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For its Wednesday, March 11, 2026, Discussion Group seminar, CIM’s Management and Economics Society is pleased to welcome:
Alan Franklin, JD, LLB, LLM
Managing Director, Global Business Risk Management
Academic Advisor, Athabasca University Faculty of Business
and
Keith Minty, PEng, MBA
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Stope Capital Advisors
who will deliver an online presentation on:
What Extractive Industries Need to Know About International Investment That AI Cannot Tell You
Abstract:
We frequently see two extractive companies investing in the same foreign jurisdiction, yet achieving very different outcomes. The differentiating factor is often the sophistication of a successful company in understanding international investment risks and addressing them appropriately.
While risks and potential mitigation tools are documented and thus accessible to AI, much depends on knowledge and experience and therefore is not available to AI. Hence, the importance of learning more than AI can provide.
Topics to be covered:
1. Corruption issues.
Investors are warned against engaging in corruption with the host state government. However, investors are rarely warned about the likely consequences if they fail to pay demanded bribes. Only those who experienced these consequences are aware of them.
Finding solutions to bribery demands requires experience and know-how. What can be done?
2. International investment agreements as protectors of investor risk.
Investors are advised to review any international investment agreements between their home state and the host state. However, whether the host state complies with its obligations under these agreements is a very important factor to investigate. The issue of corruption demanded by the host state is also crucial to this.
3. Home country management expectations in host country investment often result in successes and failures arising largely out of the first 2 points not being dealt with adequately.
This session will examine these issues and others of crucial importance to foreign investors, particularly in the extractives sector.
About our presenters:
BIO: Keith Minty has more than 40 years of professional operating and senior management experience in mineral resource exploration and development in Canada and internationally. Mr. Minty is a co-founder of Global Business Risk Management (GBRM), a BRM founded in 2015, a specialized international investment consulting group that identifies and develops strategies to mitigate project economic risks in foreign jurisdictions. Keith obtained a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University, Ontario, in 1978 and, in 2014, received a Master of Business Administration degree from Athabasca University, Alberta.
BIO: Alan Franklin 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. He is currently developing executive education courses on international investment issues for diplomats, extractive industry management and lawyers. Alan has also taught courses on international investment to diplomats globally through Diplo Foundation, as well as at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Cambodia. As Managing Director of Global Business Risk Management (Vancouver and Toronto, Canada), he has conducted consulting work in the extractive industries, yielding practical insights into business risk analysis and management that are not well known or discussed in the literature or at conferences.
Alan has acted as a consultant to the African Development Bank, ASEAN, the Asian Development Bank, and the Foreign Affairs Departments of many states, with an emphasis on the corruption issues investors face in the real world and how to address them.
Please join us!
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at 3:30pm ET (12:30pm PT)
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