Navigating Market Cycles Shifting Gears Strengthening Fundamentals Sharing Benefits
May 20-21, 2015, IFC, 2121 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC Sustainability Exchange House Rules
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2 Welcome
Dear Colleagues,
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to IFC's 9th annual Sustainability Exchange, the focus of which is Navigang Market Cycles: Shi ing Gears, Strengthening Fundamentals, Sharing Benefits. This is a unique opportunity for us to bring togetherIFC 's clients and partners to share best pracces in performance management, community investment, local sourcing, public private partnerships, revenue management, water stewardship, communicaons and stakeholder engagement at a crical me.
A er a decade of fast emerging market growth powered by a commodity super-cycle, we now find economic development at a crical crossroads. We all need to take stock of the implicaons of slower growth, lower commodity prices and high expectaons from stakeholders in emerging markets. At the same me, many developing countries urgently need infrastructure upgrades to meet rising demand for energy and fresh water. We esmate that emerging markets will need an addional $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion of investment in infrastructure every year, and also expect there to be growing need for mining and other extracves projects – many of which will be in remote areas where development needs are greatest.
It's more important than ever to ensure businesses, governments, communies and civil society work together to pursue sustainable growth and shared benefits from infrastructure and natural resource sectors. Strong partnerships, transparency, and trust will be vital to striking this balance. We must strive to be creave and find new ways to leverage much-needed private sector investment to build infrastructure and create jobs.
This year, we are hosng more than 200 praconers from companies, consultancies, civil society, governments, internaonal development agencies, academia and the World Bank Group to discuss economic, environmental and social aspects of infrastructure and natural resource work. We hope you will use this opportunity to network and jointly explore how to drive good performance by embedding sustainability into core business funcons.
Bernie Sheahan Sujoy Bose Director & Global Head Director & Global Head Infrastructure & Natural Resources, IFC Infrastructure & Natural Resources, IFC
3 Agenda: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 IFC, 2121 Pennsylvania AvenueNW , Washington,DC 20433
7:30 am - 8:30 am Registraon (Lobby) and Breakfast (Auditorium, B2)
8:30 am - 8:45 am Welcome and Opening Remarks (Auditorium, B2) Bernie Sheahan, Director and Global Head, Infrastructure and Natural Resources, IFC
8:45 am - 10:15 am Managing Sustainability During a Downturn: Cutbacks or Con nuity? (Auditorium, B2) Paulo Castellari-Porchia,CEO , Anglo American Iron Ore Brazil Miranda Wers uk, Senior Vice President,IBK Capital Reg Manhas, Senior Vice President, External Affairs, Kosmos Energy John Dorward, President andCEO , Roxgold Moderator:Marie Nelson , Vice President, News and Public Affairs, PBS
10:15 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break (Atrium, Lobby Level)
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Peer-to-Peer Ac on Learning (Lobby Level)
L-101 L-103 L-109 L-108
Integrated Performance: Working with Host Women Drivers of the Master Class: Integra ng Managing with real- me Governments: Dialogue, Economy Social Performance into the economic, environmental, social license and impact Business (25 people max) and social indicators Elizabeth Vazquez,CEO Mirian Morales Córdova, and Co-Founder, Sharon Flynn, Industry Thomas Odenwald, Coordinator, Conflict WEConnect Internaonal Fellow, Centre for Social Senior Vice President, Prevenon Center, Perú Ayanna Jean-Bap ste, Responsibility in Mining, SAP Naonal Water Authority CSR Manager, Guyana Queensland University Colin Joudrie, Vice Luis Marchese, Country Goldfields President, Business Manager, Perú, Anglo Jessica Schnabel, Global Facilitator: Sabine Durier, Development, Teck American Product Head, Banking on Principal Knowledge Resources Emily Greenspan, Senior Women, Financial Management Officer, IFC Policy Advisor, Oxfam Instuons Group, IFC Moderator: Veronica Nyhan America Jones, Global Head, Advisory Moderator:John Middleton , Services, Infrastructure and Moderator:German Freire , Principal Environmental Natural Resources, IFC Social Development Specialist, IFC Specialist, World Bank
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Buffet (Lobby Level Seang in Rooms L-103, L-105, L-108, L-109)
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch Keynote: Reaching Millions– The Story of China Gas (L-101, 90 people max) Liu Ming Hui, Execuve Chairman, Managing Director and President, China Gas Moderator:Lance Crist , Global Head, Natural Resources, IFC
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Behaving Abroad: Responsible Business Guidelines from Canada and China (Auditorium, B2) Duane McMullen, Director General, Trade Commissioner Service Operaons and Trade Strategy, Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD ) Ben Chalmers, Vice President of Sustainable Development, Mining Associaon of Canada Astrid Skala-Kuhmann, Director Global Partnerships, Emerging Economies, GIZ Li Chen, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP Moderator:Alister Smith , Execuve Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean, World Bank
4 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee Break (Lobby Level, Outside L-101)
3:15 pm - 4:30 pmPeer-to-Peer Learning (Lobby Level)
L-101 L-103 L-109 L-108
Mul use Infrastructure: How Raising the Bar: Moving from Coopera ng for Shared Extrac ve Industries and public-private partnerships transparency to Benefit: Building trust with Health: Lessons from the are changing foreign accountability stakeholders and civil society industry response to Ebola investment and other threats Mohammed Amin Adam, Mick Wilkes, Managing Serge Matesco, Vice Execuve Director, Africa Director andCEO , David Reading, President President, Total E&P Centre for Energy Policy OceanaGold andCEO , Aureus Mining Benjamin Co on, Partner, Lisa Sachs, Director, Shawn Ba se, Execuve Gillian Davidson, Head of Earth Capital Investors Columbia Center on Director, Wabun Tribal Mining & Metals, World Eric Peiffer,CEO , Vecturis Sustainable Investment Council Economic Forum Remi Aiyela, Editor, Carlos Castro, Manager Moderator: Pierre Pozzo di NGOIntelligence, Nigeria for Instuonal Relaons, Moderator:Frank Ajilore , Borgo, Principal Industry Hudbay Resident Representave, Specialist, IFC Moderator:Jenik Radon , Liberia, IFC Adjunct Professor, Columbia Moderator:Deniz Baharoglu , University Manager, Transaconal Risk Soluons, IFC
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Coffee Break (Auditorium, B2)
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm “Ted Talks”: Big Ideas and Big Challenges (Auditorium, B2) TCRradi onal : Tried, tested, found inadequate – what’s next?: Luc Zandvliet, Director, Triple R Alliance Biodiversity Alliances: Erika Korosi, Senior Manager Environment,BHP Billiton and Mahle e Betre , Director, Responsible Mining and Energy, Conservaon Internaonal Cumula ve Impacts: Bruce McKenney, Director, Development by Design, The Nature Conservancy Renewables and Mining: Sean Whi aker, Senior Industry Specialist, IFC Moderator:Pepukaye Bardouille , Senior Energy Specialist, Advisory Services, IFC
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm Reflec ons (Auditorium, B2) Marcelo de Andrade, Chairman, Pro/Natura - Merito Partners Robin D’Alessandro,CEO , Vitol Foundaon Moderator:Osvaldo Gratacós , Vice President, Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman, IFC
6:45 pm - 8:30 pm Waterfront Recep on at Sequoia DC Co-sponsored by Aureus Mining, Kosmos Energy, Newmont, Rio Tinto and Tsodilo Resources Limited 3000 K St.NW , (Georgetown, Washington, DC - 15 minute walk from IFC )
5 Agenda: Thursday, May 21, 2015 IFC, 2121 Pennsylvania AvenueNW , Washington,DC 20433
7:30 am - 8:30 am Registraon (Lobby) and Breakfast (Auditorium, B2)
8:30 am - 8:45 am Gearing Up (Auditorium, B2) Anita George, Senior Director, Global Pracce on Energy and Extracve Industries, World Bank
8:45 am - 10:15 am The Art and Science of Benefit Sharing throughout the Business Cycle (Auditorium, B2) Eng. Ngosi C. X. Mwihava, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Tanzania Chad Blewi ,GM Project Delivery Commercial Strategy and Development, Simandou, Rio Tinto Collins Anim-Sackey, Assistant Manager, Monitoring and Evaluaon, Ghana Minerals Commission Johanna Nesseth Tu le, Manager, Development and Public Policy, Chevron Moderator:Jumoke Jagun-Dokunmu , Country Manager for Mozambique and Angola, IFC
10:15 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break (Lobby Level outside L-101)
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Peer-to-Peer Ac on Learning (Lobby Level)
L-101 L-103 L-105 L-108
Sustainable Livelihoods: Ar sanal and Small Scale Water Stewardship: Founda ons: Why, when, What is the role of the Mining: Its role in the big Coopera on and valua on how? private sector? picture Nathan Monash, Vice Janina Gawler, Global Antonio Galvao, Elizabeth Freele,CSR President, Business Pracce Leader, Sustainability Leader, Manager, Roxgold Sustainability, Lundin Gold Communies and Social Braskem Idesa Jennifer Horning, Senior Judy Brown, Chief Performance, Rio Tinto Chris an Spano, Group Gold Program Manager, Advisor, External Affairs, Flavio Mar n Flores Manager, Anglo American Solidaridad Rio Tinto Acevedo, Head of Robert LaVallière, Vice Rachel Perks, Mining Jochem Verberne, Head, Programs and Projects, President, Corporate Specialist, World Bank Corporate Relaons, Asociación Los Andes de Affairs and Investor WWF Internaonal Cajamarca (ALAC Relaons,SEMAFO Inc. Moderator: Roland Yameogo, Foundaon) Investment Officer, IFC Moderator:Jan Wehebrink , Moderator:Robin Weisman , Porolio Manager, Oil, Gas Moderator:Raymi Beltran , Principal Investment Officer, and Mining, IFC Senior Environmental Mining Division, IFC Specialist, IFC
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Buffet (Lobby Level Seang in Rooms L-103, L-105, L-108)
Lunch and Learn Networking: Open Space (L-101) (Sign up outside the Auditorium)
1. Business and Armed Groups: Stakeholder rela ons in violent conflict: Ben Miller, Associate Director of Advisory Services, CDA 2.Challenges of Social Screening for Selec ng Industrial Sites: Claudine Chavee , Societal Coordinaon E&P, Total 3.Crea ng a Na onal Biodiversity Offsets Scheme: Daniele La Porta , Senior Mining Specialist and Kirsten Hund, Senior Mining Specialist, World Bank Energy and Extracves Global Pracce 4.First Engagement: A field guide for explorers: Andrew Cheatle , Execuve Director,PDAC and Nadim Kara, Senior Program Director, PDAC 5.Local Content Development Community of Prac ce: Silvana Tordo , Lead Energy Economist, World Bank, andJeff Geipel , Founder, Mining Shared Value, Engineers Without Borders Canada
6 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm 6. Private Equity Investment in Extrac ves and Tracking Development Outcomes: Graham Sinclair, Principal, SinCo 7.Rese lement: Best prac ce from the field: Eddie Smyth , Director, Intersocial Consulng 8. Stakeholder Engagement in Extrac ves: “Building-Bridge approach”: Sonia Balcazar, Associate, Synergos Instute 9.Understanding community rela onships: A new tool: Claire White , Manager,ICMM & Catherine Stevens, Senior Partner, ERM
1:30 pm - 2:45 pmPeer-to-Peer Learning (Lobby Level)
L-101 L-103 L-109 L-108
Do Mines Really Need to Integrated Impact Percep on Surveys: Communica ons: Building Spend 30% ofOPEX on Assessment Prac oner debate proac ve dialogue Energy? Nick Co s, Group Kieren Moffat, Resources Adam Goldberg, Founder, Benjamin Li le,,SVP Execuve, Sustainability in Society Group Leader, Trident Law Group Corporate Affairs,HSS & and External Relaons, CSIRO Mineral Resources David Atkins, Principal People, IAMGOLD Newmont Mining Flagship Technical Expert, Darren Sokoloski, Luc Zandvliet, Director, Eric Whan, Sustainability Community Engagement, Country Director, Acciona Triple R Alliance Director, GlobeScan Shell Infrastructure Canada Gabriella Rigg Herzog, Arjun Bhalla, Operaons Sco Fraser, Energy Senior Manager, Officer, IFC Moderator: Aaron Consultant, Fraser Corporate Social Rosenberg, Senior Thermal Responsibility, Hess Moderator:Michael Jarvis , Communicaons Officer, Corporaon Senior Private Sector World Bank Moderator: Sean Whi aker, Development Specialist, World Senior Industry Specialist, IFC Moderator: Robin Bank Sandenburgh, Senior Manager, Environment, Social and Governance, IFC
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee Break (Auditorium, B2)
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm Chief Among Men: Leading through Rocky Times (Auditorium, B2) Anna Stylianides,CEO , Eco Oro Natacha Garoute,CFO , Roxgold Heidi Brock,CEO , Aluminum Associaon Namrata Thapar, Global Head, Mining Division, IFC Moderator:Alan Davies , Chief Execuve, Diamonds and Minerals, Rio Tinto
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Naviga ng Forward (Auditorium, B2) M. Abdoulaye Magassouba, Advisor/Head of the Presidenal Delivery Unit, Presidency of the Republic Guinea Mark Child, Chairman andCEO , Condor Gold Alina Zagaytova, Assistant General Counsel, First Solar Andrew Cheatle, Execuve Director, Prospectors and Developers Associaon of Canada Mitchell Strauss, Special Advisor, Socially Responsible Investment Finance, OPIC Moderator:Sujoy Bose , Director and Global Head, Infrastructure and Natural Resources, IFC
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Roo op Recep on (IFC Roo op)
7 Direc ons to the Recep on
Walking Direc ons fromIFC to Sequoia (Recepon venue) Walk west on Pennsylvania Avenue (towards 22nd Street and Washington Circle) Cross traffic circle and connue on Pennsylvania Avenue Pennsylvania Avenue will merge with M Street. Connue on M Street. Turn le on Thomas Jefferson Street and walk south towards K Street and the Georgetown Waterfront Once you enter the Waterfront complex, walk towards the fountain. Sequoia is located on the east side of the fountain, just before you reach the Potomac River
IFC Address: 2121 Pennsylvania AvenueNW , Washington DC 20433 Sequoia Address and Tel: 3000 K StNW , Washington, DC 20007 I (202) 944-4200
Public Transporta on Direc ons fromIFC to Sequoia (Recepon venue) Walk west on Pennsylvania Avenue (towards 22nd Street and Washington Circle) to bus stop on corner Take the Circulator Bus (Route: Georgetown, via K Street) to 30th and K Streets. Walk east on K Street for one block. Turn le on Thomas Jefferson Street and walk south towards K Street and the Georgetown Waterfront Once you enter the Waterfront complex, walk towards the fountain. Sequoia is located on the east side of the fountain, just before you reach the Potomac River.
8 Speakers and Moderators
9 Flavio Flores Acevedo Head of Programs and Projects, Asociación Los Andes de Cajamarca, Yanacocha Corporate Partnership Flavio is the Head of Programs and Projects of the Asociación Los Andes de Cajamarca, Yanacocha corporate partnership. He has been secretary of the Inter-American Network of Corporate Foundaons and Acons for Grassroots Development (RedEA mérica). He is a stascal and computer engineer, with a major in agricultural business management. He graduated from the Naonal Agrarian University, La Molina in Peru. Flavio has over 20 years of experience related to development projects in Peru and abroad. He has studied governance and polical management at the Ponfical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP ) and strategic management at the School of Graduate Business Administraon ( ESAN ) and the University of Piura.
Mohammed Amin Adam Execu ve Director, Africa Centre for Energy Policy Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam is the Execuve Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP ). Before joiningACEP , Dr. Adam was the Africa Coordinator of the extracves industries programme in Ibis, a Danish InternaonalNGO . He has also worked as the Oil Coordinator of Publish What You Pay Ghana. His experience in the public sector covered his work as an Energy Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Energy in Ghana, Commissioner of Ghana's Public Ulies Regulatory Commission, and as a former Deputy Minister and Mayor of Ghana's third city of Tamale. He has consulted for naonal, African and internaonal organizaons and has spoken at universies as a vising speaker, including Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard and the Houston Law Centre. As a specialist on Africa's energy policy, petroleum policy and governance, he is currently working in a number of countries including Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and Kenya advising governments and supporng parliamentary commi ees andCSO s. Dr. Adam holds a PhD from CEPMLP of the University of Dundee in the UK specializing in petroleum fiscal systems, fiscal policy in resource-led economies, and instuonal development. He also holds anMP hil (Economics) and B.A. (Hons) Economics from the University of Cape Coast.
Remi Aiyela Publisher and Editor-in-Chief,NOGI ntelligence Remi Aiyela is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief ofNOG intelligence, an oil and gas publishing company, which publishes a digital newsle er and print magazine. The newsle er provides weekly news, informaon, data and intelligence, on the Nigerian oil and gas industry. It is distributed by email to oil and gas execuves from all over the world, on theNOG intelligence database. The quarterly magazine features news and more in-depth arcles and interviews on the industry, with each issue focusing on a specific sector of the industry.NOG intelligence also has a fortnightly 4-page pull out in the Guardian newspaper in Nigeria. Remi Aiyela has a Bachelor and Master of Laws from University of London. She later qualified in theUK as a barrister, solicitor and accredited mediator. Remi is an alumnus of the London School of Economics where she spent many years in post- graduate research. She later went into law pracce, working for top law firms in London before se ng up a bouque law firm in Mayfair, London, with a strong oil and gas bias. Remi later returned to Nigeria where she set upNOG intelligence.
Frank Ajibola Ajilore Resident Representa ve in Liberia, IFC Frank isIFC 's Resident Representave in Liberia. He overseesIFC 's investment and Advisory Services in Liberia. Prior to re-joiningIFC in 2012, Frank has worked as co-founder and execuve director of a retail bank in Nigeria. Before that, he was a Director with Standard Chartered Bank covering West Africa, where he originated and closed several large scale mandates and transacons. He also worked in originang, structuring and processing loan and equity deals forIFC in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Frank was trained in finance atKPMG Consulng, studied business administraon and obtained hisMBA with a major in Corporate Finance from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland in 1989 and is also an alumnus of Harvard University.
10 Collins Anim-Sackey Assistant Manager, Monitoring and Evalua on, Minerals Commission, Ghana Collins Anim-Sackey is an Assistant Manager, Monitoring & Evaluaon of the Minerals Commission. He is a graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology and a holder ofBS c (Hons) Chemical Engineering andMP hil Mining Engineering degrees. He holds other cerficates in Mineral Processing Technology, Project Management & Planning, and Leadership courses. From 2000 – 2004, he worked as a part-me lecturer at the Minerals Engineering Department of the University of Mines and Technology and also served as a member of theUNIDO Team of Experts who assessed mercury polluon emanang from arsanal mining between 2001 and 2002. He has worked at the Minerals Commission for the past twenty-two years and is currently involved in a number of schedules including issues on local content in the mining industry. He has a couple of mining publicaons to his credit.
David Atkins Principal Technical Expert, Community Engagement, Shell David works on improving the ways Shell ventures engage with communies near operaons by managing the group-wide effort to implement, improve and report results from community grievance resoluon mechanisms and fostering collaboraon. Before joining Shell, he worked as an advisor to the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman ofIFC and MIGA where he applied his technical and mediaon skills to complex, mul-party disputes related to development projects. David has worked at the interface between social and environmental issues for over 20 years, principally in the extracves and agribusiness sectors.
Deniz Baharoglu Manager,EMENA Environment and Social team, IFC Deniz Baharoglu joinedIFC at the beginning of 2015 as the manager ofEMENA region Environment and Social Team. Prior to joining toIFC , Deniz managed Mullateral Investment Guarantee Agency's (MIGA ) Environment, Social and Integrity Team for five years. Working as a housing specialist at the World Bank is also part of her long World Bank Group career. Prior to joining theWBG her professional experience includes serving as a housing specialist atIHS in the Netherlands and as a researcher at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She has more than 20 years of experience working with public and private sector agencies, mullateral and bilateral financial instuons, vulnerable communies, indigenous groups and civil society organizaons. Her professional experience spans more than thirty countries in five regions. Baharoglu holds a Ph.D in Urban Studies – Sociology and Social Policy from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the United Kingdom. She received a Brish Council Fellowship and a Middle East Research Award for her Ph.D studies. She also has a master's degree in City and Regional Planning from Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Pepukaye Bardouille Senior Energy Specialist, IFC Pepukaye (Pep) Bardouille currently leads much of theIFC 's work on Energy Access, focusing on developing and helping to scale-up innovave, commercially-viable business models to extend electricity and clean fuels to the base of the pyramid in Africa. Prior to joiningIFC , Pep was a Young Professional with the World Bank, and before that spent 7 years in management consulng with McKinsey & Company based in Copenhagen and London. She began her career with the United Naons' Development Programme in New York. Pep holds aBS c. in Mechanical Engineering and Biology (Illinois Instute of Technology,USA ), MS c. in Environmental Management (l' INSA de Lyon, France), MSC . in Environmental Management and Policy/Cleaner Producon (Lund University, Sweden), and PhD in Environmental and Energy Systems (Lund Instute of Technology, Sweden).
11 Raymi Craig Beltran Senior Environmental Specialists, Oil, Gas and Mining Group, IFC Raymi has over 15 years of experience in environmental and social management working on oil, gas, mining and infrastructure projects in Lan America, Asia and Africa. As part of his current posion, Raymi works closely with private sector companies in assuring compliance withIFC 's Environmental & Social Performance Standards and adopng good internaonal industry pracces for their projects. Prior to joiningIFC , Raymi was the Environmental Manager for Kinross Gold based in Sanago, Chile, and prior to that, he was the Environmental and Community Affairs Manager for the PERU LNG Project (pipeline,LNG plant and marine terminal), the largest private investment in Peru at the me and anIFC client. Raymi has also worked as an environmental consultant and project manager for several years in the United States. Raymi holds a Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in theUK . He is also a Chartered Engineer with theUK Engineering Council.
Mahle e Betre Director, Responsible Mining & Energy Program, Conserva on Interna onal Mahle e has worked for Conservaon Internaonal for over ten years. During this me she has led and managed strategic relaonships between Conservaon Internaonal (CI ) and several leading mulnaonal companies in the energy and mining sector (e.g. ExxonMobil and Newmont Mining). Mahle e currently leadsCI 's largest corporate partnership withBHP Billiton, focused on corporate level advising on biodiversity management and supporng the design and implementaon of mulple conservaon investments in areas of high biodiversity and ecosystem value. In her capacity as Director, she also provides technical advice to partners on the integraon of environmental and social best pracces. Prior to joiningCI , Mahle e worked in the environmental consulng field advising government agencies on how to develop and implement environmental management systems based on theISO 14001 Standard. Mahle e has completed a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies from York University, Toronto, Ontario,CA and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Biology from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario,CA .
Chad Blewi GM Project Delivery (Simandou Project) Prior to Rio Tinto Chad held tax, financial planning and project management roles in Western Australia and London. From 2000 to 2008 Chad worked in Rio Tinto Procurement leading the high spend global procurement categories for the Rio Tinto Group. In 2005 Chad moved to China and established Rio Tinto's global emerging markets sourcing program which involved prequalifying and embedding new suppliers from Asia. From 2008 to 2011 Chad held the role of Chief Financial Officer for the Oyu Tolgoi copper project in Mongolia and was part of the team which negoated the Investment Agreement with the Mongolian Government. Chad lead a variety of commercial funcons including finance, procurement, human resources, IT and legal. Since 2011 Chad has worked on the Simandou Project as GM Project Delivery and was part of the team who negoated the Investment Framework with the Government of Guinea. Chad is responsible for the integraon process with the Government of Guinea to establish the key enablers for construcon (e.g. permits, local content, tax and customs) and idenfy opportunies for capacity building ahead of me. Chad holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) with a 2nd major in accounng.
Sujoy Bose Director & Global Head, Infrastructure & Natural Resources, IFC Sujoy Bose is Global Co-Head and Director of Global Infrastructure and Natural Resources atIFC . Prior to his current posion, Sujoy was Chief Investment Officer and Head of theUS $1 billion IFC African Lan American and Caribbean Fund, a growth equity fund with several large sovereign wealth funds and pension funds as investors. Sujoy has over 20 years of experience in emerging markets private equity and
12 debt investments withIFC , where he has been responsible for several major emerging markets transacons, covering both debt and equity in Asia, Africa, Lan America, andMENA . Over the 2006-2010 period, Sujoy headed IFC 's office in Mumbai, India, following which, he joined theIFC Asset Management Company in 2010. Sujoy holds an MBA from Rice University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from St Xavier's College, Kolkata, India
Heidi Biggs Brock President & Chief Execu ve Officer, The Aluminum Associa on Heidi Biggs Brock joined the Aluminum Associaon, based in Arlington, Virginia, as President in October 2011 and becameCEO in October 2013. Before joining the Associaon, she was Vice-President of Federal and Internaonal Affairs leading the WashingtonDC office of Weyerhaeuser, a Fortune 500 company. Brock's posions over 18 years, included Vice-President for e-Business, Director of Strategic Planning, and Manager for Government Affairs and nine years as a corporate officer. Before joining Weyerhaeuser, she served on the staffs of former U.S. Senators Dan Evans and Slade Gorton. Brock currently serves as a member of the execuve commi ee and board of theUS -Japan Leadership Program, BIPAC , and the NAM Council of Manufacturing Associaons, where she is also the second vice chairperson. Brock was recently elected to the NAM Board of Directors. Brock received a bachelor's degree in English literature and economics from the University of Puget Sound, and a master's degree in Business Administraon from Georgetown University.
Judy Brown Chief Adviser, External Affairs for Asia Pacific and La n America, Rio Tinto Judy leads a team that develops and manages external affairs strategies and issues to support Rio Tinto's businesses in the Asia Pacific and Lan America, including strategic projects in China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mongolia, Peru, and Chile. She is also the head of External Affairs for Rio Tinto Copper. Prior to this role, Judy was the Chief Adviser, Stakeholder Engagement for the Rio Tinto Group. Judy started her career at Rio Tinto in 2000 as the Director, Federal Government Relaons, in the Washington, D.C. office. Prior to joining the Rio Tinto group, Judy worked at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Senate Commi ee on Energy and Natural Resources, with special focus on mineral, forest policy and public land issues.
Paulo Castellari-Porchia CEO, Iron Ore Brazil at Anglo American plc Paulo is also a member of the Group Management Commi ee. Prior to taking on this role in January 2012, he served as Commercial Director of Iron Ore Brazil and has also been Chief Execuve of Anglo American's Phosphates and Niobium business in Brazil. Paulo started his career at AngloGold Ashan and Minorco in a number of corporate finance and capital project roles. He also has extensive experience in strategic planning and business development. Paulo graduated in Business Administraon from the Getúlio Vargas Foundaon, São Paulo, and holds anMBA in Strategic Planning from the London Business School.
Carlos Castro Ins tu onal Rela ons Manager, Hudbay Carlos manages instuonal relaons for Hudbay, a Canadian mining company that just started operaons of its mine, Constancia, located in the province of Chumbivilcas (Cusco, Peru). He is also a graduate professor on public policy at Ponficia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP ). Previously, he worked in the Peruvian Presidency of the Council of Ministers as the Director of the State Modernizaon and Decentralizaon Program. He has also held other posions in the public sector, including Peruvian Secretary of Labor, Peruvian Congress, and Peruvian Securies & Exchange Commission. In the private sector, he worked with Apoyo Publicaciones, and Unlimited Systems. Mr. Castro is an Economist from
13 the Ponficia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima, Peru), and holds a Masters in Policy Management from Georgetown University (Washington,DC , USA ).
Ben Chalmers Vice President Sustainable Development, Mining Associa on of Canada Ben Chalmers is Vice President, Sustainable Development at the Mining Associaon of Canada, based in O awa. In this role, Ben is responsible for the implementaon of Towards Sustainable Mining. He also works with members on issues related to corporate responsibility both within Canada and internaonally. Ben began working in the mining sector in 2004 at Myra Falls Operaons, a zinc and copper mine in Western Canada as an Environmental Supervisor. Ben holds a Master's degree from Royal Roads University in Environmental Management and a Bachelor's degree from Simon Fraser University in Geography. Currently he also holds posions as the Industry Co-Chair of the Centre of Excellence onCSR and the Chair of the Mine Effluent Neutral Drainage Steering Commi ee. Ben also sits on the advisory panel of the Internaonal Bar Code of Life and is a board member for the Canadian Network for Aquac Ecosystem Services. Ben was recently honored by the Canadian Instute for Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum as a Disnguished Lecturer for his work on resource revenue transparency with the Publish What You Pay coalion.
Andrew Cheatle Execu ve Director, Prospectors & Developers Associa on of Canada (PDAC ) Andrew Cheatle is the Execuve Director of the Prospectors & Developers Associaon of Canada (PDAC ). As a Professional Geoscienst and graduate of the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College London, Andrew has worked in mining and mineral exploraon in both the senior and junior mining sectors as an exploraon geologist, mine geologist manager and execuve. Prior to joiningPDAC , Andrew served as President and Chief Execuve Officer, Director at Unigold Inc. where he oversaw the delivery of the company's gold mineral resource at its flagship property in the Dominican Republic. Before joining Unigold, Andrew worked in numerous senior roles as Vice President Exploraon at Treasury Metals Inc., General Manager, Director at Landore Resources Canada Inc. Principal Geologist atAMEC plc, Chief Geologist at Goldcorp Inc./Placer Dome Inc., and Mineral Resource Manager with Anglo American Corporaon. Andrew earned a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Geology from the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College London and a Master of Business Administraon from Capella University. He currently serves as Past President of the Associaon of Professional Geosciensts of Ontario, is a Member of the Presidenal Advisory Commi ee–Economic Development at Lakehead University, and has been a Fellow at the Geological Society of London since 1999.
Li Chen Partner Akin Gump Li Chen spearheads Akin Gump's China outbound M&A pracce. She acvely advises Chinese firms as well as foreign investors in cross-border mergers and acquisions and other transaconal ma ers. Li has extensive experience in represenngPRC state-owned enterprises,PRC private companies, sovereign wealth funds, private equity funds, and mulnaonal enterprises in cross-border M&A transacons, including acquisions, divestures, joint ventures and foreign direct investment transacons. She has also worked on numerous high profileIPO s. She has parcular experience in the energy and natural resources sectors. Li is based in Akin Gump's Beijing office.
14 Mark Child Chairman & Chief Execu ve Officer, Condor Gold Mark joined the Board of Condor Gold plc on the 24th May, 2006 as a non execuve chairman. Following the moratorium of all mining in El Salvador in 2008, Mr Child successfully reposioned the company in Nicaragua, acquiring 100% of eight concessions. Mr Child is the largest shareholder in Condor Gold and has built a team of 85 people in Nicaragua and overseen 22,000m drilling, building a 2.5m oz gold resource in a few years. Mr. Child has 25 years of equity capital markets experience, as an instuonal stockbroker and in corporate finance/private equity, mainly in emerging markets. At board level Mr. Child has been an execuve director of Hong Kong listed Regent Pacific Group, an emerging market fund manager and private equity group. He has been a non-execuve director of several private companies.
Mirian Morales Córdova Coordinator, Conflict Preven on Center Na onal Water Authority Peru Mirian has 15 years' experience in conflict prevenon and management for the public and private sectors. Her experience includes working for the United Naons Development Program as an expert on prevenon of environmental related conflicts, at the Ministry of Mines in Peru as a specialist in conflict resoluon, and as the Deputy Ombudsman in the Camisea Project. Mirian lectures on conflict prevenon and management in the Ponficia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She has a specializaon in "Cizen Parcipaon Techniques" from the University of Zaragoza and "Conflict Transformaon” from George Mason University. Mirian is a lawyer from the Ponficia Universidad Catolica del Peru, holds a Masters in Environmental Policy and Management from CarlosIII University of Madrid, and has a PhD in Anthropology.
Ben Co on Partner, Earth Capital Partners Ben Co on is responsible for external relaonships. He has worked on equity derivaves at a number of banks including Société Générale and Merrill Lynch and has spent most of the past 10 years working to build relaonships with key clients. At Man Group plc he was a founder member of the steering group that took Man into Environmental Finance. He has raised assets through hedge funds, structured and other specialist investment products, asset and liability products and pioneered the development of opons on funds. His experience is applied in advising governments, supranaonals, NGOs, corporates and others on the creaon and use of instruments for environmental finance
Nicholas Co s Group Execu ve, Sustainability and External Rela ons, Newmont Nick joined Newmont in 1994 as the environmental manager for the Yanacocha mine located in Peru. During his 11 year tenure in Peru his role evolved into a social environmental focus including community relaons, external relaons, sustainable development and communicaons. Nick transioned to Newmont's Corporate offices in Denver on 2005 as the Director for Social Responsibility and Sustainability prior to relocang to Ghana, West Africa from 2006-2011 in the role of Regional Vice President, Environment and Social Responsibility. Nick has since relocated to Newmont's corporate office where he has focused broadly on sustainability and leading a number of global iniates including internaonal development instuon relaons, biodiversity, community development foundaons, indigenous peoples, and human rights. Nick is currently the Group Execuve-Sustainability and External Relaons working in support of global operaons with a specific focus on external relaons. Nick received his Bachelor of Science degree in Agronomy-Soil Conservaon in 1988 and a Master of Science degree in Range Management-Restoraon Ecology in 1991 both from Colorado State University.
15 Lance Crist Global Head of Natural Resources, IFC Lance Crist is Global Head of Natural Resources forIFC , the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. Mr. Crist leadsIFC 's financing and advisory services teams responsible for supporng the oil, gas & mining sectors.IFC 's $2.5+ billion investment porolio in these sectors includes more than 80 natural resource companies in over 35 countries across the emerging markets.IFC 's financing includes investments in equity, mezzanine and senior debt; and the advisory services team provides support across a range of areas to assist clients in enhancing their sustainability. Mr. Crist joinedIFC in 1992 and has managed advisory mandates, project and corporate finance, and private equity transacons in the areas of general manufacturing and telecommunicaons, and prior to his current role he wasIFC 's global head of oil & gas. He earned a B.A. from Cornell University, and anMBA from the Wharton School.
Alan Davies Chief Execu ve, Diamonds and Minerals, Rio Tinto Alan Davies has accountability for Richards Bay Minerals, Rio Tinto Fer et Titane,QIT Madagascar Minerals, Rio Tinto Minerals, Rio Tinto Diamonds, Dampier Salt and the Simandou Iron Ore project in Guinea. His responsibilies will also cover Rio Tinto's Saskatchewan exploraon joint venture and Jadar lithium-borate project. Prior to taking up this role, Alan had been the President Internaonal Operaons for Rio Tinto's Iron Ore business since January 2011 with global accountability for operaons and projects outside of the Pilbara. From 2007 to 2011 Alan held dual roles as chief financial officer for the Iron Ore group, as well as managing director of Global Development. Before rejoining the Iron Ore group in 2007, Alan held the posion of chief financial officer of Rio Tinto Energy America Inc. Alan holds a Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) and a Bachelor of Laws from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney. Alan is a member of the Instute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and unl April 2012 was a director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Robin D'Alessandro Chief Execu ve Officer, Vitol Founda on Prior to managing the Vitol Foundaon, the philanthropic arm of the Vitol Group of Companies, Robin was the Country Director for Vitol's oil business in Iraq and as a Middle East specialist, she spent the last 20 years of her career working withOPEC -producing countries from trading posts in New York, Singapore and London. The Vitol Foundaon currently supports 181 projects through 141 partners in 59 countries. The goal of the Foundaon is to enable children living in deprivaon to escape the cycle of poverty through investments in transformaonal, efficient, sustainable, scalable and replicable development projects. The Vitol Foundaon's core programme areas are in Health,WASH , Educaon and Livelihoods, with a separate allocaon for Emergency response.
Gillian Davidson Head of Mining & Metals Industry, World Economic Forum At the World Economic Forum, Gillian leads mul-stakeholders iniaves with global mining and metals companies, governments, internaonal organisaons and civil society to advance responsible and sustainable mining. Prior to joining the Forum, Gillian was Director of Social Responsibility at Teck Resources, where she led the company's commitments to communies, human rights and sustainable development. Gillian has also worked in areas related to social jusce and community development within government, consultancy and theNGO -sector and holds a PhD in Social Geography and Internaonal Development. She is a 2012 alumni of the Governor General of Canada's Leadership Study Group on sustainable communies.
16 Marcelo de Andrade HNP Board Member/Earth Capital Partners and Founder Pró-Natura Interna onal In 1985 Dr. de Andrade founded Pró-Natura Internaonal, one of the first internaonal Sustainability Development Agencies based in the Southern Hemisphere. It manages sustainable development and conservaon projects in 41 countries. In 1999 Dr. de Andrade founded the Pioneer Society, a communicaons group dedicated to innovave promoon of the successes of sustainable development. He went on to co-found the Terra Capital Fund, the first venture capital fund dedicated to invesng exclusively in private-sector biodiversity businesses; Axial Bank/Axial Par, the first financial instuon in South America dedicated to promong investments in the sustainable development sector; and Eco Carbon, the first company to specialize in engineering aspects of forestry and agricultural carbon sinks. In 2008 he co-founded Earth Capital Partners (www.earthcp.com), private equity investor with a focus on sustainability finance. Dr. de Andrade has over 31 years' experience advising the mining, gas / oil sector on sustainable development. He has served as a member of theBHP Billiton Forum for Corporate Responsibility, DuPont's World Wide Biotech Panel, and he presently serves on the Procter & Gamble Sustainability Council.
John Dorward President, Chief Execu ve Officer and Director, Roxgold Inc. Mr. Dorward has over 19 years of experience in the mining and finance industries and most recently served as Vice-President, Business Development at Fronteer Gold Inc. He was an integral part of the team that sold the large Michelin uranium deposit, acquired AuEX Ventures Inc., and successfully advanced Fronteer Gold's properes prior to the Company's sale to Newmont Mining Corp. for $2.3 billion in 2011. Prior to his role at Fronteer Gold, Mr. Dorward was the Chief Financial Officer of Mineral Deposits Ltd. from 2006 to 2009, where he was responsible for financing the construcon of the Sabodala Gold Project in Senegal, West Africa. Prior to that, Mr. Dorward was the Chief Financial Officer at Leviathan Resources Ltd., anASX -listed gold producer, before its acquision in 2006. He was a non-execuve director of Pilot Gold Inc. from 2011 to 2015 and is currently a non-execuve director of Navarre Minerals Ltd., anASX -listed explorer.
Sabine Durier Principal Knowledge Management Officer, IFC Sabine is leading the efforts of the Corporaon in the area of experse development and tacit knowledge transfer through a program of Technical Master Classes, which she designed to support the transfer of key experse across all areas of our business. This program has also been solicited by colleagues in the World Bank, and offered to clients. Sabine's career atIFC has been primarily in Operaons. Prior to her current role she was the Program Leader ofIFC Against AIDS , an advisory services program which supported IFC investment clients to develop and implementHIV / AIDS prevenon and treatment acvies for their workforces and communies. Before founding this program, she was a Strategy Officer inIFC 's corporate strategy department. Before joiningIFC in 2000, Sabine held various corporate strategy posions at Honeywell, Inc. in its European and global headquarters. She was involved in macroeconomic trends analysis and scenario planning, business development in emerging markets, mergers and acquisions and compeve analysis.
Sharon Flynn Industry Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining,SMI , University of Queensland Sharon Flynn is a senior leader in social performance, skilled in creang shared social, economic and environmental value for business and society. Sharon has worked in the extracve, construcon, manufacturing, forestry and non-profit sectors in North America, Lan America, Asia and Africa. She has detailed and wide-ranging knowledge of the business models, operaons and commercial arrangements required to achieve resource access and social consensus gained as an auditor, consultant, corporate advisor and senior leader. Sharon has led community, government and stakeholder engagement, land
17 acquision, and integrated social and environmental management teams. She has experse in rese lement, social investment, human rights assessment, conflict prevenon and management, indigenous issues, local workforce and supplier development, agreement making and social auding. Most recently, Sharon led the communies and corporate affairs team for Rio Tinto's La Granja Project in Peru. In addion, she has worked with Newmont Mining, Bechtel, GrupoNueva, Conservaon Internaonal and The Nature Conservancy. Sharon is currently an Industry Fellow with the Centre for Social Responsibility and Mining at the University of Queensland. Sharon holds a Master of Internaonal Management from the University of California, San Diego and a Bachelor of Language Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She speaks fluent English, Spanish and is formerly proficient in French and Mandarin Chinese.
Sco Fraser Energy Consultant, Fraser Thermal Sco has more than three decades of experience in power generaon, transportaon and conversion systems including operaons, project engineering, project management,EPC contracng, power plant economics, and business development for ulies,IPP s, industrial and mining companies; much of which has recently focused on renewable energy soluons. He has extensive understanding of the North American and internaonal energy delivery systems including power generaon, electrical and gas transmission, ulity regulaon and programs for delivering energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Elizabeth Freele Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Roxgold Inc. Elizabeth is theCSR Manager for Roxgold, a Canadian junior mining company, developing the Yaramoko gold project in Burkina Faso, where she has lived for the past three years. She a ended the University of Western Ontario in Canada to study polical science and global development. Following this, her path has led her to focus on cross-cultural stakeholder engagement and baseline stakeholder analysis in communies across Burkina, as a social consultant for junior mining companies. Through this period, she has come to develop a strong understanding of the status of arsanal mining in the country, parcularly between orpaillage (gold panning) work sites and camps,ASM -neighboring villages and government offices. Elizabeth's professional and academic passions include gender, intercultural communicaon, renewable energy and sustainable social investment.
German Freire Social Development Specialist, World Bank Based in Buenos Aires, Argenna, German has been involved in anIBRD / IFC iniave looking at social inclusion and mining in Peru since 2013. Within this iniave, he has been in charge of a study of community engagement and social conflict in mining operaons. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Oxford (UK ), and works with indigenous sociees and other vulnerable populaons in several countries of Lan America.
Antonio Galvao Sustainability Leader, Braskem Idesa Mr. Galvao has over 25 years ofHSE & Social Responsibility and experience in the chemical and petrochemical industry in Brazil, Venezuela and México. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Universidade Federal da Bahia, a Master in Environmental Studies at Universidade Federal da Bahia and anMBA from Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo Brazil. He is in charge of the sustainability area of ElenoXXI , a $5.2 MM project under development in Coatzacoalcos, México.
18 Janina Gawler Global Prac ce Leader, Communi es and Social Performance, Rio Tinto Janina Gawler is Global Pracce Leader for Communies and Social Performance with Rio Tinto providing assurance on implementaon of community standards. Over the past fi een years Janina has been involved in the development and implementaon of the social performance programs across Rio Tinto operaons. Most recently she has been Director of Environment and Communies on the Simandou project, a large infrastructure and mining project in Guinea developed in partnership with Government of Guinea, Chalco and theIFC . Janina and her team of specialized praconers provide advice, assurance and business support on rese lement, land acquision, community engagement programs and partnerships to ensure the long term social licence to operate for Rio Tinto.
Natacha Garoute Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary, Roxgold Ms. Garoute has over 15 years of finance experience, with a strong focus on mining and corporaons with extensive internaonal exposure. She was most recently the Corporate Controller atSEMAFO Inc. where she demonstrated acve leadership managing financial reporng, tax and budget funcons throughout the Corporaon and its subsidiaries located in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger, West Africa. Previous to that, Ms. Garoute held senior finance posions at Canadian Naonal Railway,MDD (a forensic accounng firm where she opened the Montreal branch) and PwC. She has a strong background inIFRS , public company reporng, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and West AfricanOHADA regulaons. Ms. Garoute received her Chartered Professional Accountant designaon in 2000 and holds a bachelor of commerce degree from Université du Québec as well as a Law degree from Université de Montréal, and is fluent in French and English.
Anita Marangoly George Senior Director, Energy and Extrac ve Industries Global Prac ce World Bank Group Anita Maragoly George is Senior Director of the World Bank Group's Energy and Extracve Industries Global Pracce. In this posion, she provides leadership and strategic direcon to the Global Pracce that fosters partnerships with key clients through lending, advisory and knowledge services. The sustainable development of energy and extracve industries is key to delivering on the World Bank's twin goals of reducing extreme poverty and improving shared prosperity. Before assuming this posion on July 1, 2014, Ms. George was the Asia Pacific Regional Director for Infrastructure and Natural Resources at the Internaonal Finance Corporaon (IFC ), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. She has played several roles in the World Bank Group, working in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Lan America. Besides her work with the Bank Group, she has headed Siemens Financial Services in India covering the telecommunicaons, power and transportaon sectors, and has also served in management posions with the Steel Authority of India. Ms. George holds a dual Masters' degree in Business Administraon and Economic Policy from Boston University. She is married and the mother of two children.
Adam Goldberg Founder, Trident Law Group Adam founded Trident Law GroupPLLC in 2012 a er serving as a partner at a leading global law firm. Trident focuses on helping clients address their reputaonal and polical risks arising from legal issues and advising on communicaons and polical strategy, government invesgaons, and media invesgaons. Adam served in the White House as Special Associate Counsel to the President from 1996 to 1999, providing advice on polical and communicaons strategies for the campaign finance, Monica Lewinsky, technology transfer, and other invesgaons. Serving as a White House spokesman, Adam worked on congressional, Department of Jusce, and independent counsel inquiries. Before the White House, he began his career as a lobbyist at a prominent Washington, D.C. law firm and then served as the Director of Rapid Response for Special Projects for the Democrac
19 Naonal Commi ee during the 1996 presidenal campaign. Admi ed in New York, the District of Columbia, and various federal courts, Adam graduated Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1994 and Tu s University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in 1991.
Emily Greenspan Senior Policy Advisor, Oxfam America Emily is the co-author, with Marianne Voss, of the Oxfam America research backgrounder "Community Consent Index: Company public posions regarding Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC ) for oil, gas, and mining projects" (2012); editor of Oxfam America's "From controversy to consensus: Lessons learned from government and company consultaons with indigenous organizaons in Peru and Bolivia"; author of the Oxfam America report "Watching the watchdogs: Evaluang independent expert panels that monitor oil and gas pipeline projects" (2011); and contributor to Oxfam America, World Resources Instute, and Bank Informaon Center's "People, Power, and Pipelines: Lessons from Peru in the governance of gas producon revenues". Prior to joining Oxfam America, Emily worked withWWF -Peru on issues pertaining to hydrocarbons, forestry, and indigenous peoples and with the Pan American Development Foundaon on a civil society strengthening program. Emily has conducted extensive research on consultaon and community engagement around extracve industry projects, including for her master's degree in public policy which she received from Harvard University. She has aBA in anthropology and English literature from the University of Virginia.
Osvaldo Gratacós Vice President, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, IFC/MIGA Osvaldo L. Gratacós was appointed as Vice President, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman by World Bank Group President, Jim Kim, following an independent selecon process led by civil society, industry and academia. He assumed his post in July 2014. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Gratacós was appointed by President Barack Obama as the Inspector General for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank). As the Inspector General, Mr. Gratacós was responsible for inspecons of transacons, audits, compliance reviews and fraud invesgaons relang to Ex-Im Bank's US$100+ billion credit program porolio involving over 150 countries. Formerly, Mr. Gratacós was a commercial counsel at Motorola, Inc. and was an a orney advisor and then Acng Legal Counsel to the Inspector General for the U.S. Agency for Internaonal Development, Office of Inspector General (USAID/OIG). Mr. Gratacós holds a Bachelor's degree from the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, a Professional MBA from the University of Massachuse s (Amherst), a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida, and a Masters in Internaonal Policy and Pracce from The George Washington University.
Gabriella Rigg Herzog Senior Manager Corporate Social Responsibility, Hess Corpora on Gabriella Rigg Herzog is Senior Manager for Corporate Social Responsibility at Hess Corporaon, where she recommends, develops and implements corporate-level corporate social responsibility strategy, analysis and systems design, as well as operaons-level support for implementaon. Gabriella has over 18 years of experience in both the public and private sectors leading headquarter and field-level work in the areas of internaonal development, human rights, labor rights, and corporate social responsibility. Prior to Hess, Gabriella served in a number of roles in the U.S. Government, including as Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, where she managed the Bureau's global corporate social responsibility (CSR ) policy and program pracce. Gabriella serves as Chair of the Social Responsibility Working Group ofIPIECA – the global oil and gas industry associaon for environmental and social issues, is an Aspen Instute First Movers Fellow, and holds aBA from Northeastern University and aMA from The Fletcher School at Tu s University.
20 Jennifer Horning Senior Program Manager, Solidaridad Jennifer Horning is a senior program manager for the Gold Program at the non-profit organizaon Solidaridad. She leads Solidaridad's program for building partnerships across the gold value chain to ensure best pracces. The primary focus is with arsanal miners and at-risk communies the Global South, including those located near industrial mining operaons. In this role Jennifer also guides gold buyers, such as jewelers, electronics companies and financial instuons, in purchasing gold from known, responsible mining companies and cooperaves that have been verified by third pares. Prior to joining Solidaridad, Jennifer worked as an a orney represenng public and private sector clients in the extracves industries. This included work on the largest toxic cleanup site in the U.S., the historic gold and copper mines of Bu e, Montana. She began her career in internaonal development in the Middle East and Africa. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in management from Skidmore College (New York) and a Juris Doctor from Vermont Law School. She is based in The Netherlands.
Jumoke Jagun-Dokunmu Country Manager for Mozambique and Angola, IFC Jumoke has over 25 years' experience in the development, structuring and financing of private sector projects and Public Private Partnerships (PPP ) in developing economies. She has a wide and varied experience in working with countries on the sustainable development of their natural resources. Prior to assuming responsibility for Mozambique and Angola in 2012, Jumoke wasIFC 's pioneer Resident Representave for Liberia and Sierra Leone, based in Monrovia. In this role, she worked with both governments to develop post-conflict development strategies aimed at ensuring development of natural resources had a major contribuon to economic development and poverty alleviaon. She also led teams that worked with both governments to produce significant reforms in investment climate that resulted in increasedFDI into natural resources, and the creaon of innovave products forSME development and access to finance for SME s. Jumoke joined IFC in 1998 in the PPP department where she led sell-side transacons in Sub-Saharan Africa and the South Pacific. Prior toIFC , she worked in the Nigerian banking sector. She has lived and worked in Europe, North America, the South Pacific and Africa.
Michael Jarvis Global Lead, Governance, World Bank Group Michael Jarvis is the Global Lead, Extracves Governance within the World Bank Group's Governance Global Pracce. He guides the Extracves Governance themac group with a focus on knowledge, learning and innovave approaches to strengthening good governance in the crical oil, gas and mining sectors. This builds on his development of Governance for Extracve Industries programming within the World Bank Instute. Michael has worked over ten years with the World Bank in a variety of roles relang to an- corrupon, private sector roles in development, and mul-stakeholder governance. This included a focus on contracng issues through which he helped shepherd development of a new global iniave on Open Contracng to promote be er outcomes from the esmated $9.5 trillion in public-private contracts globally. Michael previously worked on industry codes of conduct and as a consultant on corporate responsibility issues. Michael has advanced degrees from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University. He is a frequent author and blogger and misses his me as a radioDJ .
Ayaana Jean-Bap ste Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Guyana Goldfields/AGM Inc. Ayaana Jean-Bapste is the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR ) Manager for Guyana Goldfields/AGM Inc. in Guyana, South America. She received herCSR cerficaon from the University of Toronto, St. Michael's College and holds a Masters of Science degree in Medical Anthropology from the University College of London. In this posion for over five years, Ms. Jean-Bapste has provided transformaveCSR leadership to accommodate corporate growth, strategic planning, as well as project and program management
21 focused on staff and engaged communies. With a proven history of leveraging change management, program management, and applied ethnographic research to drive formaon and development of a socially conscious employee corporate culture. Successful iniaves that have been developed include the: Financial and Wellbeing Symposium, Children Needs and Development Program, Local Suppliers Business and Procurement Forum, Health and Safety Technical Training Program and iniang forums on Creang Opportunies and Iniaves for Women in the extracve sector.
Colin Joudrie Vice President Business Development and General ManagerCESL , Teck Resources Colin's responsibilies include direcng and supporng all of Teck's business development acvies in metallurgical coal, copper, zinc, energy and all other mined commodies of interest, business acquisions and strategic evaluaons. Colin also directs the commercializaon efforts of Teck's proprietary hydrometallurgical technologies in copper and nickel. Colin joined Teck (Cominco Ltd.) in 1991 and worked as an exploraon geologist and business development specialist on a broad range of base metal, precious metal and bulk commodity resource opportunies. Starng in 2002 Colin worked on product and technology business development iniaves focusing on the Trail Zn- Pb smelter and its over 20 disnct products. In 2006 he joined Teck's Corporate development team working on strategic investments, partnerships, acquisions and divestures across Teck's businesses which included managing a European based equipment manufacturing business and a construcon materials business in Western Canada. In 2009 Colin assumed his current role direcng strategic acquisions, divestures and growth acvies in support of improving Teck's overall business. Colin earned a Bachelor of Science Honours degree in Geology from Queen's University (1990/91) and a Master's degree in Business Administraon from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario (2002).
Erika Korosi Senior Manager Environment,BHP Billiton Erika entered the resource sector in 1996 as a graduate process engineer and has worked in a variety of roles across mining and minerals processing businesses. Her early career spanned engineering to operaonal management. Following her passion, Erika transioned to environmental management and sustainability. Erika has since held roles providing company-wide leadership, governance and advice on environment, climate change and sustainability acrossBHP Billiton's global operaons spanning Australia, Asia, South and North America and Africa. Erika has a B.Sc. (Hons) and a M.Env.Eng.Sc. from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Robert LaValliere Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Investor Rela ons, SEMAFO Robert joinedSEMAFO in October 2012. He has over 25 years of investor relaons experience in the mining industry and extensive knowledge of exploraon, project assessment, mergers and acquisions and communicaons at both naonal and internaonal levels. He holds a B.Sc. degree in geology from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM ) and an MBA from Université de Montréal-HEC Montréal. Robert is a member of Ordre des Géologues du Québec and the Canadian Instute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.
Benjamin Li le Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs,IAMGOLD Corpora on Benjamin Li le is Senior Vice President atIAMGOLD Corporaon, a leading internaonal gold producer. He heads the Corporate Affairs,HSS , and People funcons and is a member of the Execuve Leadership Team. Ben is also Chief Execuve Officer of Euro RessourcesSA , a French affiliate of IAMGOLD focused on precious-metal royales. Prior to joiningIAMGOLD , Ben was Director of
22 Government and Internaonal Affairs at Barrick Gold Corporaon. He is a corporate lawyer, having pracsed at a leading business law firm in Toronto. He has also served as Senior Policy Adviser to Canada's federal Minister of Industry. Mr. Li le studied at Queen's University (gold medallist), Oxford University (master's degree in internaonal relaons, Commonwealth Scholar) and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Canadian Bar Associaon, and has served or connues to serve on the boards of directors of many organizaons, includingSEMOS (Mali), the World Gold Council (Alternate), Euro Resources S.A. (France), the Canada-Chile Business Council, Minalliance (Quebec), the Mining Associaon of Canada, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canada-Peru Chamber of Commerce and the Canada-Pakistan Business Council.
Liu Ming Hui Execu ve Chairman, Managing Director & President, China Gas Mr. Liu is currently the Execuve Chairman, Managing Director and President of the China Gas Holdings Limited. Mr. Liu graduated from Hebei Normal University in the Faculty of Mathemacs and has substanal working experiences in the infrastructure and energy industry in the People's Republic of China. Mr. Liu is the founder of China Gas.
Reg Manhas Senior Vice President, External Affairs, Kosmos Energy Reg Manhas has over 25 years of experience in the internaonal oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Kosmos in 2012, Manhas spent more than 15 years at Calgary-based Talisman Energy, including serving as Vice President Corporate Affairs, where he established and built the company's corporate affairs funcon and was responsible for above ground risk management across Talisman's global operaons, including Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the Americas. Prior to establishing the corporate affairs funcon, Manhas was an a orney with Talisman as well as with the law firm McCarthy Tetrault. Earlier in his career, Manhas worked as an engineer in the upstream oil industry with Petro-Canada. He earned both his law degree and his chemical engineering degree from the University of Brish Columbia. He is member of the Associaon of Professional Engineers of Alberta and the Internaonal Bar Associaon. Manhas was appointed in 2012 by the Government of Canada to the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Nature, and also serves on the Board of Directors of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth.
Abdoulaye Magassouba Advisor/Head of the Presiden al Delivery Unit, Presidency of the Republic Guinea Mr. Magassouba is in charge of monitoring and facilitang the delivery of presidenal priority economic projects in Guinea, mainly in the mining, agriculture and energy sectors. He has been supporng the Ministries on ongoing crical reforms and projects in their respecve sectors. Prior to his current posion, Mr. Magassouba spent 15 years providing consulng, technical assistance and audit services to organizaons from both public and private sectors. He worked mainly on development projects along with companies in mining, health care,IT etc. He spent most of his career atKPMG in Guinea, before moving to independent consulng jobs for AfDB , ITC etc. Mr. Magassouba has a Master's degree in Policy Economics obtained as a Fulbright Scholar at the Center for Development Economics at Williams College.
Luis Marchese Country Manager for Peru, Anglo American Luis has held the Country Manager posion since 2009. In parallel with this role, he has also held the posion of General Manager of the Michiquillay Project and, for short periods, General Manager of the Quellaveco Project. He first worked in Anglo American from 1995 to 2004, both in Chile and Canada in various posions within the area of mine projects and operaons. Luis returned to Perú in 2005 to work for Trafigura in its mining projects and investments group. Luis is currently Vice-President of the Mining Sector at the Naonal Mining, Petroleum and Energy Society. He is also Director at theNGO “Empresarios 23 por la Educación”. Luis holds a degree from the Ponfica Universidad Catolica of Peru in Mining Engineering, and anMS c in Mineral Economics from Pennsylvania State University.
Serge Matesco Vice President Development Funds and Ins tu ons, TOTAL Serge has a long operaonal and managerial career within the Exploraon and Producon branch of Total, one of the leading internaonal Energy Companies, registered in Paris, France. As Vice President, he was successively in charge of the Lan American Southern Cone ('96 to '98) , New Ventures & Asset Management ( '99 to '06) , North America ( '06 to '09) , Sub Saharan Africa and then Eastern Africa ( '09 to '13) Divisions . During his professional career he has been posted in France, Mexico, Indonesia, China, Venezuela and Bolivia . He joinedTOTAL in 1977.
Bruce McKenney Director, Development by Design, The Nature Conservancy Bruce McKenney is Director for the Nature Conservancy's Development by Design global program, advancing conservaon and development goals to achieve sustainable outcomes. He has more than 20 years of experience applying policy and economic analysis to promote environmental goals and human well-being. Prior to joining the Conservancy in 2006, Bruce's work included projects and studies for the World Bank, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Environmental Protecon Agency, World Wildlife Fund, World Commission on Dams, Moore Foundaon, and Naonal Parks Conservaon Associaon. He also worked for five years in Cambodia, serving as Director for Natural Resources and Environment at the Cambodia Development Resource Instute. Bruce holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University, an Honors Degree in African Studies from the University of Cape Town, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Polical Science from Brown University.
Duane McMullen Director General, Trade Opera ons, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Duane McMullen is currently chair of Canada's Naonal Contact Point under theOECD Guidelines for Mulnaonal Enterprises as well as Director General, Trade Operaons in Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. He has previously led Canada's commercial program at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, China, the Canadian Embassy in Seoul, Korea and worked as Chief of Staff to Canada's Deputy Minister of Internaonal Trade. Duane won the Minister of Internaonal Trade award in 1999, the Clerk of the Privy Council award in 2003 and the 2012 Ken Sunquist Award for Excellence in Internaonal Trade.
John Middleton Principal Environmental Specialist, IFC Dr Middleton joinedIFC in 1998. He has responsibility for the Oil, Gas & Mining porolio within the Environment and Social Development Department and provides leadership on environmental and social sustainability within the sector. This is a key strategic priority forIFC , and he works closely with the investment teams to ensure effecve environment and social risk management as well as support on all aspects ofIFC 's business strategy. He has over 35 years of experience in the fields of environmental and social assessment and the applicaon of internaonal standards to private sector projects in the mining industry. He has environmental consulng experience and prior to joiningIFC held a management posion with Internaonal Mining Consultants (IMC ) in the UK . He joined IMC in 1994 and led the company's environmental assessment business. Prior to 1994, he was Group Environmental Consultant for the Anglo-Vaal Mining House in South Africa which operated gold, copper, manganese, coal and chrome mines and before that he spent several years in the Chamber of Mines Research Organisaon, also in South Africa, where he focused on the environmental challenges in ultra-deep mining.
24 Dr Middleton, a Brish naonal, holds a doctorate in mining (environmental modelling) and a mining degree, both from the University of No ngham.
Kieren Moffat Resources in Society Group Leader,CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship Dr. Moffat is a Senior Research Scienst in Australia's naonal research agency,CSIRO . He leads a program of applied research examining the relaonship between mineral and energy industries and society - across scales, geography and me. His research interests include the development of quantave methods to model social license to operate, cizen parcipaon in resource governance, the role of technology and innovaon in sustainable development, and responsible agreement making for mineral development. He has lead large scale collaborave projects internaonally, including in South Africa, Zambia, Chile, Australia and South East Asia.
Nathan Monash Vice President, Business Sustainability, Lundin Gold Nathan Monash is currently Vice President, Business Sustainability for Lundin Gold. He is based in Quito, Ecuador and is focused upon advancing the Fruta del Norte project. Over the course of his career, Nathan has worked extensively with the mining industry to structure and develop sustainability strategies and governance structures, and has advised operaons on community relaons, local government relaons, human rights and communicaons. Nathan has held leadership roles within AngloGold Ashan, and has consulted to the Internaonal Finance Corporaon on the financial valuaon of sustainability investments. Nathan also spent a number of years with Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA ), where he focused upon the integraon of sustainable development principles acrossRTA 's business development pracce. He also spent several years with the World Economic Forum (WEF ), where he led theWEF 's mining and metals pracce.
Marie Nelson PBS Vice President, News, Public Affairs & Independent Film Nelson is a seasoned content developer with experience in public media and other broadcast and cable organizaons. AtPBS , she coordinates programming strategy forPBS news and film series to develop and direct innovave approaches to engage audiences. Prior to joiningPBS , she served as execuve producer of naonal programs atPBS member staon,WGBH . At WGBH , she oversaw the producon of AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS, an eight-part documentary series that explored the impact of America's changing demographics. Prior toWGBH , Nelson was the acng vice president of news & original programming for BET Networks, where she oversaw a range of cross-plaorm iniaves. She also served as the founding execuve producer forNPR 's “Tell Me More” and as a producer for “Nightline” with Ted Koppel and “World News Tonight” atABC News. Nelson has also served in public affairs and internaonal development roles with the U.S. Department of State, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalion and Africare.
Thomas Odenwald Senior Vice President, Sustainability Strategies and Business Innova on, SAP Thomas Odenwald is Senior Vice President for Sustainability Strategies and Business Innovaon atSAP . He is driving thought leadership through sustainable value creaon as part ofSAP 's praconer and soluon provider role. In his role he is serving as a member of various sustainability iniaves, such as the advisory board of Sustainable Brands. Thomas re-joinedSAP from PE Internaonal, a global leader in product and enterprise sustainability soluons, where he was Chief Technology Officer and global Alliance Director. He is aSAP veteran with over 20 years' experience holding various leadership posions, including bringing SAPs first industry soluon to the market, leading SAP 's first development organizaon outside its headquarters in Germany, and pioneering early efforts in the Sustainability area as part ofSAP Research. Thomas holds a MS in economics and computer science 25 from Fredericana University in Karlsruhe, Germany. Thomas Odenwald owns mulple patents and has published numerous publicaons and journal entries.
Eric Peiffer CEO, Vecturis In 2006, Eric co-founded Vecturis, a private railway operator based in Belgium. Over the 20 past years, Eric has parcipated in the negoaon and reorganizaon or privazaon of public railways and inland ports in Cameroon, Madagascar, Democrac Republic of Congo, Senegal, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda, Congo-Brazzaville, Algeria, Mozambique, Djibouand Ethiopia. His strengths have been the implementaon of all aspects related to privasaon and the constuon or restructuraon of railway companies, the development of projects, the management and governance of Companies.
Rachel Perks Mining Specialist, Energy and Extrac ves Global Prac ce, World Bank Rachel works on countries in central and east Africa (Tanzania, theDRC , Burundi and Rwanda) who have significant arsanal and small-scale mining populaons where governments are pursuing policies and pracces to enhanceASM development. Prior to joining the World Bank, Rachel worked and lived in central and the Horn of Africa from 2000-2010. In 2010, she le Africa to pursue her PhD in England. Her PhD topic focused on the queson ofASM development in Rwanda, and the impact of regional geopolics on Rwanda's domesc mining development strategy. While pursuing her PhD, she had the privilege to live in many remote mining areas of Rwanda, recording the life histories of miners who have labored for over 35 years in Rwanda'sASM sector. She is a Canadian naonal.
Pierre Pozzo di Borgo Principal Industry Specialist, IFC Pierre Pozzo di Borgo has over 18 years of experience in the analysis and management of transport projects. Since 2003, he has parcipated and led the World Bank's support of public private partnerships (PPP ), mainly in the rail, road and airport sectors. He has assisted in the development of second-generaon rail concession contracts. Previously, he worked for Booz Allen Hamilton and Louis Berger Internaonal. He holds anMBA from Maryland University, College Park, and aMA from the Sorbonne University of Paris
Jenik Radon Adj. Professor, Columbia University and A orney, Radon Law Offices Jenik Radon is Adj. Professor, Columbia University, School of Public and Internaonal Affairs, and is an a orney at Radon Law Offices, a bouque law firm specializing in represenng governments of emerging naons and theirSOE s in respect of extracves. He was a Fulbright Specialist at Makerere University Law School, Uganda. Radon taught access-to-medicine, human rights, privazaon and internaonal investment management at Stanford University and was vising professor at Indira Gandhi Instute for Development Research, Mumbai, India, where he taught "Dynamics of Corrupon," and at Monterrey Tech, Queretaro, Mexico. Radon has advised public authories and civil society in emerging naons including Cambodia, Mozambique, Nepal, Philippines and Tanzania, in respect of the negoaon of extracve agreements and sustainable natural resource development, as well as Afghanistan concerningTAPI gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan to Pakistan to India.
26 David Reading Chief Execu ve Officer and Director, Aureus Mining David Reading has significant experse in the global mining industry with over 35 years' experience across the fields of exploraon, feasibility, project development and mining. Mr. Reading has anMS c in Economic Geology and is a fellow ofFIMM . He has held senior posions with leading mining companies and is the formerCEO of European Goldfields and the former General Manager of African exploraon for Randgold Resources. In addion, he has held senior exploraon and project development posions for Anglo American and Phelps Dodge.
Aaron Rosenberg Chief for Public Affairs, IFC Aaron Rosenberg is currently the Chief for Public Affairs at the Internaonal Finance Corporaon (IFC ), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. Mr. Rosenberg is the focal point for stakeholder relaons withinIFC and leads IFC 's corporate engagement with civil society. He is also responsible for managing policy communicaons and advisesIFC 's senior management on corporate reputaonal risk and other strategic communicaon issues, including aroundIFC s Performance Standards. Prior to joiningIFC in 2008, Mr. Rosenberg worked in internaonal trade. He was an internaonal trade economist at the U.S. Commerce Department, worked on Capitol Hill, and most recently served as a Deputy assistant U.S. Trade Representave in the White House Trade Office, where he was responsible for developing and coordinang U.S. policy on internaonal trade and labor ma ers. Mr. Rosenberg served as the lead U.S. negoator for labor provisions in free trade agreements with countries in Lan America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, and worked to advance many key iniaves linking protecons for workers to trade preferences for developing countries.
Lisa Sachs Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI ), a joint Center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Instute at Columbia University. Since joiningCCSI in 2008, she established and now oversees the three areas of focus forCCSI : investments in extracve industries, investments in land and agriculture, and investment law and policy. She has developed a robust research porolio in each of these areas, and has overseen advisory work in Mozambique, Guinea, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia, Paraguay and Timor-Leste. She teaches a masters seminar at Columbia Law School and Columbia's School of Internaonal and Public Affairs on Extracve Industries and Sustainable Development, and has helped to build course offerings and execuve trainings at Columbia Law School on investment law and policy and sustainable development. She is a member of theUN Sustainable Development Soluons Network's themac group on the Good Governance of Extracve and Land Resources and is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Mining & Metals. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, and a Juris Doctor and a Masters degree in Internaonal Affairs from Columbia University.
Robin Sandenburgh Senior Manager Environmental, Social & Governance, IFC Robin Sandenburgh has been withIFC for 20 years. She is currently Senior Manager inIFC 's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG ) group, managing support to the Lan America and Caribbean region as well as enhancedESG support to clients. Robin joinedIFC as a consultant in 1995 in the Harare regional office. She spent 10 years withIFC in Africa, before moving to the Delhi office in 2004, Cairo office in 2009 and Istanbul office in 2011. She has worked on investment projects across all industry sectors in Africa, South Asia, Middle East/North Africa and Eastern Europe/Central Asia. Prior to joiningIFC , Robin had a 15-year career in theUS and Africa as a consultant to private firms, theUS Environmental Protecon Agency and other government agencies on a wide range of projects related to natural resources management, environmental remediaon, community
27 engagement, and climate change issues. She holds an A.B. in History and Sociology from Brown University and a Master's degree in Public Policy Studies from the University of Michigan.
Bernie Sheahan Director & Global Head, Infrastructure & Natural Resources, IFC Bernard Sheahan is Director of Global Infrastructure and Natural Resources atIFC , the largest global development instuon focused exclusively on the private sector. He is responsible forIFC 's investments in power, transport, ulies, and extracve industries. He joinedIFC in 1986, and has previously served as Director ofIFC 's Infrastructure Advisory Department andIFC 's Director of Strategy. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from Dartmouth College and anMBA from Harvard University.
Astrid Skala-Kuhmann Director, Global Partnerships Department, GIZ Dr. Astrid Skala-Kuhmann is an internaonal lawyer in a senior management posion with many years of experience in emerging markets. Since 2011, she has been serving as Director of the Department Global Partnerships - Emerging Economies in the Deutsche Gesellscha für Internaonale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ ) GmbH, reporng directly to the board. Dr. Skala-Kuhmann has long-term experience in Asia, in-depth knowledge in global governance issues as well as comprehensive understanding of Chinese policy-making and framework condions. She served as theGIZ 's Chief Resident Representave and Country Director in the P.R China from 2005 to 2011. She began her career as an a orney-at-law with the internaonal law firm White & Case Frankfurt, then worked as legal advisor toGIZ in Indonesia and headed the division for Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore for several years. In the course of her career she also served as an advisor to the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Consumer Protecon, the United Naons Development Program (UNDP ) and other internaonal organizaons. Dr. Skala-Kuhmann is a supervisory board member of LenzingAG and Semperit AG , Austria. She holds a Ph.D. in internaonal environmental law from the University of Gö ngen.
Alister Smith Execu ve Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean, World Bank Group Alister Smith is Execuve Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean at the World Bank Group. Prior to the World Bank Group, he held a number of senior posions in the Canadian government, including Senior Advisor to the Privy Council Office and Associate Secretary of the Treasury Board. Earlier, he was General Director of the Internaonal Trade and Finance branch of the Department of Finance. In that capacity, he served as Alternate Governor for the regional development banks. Previously, he worked forCIBC , a Canadian bank, as Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist. Mr. Smith was educated in economics at Queen's University and Carleton University. More recently, he completed the Directors' Educaon program at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and holds theICD .D designaon from the Instute of Corporate Directors. Mr. Smith is on the Internaonal Advisory Commiee of the Instute for the Study of Development (ISID ) at McGill University.
Chris an Spano Group Manager, Socio-economic Development, Anglo American Chrisan has worked for more than ten years in extracve industries including the forestry industry (strategy), power generaon (commercial) and mining (economic development) in South, Central, North America,US , Europe, Africa and some exposure to Asia. Currently, at Anglo American he is in charge of designing and supporng the implementaon of socio-economic development strategies including enterprise development programs and has recently been in charge of building the business case for the corporate level sustainability strategy. Chrisan studied economics with a specializaon in
28 microeconomics and market failures (Magna Cum Laude). He was awarded a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chevening scholarship to study development at the London School of Economics and also studied a postgraduate degree in Strategy at Oxford University, Exeter College.
Darren Sokoloski Country Director, Acciona Infrastructure Canada Inc. Darren Sokoloski is the Country Director for Acciona Infrastructure Canada Inc. (AIC ), the Canadian Division ofACCIONA S.A, and leads the development of Acciona's Infrastructure, Water & Services business in Canada. Darren has been deeply involved in the development, financing, and delivery of infrastructure via public private partnerships in Alberta and other jurisdicons in Canada and the United States. He has also worked on the development of renewable energy projects and has developed alternave fuel technologies and businesses in conjuncon with companies like Ford and Daimler Benz. Darren holds anMBA from Queen's and Cornell and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Victoria.
Mitchell Straus Special Advisor for Socially Responsible Investment Finance, OPIC Ms. Strauss is Special Advisor for Socially Responsible Investment Finance at the Overseas Private Investment Corporaon, a U. S. government corporaon charged with mobilizing and facilitangUS private investment and skills transfer in developing countries throughout the world. She is responsible for policy ma ers and originaon of innovave financing products and structures designed specifically to leverage socially responsible investment to achieve sustainable projects in emerging markets. She collaborates with other U.S. private sector, government and internaonal government enes to assist in coordinang private and public funding to efficiently support projects with socially responsible or impact investment elements for the corporaon including micro finance andSME businesses. Formerly the Director of Credit Policy for the corporaon, and as a former private sector banker, she held various posions in finance and banking. Ms. Strauss has anMBA from the University of Conneccut and a BA from Lake Forest College.
Anna Stylianides Director, Al us Royal es Corp Ms. Stylianides has 20 years of experience in the global capital markets having spent much of her career in investment banking, private equity, and corporate management and restructuring. She began her career in corporate law by joining the firm of Webber Wentzel A orneys in 1990 a er graduang from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1992 she joined Investec Merchant Bank Limited where she specialized in risk management and gained extensive experience in the areas of corporate finance and structured finance, mergers and acquisions, structuring, specialized finance and other banking and financial services transacons. Since 1997, Ms Stylianides has been a Director of and has been engaged in the financial restructuring of certain Nasdaq publicly traded companies and has extensive knowledge of Canadian andSEC securies regulaons. Addionally, Ms Stylianides was previously a Director andCEO of Surgical Spaces, Inc Group of Companies, and has been instrumental in overseeing its naonal expansion strategy as Canada's private healthcare consolidator. Ms Stylianides has had numerous board appointments, including Callinan Royales Corp. Ms Stylianides is currently Chairman andCEO of Eco-Oro Resources (formerly Greystar Resources), a Director of Alus Minerals Corp and the Fraser Instute.
29 Namrata Thapar Global Head of Mining, IFC Namrata Thapar was appointedIFC Global Head of Mining in March 2015, succeeding Tom Butler. Namrata joinedIFC in 1999 and has played a leadership role developingIFC 's mining business with a focus on sustainability and development impact. Prior to this role, she was Principal Investment Officer in the mining team and led mulple projects with clients ranging from major diversified companies to juniors, including both debt and equity investments. Namrata earned anMBA from Marymount University in Virginia and a B.A. Honors in Economics from Sri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi. She is based in Washington D.C.
Johanna Nesseth Tu le Manager, Development & Public Policy, Chevron Johanna Nesseth Tu le leads Chevron's policy engagement on global development and corporate social responsibility. She represents Chevron in the Mul-Stakeholder Group of the U.S. Extracve Industries Transparency Iniave, a Federal Advisory Commi ee with the U.S. Department of Interior. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning & Development at the Center for Strategic & Internaonal Studies. During her fourteen years atCSIS , she served as a member of the senior management team, with responsibility for financial, programmac and strategic decisions. She established a major new area ofCSIS 's research agenda, focused on global development. She founded CSIS 's work on global food security in 2008, and in 2011 she established the Project on U.S. Leadership Development, a five-year partnership with Chevron to explore the role of the private sector in global development. Prior toCSIS , she worked in a number of nonprofit organizaons including the League of Women Voters, Hmong American Partnership and Minnesota 4-H. She received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Minnesota and an M.A. in Internaonal Affairs from The George Washington University.
Elizabeth A. Vazquez President,CEO , and Co-Founder, WEC onnect Interna onal Elizabeth A. Vazquez is the President,CEO , and Co-Founder ofWEC onnect Internaonal, a corporate led non-profit that helps to empower women business owners to succeed in global markets. She is a serial social entrepreneur and world leader in global supplier diversity and inclusion. As theCEO of WEC onnect Internaonal, Ms. Vazquez is responsible for mission delivery and impact.WEC onnect Internaonal corporate member annual revenues exceedUS $3.6 trillion. TheWEC onnect Internaonal team promotes women-owned businesses in over 90 countries and supports local representaves in 17 countries-- Australia, Brazil, Chile, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Turkey, and theUK . Ms. Vazquez is the co-author of the book, “Buying for Impact: How to Buy from Women and Change Our World.” She sits on several Boards of Directors, including the Global Banking Alliance for Women, the Cornerstone Capital Group, the Eisenhower Fellowships Board of Trustees, and is also an Advisor to the Clinton Global Iniave. Ms. Vazquez was born in Mexico and has a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tu s University where she studied development economics and internaonal negoaon as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
Jochem Verberne Ac ng Director of Corporate Rela ons,WWF Interna onal Jochem directs the team responsible for leading and coordinangWWF 's global corporate engagement. In this role, Jochem supports the Global Partnerships Commi ee (GPC ) in its decision-making and implements projects on its behalf, such as the revision ofWWF 's Corporate Engagement Guidelines, the new Corporate Database, and the external disclosure of allWWF 's corporate partnerships. He is specifically engaged in global partnerships related to water stewardship, and led the development of the Water Risk Filter, an innovave tool to bringWWF 's water stewardship thinking to wide corporate
30 audiences and provide guidance towards acon. Jochem has been withWWF Internaonal since April 2010, and joined from The Boston Consulng Group (BCG ), where he was a Project Leader. He has been trained as an MS c in Mechanical Engineering at Del University of Technology and is an Olympic silver medalist.
Jan Wehebrink Manager, Global Porolio, Oil Gas and Mining in the Infrastructure and Natural Resources Department, IFC Jan has been working in structured and project finance as well as treasury operaons since 1990. Since joiningIFC in the Oil and Gas team in January 2007, Jan has led and overseen a number of debt and equity investments in North Africa, Central Asia and South America. Jan is responsible forIFC 's porolio of investments in Oil, Gas and Mining, as well as contribung toIFC s internal porolio strategy and reporng funcons. Prior to joiningIFC , Jan worked for Woodside Petroleum and AustraliaLNG as Assistant Treasurer and Project Finance Manager. Prior to that, Jan spent eight years at theEBRD in London and Budapest. Jan started his career at Midland Montagu in London and Milan. Jan was educated in theUK , with a BS c (hons) in Economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Robin Weisman Principal Investment Officer, Global Infrastructure & Natural Resources, IFC Robin Weisman has worked forIFC for 20 years, the last 10 in the investment department of Global Infrastructure and Natural Resources, focused on mining investments in Lan America, Africa and Russia. This also included a 4-year period withIFC 's advisory services focusing on local procurement, small business development, revenue management and strategic community investment. Robin has an MBA from University of Chicago.
Miranda J. Wers uk Senior Vice-President,IBK Capital Ms. Wersuk has been withIBK Capital since 1994. With over 20 years corporate finance and investment banking experience in the natural resources sector, Ms. Wersuk takes an acve role in financial advisory assignments for mining clients, recently working with Anoquia Gold Inc., a junior exploraon company focused on development of its gold projects in Colombia. Recently, her efforts have been directed to markeng and selling of private placement financings, with a value of over $165 million to date. She has also undertaken advisory work for clients acve in the renewable energy/fuel, biotechnology and so ware sectors. Ms. Wersuk is currently a member of the Prospectors and Developers Associaon of Canada, Women in Mining–Toronto Branch, Canadian Instute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum and the York Technology Associaon. She has also been an acve volunteer and Peer Group Leader for the Canadian Diabetes Associaon for over a decade. Since 2006, she has been a judge at the IBK Capital-Ivey Business Plan Compeon, Canada's premiere student business plan compeon. Ms. Wersuk is a graduate of Queen's University (BS cH – Biology (1990)) and of McMaster University ( BAH – Anthropology (1992)). She also completed the Queen's University E-Business Program in April 2000.
Eric Whan Sustainability Director, GlobeScan Eric leads GlobeScan's Sustainability pracce. He specializes in corporate sustainability leadership across the value chain. In partnership with the Naonal Geographic Society, Eric directs the Greendex – the largest global study tracking sustainable consumpon trends. The recently published 5th edion dives deeply into consumer behavior within the food category, with a view toward enabling meaningful change in producon and consumpon systems. Eric also directs The GlobeScan/SustainAbility Survey, the world's definive survey of sustainable development experts. Alongside his work with many Fortune 500 companies globally including major extracves, Eric recently delivered the Regeneraon Roadmap in collaboraon with SustainAbility
31 and several corporate partners. Eric is co-author ofBBMG 's and GlobeScan's Aspiraonals Consumer Framework, in which a large segment of the global marketplace is now uning style and sustainability to redefine consumpon and drive innovaon. Eric joined GlobeScan in 1999.
Sean Whi aker Senior Renewable Energy Specialist, IFC Sean is a professional engineer and Senior Renewable Energy Specialist withIFC . His work at IFC focuses on investments in large-scale off-grid renewables, wind supply chain and innovave wind projects in emerging markets. Prior to joiningIFC in 2011, Sean was Vice-President of Policy for the Canadian Wind Energy Associaon (CanWEA ) and worked as a senior energy consultant with ICF/Marbek. He also spent five years in Madagascar designing and building windmills for community irrigaon projects. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Queen's University, Kingston.
Mick Wilkes Managing Director & Chief Execu ve Officer, OceanaGold Corpora on Mick Wilkes is a mining engineer with approximately 30 years of broad internaonal experience, predominantly in precious and base metals across Asia and Australia. Most recently, as Execuve General Manager of Operaons atOZ Minerals he had responsibility for the Prominent Hill copper gold project in South Australia, one of the more significant recent resource developments in Australia. Preceding this, he was General Manager of the Sepon gold copper project for Oxiana in Laos, in Papua New Guinea in senior roles and, at the outset of his career, at Mount Isa Mines in operaons and design. In January 2011, he was appointedCEO , and was appointed to the Board of Directors as Managing Director in April 2011. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from the University of Queensland, aMBA from Deakin University, and is a member of the Australian Instute of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Australian Instute of Company Directors.
Roland Yameogo Investment Officer, Mining, IFC Roland Yameogo joinedIFC in 2006 as part of the Global Transacon Team Program (GTT ). Since joining, he has worked on the financing of telecommunicaon projects and onPPP transacons with the Infrastructure Advisory team. He has been in the mining group since 2009 working on the financing of projects in Africa and Lan America. Prior to joiningIFC , he worked for American Honda Motor Company as a Financial Analyst. Roland has aBA in Finance and aBS in Economics with Honors from the University of the District of Columbia and anMBA from the University of Southern California. He is based in WashingtonDC .
Alina Zagaytova Assistant General Counsel, First Solar Ms. Zagaytova covers strategic partnerships and investments, mergers and acquisions, project finance, and distributed generaon. Ms. Zagaytova also supports First Solar's business development acvies in the Americas and Africa. Since joining First Solar, Ms. Zagaytova has led legal support for First Solar's projects in Africa. Prior to joining First Solar, Ms. Zagaytova was a Senior Associate at Cleary Go lieb Steen & Hamilton,LLP based in New York and Hogan Lovells,LLP based in Washington D.C., where Ms. Zagaytova's legal pracce focused on mergers and acquisions, internaonal project finance, joint ventures and private equity transacons. Ms. Zagaytova has extensive experience in internaonal transacons and financings in energy, renewable energy, clean technologies, and natural resources. Ms. Zagaytova received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley.
32 Luc Zandvliet Director, Triple R Alliance Luc Zandvliet is the Director of Triple R Alliance Inc., a small collecve of experts who support both juniors as well as majors operang in froner markets with their social performance approaches. He has conducted over 80 site visits with 25 companies – mainly in the oil and mining industries – from conducng conflict impact assessments to coaching staff and implemenng influx management plans, community engagement strategies and grievance procedures. Before starng Triple R, together with Mary Anderson, Luc authoredGe ng it Right; Making Company-Community Rela ons Work , documenng best pracces with regard to company-community relaons in contexts of social and polical instability. The book is based on the lessons learned through the Corporate Engagement Project, which Luc directed. Luc is also a Senior Associate with Shi , which is an independent, non-profit center for business and human rights pracce.
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34 Veronica Nyhan Jones is Global Head forIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team. Veronica's team advises natural resource companies operang in emerging markets on how to value returns on sustainability investments, implement parcipatory planning processes, effecvely communicate with stakeholders and manage risk via shared value development. She spearheads work on water and community concerns in the mining sector and leads the incubaon ofIFC 's Financial Valuaon Tool for Sustainability. Prior toIFC , Veronica spent eight years with the World Bank on community empowerment and social accountability. She has worked for the Internaonal Youth Foundaon, the White House, and theUS Department for Health & Human Services on crime prevenon and health care reform. Veronica has co-authored arcles on valuing sustainability, strategic communicaons, water and communies, and measuring social capital using quantave and qualitave methods. She holds a Masters from Harvard University's Kennedy School.
Halah Al-Jubeir is the Relaonship Manager on theIFC Global Partnerships team, where she culvates relaonships and designs innovave partnerships with sovereign governments, development finance instuons and foundaons in support ofIFC programming. She is currently on a special assignment with the Infrastructure and Natural Resources team, where she focuses on strategy and partnership development, as well as delivering client services through advisory engagements. Prior to joiningIFC , Halah spent several years in strategic communicaons, where she advised governments, non-profits and corporaons in crisis management, grassroots advocacy and media relaons. Halah holds anMBA from Harvard Business School and anMA and BS from Georgetown University.
Maria Arsenova is an Operaons Officer withIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team with over 10 years of experience on social issues management in the private and non-profit sectors. Since joiningIFC in 2005, Maria has worked with IFC investment clients supporng design and implementaon of community investment strategies and stakeholder engagement programs more broadly, development of sustainability reports, and monitoring and evaluaon systems. Clients include Petrotesng oil and gas exploraon and Producon Company in Colombia, Schahin Group in Brazil, Russki Mir project in Russia, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and PeruLNG pipeline projects. Since 2009, Maria has been focusing on the forestry and palm oil sectors working with clients in Indonesia, India, Nicaragua, and Peru to strengthen their stakeholder management and monitoring systems. Mrs. Arsenova co-authoredIFC 's Handbook on “Strategic Community Investment” and led development of upcoming publicaons on “Managing Community Relaons in the Palm Oil Sector” and “Establishing Foundaons to Deliver Community Investment”.
Arjun Bhalla is an Operaons Officer on theIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team. He is responsible for environment and social risk management for private sector development projects as part ofIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Department. Arjun manages several community development projects to provide economic and social benefits to affected communies impacted by the extracves industry, forestry and agribusiness clients in Africa, East Asia and Pacific, and South Asia. He led the development ofIFC 's Financial Valuaon Tool to quanfy the value of investments in sustainability and co-authored the In-Migraon Management and Managing Project Impacts on Fishing Based Livelihoods publicaons. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Bhalla worked as a legal analyst in the Office of the Prosecutor for the Internaonal Criminal Court in The Hague where he focused on human rights invesgaons in the Sudan, Uganda, and Democrac Republic of Congo. Mr. Bhalla received hisBA with honors from Queen's University in Canada and a duel MA with disncon in Internaonal Law and Internaonal Relaons from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.
35 Brigid Commey is an Operaons Analyst in the Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team. Brigid has over 10 years of experience in the delivery of business development services working with theIFC . She has played key roles in teams managing the provision of advisory services for local companies to build capacity and help them improve operaonal efficiency. Her experience encompasses project management, business process improvement, and effecvely managing the M&E process of a project. She currently coordinatesSCI 's acvies in Ghana. She holds a B.A. degree in Social Sciences from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, a cerficate in Business Studies from the Middlesex University,UK , and an MBA (Project Management) from the University of Ghana Business School, Legon.
Rebecca Darling has a decade of experience advising the private, public and non-profit sectors as well as mul-laterals on issues relang to extracve industry-affected communies. She has experse in capacity building, strategic community investments, stakeholder analysis, community consultaons, and Indigenous People's issues. She has developed and executed ongoing strategic community consultaon programs with an emphasis on relaonship building, increasing capacity and raising mine life cycle awareness with project-affected Indigenous Communies. Rebecca's work with the IFC focuses on working with extracve companies to implement iniaves that benefit both the company and the local community; develop and disseminate good internaonal pracces; facilitate corporate- community engagement; encourage parcipatory planning and monitoring for community development. Rebecca is also a Vising Lecturer at Cornell University's College of Human Ecology where she teaches a graduate course on Strategic Stakeholder Engagement. Rebecca has a Masters of Public Administraon from Cornell University as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Government from California State University. In 2010, she received Mongolia's Outstanding Service in Environmental Protecon Medal, awarded by the Minister of Nature, Environment and Tourism. She has also served on the Business Council of Mongolia Legislave Commi ee, Arsanal Mining Task Force, and Responsible Mining Iniave Supervisory Board.
Karla Diaz is an Operaons Officer onIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team where she designs, implements and supervises community engagement and social responsibility projects related to the extracve industries aimed at increasing the impact of the presence of the private sector while enhancing local benefits in affected communies. Prior to joiningIFC , she designed, planned, and implemented projects at two major internaonal consulng firms: Ernst & Young and Deloi e Consulng in the retail and telecommunicaons sectors in Peru and Brazil; did market research in the oil sector for Euromonitor Internaonal in England and France; and was an advisor to the Minister of Foreign Trade in Peru specializing in compevity and export development. She holds anMBA from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales ( HEC Paris) and a degree in Business Administraon from the University of Lima.
Rodrigue Djahlin is an Operaons Officer in the Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team. Based in Dakar, Senegal, he coordinates the department's program implementaon in Africa, and conducts business development and program design withIFC Clients on community investment and local supplier development programs. Before joining theIFC , Rodrigue worked at the World Bank on local/community development programs.
36 Adriana Maria E imie is a Social Development Specialist withIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team. Her work focuses on extracve sectors and one of her roles is to support IFC client companies in their efforts to develop and implement community engagement and investments strategies. Adriana has more than 25 years' experience in the Mining, Oil and Gas sectors and her experse is on community sustainability related aspects, mining and petroleum legal and regulatory regimes, and environmental management in more than 25 countries of Europe and Central Asia, Africa, South Asia and East Asia and Pacific regions. Prior to this appointment, Adriana worked with the World Bank for nine years as gender coordinator/mining specialist. In her previous work, she advised governments and other stakeholders on good pracce legal regulatory frameworks for mining sector and community development aspects, including benefits sharing mechanisms and gender. She developed and led the World Bank's Gender and Extracve Industries Program, which supports the development of approaches and operaonal tools to address gender issues in extracve industries acvies and raises awareness of these crical issues among World Bank staff, governments, civil society, and major oil, gas and mining companies.
Carla Toledo Gamero is an Operaons Officer onIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team, based in Lima. During the last seven years, she has been responsible for the design, implementaon and supervision of severalIFC iniaves related to the extracve industries. Projects were mainly aimed at strengthening local capacies in revenue management and community investment strategies, which required arculang with mulple stakeholders from the private and public sectors, including Rio Tinto,BPZ energy, Peru LNG , the Ministry of Finance in Peru and several local governments. Carla has more than ten years of working experience at the private and public sectors. She worked at the Ministry of Finance in Peru parcipang in the evaluaon of rural and agricultural development projects. She carried out permanent field visits to communies and capacity building acvies to local officers. Before joiningIFC , Carla worked as a consultant in evaluang parcipatory planning processes and local capacity building projects. Carla is a Food Engineer from the Peruvian Naonal Agricultural University and holds a Master in Development Studies from the Instute of Social Studies from The Hague, The Netherlands.
Sherry Goldberg is a consultant onIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team, where she works on gender and communicaons in extracve industries. Previously, Sherry has done research to develop proposed non-financial disclosure guidelines for the Shanghai Stock Exchange's extracve industry companies to link social and environmental performance to financial performance and investor confidence. She has also worked on issues of extracve industries and sustainable development for the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable Internaonal Investment in New York and the Center for Human Rights and Environment in Córdoba, Argenna, as well as served as a Climate Change and Sustainable Development Fellow at Women's Environment and Development Organizaon in New York. Sherry worked for four years atNGO Natural Resources Defense Council on communicaons and environmental jusce ligaon. She has a Master of Internaonal Affairs from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in Internaonal Environmental Studies and Polical Science from the University of Washington.
Brian Gurr is a consultant onIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team, where he focuses on communicaons and the financial valuaon of sustainability investments in the plantaon forestry and agribusiness sectors. He has over 15 years of applied experience in the development of sustainable enterprises of all sizes, from micro-enterprises to large mul-naonals, in the agribusiness, forestry, and non-mber forest products sectors. His passion lies in applying market-based soluons to environmental conservaon and poverty alleviaon challenges, which he pursues through applicaon of his technical skills in value chain analysis, corporate social and environmental management, SME development and entrepreneurship. His career inially focused on Central America, but has expanded in 37 recent years to include Africa and Southeast Asia. Prior toIFC , Brian worked at a major internaonal conservaon organizaon managing global and site-specific projects promong the sustainable producon of palm oil. Brian holds a Masters in Business Administraon from George Washington University, and undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Spanish from the University of Virginia.
Toniqua Hay is a consultant withIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team. Toniqua has over 12 years of operaons, consulng, training and project management experience delivering projects across North America, South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Her past work consists of program design, monitoring transparency, fiscal accountability, service delivery performance, and human resources management withUSAID / Tanzania, U.S. Food and Drug Administraon, The Home Depot, and a bouque operaons strategy consulng firm where she worked with energy and manufacturing clients. Toniqua earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Georgia Instute of Technology and her Master of Public Administraon focused in Internaonal Development and Economic Policy from Cornell University.
Saramory Kampo is an Operaons Officer withIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team in Africa. He has 3 years of experience in local content development and more than 12 years of experience in transportaon, oil and gas, and manufacturing sectors. He is currently the program manager of theIFC – Rio Tinto Local Supplier Development Program providing technical assistance to the Simandou Project in Guinea and building capacity for localSME s.
Fatoumata Keita (Mimi) is an Operaons Analyst forIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team. Her focus is the Rio Tinto Local Supplier Development Program in Guinea. She has been working on the Simandou Project since 2011 supporng the pre-qualificaon assessment of local companies with Louis Berger and Fluor, Rio Tinto's Procurement subcontractor in Conakry. She also worked at the American Diabetes Associaon in Alexandria, Virginia, from 2005 to 2011 in Constuents Relaons and Professional Educaon Accreditaon.
Liane Asta Lohde is a Senior Economist atIFC . She is responsible for project economic analysis and the assessment of development impact ofIFC 's investments in extracve industries globally. She leads onIFC 's policies for the natural resource sector and iniaves related to transparency. She manages the benefit sharing work program and works on local content. Prior to joiningIFC , Liane worked on poverty and social impact analysis at the World Bank. She holds both aBA and MS c in Economics from the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics, respecvely. She also holds anMS c in Gender and Social Policy.
Maria Iturralde MacDicken is a mul-skilled Knowledge Management and Learning professional with more than 25 years of combined experience in project management, visual communicaons and instruconal design, with key emphasis on events, web, databases, publicaons, presentaons and trainings. She has been withIFC for 17 years and currently works as a Knowledge Management Analyst with the Independent Evaluaon Group. Maria graduated with a B.S. degree in Tourism Management from the University of the Philippines.
38 Gosia Nowakowska-Miller is a Local Procurement and Social Development Specialist onIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team where she is working on enhancing local benefits of the oil, gas and mining sector investmentsIFC makes around the world. She advises private sector clients globally on designing and implemenng local procurement strategies and community investment strategies. Gosia has co-authored the Guide to Ge ng Started in Local Procurement. Mrs. Nowakowska- Miller has been with theIFC for over 10 years working on small and medium enterprise (SME ) capacity building and local procurement issues in the oil, gas and mining sectors. Prior toIFC she worked at SCOR Reassurance in Paris developing new markets in Eastern Europe, and in Warsaw, Poland launching business management so ware forSME s. She has aMBA and a Masters Degree in Internaonal Affairs from George Washington University, and a B.A. in Internaonal Relaons from Boston University.
Amanda Diaz Ramirez is an Associate Operaons Officer inIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team for Lan America and the Caribbean (LAC ). She designs, implements and supervises projects to improve the management of royales from extracve industries at the local level. She has implemented theIFC 's Financial Valuaon Tool for Sustainability in LAC . Prior to joining IFC , Amanda led the implementaon of the Sustainable Compliance Iniaves program for Wyeth Laboratories in the Andean Region (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). She also has experience withNGO s such as Cordaid and Corporacion Opcion Colombia. Amanda holds anMA from the Internaonal Instute of Social Studies (ISS ) of Erasmus University Ro erdam (The Hague, The Netherlands), and a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia).
Fernando Ruiz-Mier is a Senior Operaons Officer leadingIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory work in Lan America. He has been withIFC for the last 9 years, and has led the development of the approach and methodologyIFC applies in Revenue Management projects related to extracve industries. He is responsible for the Advisory Services porolio in Lan America leading intervenons related to community engagement and social responsibility. In that role he has worked with different companies such as Newmont, PeruLNG , Rio Tinto, BPZ Energy, and Pacific Rubiales Energy. Fernando has experience in consulng, the public sector, and academia. Prior toIFC he headed two consulng firms in Bolivia: Ruiz Mier Consulng and Research andKMPG Consulng, specializing in public services regulaon, local development and poverty. He has done research and consulng work in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Mozambique, Angola, Guyana and Honduras for various bilateral and mullateral organizaons. He also held the posion of Manager in the Andean Development Corporaon (CAF ). He served as Vice-Minister in Bolivia on three occasions in the Ministry of Human Development, the Ministry of Planning and the Ministry of Finance. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Purdue University and has taught at Texas Tech and the University of North Carolina.
Sunrita Sarkar is an Operaons Officer inIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team. Sunrita has a background in community development and experience in planning, management and execuon of projects related to social impact assessment, rese lement & rehabilitaon, social audits, social risks, community engagement and natural resources. She is a rese lement specialist and has undertaken poverty and livelihood assessments, land rights and indigenous people's assessments and formulaon of Rese lement Acon Plans (RAP s). She also has extensive experience in labor and human rights issues and is a cerfiedSA 8000 lead auditor. Her responsibilies include leading complex projects in agribusiness, forestry and extracves, interfacing with clients to provide advisory services on social/community issues like land rights, livelihood development, gender and financial valuaon of social impact investments. Sunrita has more than 14 years' experience and has worked in Central Asia and South Asia, Africa, and Lan America and Caribbean regions.
39 Sco Saverance is a founder and principal of Inovari, an analycs and technology strategy consulng firm based in New York. He has a background providing data analysis services and soluons in finance, social enterprise and the public sector. Sco received a Master of Internaonal Affairs from Columbia University in 2012.
Stephanie Houvenaghel Sines is a community investment and local sourcing specialist forIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team in Africa. She has fi een years of experience working on development programs in Africa, Middle East and Asia including eight years on local content development and mining community investment. Key areas of focus include community investment strategy assessment & development,SME capacity building & financing, and coordinaon between mining, donor, and government stakeholders. Ms. Sines holds anMBA from Georgetown University and a dualBA from Smith College in Government & French Studies.
Anna Vorotniak is a Program Assistant withIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team. Anna has a Bachelor's degree in Accounng and a Master's Degree in Audit and Accounng. She has 3 years of experience working in the Supply Chain and Customer Development departments for UnileverLLC in Ukraine and over the past 3 years has worked in IFC 's Washington, DC office.
Duval Zambrano is an Operaons Officer onIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team where he designs, implements and supervises revenue management and community engagement projects related to the extracve industries parcularly Stakeholder Engagement acvies in Colombia. Prior to joiningIFC , he worked at Chemonics Internaonal, Conservaon Internaonal (CI ), ILO and Praccal Acon (BrishNGO ) where he acquired extensive experience in cluster development, producon chain and technical assistance schemes and has produced several publicaons on community business, tourism planning, and local economic development. Duval holds anMBA from the Business School for Graduates (ESAN ) in Lima, Peru, and a B.S. in civil engineering from the Catholic University in Lima.
40 List of External Par cipants
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Remi Aiyela Editor NOGIntelligence Mohammed Amin Adam Executive Director Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) Patrick Ampong Planning Performance and Reporting Tullow Ghana Limited Advisor Evangel Anih Student School of Public Policy, Central European University Collins Anim‐Sackey Assistant Manager, Monitoring & Ghana Minerals Commission Evaluation Raquel Araujo Government Relations Specialist Anglo American Walter Arensberg Managing Director Social Capital Group David Atkins Principal Technical Expert ‐ Community Shell Engagement Ashley Baker Labor & Human Rights Analyst Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Sonia Balcazar Consultant Associate Synergos Jyoti Banerjee Project Director International Integrated Reporting Council Shawn Batise Executive Director Wabun Tribal Council Mahlette Betre Director, Responsible Mining and Energy Conservation International Chad Blewitt GM Project Delivery Commercial Strategy Rio Tinto & Development Hannah Blyth Program Associate, Sustainable Security Fund For Peace and Development Kwasi Boateng Social Performance & Public Affairs Tullow Oil Plc Manager Pedro Borrego Head of HR, Corporate Affairs and S&SD AngloAmerican Iron Ore Brazil Heidi Brock CEO Aluminum Association Brad Brooks‐Rubin Global Director, Development and Gemological Institute of America Beneficiation Judy Brown Chief Adviser ‐ External Affairs Rio Tinto James M. Bruchs Chairman & CEO Tsodilo Resources Limited R Shawn Burns CEO Core Value Concepts Stanley Byers Managing Director SylvanFrontier Kate Carmichael Manager, Social and Economic ICMM Development Rob Carss VP HSSE Bankers Petroleum Ltd Gianluca Cassulo Country Manager USA D'Appolonia Paulo Castellari‐Porchia CEO Anglo American Iron Ore Brazil Gabriel Castillo Corporate Sustainability & BPZ Energy Communication Management Carlos Castro Manager for Institutional Relations Hudbay Stephanie Cathcart Head of Public Affairs GE Oil and Gas Ben Chalmers VP Sustainable Development The Mining Association of Canada
Claudine Chavee Societal Coordination E&P Total Andrew Cheatle Executive Director Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Li Chen Partner Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
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Name Title Organization Mark Child Chairman & CEO Condor Gold Irene Chow Chief Environmental and Social Officer CONDOR GOLD PLC Gilbert Clark Senior Investment Advisor The Sentient Group Jasmine Clerisme Corporate Social Responsibility Adviser Sierra Rutile Limited Alison Colwell Associate Director BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) Diana Connett Sr. Specialist, Environmental Affairs Hess Corporation Ben Cotton Partner Earth Capital Investors Nicholas Cotts Group Executive‐Sustainability and Newmont Mining Corporation External Relations Robin D'Alessandro CEO Vitol Foundation Kendra Davenport Chief of Development and Africare Communications Gillian Davidson Head of Mining and Metals World Economic Forum Alan Davies Chief Executive, Diamonds and Minerals Rio Tinto Marcelo de Andrade Chairman Pro/Natura ‐ Merito Partners Lisa Dean Principal Adviser Communities and Social Rio Tinto Performance Stephen D'Esposito President RESOLVE James Dobbin President & CEO Dobbin International Sepanta Dorri‐Esfahani VP Teranga Gold Corporation John Dorward President & CEO Roxgold Jonathan Drimmer VP, Deputy General Counsel Barrick Gold Corporation Matthew Edwardsen Associate, Environment and Natural Tetra Tech Resources Henrik Erametsa Head of US Federal Affairs Neste Oil Marc Escande Global Director, Local Participation Hatch Consulting Services Christelle Faivre Consultant Sustain Expert Dennis Flemming Executive Director, Niger Delta Chevron Africa and Latin America Partnership Initiative Exploration & Production Flavio Martin Flores Head of Programs and Projects Asociación Los Andes de Cajamarca (ALAC Acevedo Foundation) Sharon Flynn Industry Fellow Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), University of Queensland, Australia Didier Fohlen Executive Vice President Lydian International Ltd. Liam Foran Programme Manager International Mining for Development Centre Mairi‐Jane Fox PhD Candidate University of Vermont Scott Fraser Energy Consultant Fraser Thermal Roberto Frau Associate / Social Strategy Advisor COCOA / Braskem Elizabeth Freele Corporate Social Responsibility Manager Roxgold Joanne Freeze CEO, Geologist Candente Copper Corp. Antonio Galvao Sustainability Leader Braskem Idesa Natacha Garoute CFO Roxgold
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Name Title Organization Ian Gary Senior Policy Manager ‐ Extractive Oxfam America Industries Janina Gawler Global Practice Leader Communities and Rio Tinto Social Performance Marleen Geerlof Director Brunswick Group Jeff Geipel Venture Leader ‐ Mining Shared Value Engineers Without Borders Noa Gimelli Director, Women's Economic Opportunity ExxonMobil Initiative Michael Godfrey Global Practice Manager: Agriculture & Abt Associates Food Security Adam Goldberg Founder Trident Law Group Adriatik Golemaj Community Relations Coordinator Bankers Petroleum Ltd Katharine Gotto Walton Director Synergy Global Consulting Ltd Victor Grande Community Relations Manager First Quantum Minerals Ltd. Emily Greenspan Senior Policy Advisor Oxfam America Benny Guidoni Director, Treasury – Capital Markets Kinross Gold Corporation Becky Haldane Social Performance Noble Energy Deborah Harding President Liberian Education Trust John Hayden Deputy Executive Director Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Aliaa Heikal Deputy CFO Egyptian Refining Company Ximena Herbas Senior Environmental Specialist Inter‐American Development Bank Antoine Heuty Founder Ulula Joseph Ho Community Development Manager ‐ Freeport‐McMoRan, Inc. Africa/Asia Merrick Hoben Director CBI Mark Hodgson VP, Business Development Bankers Petroleum Ltd Simo Honkanen SVP, Sustainability and Public Affairs Neste Oil Jennifer Horning Senior Gold Program Manager Solidaridad Michael Bon Hosillos Vice President for Corporate Services SN Aboitiz Power Group Nikolay Hristov SVP Sustainable Business Development Dundee Precious Metals Inc. Mohammed Husanien Community Liasion Officer Egyptian Refining Company Ayanna Jean‐Baptiste CSR Manager Guyana Goldfields Inc./AGM Simon Jimenez Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Barrick Gold Corporation Christopher Jochnick Director, Private Sector Department Oxfam America Naomi Johnson Director, Community Relations Barrick Gold Corporation Lauren Joseph Advisor, Health, Safety and Sustainability IAMGOLD Corporation M Colin Joudrie Vice President Business Development Teck Resources Limited Nadim Kara Senior Director, Policy & Programs Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Jamil Kassum Board Member Randgold Darren Klinck Head of Business Development OceanaGold Corporation Jessica Kogel President GeoIntellus Veronika Kohler Director of International Policy National Mining Association (USA)
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Name Title Organization Erika E. Korosi Senior Manager Environment BHP Billiton Philipp Kruschel Senior Advisor GIZ Dominic Kulik Managing Director Industrial Ecology Capital Management Heather Kulp Deputy Executive Director, Niger Delta Chevron Africa and Latin America Partnership Initiative Exploration & Production Ricardo Labo Executive Director Labo Mining Strategies Loren Labovitch Director, Emerging Markets Hawksley Consulting Robert Lavalliere VP Corporate Affairs & Investor Relations Semafo Inc. Benjamin Little SVP, Corporate Affairs, HSS & People IAMGOLD Corporation Ming Hui Liu Executive Chairman, Managing Director & China Gas President Caetano Lopes Administrative Manager Odebrecht Abdoulaye Magassouba Conseiller du PRG en charge du suivi des Republic of Guinea projets prioritaires, Advisor to the president Todd Malan VP External Affairs Rio Tinto Stacie Manger Communications Manager Aluminum Association Reg Manhas Senior Vice President, External Affairs Kosmos Energy Patricia Mani Head of Societal Department, E&P Total S.A. Luis Marchese Country Manager Perú Anglo American Serge Matesco Vice President Total E&P Joseph Mathews General Manager ‐ Govt Relations, ArcelorMittal Mining Sustainable Development & Communications Marc Maxmeister Chief Innovator Keystone Accountability Bruce McKenney Director, Development by Design The Nature Conservancy Duane McMullen Director General, Trade Commissioner Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Service Operations and Trade Strategy Canada Dewardric McNeal Managing Director Longview Global, LLC Matt Meenan Communications Manager Aluminum Association J. J. Messner Executive Director The Fund for Peace Martin Milette CFO Semafo Inc. Ben Miller Associate Director of Advisory Services CDA Collaborative Learning Projects Yoshiki Miyata Student Central European University Thabani Mlilo Manager: Sustainability Americas Region AngloGold Ashanti Kieren Moffat Group Leader ‐ Resources in Society CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship Nathan Monash VP, Business Sustainability Lundin Gold Lelia Mooney Director Partners for Democratic Change Mirian Morales Córdova Coordinator Conflict Prevention Center, Perú National Water Authority Sven‐Uwe Mueller Senior Advisor for energy, climate change Inter‐American Development Bank and sustainable infrastructure Alex Mustiso Environmental Manager Tullow Oil Kenya Ngosi C. X. Mwihava Acting Permanent Secretary Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Tanzania Marie Nelson VP, News & Public Affairs PBS 44
Name Title Organization Johanna Nesseth Tuttle Manager, Development & Public Policy Chevron Thomas Odenwald Senior Vice President SAP SE Claire O'Halloran Diplomat DFAT Ed Opitz VP ‐ Corporate Responsibility Kinross Gold Corporation Monica Ospina Director O Trade Tom Outlaw Corporate Partnerships USAID Estevao Pale CEO‐Economist CMH Robert Palfrey Managing Director Minerva SRM Claudia Bibiana Pedraza VP Operations, Colombia Industrial Ecology Capital Management Eric Peiffer CEO Vecturis Chris Phalen Coordinator‐External Affairs Rio Tinto Melissa Powell Head, Strategy & Partnerships, Business United Nations Global Compact for Peace Bob Prieto Senior Vice President Fluor Louis R. Lieutenant Director Boréalis Jenik Radon Adjunct Professor Columbia University Krish Ravishankar Director, Environmental Affairs & Social Occidental Oil & Gas Corp (OXY) Responsibility David Reading President & CEO Aureus Mining Del Renigar Senior Counsel – Global Government General Electric Affairs & Policy – Africa, MENAT & South Asia Derek Riehm Vice President, Environment Lundin Mining Gabriella Rigg Herzog Senior Manager, Corporate Social Hess Corporation Responsibility Laura Robinson Director of Stability Programs Radon Offices Todd Romaine VP, CSR Nevsun Resources Ltd. Alanna Rondi Executive Director Devonshire Initiative Lisa Sachs Director Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Philbert Sawadogo Environment & Community Relations Roxgold Coordinator Bob Schafer 1st VP Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Nazanine Scheuer Director, Partnership Innovation and Save the Children Strategy Marcela Sepulveda Community Dialogue Manager Lundin Mining Janis Shandro Senior Health and Safety/Indigenous Monkey Forest Consulting Peoples Specialist Graham Sinclair Principal SinCo Astrid Skala‐Kuhmann Director Global Partnerships, Emerging GIZ Economies Josef Skolderberg Manager, Public Affairs General Electric Dane Smith Managing Director FSG Edward Smyth Director Intersocial Consulting Ltd.
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Name Title Organization Darren Sokoloski Country Director Acciona Infrastructure Canada Heba Soliman Community Liasion Officer Egyptian Refining Company Casper Sonesson Global Policy Advisor United Nations Development Programme Favad Soomro Director Engro Foundation Mariya Soshinskaya Sustainable Development Analyst FMO Alan Southworth Production Director PT.Musim Mas Aldo Souza Head, Safety, Health and Sustainable Anglo American Development Christian Spano Group Manager Anglo American Ryan Stanton Principal Advisor Rio Tinto Catherine Stevens Partner ERM Mitchell Strauss Special Advisor, Socially Responsible Overseas Private Investment Corporation Investment Finance (OPIC) Anna Stylianides CEO Eco Oro Adrian Suharto Manager, Sustainability and Public Affairs Neste Oil Samantha Taylor Founder Reputation Dynamics Alison Taylor Director BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) Sebastian Teunissen Managing Director Solidaridad Idrissa Thiam Conseiller auprès du Président de la Ministère des Mines et de la Géologie, République Republic of Guinea Edward Thomas Private Sector Advisor CARE Elizabeth Vazquez WEConnect International CEO and Co‐Founder Jochem Verberne Head, Corporate Relations WWF International Travis Walsh Global Director Development Finance ECOM Trading Marielle Canter Weikel Senior Director, Responsible Mining and Conservation International Energy Miranda Werstiuk Senior Vice President IBK Capital Corp. Eric Whan GlobeScan Sustainability Director Kazuko White Assistant General Manager (Americas) Mitsubishi Claire White Manager ICMM Mick Wilkes Managing Director & CEO OceanaGold Corporation Richard Young President & CEO Teranga Gold Alina Zagaytova Assistant General Counsel First Solar Luc Zandvliet Director Triple R Alliance Bennet Zelner Principal / Professor PRIMA LLC / University of Maryland Zhanetta Zhakypova Student School of Public Policy, Central European University
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IFC Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory is excited to launch its newly revamped websites:
Commdev.org houses a select group of public documents, tools, case studies, training opportunies and resources produced byIFC , partners and other organizaons to guide companies in delivering shared value and enhancing benefits to local communies. Visitors to the site will find up-to-date knowledge pieces curated byIFC 's Infrastructure and Natural Resources Advisory team, in a more cu ng-edge, user-friendly format. Themes will include community engagement and investment, water, revenue management, local supplier development and gender.
FVTool.com features a new design, user-friendly navigaon and a wealth of informaon, tools and resources for companies to take advantage ofIFC 's Financial Valuaon Tool (FVT ool). The FVT ool provides companies a means to determine their opmal porolio of sustainability investments by helping them quanfy both the financial returns and risk migaon potenal of various investments. Companies will be able to download the tool as well as case studies and related publicaons to help guide their experience.
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