Attracting Smart Foreign Direct Investment

Keith C. Minty B.Sc., P. Eng. MBA

Mr. Minty, B.Sc., P. Eng. MBA has more than 45 years professional experience in mineral resource exploration and development in precious and base metals, industrial minerals in Canada and internationally. Mr. Minty has directly involved in the realizing mineral resource projects value by resource development, constructing, operating and managing gold and platinum group metal projects. Mr. Minty was the Co-Founder of Stope Capital Advisors, Inc. in 2012, a private Canadian company engaged in merchant banking transactions in the mining, energy and agriculture sectors. Mr. Minty has been associated with premier mineral resource exploration and developing companies such as Hunter Dickinson Inc., Viceroy Resources, North American Palladium, Thani Investments, Stope Capital Advisors, Aurvista Gold and Greenland Resources in many senior operating , management and corporate positions. Mr. Minty is a co-founder of Global Business Risk Management (GBRM) which provides investment rick consulting services to corporate and management to companies interested in investing and/or operate in foreign jurisdictions.

Mr. Minty is an active member of the board of directors of three mineral resource companies.

Mr. Minty obtained a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from Queen’ University, Kingston Ontario, Canada in 1978 and in 2014 received from Athabasca University his Masters of Business Administration degree.

Alan Franklin JD LLM

Alan obtained a JD in Law from University of Toronto, Canada in 1975 and LLM in International Law from London School of Economics in 1976.

Alan has developed and taught courses on International Business Risk Management and Due Diligence for Business for Athabasca University Executive MBA program for the past decade.

In 2015 he was engaged to teach courses on international law and diplomatic law to diplomats and consular officers globally as a faculty member of DiploFoundation in association with the University of Malta and has done so each year ever since. Through Diplo, in 2022 he was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates to give seminars to their diplomats on international law and international investment law.

In 2020 Alan was invited by the National Institute of Diplomacy and International Relations (NIDIR) to give seminars to Cambodian Diplomats on international law, international investment law to assist Cambodian diplomats in attracting foreign investment.

From 2019 to 2023, Alan taught courses on international dispute resolution, international investment law and investor state dispute settlement for master’s degree students in international law and international business at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is a joint program with the Université Paris8, University of Fribourg, University of Montreal and Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Alan is an active member of the Columbia University “Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum”

As Managing Director of Global Business Risk Management (Vancouver and Toronto, Canada), Alan developed insights into issues of business risk analysis and management on a practical level that are not well known nor discussed in the literature or at conferences which has empowered him to teach.

He has acted as a consultant to the African Development Bank, ASEAN, Asian Development Bank, and Foreign Affairs Departments of many states. The focus of this work is training states on the tools available to attract foreign investment. Political risk is the most important concern to foreign investors, and understanding the protections of International Investment Agreements, political risk insurance, use of International Financial Institutions to reduce those concerns for the investor. Consular and diplomatic agents are the interface between the foreign investor and the host state.