Outside his office, Djiba Diakit likes to shake hands with visitors in front of a floor-to-ceiling poster of the five icons representing the Simandou 2040 development programme: agriculture, food education culture infrastructure, transport technology economy, finance insurance and health well-being.
"Everyone must choose the ambition they think matters most," he says. "It tells me how they see Guinea's future."
A development engineer and former international investment banker, Diakit is widely regarded as a principal architect of Guinea's economic vision.
