Looking Beyond the Boom: Pre-Competitive Collaboration and the future of mining

Abstract
Despite the current downturn in commodity prices, resource rich countries in the developing world still hold a substantial amount of mineral reserves and will continue to attract the interest of foreign investors in the foreseeable future. The current downturn provides these countries with an opportunity to deal with some of the challenges that emerged during the boom: poor and uncoordinated infrastructure development, weak-overstretched institutional capacity, limited technical innovation, and growing social demands and environmental concerns. Pre-competitive collaboration between public and private sector investors namely in the areas of infrastructure and innovation hold the key for future success.

Biography of the Speaker
Paulo de Sa is the Practice Manager of the Energy and Extractives Global Practice at the World Bank, where he coordinates and leads the Bank’s oil, gas, and mining lending activities and technical assistance in more than 50 countries. He also heads three global programs and partnerships in the oil, gas and mineral sectors including: the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Global Gas FlaringReduction (GGFR), and the Extractive Industries Technical Advisory Services (EI-TAF). Prior to that he was a Lead Operations Officer for the Latin America region of the World Bank and also a Lead Industrial Economist.

Before joining the World Bank, he worked in Strategy and Operations for Usinor-Sacilor, a leading steel producer in France. He holds a Doctorate in Mineral Economics from the Paris School of Mines.