Key qualifications:

• Lois Hooge has provided extractive industry (EI)[1] policy advice and project support to non-governmental organisations, governments and the mining industry since moving to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1996;
• Prior to 1996, Lois was a senior policy advisor to the Minister and Deputy Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada. Seconded to the Mining Association of Canada, she headed the ground-breaking multi-stakeholder policy process, the Whitehorse Mining Initiative that formed the basis of Canada’s first sustainable development mineral policy;
• Lois is an EI governance expert specialising in Critical Minerals, Mineral Policy, Mining Institutional and Regulatory Reform, Strategic Socio-economic and Environmental Assessments; Country Risk Assessments and EI Governance Assessments; and in a range of other EI governance issues such as Conflict Minerals, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), small scale mining strategies and capacity building; stakeholder engagement; and strategic planning;
• Publication of Mining’s Impact on Community Development in South Africa (well-received at the UN Workshop on Growth and Diversification in Mineral Economies in Cape Town);
• Invited to sit on the Africa based World Economic Forum Mining and Minerals Roundtable;
• Led on Minerals Governance issues (focus on institutional and regulatory reviews) on the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa International Study Group on African Mining Regimes (a report that went to the African Union and forms the basis of the Africa Mining Vision);
• Previous Senior Policy Advisor for Africa, Natural Resources Canada (Canada’s mining department) based in South Africa for almost 10 years. She represented NRCan on key mining platforms (including the AU) in Africa from 2003-2012. Lois provided mining sector expertise to the Canadian Foreign Affairs delegation responsible for Canada’s contribution to the conflict minerals process through the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region;
• Contributed knowledge and expertise to the OECD’s development of conflict minerals guidelines.

[1] EI in this document refers too Oil/Gas and Mining Sub-Sectors of the Extractive Industries