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Energy Transition – Ensuring the Right Energy Mix to Meet Global Demand

C. Derek Campbell
C. Derek Campbell | Executive Chairman of African Metals Group, Ltd.; Executive Chairman of AlphaSierra Group, Ltd.; Advisory Board Chairman of GreenMet, Inc.

 

Institute of Energy Studies 2022 Industry Speaker Series

Energy Transition – Ensuring the Right Energy Mix to Meet Global Demand

 

Guest Speaker: C. Derek Campbell

Executive Chairman of African Metals Group, Ltd.; Executive Chairman of AlphaSierra Group, Ltd.; Advisory Board Chairman of GreenMet, Inc.

 

Date: Saturday April 2, 2022

Time: 9:00 a.m. CT

Location via Zoom: https://und.zoom.us/j/91672557801

Click here to view the event flyer.

 

Abstract

In today’s world of economic and geo-political tension coupled with societal climate concerns, there is a global demand signal to move energy consumption away from traditional energy sources. This new energy era – called Energy Transition – is forcing humanity to deploy best practices in efficiency for energy generation as well as look as alternative ways to create energy in an affordable and sustainable way. Energy Transition will require an “all sources” approach to meet global energy demand for the masses.  The time is now to develop an “Energy Basket” that has a mix of all forms of energy generation sources and techniques.

 

Speaker Bio

C. Derek Campbell is the Executive Chairman of African Metals Group, Ltd., a strategic metals/critical mineral/rare earth elements asset acquisition corporation that supports global energy transition. He is also the Executive Chairman of AlphaSierra Group, which advises and invests across Energy, Natural Resource, and Infrastructure value-chains in the Emerging and Frontier markets – with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, Derek is the Advisory Board Chairman of GreenMet, Inc., an asset development company that monetizes rare earth element and critical mineral projects in North America and Greenland.

Derek is an Advisory Board Member of the African Energy Chamber, where he sits on the premiere U.S.-Africa Energy Subcommittee and a Distinguished Fellow with the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils. He is a former principal committee member of the U.S. EXIM Bank’s 2020-21 Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee, and the former U.S. Marine & Naval Attaché to Nigeria. Derek is a regular on the international Energy and Natural Resource lecture circuit, speaking as an authority on topics such as Energy Security, Energy Transition, and Extractive Industry geo-political market dynamics in Africa. He is also a retired Colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. Derek holds a B.S. from the University of Maryland and an M.S.S. from the U.S. Army War College.