antonio pedro bio - im4dc · antonio pedro bio author: janet glover created date: 20130505222026z
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Antonio M.A. Pedro Director -‐ United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Sub-‐Regional Office for East Africa Antonio M.A. Pedro is a natural of Mozambique and a mineral exploration geologist with over 30 years of broad experience of and exposure to development issues and management at national, sub-‐regional, and continental levels. Throughout his career, he has held several managerial and leadership positions including as Director-‐General of a sub-‐regional research centre-‐the Southern and Eastern African Mineral Centre (SEAMIC)-‐in Tanzania and Managing Director of several state-‐owned mining companies in Mozambique. He joined the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in 2001, coming from SEAMIC. Before being appointed to his current position as Director of ECA’s Sub-‐regional Office for |Eastern Africa (SRO-‐EA) in Kigali, Rwanda, he was the Chief of Infrastructure and Natural Resources Development at the ECA headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In Mozambique, he participated actively in the creation and structuring of the Ministry of Mineral Resources and in the privatisation process of several Mozambican mining state companies. He has been involved in the promotion of regional integration and cooperation on the continent since 1984. As Director General of SEAMIC, he led the modernisation and corporate restructuring process of the institution. This included the introduction of quality management systems (for ISO 9001); performance related appraisal and reward systems; strategic businness and incubation units; design of services to assist the development of small and medium-‐scale enterprises (SMES), particularly cottage lapidaries; performance contracts between SEAMIC and its member States with a view to improving the delivery of services; etc. At ECA, he has been at the forefront of mineral policy analysis and formulation and has published or led the publication of major studies and/or policy papers and think pieces, including a) Compendium on Best Practices in Small-‐scale Mining in Africa; b) Training Materials on Management of Mineral Wealth; c) Improving Public Participation in the Sustainable Development of Mineral Resources in Africa; d) Minerals Cluster Policy Study in Africa: Pilot Studies of South Africa and Mozambique; and e) Mainstreaming Mineral Wealth in Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategies. ). As a means to advancing governance in the extractive industry in Africa, he is currently investigating on the nexus between mining, new institutional economics
(NIE), leadership, theory of change and change management processes, and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM. He has also played a key role in the design of the Yaounde Vision on Artisanal and Small-‐scale Mining (ASM). Of special relevance was the leading role he played in the drafting and identification of issues for the February 2007 Big Table on “Managing Africa’s Natural Resources for Growth and Poverty Reduction” . The 2007 Big Table agreed on a new compact and platform for action to improve the development outcomes of mineral resources exploitation in Africa. The meeting was a landmarked event which has generated a body of ideas that has spearheaded several change processes in the sector. He led the work of the International Study Group on Africa’s Mineral Regimes (ISG), a major ECA initiative to ensure that Africa’s mineral resources fully contribute to the socio-‐economic development of the continent in a sustainable manner. The ISG work culminated in the publication of the “Minerals and Africa’s Development” report. He also spearheaded the formulation of the Africa Mining Vision which was adopted by the African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government in February 2009. He is part of the project team which is establishing the African Mineal Development Centre (AMDC), a one-‐top-‐shop facility to coordinate the implementation of the Africa Mining Vision. He is a seasoned international speaker on development issues, Co-‐Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) thematic group on the Good Governance of Extractive and Land Resources, Honorary Fellow in the Graduate School of Natural Resources Law, Policy and Management (CEPMLP) of the University of Dundee, and member of Board of Directors and Advisory Groups of several institutions and global initiatives including the Global Agenda Council on Responsible Mineral Resources Managements of the World Economic Forum, and the Advisory Board of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (VCC), a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University.