Speakers

Silas Olan'g is the Africa Energy Transition Advisor at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He leads regional advocacy and policy engagement on energy transition and natural resource governance across Africa. Silas has spoken at several regional and global forums, including the Investing in African Mining Indaba, and has published extensively on transition mineral governance, value chains and energy transition. He has over 30 years of experience spanning public policy, development finance, governance, and stakeholder engagement. Silas holds an M.Sc. in Economics (Agricultural development and rural finance) from the Development and Project Planning Center at the University of Bradford (U.K.) and an Advanced Diploma in Economic Planning from the Institute of Development Management of Mzumbe University in Tanzania, where he has also lectured on economic planning.