Hajiya. Fatima Umaru Shinkafi is the current Chief Executive of the Solid Minerals Development Fund and the Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Development Initiative (PAGMI). The Solid Minerals Development Fund is a Government-owned Fund established to drive investments in Nigeria’s mining sector. As a funding vehicle, SMDF’s key role will be to maximize recovery of mining investments to drive sector growth, the Fund is currently responsible for implementing PAGMI. Over US$500-600m of projects have been identified that SMDF could drive across formalization, data development, production and processing in the next 5 years.

Hajiya Fatima has extensive knowledge of the mining sector, with previous experience spearheading the re-structuring of artisanal miners and cooperatives in the key gold producing region.