying the world economy.
The $173 trillion global energy transition is taking place and the minerals of the Democratic Republic of Congo – of which the global demand will quadruple until 2050 – are at the heart of our daily activities through modern technology; the emergence of electric vehicles and the digitalization of human interactions.
Robert Friedland is an international entrepreneur and American businessman who founded 8 companies and has been the head of 17 different companies. Associated with natural resources and technology projects for over 30 years. Mr. Friedland is the founder of Turquoise Hill Resources, a Canadian company recognized for its world-class copper and gold discovery at Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolia.
Mr. Friedland is also the founder and co-executive chairman of the board of directors of Ivanhoe Mines, a Canadian mining company based in Vancouver and developing three main mining projects in southern Africa: the Bushveld complex and the palladium-platinum-nickel-copper-rhodium-gold mine from Paltreef on the northern branch of South Africa; mining development and exploration of the Kamoa-Kakula copper project in the Central African copper belt in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and the development of the historic high-grade Kipushi zinc-copper-lead-germanium mine, also located in the DRC copper belt. Ivanhoe DRC employs more than 18,000 people, 98% of whom are Congolese; the company is one of the largest contributors to the Congolese public treasury. Under Mr. Friedland's leadership, leaders of the Ivanhoe Group and associated companies have raised more than $25 billion through a diverse range of financing vehicles in global capital markets since 1993.
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Mr. Mulamba is Chief Executive of Citibank in the Democratic Republic of Congo; he is also responsible for managing markets for the DRC. In addition, Mr. Mulamba is the president of the Congolese Banking Association, a conglomerate of 17 Congolese banks.
A juggernaut with $21 trillion in assets under custody and a market capitalization of $83.72 billion, Citibank is part of the New York-based financial group, Citigroup, which ranks among the Top 3 largest banks in the United States. A systemic 'Too Big to Fail' bank, a symbol of Wall Street, it is the only American bank established in the DRC and it opened its office in Kinshasa in 1971, and established another one in Lubumbashi in 2013. Citi DRC is primarily aimed at clients in the mining and metals industry and also provides a wide range of banking services to government entities, non-governmental organizations, subsidiaries of multinationals, local businesses and microfinance institutions.
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Yves Ilunga AGA (SA) is Chief Executive of Glencore’s Mutanda Mining SARL, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.