Fabien Mayani
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Fabien Mayani is a researcher and lecturer at the Université Nouveaux Horizons in Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he teaches courses on the DRC’s mining policies, extractive industries, sustainable development, and the global metals market.
Mayani is a senior analyst specializing in natural resource governance, human rights, environmental law, and climate justice in Africa.
He is also an African Union expert on mining governance and the program director for extractive governance and climate justice at the Carter Center.
Mayani served as rapporteur for the Sub-Committee on Social and Environmental Responsibility of Mining Companies within the 2002 Mining Code Review Committee, where he focused particularly on issues of transparency, community development, the protection of human rights, and the formalization of artisanal mining.
