FAIR COBALT ALLIANCE - Key Persons

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• Government, Public Relations and Communications Officer

Alexandra has experience working with stakeholders with all backgrounds. She gained experience in the DRC working with national NGOs such as Soeur Lève toi on girls' school enrolment and education; and at the international level working with the African Centre for Constructive Conflict Resolution (ACCORD), and the NGO Committee on the Status of Women (NGO CSW) working on women's rights at the United Nations in New York. She has also gained expertise in communications through her work as a consultant. Having worked in the corporate world, it was essential for her to combine the two when she started at FCA: understanding the reality on the ground and working at the decision-making level. Both sides of the spectrum allow the full development and enhancement of the ASM sector by involving all stakeholders.

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• Member of the Steering Committee
• Fair Materials & Mining Team Lead, Fairphone

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• Member of the Steering Committee
• Responsible Sourcing Director, Glencore

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• DRC Country Director

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• Member of the Steering Committee
• Program Manager

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• Mining Engineer
• Business Innovation and Fundraising Officer

Candice Jumwa is a Mining Engineer who joined The Impact Facility - a social enterprise founded in 2018 to drive small-scale mines' professionalisation - right after graduation. Candice supports the development of financial services designed to bridge the gap between artisanal miners and formal finance. Over the years, Candice has worked closely with artisanal gold and gemstone miners in Western and Eastern Kenya and is supporting The Impact Facility's work around the Fair Cobalt Alliance remotely. In her current role, Candice is focused on driving engagement with corporates and (impact) investors to forge blended-finance partnerships - across industries and supply chain tiers - seeking to address complex challenges through strategic collaboration.

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• Specialist

A specialist in value chain assessments, voluntary standards and inclusive development, David's role at the Impact Facility centres on the development of credible and cost-efficient monitoring and evaluation systems to measure project impact in alignment with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. As part of his degree in international development management, David gained practical experience working with smallholder cotton farmers in India, where he helped introduce smart technology to catalyse the adoption sustainable production practices. His award-winning in-depth analysis of the artisanal gold value chain in east Africa, published in 2018, formed the foundation for the development of a scalable aggregation mechanism grouping hubs comprising several ASM operations strategically to reach sufficient volume to make direct trade economically viable. David now leads a multi-stakeholder initiative focused on the roll out of asset financing solutions providing much needed equipment through to artisanal and small-scale gold mines throughout sub-Saharan Africa. He continues operationalising export hubs for gold brokering deals with local middleman, negotiating contracts with refiners, and navigating international legislative and compliance requirements. David leads efforts to update the Impact Facility's tools and approaches in line with learnings and feedback from the field, to ensure that the Impact Facility and its partner mines are best equipped to achieve positive change. David is currently conducting field research on the topic of financial service provision and is scoping out opportunities to scale the Impact Facility's reach through partnership with other organisations.

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• Business Sustainability Expert, a Social Entrepreneur and a Responsible Investment Advisor
• Strategic Advisor

Assheton Stewart Carter is a business sustainability expert, a social entrepreneur and a responsible investment advisor. For the last 25 years he has focused on helping businesses create value that benefits their shareholders, communities and wider society. He began his career in London's financial markets, first as a wealth manager serving high net worth clients, and then as an asset manager at the broker Hoare Govett. He is the CEO of The Dragonfly Initiative, a project development and impact investment firm established to support businesses in the natural resources, electronics, automotive, luxury and investment industries develop sustainably. To date he has successfully managed over US$100 million in grant and donor funds. Ethical, socially sustainable and environmentally-orientated business lies at the heart of Assheton's work. He co-founded Spartacus Capital Mining Fund, a private equity firm dedicated to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments , and was a member of the founding team of Althelia Ecosphere, an asset manager focused on the generation of carbon credits from forest protection and sustainable agriculture. For ten years, he was board advisor at Goldlake Mining, a socially responsible gold mining enterprise in Honduras, and he is co-founder of Makal jewellery, a brand that is committed to using fully traceable gold and gemstones. Assheton has extensive experience in structuring innovative green supply chains. He built the first ethical gold and diamond supply chain to jewellers in the USA, and developed the world's first tracking system for conflict-free metals sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a system which continues to be used by electronics manufacturers in Europe to this day. Alongside his experience in business, Assheton has significant expertise within the non-profit sector. He has been a senior vice president at Pact, a leading international non-governmental organisation (NGO) that works in communities challenged by poverty. As chief advisor for sustainable business at Conservation International, a non-profit organisation focused on empowering people to protect nature, he managed multimillion dollar projects funded by grants from bodies that included the Department for Internal Development (DFID), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States Department of State and the government of South Africa, as well as several large corporate donors. Assheton chairs boards and expert panels for standard-setting organisations, NGOs and private companies worldwide. He lectures at leading international universities such as Georgetown University, Washington D.C.; Cornell University, New York; the University of Warwick; the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. His opinions have featured in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and The Economist. Assheton holds a first class degree from the Royal Agricultural University, and a PhD from the University of Bath. Dr. Assheton Stewart Carter heads the FCA Secretariat and serves as Executive Director of the Fair Cobalt Alliance.

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• Lead for Health and Safety

Based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Freddy Mwamba is responsible for occupational and environmental health and safety in the Impact Facility field programme, enabling artisanal mines to improve productivity through better risk management practices and greater respect for workers' health and safety. Being born in the DRC, Freddy's local knowledge is essential to our work. His overall role is to implement an occupational health and safety culture for artisanal miners in local mines. This includes training of miners, cooperatives and the provision of adequate personal protective equipment and awareness-raising through regular safety meetings (Toolbox topics). This is a role that corresponds to its long-standing need to improve artisanal mining practices. His first experience with industrial operations was in copper and cobalt production. In his work, he applies his knowledge, expertise and problem-solving skills in occupational health and safety and the environment to all aspects of artisanal mining. Mine safety is an area of particular interest, and Freddy has undergone extensive training in occupational safety and health (Samtrac). He also manages the environmental aspect at the mine sites both during exploitation and after mining activities have been completed. He describes his new experience as the intersection between the industrial and artisanal environment and a new challenge in his professional career, he says, "safety is everyone's business." Freddy holds a Diploma in Management Computer Science from the University of Kinshasa Binza, DRC. "I joined the FCA team to bring my know-how and experience acquired in the industrial sector to help clean up the artisanal mining environment. In collaboration with our partners and artisanal miners, we are improving working conditions, identifying hazards and managing risks with the goal of reaching zero accidents within our cooperatives."

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• Member of the Steering Committee
• ESG Specialist, LG Energy Solution

Holger is a senior private sector development and natural resource governance expert with more than 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors. He held several senior advisory positions with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (formerly the Department for International Development - DFID) in Senegal, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the UK. He was DFID's Global Lead for Extractive Industries, setting the department's policy positions on oil, gas, and mining; managing a global expert team and programme portfolio; and leading DFID's strategic relationships with multilateral organisations, NGOs, and the private sector. Holger is currently the Managing Director of Levin Sources, a growing social enterprise consultancy promoting human rights and market access for artisanal and small-scale miners. He is also a Senior Adviser to the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development and Chair of the Governance and Human Resources Board Committee for the John Huntingdon Charity, which provides social housing and other support services in his local area.

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• Member of the Steering Committee
• CEO, the Centre for Child Rights and Business

In his five years at Assent, Jared has focused on helping companies achieve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals through increased understanding and mitigation of risk. With more than a dozen years of leadership in corporate social responsibility, human rights, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, and environmental issues, Jared helps guide companies into new areas of compliance and responsible sourcing. Jared personally led on-the-ground audits of more than 75 smelters as part of Intel Corporation's industry-leading conflict minerals program and is the original author of the creator of the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT) and smelter audit protocols for tin, tantalum, and gold. As a part of the FCA's advisory board Jared's goal is to bring more awareness to the DRC, artisanal mining operations and how downstream companies can get involved in responsible cobalt sourcing.

Over the past 10 years, Jose worked on responsible mining and due diligence in mineral supply chains, both in industrial and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). She has extensive on-the-ground experience in high-risk and developing areas, among which in Central Africa and South America. She started her career in academia, conducting PhD research studying the impact of ‘conflict-mineral' policy and due diligence initiatives on local natural resource governance structures in Katanga, DRC. Working on the responsible production of minerals for a major industrial copper/cobalt mining company in Southern DRC, Jose gained key insights in due diligence from a corporate perspective working towards international best practices regarding human rights and the interaction between ASM and industrial mining. She built an extensive network in the DRC and has expert knowledge of internationally recognized due diligence standards, including OECD Due Diligence Guidance, ICGLR, RMI, Section 1502 Dodd-Frank Act, EU Regulation 2017/821, IFC performance standards; UNGP on Human Rights; and the VPSHR. In her latest role as Programme Manager at the Fair Cobalt Alliance, where she held the financial and operational responsibility for the programme, I gained further experience managing a multi-stakeholder initiative navigating between programme targets, civil society and private sector interests of member companies like Fairphone, Glencore and Tesla. Jose holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Groningen University, a Master's degree in Human Geography from the Radboud University, and a PhD in Political Science/ Development studies from the Erasmus University (International Institute for Social Studies (ISS)) in the Netherlands.

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• Member of the Steering Committee
• Director General, Alliance for Responsible Mining ( ARM )

Nikolaus has six years' experience working on sustainable supply chains on a variety of different agricultural and mineral commodities. He focusses on understanding and mitigating adverse social and environmental impacts in primary industries and improving supply chain sustainability. He currently works for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), leading various projects financed by the private sector, located across three continents, and focussed on sustainable natural resources. He is part of the team of Cobalt4Development, a GIZ-led project piloting an approach to improve the conditions of artisanal miners and their communities in southern DRC. The focus of C4D is improving health, safety and environment in the ASM sector and addressing root causes of child labour, while identifying paths for an effective scale-up of proven approaches around ASM mining.

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• Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Mines

Mr MABOLIA is a senior advisor to the Ministry of Mines in the DRC, and the coordinator of the Cellule Technique de Coordination et de Planification Minière ̈(CTCPM) since January 2019.

Sebastian is working with the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As an advisor in the field of technical cooperation, he has more than six years of experience in the implementation of international development projects in the region. His current work focuses on the establishment of responsible mineral supply chains, sustainable mining practice, both in ASM and LSM, as well as knowledge transfer in the context of multi-stakeholder capacity development. As a geoscientist, he has experience in the development of capacity development measures scoping health and safety as well as environmental management in DRC's major artisanal and small-scale mining sectors, producing 3TG as well as Copper and Cobalt. Sebastian has experience in the development of ASM certification schemes and risk assessment frameworks, aiming at the evaluation and monitoring of relevant aspects with respect to due diligence and sustainability risks in the mining sector. His skills are complementary to his extended knowledge of international mineral supply chains for Cobalt and Copper. Sebastian is currently managing BGR's office in Lubumbashi, extending the formerly ASM focussed project scope to the LSM sector by addressing issues in environmental management, corporate responsibility and local added value.

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• Chairman

Stacy has more than 14 years' experience working as an International Development Specialist and Strategic Advisor on areas surrounding gender, natural resources, renewable energy, social impact investment, disaster risks and climate resilience, and large national and international infrastructure development projects across the commercial, public and multilateral sectors. She is currently consulting and advising various United Nations agencies, and sits on the advisory boards of the UTU Social Impact Investment Fund, DRC-focussed Social Impact Investment Fund, Jamii, and Actions for the Development of Africa where she focusses on the interface between large-scale mining investments and gender transformative community development aligned to the UN SDGs and ESG standards. She is also advisor on a geothermal energy project in Turkey, and is the former ESG Director at Africa-focussed strategic advisory firm, Africa Matters Limited. Stacy is also the MD and Executive Director of Women in Mining UK.

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• Member of the Steering Committee
• Murhula, Director, Centre Arrupe Pour La Recherche Et La Formation ( CARF )

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• Engineer
• Expert in Artisanal Mining Thanks to SAEMAPE
• Lead for ASM Engagement

Yves became an expert in artisanal mining thanks to SAEMAPE (Artisanal Mining Assistance and Management Service), a state service established in 2010 with financial and administrative autonomy. Yves was posted as Technical and Operations Officer in Tanganyika, Kalemie with the three territories of Kalemie, Moba and Nyunzu under his supervision. His main role was to control production, which included managing production monitoring at the mining sites; tracking the evacuation of minerals from mining sites to the trading posts; monitoring which wells were being drilled, which were in production and which were affected and to maintain an overview of the artisanal miners at each site. He was represented at the mining sites by the main technical supervisors who were under his responsibility and reported to him. Furthermore, in April 2011, he took part in the implementation of the ITSCI traceability system, which is a labelling traceability system based on the CTC. As part of the activities involved with the ITSCI system, he participated in several training courses on the traceability of 3T minerals. In 2013 he consulted in the International Peace and Information Service (IPIS) project in the context of mapping and in 2014 was a member of the joint team for the qualification and validation of 3T mining sites. In the same year he took part in the participatory research with the mining communities of Busanga, in Kolwezi with TETRA TECH. In 2015 he was appointed as the Traceability Officer for all mining products at the SAEMAPE Kalemie Provincial Directorate and then transferred to the Haut Katanga Provincial Directorate in Lubumbashi. Yves is an engineer in industrial electronics from the ESI university of Lubumbashi.