Government of Jersey

Attendance at the Mining Indaba conference (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 11 June 2019.
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Request

In 2014 and 2015, Locate Guernsey - which says on Twitter that it is part of the Economy and Partnerships Department - led delegations of legal and finance professionals to the Mining Indiba Conference in South Africa. See:

Jersey Finance article dated 13 February 2014

JEP article dated 11 March 2015

Please can you tell me if a delegation from Locate Jersey has attended the Mining Indiba Conference in 2016, 2017, 2018 or 2019?

For the trips made by Locate Jersey in 2014 and 2015, and any year it has attended since then, can you provide me with:

lists of the delegation members
any promotional materials produced and distributed by the delegation at the conferences

Response

A Locate Jersey delegation attended Mining Indaba in 2016. No Locate Jersey delegation has attended the event since 2016.

The following table shows the Locate Jersey delegations to Mining Indaba:

Locate Jersey delegations to Mining Indaba
2014	2015	2016
Locate Jersey Director	Inward Investment Manager Chief Officer	Locate Jersey Director Chief Officer
One Jersey Finance Ltd representative	Assistant Chief Minister	Assistant Chief Minister
Four Jersey professional services firms	Ten Jersey professional services firms	Seven Jersey professional services firms