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Board of Directors | Natural Resource Governance Institute Page 1 of 11 R-558 Board of Directors | Natural Resource Governance Institute Page 1 of 11 R-558 Board of Directors About Us NRGI’s board of directors consists of: Ernesto Zedillo (chair) Smita Singh (vice chair) Ernest Aryeetey Paul Collier Alan Detheridge Bennett Freeman Sean Hinton Mo Ibrahim Yuli Ismartono Warren Krafchik Elena Panfilova Ernesto Zedillo Chair Ernesto Zedillo is the Frederick Iseman ’74 director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and a professor of international economics and politics, as well as international and area studies, at Yale University. He is an adjunct professor of forestry and environmental studies and teaches two seminars, “Debating Globalization” and “The Economic Evolution http://www.resourcegovernance.org/about-us/leadership/board 28/03/2017 Board of Directors | Natural Resource Governance Institute Page 2 of 11 and Challenges of the Latin American and Caribbean Countries.” Prior to Yale, Zedillo was a professor at the Natìonal Polytechnic Institute and El Colegio de Mexico. From 1978 to 1987, he worked for the Central Bank of Mexico. From 1987 to 1988, he served the national government of Mexico as undersecretary of budget; from 1988 to 1992, as secretary of economic programming and the budget; and from 1992 to 1994, as secretary of education. In 1994 Zedillo ran for the presidency and won. He served his country as president of Mexico until 2000. He currently serves as chairman of the boards of the Natural Resource Governance Institute and the 21st Century Advisory Council of the Berggruen Institute on Governance, as well as co-chair of the Inter- American Dialogue. He also serves on the Global Commission on Drug Policy, chaired by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and is a member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders using their collective experience and influence for peace, justice and human rights worldwide. From 2010 to 2012, Zedillo served as vice chair of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, chaired by Kofi Annan; from 2010 to 2013, as chairman of the oversight board of the Natural Resource Charter; from 2005 to 2011, as chair of the Global Development Network; from 2010 to 2013, as co-chair of the Regional Migration Study Group; and from 2008 to 2010, as chair of the High Level Commission on Modernization of World Bank Group Governance. He previously served on the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament; was appointed by Mohamed El Baradei to serve as chair of the Commission of Eminent Persons to recommend the future course of the International Atomic Energy Agency; co-chaired the Partnership of the Americas Commission with Thomas Pickering; and co-chaired the Commission on Drugs and Democracy with former Presidents Cardoso of Brazil and Gaviria of http://www.resourcegovernance.org/about-us/leadership/board 28/03/2017 Board of Directors | Natural Resource Governance Institute Page 3 of 11 Colombia. He is a member of the G30 and the board of directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is a distinguished practitioner of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, and in 2011 he was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society. He holds honorary degrees from Yale and Harvard universities; the University of Ghana; the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and the University of Miami. He has edited several volumes, including Africa at a Fork in the Road: Taking Off or Disappointment Once Again? (YCSG, 2015); Rethinking the War on Drugs through the US-Mexico Prism (YCSG, 2012); Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto (Brookings/YCSG, 2008) and The Future of Globalization: Explorations in Light of Recent Turbulence (Routledge, 2008). He earned his bachelor’s degree from the School of Economics of the Natìonal Polytechnic Institute in Mexico and his MA and PhD from Yale University. Smita Singh Vice-Chair Smita Singh was the founding director of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Global Development Program. Under her leadership, the program carried out extensive international grant-making and started several new initiatives, including the Think Tank Initiative, the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, and the Partnership for Quality Education in Developing Countries. At the foundation, Singh also helped create the International Initiative in Impact Evaluation, a new international agency devoted to improving http://www.resourcegovernance.org/about-us/leadership/board 28/03/2017 Board of Directors | Natural Resource Governance Institute Page 4 of 11 the measurement of results in development interventions. She also initiated the foundation’s efforts to reform development assistance policy and practices, which included seeding the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and the International Aid Transparency Initiative. Singh has lived and worked in several countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A scholar at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies, her research interests focus on the comparative political economy of developing countries. She has also worked for the Commission on National and Community Service (now the Corporation for National Service), developing higher education initiatives and funding strategies for dispersing grants to community service and service-learning projects at over 200 colleges and universities. Before joining the commission, she worked at ABC News “Nightline” and, prior to that, with community-based women's organizations in India. Beyond NRGI, Singh sits on the governing boards of Oxfam America, Twaweza, the International Budget Partnership, and the Center for Global Development. She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and serves on the U.S. President’s Global Development Council. Ernest Aryeetey Ernest Aryeetey, vice chancellor of the University of Ghana, brings deep technical expertise to NRGI. He formerly ran the Institute of Statistical and Economic Research, and is a nonresident senior fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative in the Global Economy and Development program of the Brookings Institution, where he served as director from 2009-2010. He is a well-known and respected scholar who has expressed his deep concern about Ghana’s development trajectory and is well placed to impact its course. http://www.resourcegovernance.org/about-us/leadership/board 28/03/2017 Board of Directors | Natural Resource Governance Institute Page 5 of 11 Paul Collier Sir Paul Collier is professor of economics and public policy at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and a professorial fellow of St. Antony’s College. Until September 2012, he was a professor at Oxford’s Department of Economics and director of its Centre for the Study of African Economies. He is currently a professeur invité at Sciences Po. From 1998 to 2003, Collier took a public service leave to direct the Research Development Department of the World Bank. Today he advises the bank’s International Finance Corporation, as well as the International Monetary Fund’s strategy and policy department. In 2008 Collier was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire “for services to scholarship and development.” In 2013, he won the A.SK Social Science Award. In 2014, he was knighted. Collier has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His books include The Bottom Billion (Oxford University Press, 2007), which won the Lionel Gelber, Arthur Ross and Corine prizes and was the joint winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book prize; Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (Vintage Books, 2009); The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature (Oxford University Press, 2010), and Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press and Penguin, 2013). His current research concerns the use of natural resources for development, urbanization, the economics of HIV/AIDS, and the economics and social psychology of culture. Alan Detheridge Alan Detheridge spent 30 years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group, retiring in April 2007 as the group’s vice president for external affairs. http://www.resourcegovernance.org/about-us/leadership/board 28/03/2017 Board of Directors | Natural Resource Governance Institute Page 6 of 11 In addition to NRGI’s board, he sits on the boards of Management Sciences for Health, the Open Contracting Partnership and Publish What You Pay. Bennett Freeman Over the last dozen years of a three decade-long career, Bennett Freeman has worked at the intersection of governments, international institutions, multinational companies, investors and NGOs to improve corporate conduct and to promote human rights and sustainable development around the world. An innovative leader in the fields of business and human rights, natural resource governance and responsible investment, he has played pioneering roles in developing several now well-established multi-stakeholder initiatives and global standards including the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the Global Network Initiative (GNI). For nine years through April 2015, he was Senior Vice President- Sustainability Research and Policy at Calvert Investments, the largest family of sustainable and responsible (SRI) mutual funds in the U.S. He led the firm’s environmental, social and governance research and analysis and its shareholder advocacy and
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