PNG Investment Conference

Saul Kavonic, Head of Energy Research at MST Financial, provides his outlook for the global LNG market and shares why Papua New Guinea is such a critical part of global supply, in this recorded interview with Business Advantage PNG.

Papua New Guinea’s Mineral Resources Development Company is one of the country’s largest institutional investors, with more than K12 billion in assets under management. Its Chief Investment Officer and Deputy CEO John Tuaim revealed five areas where more investment is needed at this month’s 2025 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference.

Speakers at this year’s 2025 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference touched on a range of key themes, including the need to strengthen the country’s institutions and its ‘human capacity’, and provided updates on key projects such as PNG Power’s turnaround plan, major resources projects and the strategies of leading banks and financial institutions.

Richard Maru, Papua New Guinea’s Minister for International Trade and Investment, outlined the Marape-Rosso government’s wide-ranging plans to transform the economy in the opening speech at the 2025 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference.

While Papua New Guinea joining Australia’s National Rugby League competition in 2028 might be taking up column inches in Australian newspapers, the bigger story belongs in the business pages.

With tariffs, military conflict and geopolitics at play, it’s already been an extraordinary year for the global economy. We speak with eminent economist Chris Richardson, who will be keynote speaker at this year’s PNG Investment Conference in August, for his views on what it all means for business.

The Green Finance Centre was founded this year under the aegis of the Bank of Papua New Guinea, with the aim of creating a framework to facilitate investments in areas such as renewables and climate resilience. Its head Mohinesh Prasad shared the centre’s plans and progress in a speech to the 2024 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference.

As telecommunications connectivity reaches 80 per cent of Papua New Guinea’s population, Business Advantage PNG looks at how the country’s telecommunications wholesaler, PNG DataCo, is working to encourage greater adoption of the internet by business and consumers.

Wapu Sonk, Managing Director of Papua New Guinea’s state-owned oil and gas company Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited, spoke about the way forward with the TotalEnergies-led Papua LNG project and the “unexpected blessings” its delay could bring at this month’s 2024 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference. Watch his exclusive fireside chat.

David Toua, Chairman of the Bank of Papua New Guinea, details how the central bank is tackling the economy’s most pressing issues, including foreign exchange, government debt, and the digital future of banking.