Bryan is an experienced trade policy analyst and is currently the principal policy analyst at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, one of the world’s leading providers of data and intelligence on the EV battery supply chain and broader energy transition. Bryan has been helping develop Benchmark's rapidly growing policy and geopolitical coverage of Africa’s critical mineral and cleantech industries.
Before his work in the critical mineral and cleantech industry, Bryan held various positions within the Belgian government, where he was involved in a wide array of trade-related policy issues, like the Brexit negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom, the trade negotiations between the EU and Mercosur, the post-Cotonou framework agreement (now called the EU-OACPS Partnership Agreement), and the EU’s Corporate Due Diligence Framework. He also worked as a special political advisor for the liberal party in Belgium.
Bryan is a qualified lawyer and obtained an additional master of International Political Economy at King’s College London, focusing his research on transition minerals like lithium and cobalt in Africa.
Wednesday 07 February 16:00 - 16:40 Governments Stage 1
Intergovernmental Summit