Dr Martin Kaggwa is the Executive Research Director of the Sam Tambani Research Institute (SATRI), a research institute of the National Union of Mineworkers and the Mineworkers Investment Trust (MIT) in South Africa. SATRI focuses on undertaking research that has a bearing on the well-being of workers and workers’ communities. He has more than 20 years of applied research practise, and academic teaching at university level in the interdisciplinary area of economics and technology. His current research focus is on extractives and socio-economic development dynamics of countries and communities that are rich in natural resources.