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| | | Lukas H Lundin
Mr. Lundin currently serves as a Director of a number of publicly traded companies. He has a growing list of accomplishments, including raising hundreds of millions of dollars for exploration projects, and developing huge resource discoveries into production as principal of the Lundin Group of mining and oil and gas companies. Mr. Lundin balances out his abundant energy by participating in extreme sports such as the Paris Dakar motorcycle race, hiking Mount Kilimanjaro and extreme skiing. He combined his love for extreme sports with his global awareness of critical issues to make a positive impact in Africa by riding a motorcycle from Cairo to Cape Town in 2006, creating the Lundin for Africa Foundation in the process. As the visionary for Lundin for Africa, Mr. Lundin follows in the adventurous spirit of his father, Adolf Lundin, who was one of the first entrepreneurs to realize the multiple opportunities Africa presents. The Lundins have been working actively in Africa for more than thirty years.
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| | | Stephen Nairne
Mr. Nairne has served as Lundin for Africa's Managing Director since 2007. He is concurrently appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches courses on Country and Project Risk Analysis in Developing Countries, and is a Member of Canada's Scientific Committee on Failed on Fragile States. Prior to joining LFA, Mr. Nairne served as Deputy Director with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Pacific Office and as Senior Political Risk Analyst at Export Development Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University and a Master of Arts from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. His most recent publication, "Nigeria: Mapping Political, Economic, and Business Scenarios in the Post-Obasanjo Era," was published by the Canadian Defense and Foreign Affairs Institute in June 2007.
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| | | Paul Conibear
Mr. Conibear is a professional engineer who brings to the Board of Lundin for Africa 25 years experience working on projects predominantly in under developed countries. Mr. Conibear is currently a Director of several Lundin Group companies, and headed Tenke Mining Corp.'s Tenke Fungurume Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mr. Conibear understands the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility for international companies operating in developing countries, and brings insight into social development needs and the issues facing local communities.
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| | | Kevin Campbell
Mr. Campbell is currently a Managing Director of Investment Banking at Haywood Securities Inc, and focuses exclusively on advisory and finance in the mining sector. Mr. Campbell primarily works with corporations whose assets are located in the developing world, including Africa. In addition, Mr. Campbell's own Lochmaddy Foundation, a charitable organization, pursues investments in both basic needs and livelihood programs in Africa, specifically concentrating on Mali at this time. Mr. Campbell also serves as a member of the "Promise a Future" cabinet of Plan Canada, which is one of the world's largest international development organizations.
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| | | Riccardo Nardelli
Mr. Nardelli has over twenty years of experience in real estate development and investment, and is President of Narland Properties Limited, a Vancouver based real estate investment, development and management company. Mr. Nardelli is a Director of the Carrarrese Foundation, an Italian charitable organization with a worldwide outreach. His experience in developing local and international charitable foundations is invaluable to Lundin for Africa. Mr. Nardelli has also served as a director of the Urban Development Institute.
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| | | Dambisa Moyo
Dambisa Moyo was born and raised in Zambia. She completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University and holds a Masters from Harvard University. She completed a Bachelors degree in Chemistry and MBA in Finance at the American University in Washington D.C..
She worked at Goldman Sachs for 8 years in the debt capital markets, hedge fund coverage and in global macroeconomics teams. Previously she worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C.. In addition to serving on the Boards of Lundin for Africa and Room to Read, Dambisa is a Patron for Absolute Return for Kids (ARK an educational charity.
Bestselling author of "Dead Aid," Dambisa argues for more innovative ways for Africa to finance development including trade, accessing capital markets, and microfinance.
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The Lundin for Africa Foundation is a Canadian registered charity and has a more limited mandate than the Lundin for Africa Society. The Foundation provides project-based grants to registered Canadian registered charities operating in Africa (or "qualified donees" as that term as defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada)).
The Society is a Canadian not-for-profit organization that funds projects in Africa through a mixture of grants and impact investments.
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