Paul Rowley

“The industry needs to earn that recovery by working together to rebuild desire and demand for diamonds. Shared effort, shared commitment, and shared success.”

— From The Future of Mining Summit 2025 - Presentation by Paul Rowley EVP, Diamond Trading , De Beers Group, The Projects Magazine (June 17, 2025)

“De Beers will begin with an upfront investment of 1 billion pula. And then we'll invest further contributions over the next 10 years that could total up to 10 billion pula. This is proof of our belief in Botswana and its people.”

— From The Future of Mining Summit 2025 - Presentation by Paul Rowley EVP, Diamond Trading , De Beers Group, The Projects Magazine (June 17, 2025)

“As an industry we are rather bipolar we're either on Cloud9 celebrating or in the depths of Despair and we pass through it very quickly. So what we got to find ourselves is do we really understand where we're headed because what we're feeling at the moment is tough but I don't for one minute believe that it's because p...”

— From 2023 Sightholder Summit – Paul Rowley presentation, De Beers Group (September 01, 2023)

“Collaboration we need to collaborate to make sure that we're landing at this moment in time this is in the urgency of the moment a solution that is workable a solution that can help suitably differentiate but also understanding the complexity of the industry and how we're a global industry and recognizing that we have...”

— From 2023 Sightholder Summit – Paul Rowley presentation, De Beers Group (September 01, 2023)

“India is already one of the world's great Diamond nations with leadership in the midstream... but also in the downstream where domestic consumer Market is playing an increasingly Central role in the global context... and it has also been the fastest growing Major Market this year and I think to some extent it must be I...”

— From IIJS Premiere 2023 Inaugural Speech By Mr Paul Rowley, Executive VP, Diamond Trading, De Beers Group, GPN - GLOBAL PRIME NEWS (August 03, 2023)

“Two of the most important Trends we see at the Bears around provenance and lab-grown diamonds... such information enables us to to create a stronger relationship between each unique natural diamond and the individual who ultimately owns it. We can tell much richer stories that will grow desirability for diamonds.”

— From IIJS Premiere 2023 Inaugural Speech By Mr Paul Rowley, Executive VP, Diamond Trading, De Beers Group, GPN - GLOBAL PRIME NEWS (August 03, 2023)

“I would like to take a little time to step back and reflect on the journey so far and outline why I personally remain incredibly optimistic for our industry's future.”

— From OUTLOOK OF THE INDUSTRY | Paul Rowley | Forevermark Forum 2020, Forevermark India (September 01, 2020)

“We are not expecting this recovery to be a V-shaped recovery. There'll be no massive immediate bounce back, but we do expect it to be sustained and sustainable, but only if we remain focused. This is no time for complacency.”

— From OUTLOOK OF THE INDUSTRY | Paul Rowley | Forevermark Forum 2020, Forevermark India (September 01, 2020)

“we have revised our production guidance at the Bears for 2020 down by 7 million carats to 25 to 27 million carats the previous forecast being 32 to 34 million carats so we've already removed nearly a quarter of our guided output for the year”

— From Stronger Together: Launch event with Bruce Cleaver, CEO and Paul Rowley, EVP Diamond Trading, De Beers Group (April 30, 2020)

“flexibility is a vital tool in our armory we believe that maintaining options is extremely valuable at a time like this and it benefits no one if the upstream limits the options of the midstream or vice versa for that matter”

— From Stronger Together: Launch event with Bruce Cleaver, CEO and Paul Rowley, EVP Diamond Trading, De Beers Group (April 30, 2020)

“I think it's a collaboration. I think that's a learning coming from me. There's no one side going to fix this on its own. We need to see the industry coming together both with government from a regulatory perspective but also the banks need to come to the party as well.”

— From Biggest Diamond Miner De Beers On CNBC TV18 || Commodity Champions, CNBC-TV18 (May 10, 2018)

“The opportunity for me is how do we take that forward and that is about creating trust. Trust in our banking, trust in our businesses, trust for our consumers. So it's all about trust at the end of the day and transparency.”

— From Biggest Diamond Miner De Beers On CNBC TV18 || Commodity Champions, CNBC-TV18 (May 10, 2018)

“Beneficiation is something that's as well here is very close to my heart and certainly very close I think to the future diversification of Botswana and beyond for that matter. What is beneficiation though? It's interesting because perhaps we all have different definitions of the term. It basically became something from...”

— From Value Adding and Beneficiation: Lessons learned from De Beers - Panel Discussion, De Beers Group (November 23, 2015)

“What I think is really important though and this is a differentiator, it's what beneficiation isn't and it's not a corporate social responsibility. It is really about sustainability, it's about creating industries within producer countries that will be here today, tomorrow and the next 15 to 20 years beyond the life of...”

— From Value Adding and Beneficiation: Lessons learned from De Beers - Panel Discussion, De Beers Group (November 23, 2015)

“the closure of adb i think um wasn't a surprise to begin with we've been talking about it for a very long time so i think most of our customers in the market in general in the industry were expecting the inevitable closure like all these things it's a fair fairly large exposure to the industry around 1.5 billion dollar...”

— From Paul Rowley - Prelim Results 2014 interview, De Beers Group (February 09, 2015)