This session will include formal opening remarks from the event’s host, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the IGF Secretariat, followed by keynote speeches to set the stage for the 21st IGF Annual General Meeting (AGM) reflecting the AGM’s theme: Value Beyond Extraction: Rethinking Mining for a Resilient Future.

Master of Ceremony

• Tracey Cooper, Advisory Boards, Socio-economic development, facilitation and special projects across the mining sector

Official opening

• Mohato Moima, Chair, IGF Executive Committee
• Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Isabelle Ramdoo, Director, IGF

High-level Panel Discussion

Moderator

• Veronica Bolton-Smith, CEO, Critical Minerals Africa Group

Speakers

• Prof. Jean-Marie Kanda, Senior Advisor to the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Luz Maria de la Mora, Director, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD
• Cecilia Nicolini, Member of MERCOSUR Parliament