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Bede Nwete
Bede Nwete
Internation Energy Consultant
 
Mr. Nwete is an international energy consultant with an LL.M. from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee, UK, specializing in International Petroleum Taxation and Finance. He won the 2004 Association of International Petroleum Negotiators' (AIPN) writing prize and the Laszlo Gombos prize of the CEPMLP, and has published several articles in the area of natural resources. He is currently the OGEL special features editor on African Energy issues.
 
Mr. Nwete has spoken at International Conferences/Seminars including those of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, African Petroleum Producers’ Association, International Bar Association (SEERIL), and the World Petroleum Congress. Mr. Nwete a former staff of PWC has worked in the area of Downstream Energy Law and Policy under the Distance Learning Program of the CEPMLP and serves as a Guest Lecturer in Human Rights and the International Natural Resources Industry, and CSR and International Business Transactions at the CEPMLP. He was once the editor in chief of the CEPMLP Annual Review.
 
Mr. Nwete, who is currently pursuing research towards obtaining a Ph.D. at City University in London, is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, AIPN, and Society of Legal Scholars.
 
Paper/Presentation: The Challenges and Opportunities of Using Africa’s Petroleum and Mineral Resources for Poverty Alleviation
     
Nwete recognizes that, as Africa amasses huge revenues from its massive supplies of natural resources, including oil, gas, and mining materials, “structural deficiencies in the regulatory and economic framework in African countries provide a leeway for corruption and lack of transparency over revenues accruing from these resources, leaving in their trail, hunger, poverty, conflicts, wars, human right abuses, stagnated development and a decimated populace all in the midst of abundant revenue from these resources.”
     
Moreover, he declares that “the challenge today is on how to create a policy and framework environment, for turning Africa’s petroleum and mineral wealth into viable post-natural resource economies, aimed at poverty reduction and human capital development.”
This paper reviews the above issues with a view to finding solutions to the problems, and suggesting ways by which the opportunity offered by Africa’s Petroleum and Mineral wealth can be used to overcome the challenges of economic growth, thereby fostering poverty alleviation and political stability.”
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