Mamadou Barry
Acting Global Head and Senior Underwriter, Oil & Gas, Mining & Chemicals
World Bank Group - MIGA

Mamadou Barry has over 20 years of international experience in the extractive industries. He is currently a Senior
Underwriter in the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political insurance arm of the World Bank Group.

Mamadou is currently responsible for growing MIGA’s global portfolio in the oil, gas, mining and chemicals sectors consistent with the World Bank’s environmental and social requirements
for extractive industries. He has underwritten political risk insurance for a number of projects and award-winning transactions. He also served as MIGA’s lead for technical assistance and investment promotion in the mining sector.
In this capacity, he led advisory services and organized investment conferences to promote investment opportunities in emerging market countries. Prior to joining MIGA, Mamadou was at the World Bank’s Mining Division where he
focused on policy and advisory work with countries facing the challenge of transforming artisanal and small-scale mining into sustainable segments of their mining sector.

Prior to his assignment at the World Bank, Mamadou worked as a trainee engineer
in bauxite mining operations in Guinea, and as a geological engineer at the Mineral Exploration Division of the Ministry of Mines of Guinea. He came to the United States in late 1980s to pursue graduate studies. Upon his graduation, he worked as an associate consultant for several natural resource consulting and engineering firms in Denver, Colorado. He concurrently undertook specialized executive training and capacity building assignments and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in economics, finance, and mineral investment analysis at the Economics Institute, the University of Colorado, and Teikyo Loretto Heights University.

Mamadou received a geological engineering degree from the Institute of Mines and Geology of Boké in Guinea. He subsequently earned a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines, and a diploma from the Economics Institute of the University of Colorado. He concurrently
attended the Graduate School of Business of the University of Denver where he specialized in Finance.