Kojo Busia

Dr Kojo Busia has over 25 years of working experience in multilateral & bilateral organisations and knowledge of governance in Africa. His contributions to African natural resources governance has seen him serve on several advisory boards including the Global Mining Sustainability (a global non-profit platform for sustainable mining) and the Responsible Mining Foundation (an independent research organisation responsible for publishing the Responsible Mining Index report). Dr Busia was chief of natural resources management section within the division of technology, climate change and natural resource management at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and spent nearly a decade leading UNECA's support to the African Union/NEPAD governance flagship, the African Peer Review Mechanism. He was also coordinator of the African Mineral Development Centre, a Pan-African Centre of the implementation of the African Mining Vision, an African Union policy framework for sustainable mineral resources development.