23 September 2024 • 11 minute read

MINVEST: MSP Finance Event

Monday, September 23, 2024

9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET

The all-day event will convene inaugural members of the Minerals Investment Network (MINVEST) for the first time, alongside senior officials from Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) Partners, development finance and export credit agencies, and MSP Forum governments.

Keynotes, panels, and networking sessions will focus on overcoming investment challenges and fostering collaboration to build out sustainable, secure, and resilient minerals supply chains.

Hosted by DLA Piper, New York

This event is invitation-only.

For more information
Please contact Tamar Tsemach with questions.

Agenda

9:30 am	Welcome remarks John J. Gilluly III, Partner, U.S. Vice Chair, Transactional Practice, Member, Global Board Member, Executive Committee, DLA Piper The Hon. Jose Fernandez, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, U.S. Department of State
9:40 am	Opening remarks The Honorable Kurt Campbell, Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
10:00 am	State of Critical Minerals Finance – Gaps & Opportunities PRESENTATION Kwasi Ampofo, Head of Metals and Mining, BloombergNEF
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Impact Unveiled: How ECAs & DFIs Are Funding the Transition to a Minerals-Based Economy ARMCHAIR & PANEL Armchair: James Burrows, Acting Chief Banking Officer, Export-Import Bank of the United States PANEL Ashley Glen, Director, Export Development Canada Jan Klasen, First Vice President and Head of Equity Investments & and European Affairs, KfW Group Nozomi Nose, Chief Representative in Representative Office in New York, Japan Bank for International Cooperation Felicitas Riedl, Director, European Investment Bank Joe Stefano, Partner, Head, U.S. Projects & Energy, DLA Piper (Moderator)
11:45 am	Project Scorecards: Lessons for Government PANEL Jason Chang, CEO and MD, EMR Capital Edwin Bennett, Principal, Engine No. 1 Ryan Coté, Principal, Hatch The Rt Hon Dominic Raab, Head of Global Affairs, Appian and Co-Chair, SCOR (Moderator)
12:30 pm	Remarks Dorothy McAuliffe, Special Representative for Global Partnerships, U.S. Department of State
1:30 pm	Paying Investment Forward PANEL Amb. Geoff Pyatt, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State Andrew Trahar, Partner and Co-Founder, Vision Blue Mfikeyi Makayi, CEO, KoBold Metals Africa Oliver Wright, Partner, DLA Piper (Moderator)
2:15 pm	Sending the Signal: The Power of State-backed Investment Funds PANEL Emmanuel Dominguez, Director of EV Critical Materials Purchasing, General Motors Brian Menell, Chairman & CEO, TechMet Giulia Siccardo, Director, Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, U.S. Department of Energy Kevin Nolan, Partner, DLA Piper (Moderator)
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Mining Titans and New Horizons PANEL Hon. Sosten Alfred Gwengwe, Minister of Trade and Industry, Malawi Jakob Stausholm, CEO, Rio Tinto Benjamin Stoikovich, Chairman, Sovereign Zainab Usman, Senior Fellow and Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Moderator)
4:00 pm	Funding the Supply Chain PANEL Agnes Dasewicz, COO, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation Oskar Lewnowski, Founder & Group CEO, Orion Resource Partners John Eleoterio, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Abigail Hunter, Executive Director, Amb. Alfred J. Hoffman Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, SAFE (Moderator)
4:45 pm	Closing remarks Amb. Ki-hwan Kweon, Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
5:00 pm	Reception

MINVEST: MSP Finance Event

Monday, September 23, 2024

Agenda

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