Mozambique Gas Virtual Summit

H.E. Armindo Atelela Ngunga

Secretary of State of Cabo Delgado

Republic of Mozambique

H.E. Valige Tauabo

Governor of Cabo Delgado Province

Republic of Mozambique

H.E. Dennis W. Hearne

U.S. Ambassador

Republic of Mozambique

Dennis Walter Hearne, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister Counselor, has served as an American diplomat since 1985. He was appointed by President Donald J. Trump on January 7, 2019 as Ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique and sworn-in to office on January 31, 2019. He most recently served as Principal Deputy High Representative, Office of the High Representative, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2017 to 2018.

Other senior leadership positions in which he has served include: Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2016 to 2017; senior advisor to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs from 2015 to 2016; United States Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 2009 to 2012; and as foreign policy advisor to United States military commanders, including two years of service in combat operations in Afghanistan.

His other assignments include Brasilia, The Hague, Zagreb, Lisbon, Sao Paulo, and Washington. He is the recipient of the United States Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal and several Department of State Superior Honor Awards. He speaks Croatian and Portuguese.

Ambassador Hearne is a native of North Carolina and a resident of Virginia. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest University and a Master of Science from the National War College.

H.E. Henny de Vries

Dutch Ambassador

Republic of Mozambique

I started my career in the UN with postings in Egypt, Costa Rica and Honduras. From 1996 to 2002 I worked in the Netherlands at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. In 2002, I joined the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs with postings in Tanzania, Bangladesh and the occupied Palestinian Territories. In addition, I served at the Department for Sustainable Economic Development in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague.

Education:
MA non-Western Demography, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 1984-1988
MA Economic Geography, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 1980-1988

Languages:
Dutch, English, German and Spanish

Henrique Cossa

Advisor to the Minister & Coordinator, Multi-Sectorial Local Content Task Force

Ministry of Mineral Resources & Energy (MIREME)

Edgar Paulo Augusto

National Director - Planning & Studies Directorate

Ministry of Industry & Commerce

Carlos Zacarias

President

INP

Carlos Joaquim Zacarias is the Chairman of the National Petroleum Institute, the regulatory body for upstream petroleum activities in Mozambique. He assumed the role in August 2015 and quickly had to led the negotiation of the Legal framework for the Rovuma Basin projects including approvals for Coral South FLNG, Golfinho/Atum and Rovuma LNG Plan of Developments.

As Chairman, Zacarias is focused on establishing a stable, predictable and attractive regulatory framework for foreign investment, in line with international standards and at the same time ensuring that the natural gas production projects being implemented in Mozambique generate added value for the national economy, catapulting other sectors of activity, allowing to catalyze and maximize the participation of nationals throughout the value chain and life cycle of natural gas projects.

Zacarias has an extensive expertise in a wide array of strategic, exploration, safety and regulatory matters of the petroleum industry as a result of his executive and management experience.

Over his 16 years at INP, he served as Vice President for Projects and Development, where he dealt with the promising and growing gas production and transport industry of Mozambique from 2005 until 2008, when he was appointed Vice President for Exploration, supervising and monitoring all exploration activities that led to the largest discoveries in Rovuma Basin, so far.   

Prior to joining INP, Zacarias held management positions at the National Directorate for Coal and Hydrocarbons (DNCH) at a technical department responsible for supervising petroleum and coal activities, where he was involved in the revision of the legal package, exploration activities and implementation of Pande/Temane Gas Project.

Zacarias holds a master degree on Petroleum Geology from the Petrochemical Institute of Baku, Azerbaijan.

Estêvão Pale

Chairman & CEO

ENH

Estevão Tomás Rafael Pale, is a Mozambican citizen, of 65 years old, married and with two children. He holds a Masters in Financial Economics from the University of London, a Postgraduate in Mining Engineering from the Camborne School of Mines in England and a Bachelor Degree in Economics from Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique.

Estevão Pale has over 35 years of experience in geology and mining and ten years of experience in the oil and gas sector. He successfully led several organizations, and was National Director of Mines at the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy for almost ten years. In this latter role, he was responsible for designing and implementing the support project for the development of the geological and the mining sector, financed by the World Bank. The project facilitated the review of the legal structure and attracted more investments to the sector.

Estevão Pale was the Executive Director of CMH - Companhia Moçambicana de Hidrocarbonetos, SA, from 2005 to February 2020. CMH holds 25% of the shares of Joint-Venture Pande & Temane, and Sasol Petroleum Temane holds 70% and IFC - The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, holds 5%.

As Executive Director of CMH, Estevão Pale was instrumental in increasingly obtaining positive results for CMH's shareholders, and positioning CMH as a model in the oil and gas industry in Mozambique.

Estevão Pale is currently the Chairman and CEO of ENH, Mozambique´s National Hydrocarbons Company.

Augusto E. Macuvele

Executive Board Member – Exploration

INP

Anísio Matias Matangala

Director of Institutional & Strategic Development

National Authority of Professional Education (ANEP)

Jennifer Adams

Mission Director – Mozambique

USAID

On August 10, 2017, Dr. Jennifer Adams was sworn in as the USAID Mission Director for Mozambique.  Prior to this assignment, Dr. Jennifer Adams was USAID’s Acting Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Global Health. She managed USAID’s global programs in Population and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS, Health Systems and Infectious Diseases.  She had responsibility for strategic planning, procurement, human resources, project design, monitoring and evaluation and communications.

Previously, Dr. Adams headed USAID’s Office of Donor Engagement. Her duties involved analysis, communication, and collaborative efforts to generate joint understanding and action on key development priorities with both bilateral and multilateral donor partners around the world.

Jennifer Adams was appointed the first USAID development counselor to China in September, 2008. Before her post in Beijing, she was the Mission Director for USAID in Brazil.

Dr. Adams has worked for USAID for over 20 years, in the Central Asian Republics, Senegal, Brazil, and Washington, D.C. Her positions included economist, and managing social sector portfolios, including health, education and environment projects. In Brazil, she initiated a successful public-private partnership, Mais Unidos, which engaged the 50 largest American companies to support social entrepreneurship.

Dr. Adams graduated from Johns Hopkins University, has a Master of Philosophy degree from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and a Ph.D. in Economics from Cambridge University.

Denise Cortês-Keyser

Founder

DCK Global

Roberto Dall´Omo

Managing Director & General Manager

Eni Rovuma Basin

Born in Turin (Italy) in 1961, he graduated in Mining Engineering at the Turin Polytechnic in 1985 and joined eni four years later as a Reservoir Engineer.

In his career, Roberto has covered several Managerial positions in Italy and abroad in Congo, Nigeria, Angola, US and the Netherlands including SVP for Sub-Saharan Region.

He also served as SVP Upstream R&D of Eni and Executive Vice President Development, Operations & Technology Technical Assurance.

Since February 2020, he is serving as Managing Director & General Manager of Eni Rovuma Basin and Country Manager for Eni in Mozambique.

Manuel Barros

CEO - Gas & Renewable Energy Business Unit

Sonangol

Professional Experience:
- 25 Years of Experience in Oil and Gas Industry
- SONAGÁS Vice President for operations.
- Operation Manager
- Planning Manager
- Head of Strategy Department
- Reservoir Engineer

Education:
- Graduated from Petroleum Academy of Baku, Azerbaijan, 1993
- Holds a master’s degree in mining engineering

Antonio Saide

Chairman

FUNAE

Jos Evens

General Manager & Lead Country Manager, Mozambique

ExxonMobil

Jos Evens has spent more than 30 years with ExxonMobil.  He joined ExxonMobil Mocambique Limitada as Production Manager and Mozambique Lead Country Manager in August 2017. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Gas & Power Marketing, for ExxonMobil Qatar Limited. Mr. Evens studied Commercial Engineering and Engineer Enterprise Information Systems at the University of Leuven in Belgium.

Mr. Evens began his career with Exxon in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1984. Since that time, he has undertaken a range of operational, supervisory and managerial assignments for Exxon and subsequently ExxonMobil. He has served in various capacities in operations, customer service, business development, and planning functions within Fuels Marketing and Gas Marketing while working in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.

Ronan Bescond

VP & Country Chair

Total

Katan Hirachand

Co-head London - Energy Advisory & Finance

Societe Generale

Katan joined SG in 2006 having spent 5 years in the industry with BG Group including commercial roles based in Brazil, Tunisia and Iran. He has cultivated a wide experience of advisory and arranging roles across the energy sector including LNG, refineries, pipelines and upstream successfully raising multi-billion dollar financings in emerging market jurisdictions (mainly in Africa) he is widely recognized by the industry for his expertise and sits on a number of advisory boards.

He currently leads a number of flagship advisory deals for the bank including Mozambique LNG which is set to represent the largest-ever sub-investment debt raise (USD 15 bn) due to sign in Q3 2019. He also leads two equity private placements for LNG projects in Africa and the U.S. He has led and closed deals in a number of African countries and is involved in the development of LNG-to-power and floating LNG projects. He led the lending of the STAR refinery, and has been involved in the LNG-to-power deal in Ghana.

Katan led the financing of the landmark USD 3.7 billion Egyptian Refining Company (ERC) financing. He has worked extensively with multi-laterals, DFI’s and export credit agencies and played a key role in new product development including mezzanine, equity, A/B loan structures.

ERC, which closed in 2012, won a host of plaudits for its structure and ability to weather multiple political and financial storms winning deal of the year in 2012 and representing the largest non-recourse financing in Africa to date, and notably one with no completion guarantee. It has an unprecedented capital structure comprising DFI’s, commercial banks, multi-laterals and private equity.  

Katan was promoted to co-head for energy in September 2018. He covers EMEA although his specialized focus is in Africa as well as deals involving higher levels of market risk. In October 2018, he became a Board member of SG Mozambique highlighting his significant contribution to the Mozambique and SADC region.

Katan is a regular industry speaker and has a number of publications to his name. In 2012, he was nominated for the Financial News “Rising Stars” under 40 awards having become one of the banks youngest ever managing directors. In 2013, he became the first investment banker to secure a position on the Gastech steering committee highlighting his contribution to the industry. In 2014, he was selected for the advisory board of the Global African Investment Summit. In 2015, he was selected as part of “World Finance 100” as a leader in financing for emerging markets.

He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from King’s College London and is holder of the Tadion-Rideal prize for contribution to Molecular Science.

Victor Tivane

Local Content Director

ENH

Víctor B.L.Tivane  is a Mozambican investment and business development consultant with more than 15 years experience in promoting investment and developing SMEs (Matching Grant Schemes, Linkages and Industrial Parks).

Currently is the Director at National Hydrocarbon Corporation at the Local Content Division. As the Director of this Division, the main role is to lead and coordinate the company policy operationalization regarding the local industry promotion and development, employment creation and acceleration of skill and technology transfer.

The last position was a Consultant at the World Bank Competitiveness and Private Sector Development Project for Mozambique (PACDE).

Víctor Tivane has worked at the Investment Promotion Centre, in the preparation and implementation of Industrial Parks in Mozambique and advisor for foreign and domestic firms, in matters of investment; as adviser during the implementation of Aluminium Smelter (MOZAL); and as the Manager of the Linkages Program Office at the World Bank Enterprise Development Project using tools such as Matching Grant Schemes and Supplier Development Program.

Natalia Camba

Head of Local Content

INP

Natalia is currently the Director of Local Content at National Petroleum Institute upstream Regulator of Oil and Gas activities, previously she was the Director of Supervision and Safety. She is a Chemical Engineer and holds a Master Degree in Project Management of Oil&Gas Industries with specialization in Economics of Oil, Gas and Energy.

She was involved in elaboration of documents related with Gas Development in Mozambique, such Gas Master Plan, Strategy for the Development of Local Market, HSE Regulation etc.

She has experience in LNG Project, where she was involved in different roles such as Engineering Technical Assistant also follow-up communications Liaison with Government Regulatory groups within Mozambique. She acted after as Advisory of Environmental Impact Assessment team in the Mozambique LNG Project , leading  with issues associated with EIA and Resettlement Action Plan, and guide the team with information necessary to meet the Mozambique Government and local communities’ needs.

Currently, Natalia is involved in setting up strategies and Policies related with Local Content Development in Mozambique and she is member of Local Content Task Force, an interministerial Group that coordinates Local Content implementation in Mozambique.

Natalia is also a lecture of Petroleum Geopolitics& Ethics in the Oil &Gas Business MBA at ISCTEM (Higher Institute)

Titos Nhabomba

Commercial & Marketing Director, Domestic & Regional Markets

ENH

Amad Valy

Executive Director

Cabo Delgado Port (PCD)

Stefano Mantellassi

Head of Energy Solutions Initiatives

Eni

In the energy industry for over 25 years, Stefano Mantellassi has a wealth of experience in emerging markets, having spent most of his career abroad.

As of November 2017 he has taken on the role of Head of Initiatives for Africa in Eni’s renewable energy division, called Eni Energy Solutions. As such, he identifies and drives renewable energy initiatives in Africa. He is also responsible for portfolio optimization, monitoring and analysis of ongoing projects in the region.

With Eni since 1991, he has held a number of senior management positions across the business value chain (from upstream, to midstream and downstream), in Nigeria, Congo, Kazakhstan, France, the Netherlands and UK.

Stefano holds a degree in Industrial Technologies and a specialization in Management from the Polytechnic University of Milan.

Roberto Uberti

East Africa Area Manager, Saipem

CEO CCS JV, Total LNG Area 1

• Date of birth: 30/10/1956
• Married with 2 children
• Master of Engineering

More than 15 years experience as Board Member and CEO of Multi-billion Consortium of Companies.

Currently CEO of the following companies:

CCS JV

Ship Recycling scarl

Denuke scarl

Cepav Uno

Managing Director of Smacemex scarl

Member of the Board of Directors of the following companies:

CCSJV Engineering Services LDA, Charville Consultores e Servicos LDA, Mangrove Gas Netherland B.V.

30+ years of experience in Project management mainly in the Oil&Gas industry. 20 years experience in construction starting from site to worldwide responsibility for construction of Snamprogetti.

More than 15 years experience as Sponsor\Member of Steering Committee\Project Director of GTL\LNG|Power and Refining Projects.

Hasnayn Ebrahim

Managing Director

Africa International Advisors (AIA)

Hasnayn Ebrahim serves as the Managing Director of AIA and leads project work with clients across various disciplines and practice lines; having a particular focus on strategy and innovation within the integrated energy environment. Educated as a metallurgical engineer from the University of Witwatersrand, Hasnayn gained close to a decade of practical and technical, hands-on experience working for the largest global steel-maker as well as a global engineering design firm in various positions and departments.

Since joining AIA in 2012, Hasnayn has advised multi-national companies, government departments, State-Owned Entities and regulatory entities in business and organisational strategy, organisational restructuring and turnarounds, Africa focused growth strategies, regulatory and compliance matters, market entry and market demand studies, mergers & acquisitions, project finance and development, stakeholder engagement and facilitation of strategic and board workshops. Furthermore, his work within the energy space, particularly gas within the Southern African environment, provides him with a unique understanding of the market drivers and enablers required for development.

Kwasi A. Agbley

Advisor to the Board of Directors

African Renaissance Pipeline Ltd

Kwasi Agbley graduated in 1980, from of the University of Ghana, Legon, where he majored in Political Science and Ancient History. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Analysis & Evaluation of Investments, from the ILO Training Centre, Turin, Italy. After a short stint in Ghana’s diplomatic service, he decided on a career in economic development. He has four decades of progressive professional experience in the promotion of investments, natural resource conservation and the use of tourism as a tool for creating vibrant economies, particularly in limited resource communities. This experience covers work in key positions in the public, non-governmental and private sectors, and with major universities and research institutions, banks, national tourism authorities, and key bilateral and multilateral institutions.

From 2006 to 2010, he was the Chief of Party for the Mozambican Government’s Projecto Arco Norte, which covered the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Niassa. In the last decade, he has focused mainly on attracting investments into energy, transportation and telecommunications infrastructure development in Mozambique, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and lately, Ghana and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Amongst others, he is currently Advisor to African Renaissance Pipeline Limitada, promoters of the African Renaissance Pipeline Project. The project aims to provide the infrastructure backbone that will serve to transport natural gas from Mozambique’s Rovuma Basin to South Africa and assure clean energy security for Mozambique, South Africa and other SADC member states.

Ray Leonard

President

Anglo Eurasia Power Africa LLC

Ray Leonard is currently President of Anglo Eurasia LLC, a consulting firm for the Energy Industry and Senior Advisor with Linden Strategies. He has a Bachelors Degree (Honors) in Geoscience from the University of Arizona and M. A. in Geology from University of Texas-Austin.

He held executive positions with Amoco, FIOC, the Russian Oil Major YUKOS, the Hungarian National Oil Company MOL, the Kuwait Energy Company and was Chief Executive Officer of Hyperdynamics, a NYSE-listed company exploring for oil and gas in West Africa. 

He has been active in publishing and presenting on world oil and gas reserves and climate change for many years, presenting at forums such as Council on Foreign Relations (1994/2014), the 26^th World Gas Conference (2015) and the World Economic Forum at Davos (2019/20).

Keith Webb

Senior Investment Banker, Infrastructure Finance

FNB Mozambique

Keith joined RMB’s Infrastructure Finance team in 2008, where he specialises in structuring, arranging and funding debt and mezzanine investments in the Energy, Infrastructure and Tech sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Some recent transactions he has been involved in:
• USD1.8bn bond issuance and multi-currency loan facility for Tower company operating across Africa;
• ZAR4.5bn capex facility for FTTH network in South Africa;
• ZAR1bn corporate facility to roll out 4G/5G network in South Africa;
• ZAR25bn coal-fired IPP in South Africa (did not proceed);
• ZAR770m preference share facility for acquisition of shares in Fibre business operating across Africa;
• USD350m capex facility for Kenyan multi-products pipeline;
• ZAR3.4bn project finance facility for optic fibre network roll-out in South Africa;
• Numerous USD and local currency facilities for Mobile Network Operators in Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda

Prior to joining RMB, Keith spent 8 years advising multinationals on their corporate and investment strategies in Africa.

Zayra Romo

Senior Energy Specialist & Country Portfolio Leader

The World Bank

Zayra Romo is a power engineer with over 20 years of experience working on energy sector reform, regional energy trade, public-private investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. She has led major analytical work on energy sector reform and energy access in Africa and development of low-carbon strategies for Mexico.

In her current role based in Maputo, she coordinates the World Bank infrastructure portfolio for energy, transport  and ICT for Mozambique, Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoros and Seychelles and leads energy sector engagement in Mozambique.  Prior to joining the Bank as a Young Professional in 2009, she worked for Électricité de France in Mexico.

Zayra has a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a Master of Science in Energy Conversion and Management from the University of Offenburg in Germany. She has undertaken post-graduate research at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and MIT in Cambridge.

Thierry Clement

Business Development Manager

GTT

Thierry Clément is currently working in GTT as Business Development Manager for Africa, Italy and Northern Europe areas. Thierry is involved in LNG shipping, LNG offshore, small scale LNG and LNG fuel markets.

Thierry has around 20 years’ experience in the LNG industry. Before assuming his current position, he occupied various positions in GTT including Head of Liquid Motion Department, Project Manager in charge of the relations with Shipbuilding Yards in Far East (China, Korea, Japan) and Business Development Manager for China and Australia areas.

He has been involved in many studies and projects related to LNG shipping and LNG offshore (FLNG and FSRU) industries.

Thierry graduated from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN) with an Engineering Degree in Hydrodynamics and Fluid Mechanics.

Ian Thomas Krohn

Director

Third Way Africa (TWA)

Director of Impact Consulting at ThirdWay Africa Partners, focusing on mandates that link sustainable development solutions to impact-oriented private sector opportunities. Over 10 years of business and development experience in Southern Africa, primarily in Mozambique.

Former Consultant at Bain & Company within the firm’s financial services and energy & natural resource practices across the Middle East and Africa. Before his time there, he was a founder of a Mozambican holding company focusing on investment into local, socially-focused SMEs. M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Samer Mosis

Team Lead, LNG Analytics EMEA

S&P Global Platts

Samer Mosis is Team Lead, LNG Analytics EMEA with S&P Global Platts Analytics, leading the company’s analysis of European, Middle Eastern and African LNG markets. During his tenure with Platts, he has led initiatives in both North America and Europe, with a special focus new technology in North American gas trading and long term LNG production trends in North Africa. He is fluent in Arabic and his first book, “The Financial Markets of the Arab Gulf: Power, Politics and Money” was published by Routledge in 2018.

Before joining Platts, Samer was a Consultant for The Lafayette Group and a fellow with the US Department of the Treasury. He holds a Masters Degree in International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, from which he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Lourenço Sambo

Executive Director

APIEX

Director General of the Investment & Export Promotion Agency (APIEX - Mozambique), since June 2017. Before that he was Director General of the Investment Promotion Centre – CPI, from July 2010 to June 2017 and Economic Adviser to the Minister of Planning and Development of the Republic of Mozambique from June 2006 to July 2010.
Graduated from Eduardo Mondlane University in economics, he holds a Master’s Degree in Agriculture Business Management.
Among many studies, he conducted a study sponsored by the Friederich Ebert Foundation on the social and macro economic impact of deeper SADC regional integration in Mozambique as well a survey on the perception of the national business community and non-state actors as a complement to the study, published in South Africa by SAIA from WITS University namely the “REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA”, Vol 2, on Deepening Integration in SADC – Rapid Changes in Mozambique to Meet SADC Targets.
He also participated in the study on the reengineering of CPI in 1996 which culminated in the drafting of CPI’s first Strategic (1997-2000) as well as in the formulation of several proposals of studies and interventions crucial for the development of business and of the entrepreneurial sector in Mozambique requested by different public entities.

Joaquina Gumeta

Director General

IPEME

Simone Santi

President Oil & Gas Energy & Mineral Resources

CTA

Simone Santi has more than 22 years of experience in the Mozambican market, specialising in the African private sector, specifically Mozambique; supporting SMEs in developing markets; training, supporting, mediating and facilitating projects in areas of territorial marketing and direct foreign investment.

Managing local development projects, particularly where interaction between the public and business administration is foreseen.

Extensive experience with NGOs and financial agencies, partucularly with DFI CE-CPLP, World Bank, BAD, European Bank, Cepagri, CCMI.

Julio Sethy

President

Conselho Empresarial Provincial de Cabo Delgado (CEP CD)

Patrícia Quirino

Head of Tax Mozambique (Rest of Africa)

SASOL

Patrícia Quirino is a Tax Lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience in both Tax and Legal roles having worked for various jurisdictions in Africa and having specialized as an expert in Mozambique tax and oil & gas legal framework. Patrícia has a Law Degree from the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) followed specializations in both International Tax and Oil & Gas. She is currently enrolled in LLM Oil and Gas by the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Patricia’s current position is Head of Tax Mozambique & Rest of Africa at SASOL where she is responsible for all tax matters relating to Sasol’s various activities in Mozambique as well as for Sasol projects in other African jurisdictions with particular focus in the Oil and Gas sector.

Taciana Peão Lopes

Founder & Managing Partner

TPLA

Anicha Abdul

Managing Director

EP Management & Consulting Services

Anicha Abdul, is a co-founder and Managing Director of EP Management Consultancy Services. She has exceptional expertise in HR solutions for specialized industries such as in Oil and Gas, Mining and FMCG. She has spearheaded the placement over hundreds of employees, locals and expatriates in mega projects in Mozambique over the past 10 years.  She has extensive skills in conflict management, immigration, and contracting and human capital management. Anicha is a certified Leadership Coach and Trainer through John Maxwell Team. An organization focused on raising effectiveness of world leaders. Prior to joining the entrepreneur world, Anicha worked in a Mining Company and an International Tax Firm. She is the founder of a group of companies NEESH, which comprises of supply of specialized work wear ensuring that health and safety standards are met, Accounting and Tax consulting. She recently initiated the development of a social economic women empowerment project with the objective to get more women businesses involved in the mega projects.  Anicha is passionate and actively involved in the empowerment of women in business in Mozambique.

Jocelyne Machevo

External Relations Manager

Eni

Jocelyne Machevo is a young award-winning mozambican energy professional with an expertise in LNG projects in Mozambique. She has been part of Eni, an international energy company, for over 8 years having joined as a Civil Engineer and, thanks to her professionalism and commitment, she was later appointed External Relations Manager at Eni Rovuma Basin, Eni subsidiary in Mozambique, being the first woman and the first Mozambican to hold a management position in the Company.

She holds a Bachelor in Civil Engineering degree from ISUTC, and a master´s degree in Economy and Management of Energy and Environment from Eni Corporate University in Milan, Italy.

Jocelyne decided to devote her work in the energy industry because she believes that through the creation of comprehensive and sustainable energy strategies, the Country´s giant gas reserves are essential to solve the local energy challenges, as well as accelerating progress towards a sustainable energy future.

Throughout her career, Jocelyne has exhibited exemplary performance, winning the 2017 Outstanding Mozambican Woman in Gas & LNG Award by Mozambique Gas Summit and the 2019 Power Play Rising Star Award powered by ExxonMobil. With 29 years old, she has become a reference amongst the young professionals in the industry and seen as an emerging leader. She has also been nominated to be on the 2020 Most Influential People of African Descent Under 40, Global List.

She is also a vocal advocate for women inclusion in the energy sector in Mozambique and worldwide, as well as youth engagement in leadership. Currently, she is the a member of Mozambican Women in Energy (MWE) and ambassador for Power Play, initiatives that aim to celebrate the women who are playing key roles in this important industry and promote the efforts to create a more diverse and sustainable energy future.

António Jopela

JV O&M Mechanical Engineer ENHL

TechnipFMC Mozambique Lda

António Jopela is currently an Operations & Maintenance Mechanical Engineer working in Coral South FLNG Project.

He served in the same project as Local Content Officer and also worked within the rotating equipment and construction departments of TechnipFMC as Mechanical Engineer.

António holds a MSc in Project Management for Environmental and Energy Engineering from Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT - France) and BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM - Mozambique).

Pat Roberts

Managing Director

LNG Worldwide Ltd

Since 2005 Pat has been the Managing Director of LNG Worldwide Ltd, a consulting company offering advice, support and training in all areas of the LNG commercial supply chain. Previous to that Pat has 24 years of experience with the Shell Group of companies both in oil and natural gas.

Her direct experience in LNG is in the area of developing and implementing LNG strategies for new market entrants and companies seeking to strengthen partnerships with LNG producers. This includes working in all commercial areas across the LNG value chain.

Her work has included working with governments, NOCs, IOCs and utilities and she has advised on structuring and optimising LNG supply portfolios. Coupled with her commercial experience is also a strong grounding in fundamental market analysis and strategic planning.

Talumba Katawala

National Content & Site Administration Manager

TechnipFMC

Talumba Katawala is the National Content & Site Administration Manager for TechnipFMC in Mozambique with responsibility to implement the National Content Program for the FLNG project in the TechnipFMC, JGC & Samsung Heavy Industry Consortium and responsible for the follow-up and execution of the main subcontracts for the Onshore Logistics Base in Pemba, Cabo Delgado during the Subsea installation campaign and FLNG installation for the CORAL SOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. Prior to joining TechnipFMC, Talumba worked as the Public Relations Representative at Anadarko Mozambique for 9 years.

Talumba is also the Co-Founder of Mozambican Women of Energy (MWE) an association whose mandate is to contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 5 & 7: Gender Equality and Affordable and Clean energy for all.   

A woman who’s passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion and believes that they are important business imperatives.

Loide Chebeia

Senior LNG Marketer

ENH

Heike Melani Boane

2019 Winner of the University Essay Contest Award