Paul Jourdan is an African integrated development expert specialising in resource-based and spatial development strategies. He has wide experience working on economic growth & development in South Africa, the SADC, West and East Africa. He spent 16 years in Mozambique and Zimbabwe during the struggle against apartheid, working as a geologist, geophysicist, manager and minerals economist, before returning to South Africa in 1991. Subsequently, he worked for the NUM and then the ANC and SA government in various positions including ANC Minerals & Energy Policy Coordinator (’93-’95), Deputy Director-General in the DTI (’98-2000) and President of Mintek (research parastatal, 2000-07). He designed and managed the SA Industrial Development Zone (IDZ: SEZ) programme and the regional SDIs (Spatial Development Initiatives or Development Corridors). He was a major contributor to the AU “Africa Mining Vision” (AMV: 2009) and Country Mining Vision (CMV: 2014) and has recently formulated the new Regional Mining Vision (RMV: 2019) for SADC and the African Union Commodity Strategy AUCS: 2021). He currently chairs the board of the CDC (Coega Development Corporation: SEZ), is on the SAMERDI Steering Committee (SA Mineral Extraction RDI) and MEMSA Board (Mining Equipment Manufacturers of SA), which he helped establish to build the SA mining supply-chain clusters at the new Mandela Mining Precinct (MMP: SAMERDI). Most of his recent/current work is as advisor to the SA and other African governments, RECs, AUC, UNECA, AfDB and NGOs, on resource-based equitable growth & development and mineral value-chains. He has a BSc (geology), a BA (African government), a PGDip (geophysics), two MSc’s (mineral economics) and a PhD (politics).

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