In this episode of Voices of Transformation, DPI Executive Director Florence Drummond speaks with Kwasi Ampofo, a mining engineer and Head of Mining and Metals at BloombergNEF.

For seven years, Kwasi has helped clients understand what the energy transition means for mining supply, demand, and investment decisions, bringing both mining expertise and data-driven analysis to the global commodities challenge.

Tune in to understand:

• The three external pressures reshaping mining
• How mining companies solve problems by scaling, not by innovating at the fundamental level - shown by the cobalt demand curve
• Why education and perception matter more than mining admits - demonstrated by mining engineer graduates in Australia
• The transformational economic impact mining can deliver - from artisanal to large-scale lever, delivering value that reaches communities, not just corporations.

Throughout the conversation, Kwasi emphasizes that mining is everyone's responsibility. If you consume metal products, you own an ore body sitting in drawers, garages, and landfills. The industry recovered only 3.5 percent of copper stock in use through recycling. Moving from a mining company to a material company model depends on consumers becoming suppliers in a closed loop system.