"Sylvester is a multi-jurisdictional qualified lawyer with several years’ experience as an advocate and advisory lawyer. His core experience has been gained as a public prosecutor in the United Kingdom, with some 15 years’ experience in the Crown Prosecution Service working both as an Assistant District Crown Prosecutor and Higher Court Advocate. Sylvester’s professional experience extends beyond the shores of the UK to West Africa in the private sector focusing on litigation and arbitration where he worked as a Senior Associate at Aluko & Oyebode and in the Caribbean where he held positions with the government of the UK Overseas Territory of Montserrat as Senior Crown Counsel and Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), he also works as Senior Crown Counsel in the Turks and Caicos Islands office of the DPP and more recently as a legal advisor in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sylvester’s skills set includes advocacy, communication skills, business, legal and project management.
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Sylvester Folorunso
"Beverlyn (Bev) has extensive experience in business development and management coupled with knowledge and working experience in the communications, media, and public relations sector and more than a decade’s experience in international relations. Her extensive career crosses over the areas of marketing, sales, customer relations, territory management, telecoms media, project management and the transport and logistics sectors. She is the former Ambassadrice to the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Pretoria, South Africa, Kingdom of Lesotho, and the Kingdom of ESwatini. Former positions held by Beverlyn include being the director of Europlaw SA primarily responsible for international relations and business development, President of the International Diplomatic Association, director and shareholder of Sondela 3D Global communications, media liaison for the South African wine industry trust (SAWIT) and media strategist of the Black Economic Empowerment Commission (BEECom). She is currently a Director and Managing partner of Clermont Advisory and holds a position at the Embassy of Gabon in South Africa as an advisor to the Ambassador and is the economic desk co-ordinator. Bev is multilingual, fluent in English, Italian and Afrikaans.
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Beverlyn Ruth Basson
"William brings to the partnership almost three decades of senior level public and international experience ranging from senior positions in the United Nations to extensive deployments as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Europe, United Kingdom, Africa and North America. His multilingual, abilities combined with an in-depth knowledge of international relations, public affairs, international business and his personal global network underpins much of the work of The Clermont Group.
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"Valery has officially served as Legal Advisor to the Gabonese Minister of Mines from (2011 to 2021). Currently, he is a consultant in international investments, comparative mining law and mining governance in Africa. At the national level, he was Vice-Chairman of the 2015 Mining Code Reform Committee and Chairman of the 2019 Mining Code Reform (Law regulating the mining sector in the Gabonese Republic). He led the group of experts who designed a win-win fiscal model that will allow the State to increase its mining revenues, with a positive impact on the socioeconomic development of the population. As such, the IMF considered that the fiscal model of the 2019 Mining Code was a good example of optimization of state revenues. Mr. Nzogue was the Gabon's expert for the amicable settlement of Belinga mining convention termination – one of the largest iron ore deposits in the world – and in charge of all the negotiations of manganese and iron ore mining conventions, post-reform. He was also head of the delegation of State Experts for the updating of the partnership between the Gabon and ERAMET. More substantially, he has to his credit the law on industrial activities and the law on standardization. At the continental level, Mr. Nzogue participated in 2010 in the drafting of the principles of the mining policy of the Regional Economic Program of CEMAC countries (Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States). In 2011, he chaired the Conference of Experts of APPA (African Petroleum Producers Association), for the review of the study on the harmonization of legislation of member countries, organized in Malabo. Since 2018, he has been an Associate Member of the CEMAC Mining Permanent Council. He is author of many publications in the Hague Yearbook of International Law.
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Valéry Nzogue Angone
