• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Mohamed Abdel Vetah

Mauritania

Minister of Petroleum, Energy & Mining

HE Mohamed Abdel Vetah has served as Minister of Petroleum, Energy, and Mines for Mauritania since August 2016. He began his career in the oil sector in 2006 as a consultant for Total E&P Mauritania before he became Sterling’s Energy Plc representative in Mauritania. In 2016, he was appointed as the General Manager of the state-owned gas company SOMAGAZ. 

Sessions With Mohamed Abdel Vetah

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 03:00pm - 03:45pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Africa's New Energy Future
    Investment & Trading

    Africa is rising—both as a region and as individual countries—buoyed by abundant natural resources and population and by GDP growth rates among the highest in the world. Still the continent’s growth outlook is weighed down by burdens from the past and present, including low energy and commodity prices; dynamic energy markets; concerns about geopolitics, sustainability, and security; and technological disruption. How are Africa’s energy leaders addressing, in the short and long term, threats to economic development? Where are the opportunities? What is the right balance between national action, regional collaboration, and international cooperation? For countries whose economies are dependent on fossil fuels and where energy poverty is endemic, what is “sustainable” and how will the energy transition progress?