Mohamed El Moctar O Mohamed El Hacene

Country Manager Mauritania for Aura Energy Limited and Director General of Tiris Ressources SA, Aura's 85%-owned Mauritanian subsidiary overseeing the Tiris Uranium Project, since 1 November 2024. Spent a decade at the United Nations as Director of the Economic Development and Integration Division at the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia in Lebanon, and was General Manager of External Relations for Rio Tinto's Simandou iron ore project in Guinea from 2011 to 2014. Served as Mauritania's Minister of Petroleum and Mines from 2007 to 2008, the period when uranium was first discovered at Tiris by Aura.