Speakers

Christine Bader, Author, The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil Christine Bader is a lecturer at Columbia University, where she co-teaches a course on Human Rights and Business, and a Human Rights Advisor to BSR. After earning her MBA from Yale in 2000, Christine joined BP and proceeded to work in Indonesia, China, and the U.K., managing the social impacts of some of the company’s largest projects in the developing world. In 2006 she created a part-time pro bono role as advisor to the U.N. special representative for business and human rights, a role she took up full-time in 2008 until the U.N. mandate ended in 2011. Christine has published numerous op-eds and articles and given talks to conferences, companies, and

universities around the world, including a TEDx talk entitled “Manifesto for the Corporate Idealist.” She lives in her native New York City.

Arjun Bhalla, Operations Officer, IFC Arjun Bhalla is responsible for environment and social risk management for private sector development projects as part of IFC’s Sustainable Business Advisory department. Arjun manages several community development projects aimed at integrated local economic development to affected communities impacted by the extractives industry, forestry and agribusiness sectors in Africa, East Asia and Pacific, and South Asia. He has co-authored an IFC publication on Project-Induced In-Migration and Managing Project Impacts on Fishing Based Livelihoods. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Bhalla worked as a legal analyst in the Office of the Prosecutor for the

International Criminal Court in The Hague where he focused on human rights investigations in the Sudan, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of Congo. Mr. Bhalla received his BA with honors from Queen’s University in Canada and a duel MA with distinction in International Law and International Relations from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.

Richard Borden, Copper Environmental Manager, Rio Tinto Rich Borden is an environmental scientist and manager with more than 25 years of experience in the consulting and mining industries. His areas of expertise include geochemistry, hydrogeology, rehabilitation and strategic environmental mine planning, permitting and closure. He worked as an oceanographer, exploration geologist and consulting environmental geologist at a variety of companies before joining Rio Tinto in 1996. He has held several corporate and business unit environmental roles at Rio Tinto and is currently General Manager Environment for the Copper Group. This position is responsible for improving environmental performance, strengthening

organization capacity and responding to strategic environmental issues at six large copper mines and projects on three continents. Mr. Borden has been travelling to Mongolia regularly since 2006 to support the planning, development and operation of the Oyu Togoi mine, with a focus on water management, water quality protection and mineral waste issues. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife and two children.

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Tom Butler, Global Head, Mining, IFC Tom Butler joined IFC in 1997. Since joining, he has worked primarily on the financing of oil, gas and mining projects, mainly in Africa and Latin America. He also spent five years in IFC’s infrastructure department, financing projects such as airports, shipping, and power companies, again with a focus on Africa, where he was based for three years between 2006 and 2009. He was appointed IFC’s Global Head, Mining, in March 2011. Tom has a degree in engineering from Cambridge University, England, and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He is based in Washington, DC.

Gustavo Cabrera, CSR Regional Director, Central and South America, Latin America, Goldcorp Gustavo is Peruvian and has an Economics Degree and Masters in Business Administration at Fullerton-California and San Ignacio de Loyola University, Management and Public Policies at the New York University (NYU) and high specialization Corporate Social Responsibility studies from Harvard Business School at Harvard University. Gustavo has more than 17 years of experience working on development and CSR issues for the public and private sector. He has managed funds of socioeconomic development and development projects financing by public, private and

international cooperation. Gustavo has accumulated experience designing and implementing comprehensive CSR strategies in the extractive industry in Latin America. He joined Goldcorp Inc. in 2012 as a CSR Regional Director.

Paulo Castellari-Porchia, Chief Executive, Iron Ore Brazil, Anglo American Paulo was appointed chief executive in January 2012 and reports directly to Mark Cutifani, chief executive of Anglo American plc. He was previously CEO of Anglo American’s Phosphates and Niobium businesses in Brazil and served in Anglo American’s former Base Metals division. His 20 year career with the Group included positions at AngloGold Ashanti and Minorco in a number of corporate finance and capital project roles both in Brazil and abroad. Paulo has an MBA in Marketing from London Business School.

Claudine Chavee, Senior Societal Coordinator, Total E&P Ms Chavee contributes to the elaboration and implementation of Total’s societal policies and procedures in the E&P branch and in particular in the subsidiaries of the Asia Pacific zone and the Middle East. She is also in charge of training for the societal discipline in Total E&P. She has a Master’s degree in physics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and started her career in the oil and gas industry as a reservoir engineer with Shell in the Netherlands, Brunei and the UK. She has worked for Total for the past 22 years where she held positions in reservoir engineering, economics and corporate planning in the UK, France, Oman and Nigeria. She became

involved in the societal discipline in Yemen, where she held the position of Community Relations and Sustainable Development Manager on the Yemen LNG project (2006 to 2009). There she gained hands on experience in deploying a societal strategy in line with IFC standards in a complex societal and security context. She has been in her current position as Societal Coordinator in Total’s headquarters in Paris since November 2009.

Andrew Cheatle, President & CEO, Unigold Inc. Andrew Cheatle is a mining executive and professional geoscientist with over 25 years of international mineral exploration, extraction, development and consulting experience in the gold sector. He is President and CEO of Unigold Inc. which is exploring and developing gold deposits in the Dominican Republic. Andrew has previously held numerous senior management positions with Anglo American Corporation and JCI Limited. As Chief Geologist with Goldcorp Inc./Placer Dome Inc. he successfully led a team that significantly expanded the Musselwhite Mine's mineral reserves and resources leading to strategic mine development and expansion. Recently, Mr.

Cheatle has held senior and executive positions in the junior gold exploration sector and as a Principal Geologist with AMEC plc. Mr. Cheatle holds a MBA from Capella University (USA) and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Geology from the Royal School of

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Mines, Imperial College, University of London. He is also President of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London.

Garry Corcoran, E-Learning Specialist, IFC Garry has a background in training and ICT. He has spent a number of years working in the Middle East, Africa and Europe and worked for organizations such as Emirates Airlines and Microsoft. In moving into the development sector he has been engaged in designing capacity building interventions for a number of organizations including British Council and Save the Children International. Garry's focus is on the role technology can play in learning and how we develop new blended learning solutions using e-learning, social media, mobility to integrate with traditional forms of learning practice.

Daniel Cordova, President, Invertir Institute Daniel Cordova is Managing Partner of Newlink Peru and President of Invertir Institute. Prior to this experience, he served as CEO of the Peruvian Association for External Trade (Comexperu), CFO of Milpo Mining, and was Dean of the School of Economics at the Peruvian University of Applied Science (UPC) and Dean of the Business School at the Universidad del Pacifico. Cordova's areas of expertise include economic development, entrepreneurship, public affairs and corporate governance, and communications. He created the concept of AGROMINAS, a program for agriculture and mining convergence as a private public partnership. Cordova holds a PhD in

International Economics and is the author of several papers and books around Peruvian economic issues.

Joel Corona, Senior Economist, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Joel Corona serves as a senior economist to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water, where he manages projects such as The Importance of Water to the U.S. Economy, the Hydrologic and Water Quality System (HAWQS), the National Ecosystem Services Classification System (NESCS), and in general leads efforts to improve water-related economics and benefits analysis within EPA. In addition to his work on economics, Corona also helped launch EPA’s WaterSense program, and was deeply involved in EPA’s water-climate activities, including the development of EPA’s National Water Program 2012 Strategy: Response to

Climate Change. Corona holds a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Geneseo, a master’s degree from Northwestern University, and a doctorate in environmental economics from the University of Connecticut.

Nick Cotts, Group Executive-Sustainability and External Relations, Newmont Mining Corporation Nick joined Newmont Mining Corporation 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 relations, external relations, sustainable development and communications. Nick transitioned to the corporate offices in Denver, Colorado as the Director for Social Responsibility and Sustainability prior to relocating to Ghana, West Africa from 2006-2010 in the role of Regional Vice President, Environment and Social Responsibility. Following his

Ghana assignment, Nick transitioned to the Newmont Corporate offices in Denver, Colorado where he initially focused on supporting North America regional business activities, sustainability and leading a number of global initiates including development institutional relations, biodiversity, and community development foundations. Nick is currently the Group Executive-Sustainability and External Relations working in support of global operations with a specific focus on external relations. Nick received his Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado State University in Agronomy-Soil Conservation in 1988. He then went on to complete a Master of Science degree in Range Management-Restoration Ecology in 1991 from Colorado State University.

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Lance Crist, Global Head, Oil & Gas, IFC Lance Crist leads IFC’s investments in equity, mezzanine and senior debt, for exploration & production, pipelines, LNG export and regasification, gas distribution, oilfield services and related sectors. IFC’s $2 billion portfolio in these sectors includes companies in over 20 countries. Mr. Crist joined IFC in 1992 and has managed advisory mandates, project and corporate finance, and private equity transactions in the areas of general manufacturing and telecommunications prior to his current role. He earned a B.A. from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Rebecca Darling, Social Development Specialist, IFC Rebecca’s work focuses on meaningful multi-stakeholder participation in social and economic development decision-making. In her work with the IFC’s Sustainable Business Advisory and with junior exploration firms, Rebecca develops and implements early and ongoing engagement strategies that include strengthening capacities for engagement, and culturally relevant communications strategies to build relationships based on trust and transparency. In the last six years, her work has focused on extractive industries, though Rebecca has an eclectic professional background that has taken her around the world working in the social justice arena, including

Indonesia, India, Egypt and Lebanon. Rebecca also worked extensively in California’s political arena in campaigns, fundraising and environmental policy. She also serves on the Advisory Committee for Community Relations at the University of Queensland, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining. Rebecca has a Masters of Public Administration 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 Protection Medal, awarded by the Minister of Nature, Environment and Tourism. She has also served on the Business Council of Mongolia Legislative Committee, Artisanal Mining Task Force, and Responsible Mining Initiative Supervisory Board.

Sarantuya Dashdavaa, Senior Environmental Specialist, Mongolian Alt Corporation (MAK) Sarantuya Dashdavaa has 11 years of experience working in mining projects and 5 years of experience working as an environmental specialist. Mrs. Dashdavaa coordinates all site environmental specialists assisting them to plan and manage site environmental activities. She conducts consultation meetings with government officials who are in charge of securing annual water permits and licenses. Prior to joining MAK, Mrs. Dashdavaa worked for Southgobi Sands LLC, located in the South Gobi province of Mongolia where she focused on the mine planning, including

design and construction of a mine dewatering water pond. Mrs. Dashdavaa also worked at Oyu Tolgoi copper mine project and assisted in implementation of the first relocation project of herder families. A key component of these efforts included water supply issues for resettled herders and their families.

Gillian Davidson, Head of Mining & Metals, World Economic Forum Prior to joining WEF, Gillian was Director of Social Responsibility at Teck Resources, where she led the company’s commitments to communities, human rights and sustainable development. Gillian had also worked in areas related to social justice and community development within government, consultancy and the NGO-sector. She holds a PhD in Social Geography and International Development from the University of Liverpool, UK, and is a 2012 alumni of the Governor General of Canada's Leadership Study Group on sustainable communities.

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Alan Davies, Chief Executive, 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 responsibilities will also cover Rio Tinto’s Saskatchewan exploration joint venture and Jadar lithium-borate project. Prior to taking up this role, Alan had been the President International Operations for Rio Tinto's Iron Ore business since January 2011 with global accountability for operations 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 position 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 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and until April 2012 was a director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Paulo de Sa, Sector Manager, Sustainable Energy Department, Oil, Gas and Mining Unit, World Bank Paulo de Sa coordinates and leads the Bank’s oil, gas, and mining lending activities and technical assistance in more than 50 countries. He also heads three global programs and partnerships in the oil, gas and mineral sectors including: the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR), and the Extractive Industries Technical Advisory Services (EI-TAF). Prior to that he was a Lead Operations Officer for the Latin America region of the World Bank and also a Lead Industrial Economist. Before joining the World Bank, he worked in Strategy and

Operations for Usinor-Sacilor, a leading steel producer in France. He holds a Doctorate in Mineral Economics from the Paris School of Mines.

James Dobbin, President and CEO, Dobbin International James Dobbin is a pioneer and established global leader in strategic spatial development planning of land, coast, and ocean environments. Propelled by visionary original research while attending Harvard in the mid-70s, James has worked in over 105 countries and is sought out when different, sustainable outcomes are a priority and fresh, deep thinking is a prerequisite. He is President and CEO of DI, (Dobbin International), based in the Washington, DC area and holds a bachelor’s degree (landscape architecture-regional planning) from the University of Toronto and a master’s degree (landscape architecture-regional planning) from Harvard. Clients include government, private

sector (mining, oil and gas, agriculture, forestry, tourism, infrastructure), IFIs (World Bank, IFC), UN Organizations, and NGOs. He is a member of the IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). Mr. Dobbin also guest lectures in the planning schools at Harvard, MIT, University of Virginia, and the University of Toronto.

Elaine Dorward-King, Executive Vice President, Sustainability & External Relations, Newmont Mining Corporation Prior to joining Newmont in March 2013, Dr. Dorward-King served as Managing Director of Richards Bay Minerals in South Africa from December 2010 through February 2013. Dr. Dorward-King previously served as the Global Head of Health, Safety and Environment at Rio Tinto from 2002 through 2010 and also held leadership positions with Rio Tinto's copper and borates businesses. Prior to that, she worked for Ebasco Environmental and for Monsanto Company as a chemist, research specialist and product manager. Dr. Dorward-King brings twenty-five years of

leadership experience in developing and implementing sustainable development, safety, health and environmental strategy and programs in the mining, chemical and engineering consulting sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude from Maryville College and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the Colorado State University. Dr. Dorward-King serves on the Boards of two non-profit organizations, Resources for the Future and Project WET.

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Nicholas Elliott, Managing Director, Skyward App Company Nicholas Elliott has an extensive career in software development. He began at a small agricultural and weather-based development studio in State College, PA and graduated to working with companies like Microsoft and Cisco in Seattle. After ten years working in Washington State, he returned to the Washington, DC area to found Skyward along with investment from AgIntegrated, Inc. with the mission of addressing the extreme need for useful software in less technologically advanced industries.

Andrea Fava, Senior Manager of Global Public Policy, Intel Corporation Andrea Fava works with policymakers in D.C. and around the world to craft environmental, human rights and supply chain policies that advance sustainability while preserving Intel’s ability to operate and innovate. Andrea joined Intel in 2008. Previously, she was the Director of Environmental Affairs at the United States Council for International Business and worked for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Division for Technology, Industry and Economics in Paris. She has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin.

Dieter Fisher, Senior Operations Officer, IFC

Dieter Fischer works in Sustainable Business Advisory at IFC. Currently, this work involves development of a publication entitled "Working with Smallholders: A Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains." Born in the United States, Dieter holds a Masters degree from Rutgers University in Agricultural Engineering. He began his career in agriculture as an aqua cultural extension agent for the Peace Corps in Senegal. Over the past 18 years, he has lived in Africa and Asia and worked on a wide variety of programs supporting smallholder farmers. These have included planting seed production, increasing access to inputs, manufacture and marketing of

agricultural technologies, outgrower programs, extension system design, farming in wildlife buffer zones, farmer training, oilseed processing, trade association development and results measurement. Sectoral expertise includes fresh water aquaculture, maize, groundnuts, rice, sesame, sunflower, bio-fuels, horticulture and coffee. He is a certified Q-Grader for Arabica coffee quality evaluation.

Dennis Flemming, Executive Director, Niger Delta Partnership Initiative, NDPI Foundation Dennis Flemming has 27 years of experience in the design and implementation of community programs in developing countries including Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Angola and Nigeria. He has worked on a broad range of development projects and initiatives as a consultant, trainer and program manager within both the private sector and public sector. In 2000, Dennis headed the establishment of the Community Development Initiatives (CDI) Foundation, designed to implement rural development programs in Papua New Guinea, and managed it for four years. Afterwards, he

worked as Corporate Responsibility Manager for Chevron in Angola, managing Chevron’s Angola Partnership Initiative, a program pairing Chevron with other donors to support the reconstruction and development of Angola after 27 years of civil war. Dennis arrived in Nigeria in 2008 to assist Chevron in evaluating social investment initiatives and negotiating with community groups. In 2010, Dennis managed the establishment of the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative (NDPI), a corporate social enterprise created by Chevron to develop multi-stakeholder partnerships that generate socio-economic development in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

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Joanne Freeze, Chief Executive Officer, Candente Copper Joanne (Joey) C. Freeze is a geologist, and since entering the mineral exploration business in 1979, Ms. Freeze has managed exploration programs and evaluated projects for both junior and senior international mining companies. After living in Peru from 1994 to 1997, Ms. Freeze co-founded Candente Resource Corp., which operated privately from 1997 until going public on May 15, 2000. Since then Candente Resource Corp. has spun-out various assets to form another company, Candente Gold Corp. Both companies are listed on the TSX and Candente Copper Corp is co-listed on the Lima stock exchange. Ms. Freeze is CEO of both companies and President of Candente Gold Corp. Ms. Freeze has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of

International Development at McGill University since 2011.

Amber Frugte, Manager, Social Responsibility, Egyptian Refining Company Amber D. Frugte is a Dutch social management expert working with the finance and industry sectors. She currently works as the Social Responsibility Manager for the Egyptian Refining Company in Cairo, Egypt. As Social Responsibility Manager and reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, she ensures and oversees project compliance with the IFC Performance Standards and drives the social responsibility strategy for the project. Previously, she held a Sr. Social Specialist position at FMO, the Dutch development bank, and worked as an independent consultant consecutively. Having worked in development aid and for the private sector for over 20 years, she

offers broad professional experience and a balanced view of development issues. Her work is focused on the social assessment of investments and on augmenting private sector capacity to manage social issues in their activities in emerging markets. She holds a masters degree in Cultural Anthropology and Environmental Science. Additionally, she is a certified SA8000 auditor and she received formal training in Intercultural Management and the IFC Social and Environmental Performance Standards.

Rikin Gandhi, CEO, Digital Green Rikin Gandhi’s interests include sustainable agriculture and technology for socioeconomic development. Rikin received a master's in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from MIT and a bachelor's in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Rikin is a licensed private pilot and received patents for linguistic search algorithms that he helped develop at Oracle. Born and raised in the U.S., Rikin ventured to rural India to start up a social enterprise to develop biofuels. He then joined Microsoft Research in Bangalore, India as a researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets team that incubated Digital Green. Digital Green is now an independent,

not-for-profit organization with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), Google, and others.

Janina Gawler, Global Practice Leader for Communities and Social Performance, Rio Tinto Over the past fifteen years Janina has been involved in the development and implementation of the social performance programs across Rio Tinto operations. Most recently she has been Director of Environment and Communities on the Simandou project, which is a large infrastructure and mining project in Guinea developed in partnership with Government of Guinea, Chalco and the IFC. Janina and her team of specialized practitioners provide advice and business support on resettlement, land acquisition, community engagement programs and partnerships to ensure the

long term social licence to operate for Rio Tinto.

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Anita George, Director, Infrastructure and Natural Resources, Asia Pacific, IFC Anita Marangoly George joined the World Bank in 1991 as a Young Professional and worked on infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia. In 1997 she joined Siemens Financial Services (SFS) and helped to set up SFS in India. Anita joined the Global Infrastructure Department of IFC in Washington, DC as Principal Investment Officer in 2000. Ms. George has implemented infrastructure transactions in Latin America, Africa and Asia, and she has a dual Master’s in Business Administration and Economic Policy from Boston University, US.

Noa Gimelli, Director, Women's Economic Opportunity Initiative, ExxonMobil Noa Gimelli oversees a global portfolio of investments that help women fulfill their economic potential and drive economic and social change in their communities. Most recently, Noa has managed a research collaboration with the United Nations Foundation on a study of the most effective programs to improve women’s economic status through investments in entrepreneurship, agriculture, wage employment and young women’s employment. Prior to her current role, Noa served as ExxonMobil’s Corporate Citizenship Manager. Her responsibilities included managing corporate-level engagement with socially responsible investors, academics and

NGOs on the oil and gas industry’s social and environmental impacts and overseeing the production of the annual Corporate Citizenship Report. Previously, Noa has done work for several think tanks including the Council on Foreign Relations, Catalyst and the World Economic Forum. Noa holds an M.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. from Barnard College, and she is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mike Godfrey, Vice President, Sustainable Agriculture, Rainforest Alliance Mike Godfrey is an international development professional with 30 years of experience successfully managing programs in Africa, Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean. His career has involved work across the development spectrum – from emergency relief to long-term economic development in the areas of health, education, agriculture, natural resources and the environment. He has worked with NGOs and industry, both in the US and extensively abroad. Mr. Godfrey served previously at the Word Cocoa Foundation as its International Programs Director, and for 10 years with DAI where he provided home office leadership and technical supervision for

its overseas development programs, including a position of Project Director in Haiti. Before joining DAI, Mr. Godfrey had an 18-year career with CARE International, directing programs in multiple countries as well as in its US headquarters. He began his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger working as an agriculture advisor to that government.

M.C. Goel, Head-Business Development, JK Paper Ltd.

JK Paper Ltd. has two paper plants: one located in Jaykaypur, Rayagada, Orissa state and the other in Songurh, Gujrat state of India. Mr. Goel is an Engineering Graduate from I.I.T., Roorkee, India, Post Graduate from I.I.T., New Delhi, India and holds a Management Degree in Project Management. Mr. Goel has experience working with various leading organizations in different senior executive positions and has worked at the national and international levels with various companies in India and abroad such as Thailand and Nigeria. He has widely traveled around the world to absorb and adopt the latest world class technologies. Mr. Goel is closely associated with

the Farm Forestry program of JK Paper and has worked very closely with small and marginal farmers, and the society of the tribal area around their Rayagada plant. Mr. Goel is closely associated with CSR activities and has worked on development through livelihood, health & hygiene, and education initiatives.

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Pamela Gómez Upegui, Sustainability Coordinator, Pacific Rubiales Miss Gomez is a political science and international studies graduate from American University in Washington, DC, specializing in comparative politics and development. In her time at PRE her work has concentrated on the accountability of the company towards internal and external stakeholders, specifically with investors interested in the company’s ESG performance. In the last year she has led the process of integral management of the company´s assets, guaranteeing that the sustainability perspective is reflected in the entire chain of processes that compile the production of a barrel. She has contributed to the entrance of Pacific Rubiales into the DJSI North

America in 2013 and the construction of sustainability reports such as the 2013 report, which was elaborated according to GRI4 guidelines and obtained the materiality check. In addition, Ms. Gomez has implemented corporate projects in the issues of human rights, gender equity and corporate volunteering, among others that have generated a positive impact within Pacific’s areas of influence. Finally, her work is key in the migration of the company towards a solid shared value strategy in which the interests of the company’s surroundings align to those of the business. Before her work at Pacific, Pamela co-wrote a book on strategies for extreme poverty alleviation with prestigious national economists.

Steve Gretzinger, Senior Forestry Specialist, IFC Steve Gretzinger is based in Nicaragua with IFC. Steve has developed and provided technical support to IFC clients in the forestry and wood products sectors in 10 countries. With 30 years of sector experience, he has managed private forestry operations in the Amazon, evaluated timber investments, assisted manufacturers to build wood procurement and outsourcing strategies, and logged and exported wood products with his own company. Steve understands the operational complexities of running a business under difficult conditions, having lived and worked in Guatemala, Peru, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Steve holds a BSc in Geography (Land Use Planning)

from Oregon State University and an MSc in Forest Management (Tropical Forestry) from North Carolina State University.

Mehnaz Haider, Senior Operations Officer, IFC Mehnaz Haider is Senior Operations Officer for IFC Advisory Services and works on sustainable supply chains and smallholder engagement. She is leading the effort on developing farmer groups and cooperative benchmarking, farmer aggregation and capacity building tools. Prior to joining IFC a year ago, she worked with the ILO, FAO and IFAD on green jobs, community and livelihoods development and conducted several value chain analyses to develop financial and non-financial services for farmers. She ran an award-winning social enterprise in Pakistan employing over 800 poor women entrepreneurs.

Ross Hamilton, Director, Environment and Climate Change, International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) Ross joined ICMM in August 2013. He is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership to the Environment and Climate Change work program including developing effective alliances around principle-based approaches to associated policy and action. Recently Ross launched the ICMM water stewardship framework at the CEO Water Mandate Conference in Lima, Peru. Over the past 15 years, Ross has had a broad range of experience both inside and outside of the mining industry related to environment, climate change and sustainability. Prior to his current

role with ICMM, he spent five years at BHP Billiton in Perth, Australia where he held senior roles in Sustainability Strategy, Community Development and Government Relations. He also holds a science-based First Class Honours degree and a Master’s degree in sustainability management.

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Graeme Hancock, President and Chief Representative, Anglo American, Mongolia Dr. Hancock’s experience in the mining sector includes exploration and mining geology as well as financial analysis and valuations of mining and exploration projects. He also has significant experience in mining policy and regulation in a range of countries throughout Asia and the Pacific. He worked for 16 years in Papua New Guinea including a period as Director of Mines for the Government of Papua New Guinea, during which time he led a number of initiatives related to the sustainable development of mining impacted communities. Prior to joining Anglo American Dr. Hancock was Chief Operating Officer at Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi JSC, a large state-owned coal mining

company in Mongolia. His prior experience also includes being Director for Strategy and Business Development at Rio Tinto in Mongolia, a senior mining sector specialist at the World Bank, a senior civil servant, an academic and consultant. He holds a Masters Degree in Earth Sciences from New Zealand, and a PhD in Mineral Economics from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Keila Hand, Senior Program Officer, World Wildlife Fund Keila is Senior Program Officer at WWF's Global Forest & Trade Network-North America program (GFTN-NA). In her role, Keila engages with leading North American companies, as they develop and implement their responsible paper, tissue and paper-based packaging sourcing commitments. Along with other GFTN technical experts she helps companies understand the forest sources of the fiber they use to produce their paper and packaging products, implement responsible sourcing policies, engage with fiber suppliers, avoid risks associated with illegal and unsustainable forest sources, and increase the amount of credibly certified and recycled products in their supply chains.

Keila has a Masters of Environmental Management as a Fulbright Scholar from the Duke University School of Environment, and she also earned a Post-Graduate degree in Environmental Engineering from the State University of Campinas in Brazil.

John Heller, Senior Director, Synergos Institute John Heller is a Senior Director at the Synergos Institute, a global non-profit dedicated to addressing issues of poverty and social justice around the world. Over the past fourteen years with Synergos, Heller has developed a portfolio of initiatives to bring communities, governments, companies, and civil society together to address complex societal challenges. Examples include the African Public Health Leadership & Systems Innovation Initiative in Namibia, the Aboriginal Multi-Stakeholder Leadership Initiative in Canada (Ahp-Cii-Uk), and the State-Level Agricultural Transformation Agenda in Nigeria. Heller created and now leads an innovative mission-driven

consulting practice within Synergos that advises global companies on how to build sustainable businesses and achieve social impact in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Krista Hendry, Executive Director, Fund for Peace Krista Hendry has worked with the extractive industry for the past twelve years. From 2004 to 2012, she served as Director of the Fund for Peace’s Human Rights & Business Roundtable, a sustained dialogue with representatives of the extractive industry and human rights and humanitarian organizations, which continues strong today. She also has on-the-ground experience guiding companies in numerous countries to assess risk, develop appropriate policies and procedures, and to develop programs in the areas of security and human rights, community development, community engagement, and the development of grievance mechanisms. She brings

the experiences of her large network of extractive companies who operate all over the world.

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Witold Henisz, Professor of Management, Wharton Business School Witold J. Henisz is the Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management in Honor of Russell E. Palmer, former Managing Director at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. His research examines the impact of political hazards on international investment strategy including efforts by multinational corporations to engage in corporate diplomacy to win the hearts and minds of external stakeholders. His research has been published in top-ranked journals in international business, management, international studies and sociology and he is the author of the book “Corporate Diplomacy: Building Reputations and Relationships with External Stakeholders.” Witold

has won multiple teaching awards at the graduate and undergraduate levels and also teaches extensively on the topic of Corporate Diplomacy in open enrollment and custom executive education. He is currently a principal in the political risk management consultancy PRIMA LLC, whose clients include Anglo Gold Ashanti, Rio Tinto, Shell Corporation, Maritime Financial Group, The World Bank, The Inter-American Development Bank, The Conference Board, Eurasia Group, and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT). For more information see http://www.corporatediplomacy.com.

Tracey Henry, Chief Executive Officer, Thsikululu Tracey Henry is the CEO of Tshikululu Social Investments, South Africa’s leading advisors and managers in social investment. Tshikululu manages social investment programmes for a number of blue-chip companies including Anglo American, De Beers, FirstRand (including FNB, Wesbank, Rand Merchant Bank, and Momentum), Discovery, and UTi. Having completed an MA in the social sciences, Tracey joined the Chamber of Mines before moving to the Anglo American Corporation in 1995. Tracey has 24 years’ experience in the development sector, with a particular focus on leveraging partnerships between government, business, and civil society that result in socio-

economic transformation (see www.tshikululu.org.za). Tracey is a Council Member of the National Education Collaboration Trust, a Governing Body Member of the African Children’s Feeding Scheme, a member of the judging panel of the prestigious annual Mail & Guardian’s Investing in the future Awards, a Trustee of the FirstRand Empowerment Foundation, and lectures as part of the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Leadership Programme on the role of business in society.

Alejandro Hermoza, Vice President Sustainability, Buenaventura A Mechanical Engineer who graduated from the University of Maryland, Mr. Hermoza also holds an MSc in Engineering from the same university and an MBA from the Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC. He worked as Development Manager for the Confederación Nacional de Instituciones Empresariales Privadas – CONFIEP, and later joined Compañía de Minas Buenaventura in 2003, where he began as Deputy Manager for Administration and Human Resources. In 2011, Mr. Hermoza completed the Advance Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Christopher Howell, Vice President, Mining and Primary Metals, Veolia Environnement Christopher Howell has global responsibility to promote Veolia’s solutions in the mining and metal markets. Veolia operates in over 40 countries with 220,000 employees providing environmental, water, and energy solutions. Chris has held many different positions within Veolia Water and Veolia during the last 21 years. Chris has been in the water and environmental business for 30 years and has held positions ranging from business development management to the senior chemist at the Davis Besse Nuclear Power Station. Chris served honorably in the US Navy nuclear power program.

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Rebecca Hummel, Senior Corporate Responsibility Advisor, Chevron Rebecca Hummel manages a portfolio of emerging issues, external standards, and stakeholder engagements related to the oil/gas industry, including security and human rights and economic development. Prior to joining Chevron, Rebecca Hummel worked as a Senior Advisor in the State Department’s Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan & Pakistan, where she was a member of the political team focusing on transition and a political settlement for Afghanistan. From 2009 to 2011, Rebecca worked in Afghanistan for USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives, managing program implementation for the Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative. She was based in

Regional Command East, and embedded with an infantry Army battalion in Kunar Province implementing development programs in three border districts east of the Kunar River. She also spent time in Nangarhar Province at the Brigade and Company levels. Prior to USAID, Rebecca served as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the State Department’s Office of Iranian Affairs from 2007-2009, focusing on counter-terrorism and non-proliferation. Rebecca completed her Master in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in June 2007. She is a graduate of Pomona College and a native of Pasadena, California.

Amar Inamdar, Environment & Social Performance Manager, New Business & Exploration, Shell International Amar works with people to kindle creative solutions for a complex, unpredictable, and changing world. He has spent his professional life crossing boundaries; between local communities, the public sector and private corporations. Early in his career, he founded a successful business that continues to focus on corporate responsibility in emerging markets today. He subsequently spent 9 years at the World Bank, where he led organizational innovations in risk management across its global $40bn portfolio – as Principal to the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman at IFC and then as a

senior manager in IBRD. Throughout this work, he has remained a ‘projects person’ at heart - working with communities and emerging-market business leaders to create practical, collaborative solutions on transformative initiatives, primarily in mining, infrastructure, agribusiness, and climate change. He currently works with Shell’s new business and exploration team, focusing on natural resource development in east Africa – the region where he was born and that continues to inspire his sense of curiosity and commitment to sustainability.

Michael Jarvis, Program Leader, Governance for Extractive Industries and Open Contracting, World Bank Institute Michael Jarvis specializes in private sector roles in development, strengthening ethical global business practices, and collaborative governance initiatives. Michael leads a program to promote transparency and accountability of extractive industries, including a focus on issues of contract disclosure issues. Building on this work, he is overseeing coordination of a new global initiative on Open Contracting to promote better outcomes from the estimated $9.5 trillion in public-private contracts globally. Author of The Investment Climate in Brazil, India and South Africa and numerous

articles, Michael is also founding editor of WBI’s Business and Development Discussion Papers. Michael previously worked on industry codes of conduct and as a consultant on historical corporate responsibility issues. Michael has advanced degrees from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University.

Chris Jochnick, Director, Private Sector Department, Oxfam America Chris Jochnick co-founded and led two human rights organizations, the Center for Economic and Social Rights (NY) and the Centro de Derechos Economicos y Sociales (Ecuador). He has worked for two decades on issues of human rights, development and corporate accountability, including seven years in Latin America. At Oxfam, he has managed both partnerships and adversarial campaigns targeting Fortune 500 companies and has actively participated in standard-setting processes with the United Nations and other global bodies. Prior to joining Oxfam, Mr. Jochnick worked as an attorney with the Wall Street law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. Mr. Jochnick

is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former fellow of the MacArthur Foundation and Echoing Green. He teaches a course on business and human rights at Harvard Law School.

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Alan Johnson, Global Practice Lead, Sustainable Business Advisory, IFC Alan Johnson is the Global Product Lead for "Farmer and SME Training" (FAST) in the Sustainable Business Advisory Department (CSB) of the IFC based in Washington, DC. Alan has over 20 years of experience in private sector development and extensive field experience in South East Asia and Africa. Alan previously worked in the IFC’s Investment Climate Business Line, where he was a Senior Private Sector Development Advisor. Prior to joining IFC, Alan worked for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) where he led DFID’s global program “Making Markets work for the Poor” aimed at improving the lives of the poor through the growth of

successful, inclusive private enterprises in developing countries. He is the main author of DFID’s 1999 Private Sector Strategy, “Prosperity for All: Making Markets Work”. Alan was previously the head of DFID’s Vietnam country office. In addition to DFID, Alan has work experience with the Asian Development Bank, UNDP, the Agriculture Bank of PNG (as an Overseas Development Institute fellow) and private sector consulting. He has a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of New England in Australia where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. In his spare time Alan enjoys hiking and photography but is more often found driving children to and from football (soccer) games.

Daniel Kaufmann, President, Revenue Watch Institute An economist, Daniel Kaufmann has pioneered innovative approaches to measure and analyze governance and corruption, and has deep practical experience in helping countries formulate and carry out governance reforms. His research has extended to economic development, investment, privatization and urban and labor economics. Kaufmann served as a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. He previously served as a director of the World Bank Institute. He held senior management positions focused on governance, finance and anti-corruption, and was lead economist is the World Bank’s research

department. He was first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, worked on capacity building in Latin America and on economic reforms in Africa. Kaufmann, a Chilean, received an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, and a B.A. in economics and statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has authored hundreds of scholarly articles, presentations and policy briefs on governance, corruption, trade, labor and economic reform.

John Kellenberg, Global Manager, Sustainable Business Advisory, IFC John Kellenberg is Global Manager in the Sustainable Business Advisory Department, covering topics ranging from agribusiness supply chains to clean energy and resource efficiency. Likewise, he represents Advisory Services on IFC's Climate Business Department Management Team. John has over 20 years of experience working on issues relating to environment and climate change and extensive in-country experience in Latin America, where he lived for more than a decade. Prior to joining the IFC in 2011, he worked as Sector Manager for Environment and Natural Resource Management in the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region where he has worked

issues ranging from climate change adaptation and mitigation, pollution management, natural resources management and land administration. In addition, John worked in the World Bank’s Latin America and the Caribbean Region for more than a decade where he oversaw investment operations programs, amongst others, focusing on clean energy generation financed by small hydropower, wind, and landfill gas project sponsors. John has a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from the Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Chief Wilfred King, Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek First Nation Wilfred King, a member of the Kingfisher Clan, was born in Sioux Lookout as the second youngest of ten children, and was raised in Armstrong and Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Engrained with a sense of responsibility to First Nations politics and social activism, his commitment to serve First Nation people in a movement toward greater self-determination was solidified after the completion of his post-secondary education in Criminal and Aboriginal law, in Alternative Dispute Resolution, and in environmental studies / community infrastructure planning. Wilfred N. King has been elected five times as Chief of KZA – GB FN and has also been previously elected as Regional

Grand Chief of the Northern Superior Region for the Union of Ontario Indians – Anishinabek Nation. He was also the key

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negotiator in the multi-billion dollar gaming revenue agreements between the Ontario government and 133 First Nation Communities in Ontario. Wilfred was a founding member of the Nokiiwin Tribal Council and was instrumental in the creation of WZI Corporation - a group of FN communities that fostered the exploration of economic growth through resource development partnerships. Most recently, King represented Canada at the 2013 United Nations – World Indigenous Peoples Conference in Alta Norway.

Henriette Kolb, Head, Gender Secretariat, IFC Henriette serves as a spokesperson on gender equality issues in the private sector. Henriette works across IFC's investment and advisory service to include both women and men as entrepreneurs, employees, consumers and leaders into the private sector. Prior to joining IFC in September 2013, Henriette was the Chief Executive of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. Henriette also served as a sub-committee member of Secretary Hillary Clinton's International Council on Women's Business Leadership. Devex selected Henriette as one of the “top 40 under 40” international development leaders in 2011. Earlier in her career, Henriette served as the UN Representative

advising Quartet Representative Tony Blair in Jerusalem and worked for the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO). She has also held positions as governance advisor with the European Commission Delegation to Tanzania, the German Technical Cooperation in Germany and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Tanzania. She graduated with an MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and received her MA from Freiburg University, Germany.

Ian Kyle, CSR Director, Global Chevron Portfolio, Compass Group Based in Central Asia. Head of People and Organizational Development. Responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility & Local Content initiatives for ESS Global Chevron. Senior level corporate experience as Head of Learning and Development for Compass Group plc (Central Asia, Middle East & Africa) - Established and implemented people development strategy including leading L&D teams across multiple global sites; talent management; leadership and management development; succession planning; evaluating effectiveness of interventions; building professional partnerships; managing budget and ROI; coaching and mentoring national staff into senior roles. Responsible for

developing and procuring sustainable local supplies of goods and materials; as well as developing local business and community projects particularly those providing opportunities for indigenous disadvantaged people. Previous assignments in Indonesia for Group MD of Compass Group. Also delivery of programs for Cardiff Metropolitan University Management School MBA international students.

Barbara Lamb, Principal, Bankers Petroleum Barbara Lamb, B.E.S., M.Sc. is a co-owner of Blackstone Corporation Resource Management Consultants, created in 1991 to bring a people-centered focus to development planning. With a background in economics and international planning, Barbara has worked in over 40 countries worldwide on behalf of the IFC, World Bank, national and local governments and the private sector on community development-related assignments spanning many sectors (extractives; transportation; water; cadastre, etc.). She has worked widely throughout post-Soviet and Balkan countries as well as Latin America and the Caribbean. Three years ago, while attending the IFC’s

Sustainability Exchange she and her business partner met a VP of the Canadian-owned Bankers Petroleum Albania, a company that operates in Europe’s largest oilfield. Based on discussions at the Exchange, he asked them to re-build the company’s Community Relations Department in the capacity of joint Community Relations Managers. In the challenging environment of Albania, Barbara and her co-manager have created a highly respected and productive Albanian CR Department, which has gone from zero to an annual budget of $2 million over the past two years. In recent years, apart from her work in Albania, she has contributed to both the IFC and World Bank’s global review of their performance standards and social safeguards.

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Scott Landis, Founder & Executive Director, GreenWood Scott Landis is the President and Executive Director of GreenWood, a US-based nonprofit that trains artisans and sawyers in forest management, high-quality woodworking production, sustainable business practices, marketing and sales. In February 2014 GreenWood and its Honduras counterpart, Fundación Madera Verde, were the recipients of the first-ever Innovation Prize for Forest Finance awarded by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Scott is also a writer and former woodworker, who has been covering woodworking and sustainable forestry for more than 25 years. He is the author of The Workbench Book [1987] and The Workshop

Book [1991], and the editor of Conservation by Design [1993]. The Woodworkers Alliance for Rainforest Protection (WARP), which Scott founded in the early 1990s, inspired the forest certification movement and led to the establishment of the Forest Stewardship Council.

Morgan Landy, Director, Environment, Social and Governance Department, IFC

Morgan Landy helps lead the corporation in fulfilling its strategic commitments to sustainable development. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector. Prior to assuming his current position in December 2013, Mr. Landy held a series of other senior positions at IFC, most recently as the Global Head for Power and Renewable Energy. Before joining IFC, Mr. Landy worked in the investment banking team at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York. Mr. Landy holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International

Studies. Mr. Landy is based at IFC headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Liane Asta Lohde, Senior Economist, IFC Liane Asta Lohde focuses on economic analysis of IFC's investments in extractive industries globally. Significant transactions include Simandou in Guinea, Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia and Jubilee in Ghana. She also leads IFC's initiatives on transparency in the extractives sector. Prior to joining IFC, Liane worked on poverty and social impact analysis at the World Bank. She holds both a BA and MSc in Economics from the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics, respectively.

Dr. Simon Lord, Group Director for Sustainability, New Britain Palm Oil Ltd. Simon Lord has 28 years’ experience in the agriculture sector. He started his career with Unilever where he stayed 10 years before moving to PNG to take up the position of Head of Research with New Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL). He has been the Group Director for Sustainability for the last 8 years, giving purpose and direction to all the Groups initiatives in sustainability. He is one of the vice presidents of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (a multi Stakeholder initiative) where he represents palm oil producers in Latin America, Africa and the Pacific. He is also co-chair of the Smallholder working Group, a member of the GHG task force and one of the architects of the

global standard for sustainable palm oil. He is the Director of the NBPOL Foundation, which seeks to improve Health and Education provision in rural Communities within PNG. He is a trustee of the Orangutan Land Trust, the Director of Global Sustainability Associates (a consultancy assisting companies to put sustainability principles into practice) and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Biodiversity and Natural Capital. He is currently based in Singapore.

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Reg Manhas, Senior Vice President, External Affairs, Kosmos Energy Reg Manhas leads Kosmos’ government affairs, social performance and corporate communications functions, and has over 20 years of experience in the international oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Kosmos in June 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 function and was responsible for above ground risk management across Talisman’s global operations, including Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the Americas. Prior to establishing the corporate affairs function, Manhas was an attorney 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 British Columbia. He is member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Alberta, the International Bar Association and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. Manhas was appointed in 2012 by the Government of Canada to the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Jamie McAuliffe, President and CEO, Education for Employment (EFE) Jamie McAuliffe has worked for many years to advance effective, scalable solutions for vulnerable youth. He has over two decades of experience in leadership roles in both the non-profit and business sectors. Before joining EFE, Jamie served as Portfolio Manager at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, a NY-based foundation that pioneered a “scaling what works” grant-making strategy to support leading youth development non-profits in the United States. At the OTF Group, a spin-off of Monitor Consulting Group, Jamie provided strategic consulting services to spur exports and competitiveness in the small and medium business sector in Brazil. Early in his career,

Jamie launched new programs and markets at Ashoka, a global organization that selects and invests in leading social entrepreneurs. Between receiving his BA in Philosophy from Georgetown University and his MA in International Studies from John Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, Jamie served as an inner-city schoolteacher for Teach for America. Jamie joined EFE in 2010. At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Tianjin in 2012, Jamie was named a Schwab Foundation Global Social Entrepreneur for the transformative impact that EFE is driving in youth employment. In the fall of 2012, Jamie became the Chairman of the WEF Global Agenda Council on Youth Unemployment.

Nathan Monash, Vice President, Sustainability, AngloGold Ashanti Americas Nathan joined AngloGold Ashanti in 2010 and is presently Vice President, Sustainability, Americas. In his current role, Nathan works directly with the mines and projects in the region (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and USA) to ensure compliance with internal and international standards, to mitigate sustainability risks, and to provide strategic guidance on issues of engagement, community relations and investment, and communications. This includes resettlement activities, addressing artisanal mining challenges, and coordinating internal and external reporting within the region. Before joining AngloGold Ashanti, Nathan was a consultant to the International Finance

Corporation focusing upon the financial valuation of corporate sustainability investments. Additional experience includes his time as Manager, Sustainable Development and International Affairs at Rio Tinto Alcan in Canada. Prior to joining Rio Tinto Alcan, Nathan led the mining and metals industry practice of the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. Nathan has also served as an advisor to the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade CSR Counsellor. Nathan’s academic background is in biological sciences, environmental policy and international relations. He holds a B.Sc. from McGill University, a M.A. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University), and a graduate certificate from the University of Cambridge.

Bastiaan Mohrmann, Head, Water South Asia, Sustainable Business Advisory, IFC Bastiaan Mohrmann joined the International Finance Corporation in 1992. During the last 20 years he has held a wide range of responsibilities, first as Investment Officer in Agribusiness and Manufacturing, followed by a 2-year stint in South Africa as Head of Business Development. In 2004, Bastiaan moved to Advisory Services where he grew IFC’s Supply Chain Linkages program, and subsequently headed the IFC SME team. In parallel, he championed the emerging field of water footprint. In January 2011, Bas assumed his current position in India. He presently also

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serves as the India Representative for 2030 Water Resources Group. Prior to IFC, Bas Mohrmann worked for the European Commission in Brussels and HVA from The Netherlands. He has an MSc from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, in Agricultural Engineering, specialized in irrigation, hydrology and management science, and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Veronica Nyhan Jones, Global Practice Lead, Strategic Community Investment, IFC Veronica Nyhan Jones is Global Practice Lead for Strategic Community Investment and Extractives in IFC's Advisory Services. Veronica's team advises natural resource companies operating in emerging markets on how to value returns on sustainability investments, implement participatory planning processes, effectively 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 incubation of IFC's Financial Valuation Tool for Sustainability. Prior to IFC, Veronica spent eight years with the World Bank on community empowerment and social accountability. She has

worked for the International Youth Foundation, the White House, and the US Department for Health & Human Services on crime prevention and health care reform. Veronica has co-authored articles on valuing sustainability, strategic communications, water and communities, and measuring social capital using quantitative and qualitative methods. She holds a Masters from Harvard University's Kennedy School.

Jane Nelson, Director, Harvard Kennedy School’s Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative Jane Nelson is Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a senior associate at the Programme for Sustainability Leadership at Cambridge University. She was a director and then adviser at the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum from 1993 to 2012. In 2009, she was one of the track leaders for the Clinton Global Initiative, coordinating the track on human capital. In 2001, she worked with the United Nations Global Compact in the office of the UN Secretary-General

preparing a report for the General Assembly on cooperation between the UN and the private sector. Prior to 1993, Nelson worked for the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Africa, for FUNDES in Latin America, and as a Vice President at Citibank working for the bank's Financial Institutions Group in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She has co-authored five books and over 70 publications on the role of business in society, as well as five of the World Economic Forum's Global Corporate Citizenship reports. She has a degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Natal in South Africa and an MA from Oxford University, and is a former Rhodes Scholar and recipient of the Keystone Center's 2005 Leadership in Education Award.

Hege Marie Norheim, Senior Vice President, Sustainability Global Strategy and Business Development, Statoil Hege Marie Norheim is Senior Vice President for Statoil’s Corporate Sustainability Unit, which provides strategic direction and drives the company’s social, environmental and climate policy and performance. She has more than 23 years of experience in business development, strategy, communications, sustainability and Norwegian politics and governance. During her 7 years at Statoil Hege Marie has held numerous leadership roles including: senior vice president for business development on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, senior vice president for arctic and

sub-arctic business development activities, and senior vice president for the corporate climate unit. At Norsk Hydro, Hege served first as communications vice president for the oil and gas division, and later as vice president for partner operated licenses. Prior to joining Norsk Hydro, Hege worked for several years in the Norwegian government as advisor for the Norwegian Prime Minister's Office. She served as state secretary to the Prime Minister in 2000 and to the Minister of Finance in 2001. Hege was elected as the first female vice president in the Word Petroleum Congress executive committee in 2005, a position she held until 2007. Hege holds an MSc in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics with major in finance from Hochshule St.Gallen, Switzerland.

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Emily Nunn, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)) Emily joined the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) in 2011. Emily holds an M.A. in Human Rights and Democratization and a B.A. in Political Science and International Development. Before joining the PDAC, Emily worked with the Coady International Institute and Oxfam Canada in Ethiopia on community-driven development programs. As a trained practitioner in asset-based community development and participatory monitoring and evaluation, Emily brings a range of experience in international community development to the PDAC. As the Manager of

Corporate Social Responsibility, Emily works to promote the improvement of social and environmental performance by mineral exploration companies and manages the PDAC’s framework for responsible exploration, e3 Plus.

Stuart Orr, Head of Water Stewardship, World Wide Fund for Nature I have a background in the private sector and academic research and joined WWF in 2006. My work explores the role of the private sector with regard to development and specifically water-related issues. I have published mainly on water measurement, agricultural policy and water-related risk with some specific work on food, water and energy in relation to biofuels and dam development. As well as supporting water and business related fora such as the UN CEO Water Mandate and the World Economic Forum, I sit on a number of sustainability boards and initiatives. I oversee a growing team within WWF dedicated to implementing water stewardship projects with

the private sector in a number of key river basins. I hold an MSc in Environment and Development from the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia. I am currently based in Switzerland.

Mary Porter Peschka, Acting Director, Sustainable Business Advisory, IFC Mary Porter Peschka is currently serving as both Regional Head for IFC’s Advisory Services in Latin America & the Caribbean and as Global Acting Director, Sustainable Business Advisory. Prior to assuming these roles, she was responsible for IFC’s Sustainable Business Advisory work in the Middle East & North Africa as well as led a task force on IFC’s operations in fragile and conflict-affected countries. Before joining IFC, Mary held various positions in the public and private sectors, including serving as a Partner in Market Access International, Inc., a women-owned consulting firm; as Investor Relations Manager for the St. Genevieve Group, a group of

international mining companies; and as a Trade & Investment Advisor for the US Agency for International Development. Mary holds an MSc in Anthropology & Development from the London School of Economics & Political Science, an MBA from the University of Oxford, and a BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Kyle Peterson, Managing Director, FSG Kyle Peterson is a thought leader in shared value, corporate philanthropy, and global health and development issues. He has worked with the world's leading companies and funders, including the Shell Oil Company, Aetna, Eli Lilly & Company, Pfizer, Verizon, Merck, Abbott Labs, Novartis, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Kyle has led many of FSG's global health development engagements and has been a key contributor to the firm's shared value, catalytic philanthropy, and collective impact frameworks. He speaks frequently at social sector and industry conferences and roundtable events. Prior to joining FSG,

Kyle served as a strategy consultant at the Monitor Group where he wrote a major regional economic study with Professor Michael Porter and led a competitiveness consulting project for President Paul Kagame and his cabinet on Rwanda’s economic strategy. Kyle was also a country director in Zimbabwe and Rwanda for Population Services International, where he managed a $20 million program and launched a number of health product "firsts" on the African continent, including mass marketed insecticide treated mosquito nets, female condoms, and a novel network of HIV/AIDS voluntary counseling and testing centers.

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Roger Pineda, Director, Banking and Corporate Relations, Dinant Corporation Roger Pineda has been Corporate & Banking Relations Director for Corporacion Dinant of Honduras since June 2013. He joined the company in 1998 as the Financial Resources Manager for Honduras and was appointed Corporate Treasurer in 2000. Mr. Pineda is responsible for all activities related to Dinant's banking and financing relations. He also heads up Dinant's corporate relations team, managing the company's engagement with private and government stakeholders. In addition, Mr. Pineda is responsible for the company's extensive work in corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, community engagement, internal communications and

media relations. Mr. Pineda earned an Agronomist degree from the prestigious Agricultural University “El Zamorano” (Escuela Agricola Panamericana), a B.Sc. degree in Horticultures from Kansas State University, and an MBA from Universidad Catolica de Honduras.

Carla Pires, Sustainability Director, Odebrecht Agroindustrial Carla Pires, a chemical engineer, is the Sustainability Director of Odebrecht Agroindustrial (the second largest ethanol producer in Brazil) responsible for the company's sustainability policies and guidelines. She also serves on the board of the sustainability council of Odebrecht S.A., the Brazilian conglomerate consisting of diversified businesses in construction, chemicals and petrochemicals, bioenergy, real estate, and more. Prior to her work at Odebrecht Agroindustrial, Carla spent more than 20 years in the petrochemical industry – including at Braskem (Latin America's largest petrochemical company and one of the largest in the world), where she was

responsible for human resource management, safety, health and the environment. The highlights of Carla's achievements at Odebrecht Agroindustrial include the creation and development of the "Social Energy for Local Sustainability Program" (Energia Social) which is known for its innovative participatory approach to community investment in all nine Brazilian municipalities where the company operates. Notable has been her leadership on climate change, the company's international and national environmental certifications, and biodiversity conservation. Carla also is a Senior Advisor on Sustainability to the Fundação Dom Cabral; she serves on the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development as well as the Sustainability Committee of the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA).

Ted Pollett, Principal Social Development Specialist, IFC Ted Pollett served as a Principal Social Development Specialist and Team Leader of social development and environmental specialists working on oil and gas projects globally, before retiring from the IFC in June 2011 after nearly 12 years service. He has continued to work as a consultant for IFC’s Sustainable Business Advisory Department and as an independent International Social Development Advisor. Recent clients have included the World Bank, Tullow Oil, China National Offshore Corporation Uganda (CNOOC), Lake Albert Development Planning Group in Uganda, and Africa Atlantic Farms in Ghana. Prior to retirement from the IFC Ted primarily worked on oil, gas

and mining projects globally. Prior to joining the IFC, Ted was a Director of the Institute of Natural Resources (INR), University of Natal, South Africa and was also a Program Manager of the INR’s Integrated Development Processes Program, which focused on the issues and means of sustainable development and utilization of resources in sub-Saharan Africa. He was a member of the INR for 12 years, and was previously a Partner and Senior Land Use Planning and Rural Development Consultant at Loxton, Venn and Associates (a major Southern African agricultural and rural development consultancy) for ten years.

David Reading, President and CEO, Aureus Mining Mr. Reading has significant expertise in the global mining industry with over 35 years’ experience across the fields of exploration, feasibility, project development and mining. Mr. Reading has an MSc in Economic Geology and has held senior positions with leading mining companies. He is the former CEO of European Goldfields and the former General Manager of African exploration for Randgold Resources. In addition, he has held senior exploration and project development positions for Anglo American and Phelps Dodge.

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Carolina Rouillon, General Director, Sodexo Association for Sustainable Development Lawyer, of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú and Master of Public Administration at the Instituto Ortega y Gasset, attached to the Universidad Complutense, España with more than 30 years of professional activity and wide experience in the preparation, management and execution of projects of public investment, in special programs for land management, strategic planning and implementation of sustainable community development projects. Since May 2011, she served as General Manager of Sodexo Foundation for Sustainable Development, is Director of Stop Hunger Program, to fight hunger and malnutrition in the Central and South American region and is

responsible to coordinate the corporate sustainability policy: "The Better Tomorrow Plan" of Sodexo Group with the region. Previously, she served as board member and various management positions in the mining company Anglo American, has been National Coordinator of Land Title Agency of Peru-COFOPRI, Director of two World Bank Projects and board member of several public and private institutions.

Anne Roulin, Vice President, Research and Development Sustainability Manager, Nestlé Anne Roulin is based in Nestlé’s global headquarters in Switzerland. In this role she works across Nestlé’s R&D organization in over 30 centers around the world, to embed sustainability at the earliest phase of the product development cycle. The approach is holistic, encompassing the entire value chain from agriculture through the choice of ingredients, packaging, processing and distribution including addressing the important issue of food waste. Her current focus area involves building a platform and a product pipeline in the area of Sustainable Nutrition. Previously she was Global Head of Packaging for Nestlé and prior to Nestlé she founded and built up a

company specialized in Package Development, after spending 10 years with Tetra Pak in Switzerland, the USA & Italy.

Henry Saint Bris, Senior Vice President, International Institutional Relations and Marketing, Suez Environnement Henry Saint Bris was appointed Senior Vice President of International Institutional Relations and Marketing of Suez Environnement on June 1st, 2013. Henry Saint Bris joined the Suez Group in 1996, serving as Vice President of Strategy and Development at Sita and, as of 2003, posted in the US as Senior Vice President of Suez Environnement North America, managing water and waste assets across the US and Canada. From 2009 to 2013, he was Senior Vice President Strategy of Suez Environnement and member of the Strategic Committee. Prior to joining Suez, Henry Saint Bris spent seven years with Ernst & Young where he was a founder of the E&Y Environment Group

in France and a Senior Manager for the Strategy Consulting Group. Saint Bris also spent two years with Aerospatiale/EADS in India where he gained marketing and sales experience. He holds a diploma from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (economy and finance) and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Université Paris IX Dauphine. Saint Bris also holds a post-graduate degree in Environment Management and Engineering from Ecole des Mines de Paris. He is a co-author of the Guide to Corporate Social Responsibility (Dunod), and currently acts as chairman of the US based Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF).

Valeria Santos Benedetti, Corporate Sustainability Manager, Pacific Rubiales Mrs. Santos is a lawyer from the University of Los Andes with emphasis on public law and experience in criminal law. She has done further studies in sustainability and corporate social responsibility from the Instituto Empresa in Madrid. During her time in the Vice Presidency of corporate affairs she has been responsible for strengthening and expanding the company´s sustainability strategy, extending the scope of compliance to every asset in all countries of operation, and currently exercises the role of Corporate Sustainability Manager. Through Mrs. Santos’ leadership, the company has emitted three corporate sustainability reports, both have

obtained the highest score (A+), and the latest in 2013 reported according to GRI4 which obtained the materiality check as accredited by the Global Reporting Initiative. Under Mrs. Santos’ management, the sustainability department led the entrance of Pacific Rubiales into the DJSI North America in 2013 in its first try. Additionally, she has implemented CSR, environmental and shared value projects that have generated a positive impact within Pacific’s areas of influence and

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contributed to the reduction of Colombia´s extreme poverty targets. Most recently, World Finance, a London firm, recognized Pacific Rubiales as the most sustainable Oil and Gas Company in Latin America.

Sunrita Sarkar, Operations Officer, IFC Sunrita Sarkar has a background in community development and experience in planning, management and execution of projects related to social impact assessment, resettlement & rehabilitation, social audits, social risks, community engagement and natural resources. She is a resettlement specialist and has undertaken poverty and livelihood assessments, land rights and indigenous people's assessments and formulation of Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs). She also has extensive experience in labor and human rights issues and is a certified SA 8000 lead auditor. She is part of the Strategic Community Investment global team that helps the private sector

enhance benefits to communities. Her responsibilities include leading complex projects in agribusiness, forestry and extractives, interfacing with clients to provide advisory services on social/community issues like land rights, livelihood development, gender and financial valuation of social impact investments. Sunrita has more than 14 years’ experience and has worked in Central Asia and South Asia, Africa, and Latin America and Caribbean regions.

Debra Sequeira, Head, Policy Team, Environment, Social and Governance Department, IFC Debra Sequeira coordinates policy issues and analytical work on aspects related to Performance Standards implementation. Debra has over 25 years of experience in the field of social development, with a focus on private sector operations.

Kate Sharum, Group Head, Corporate Responsibility, The New Forests Company Kate Sharum is a development professional with 10 years of non-profit and private sector experience throughout South and East Africa. Her focus is on social and environmental sustainability issues and GRI reporting, investor relations and social due diligence, private-sector led development program design & management, IFC Performance Standards and various donor reporting frameworks. A native of California, Kate has lived and studied in Northern California, South Africa, Italy and Ireland; and she has worked in South Africa, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Lesotho and Botswana. Kate spent the first three years of her career in

South Africa working in the rural Dennilton township of Mpumalanga Province, mobilizing women's groups and creating community care structures for Orphans and Vulnerable Children of HIV/AIDS, under a UNICEF-funded grant. Subsequently, she spent two years providing technical advice and program design for housing projects aimed at vulnerable children across East and South Africa with Habitat for Humanity International. Kate now focuses on corporate social investment and risk mitigation for The New Forests Company, a pan-African forestry and value added timber products company. Today, Kate’s efforts are divided between building and nurturing relationships with national / local government officials and investing time in communities structuring sustainable livelihoods stimulation programs.

Bernie Sheahan, Global Director, Infrastructure and Natural Resources, IFC Bernard Sheahan is responsible for IFC’s investments in power, transport, utilities, and extractive industries. He joined IFC in 1986, and has previously served as Director of IFC’s Infrastructure Advisory Department and IFC’s Director of Strategy. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard University.

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Chris Sheldon, Sector Manager, Oil, Gas and Mining Unit, World Bank Christopher Sheldon is the Sector Manager of the Oil, Gas and Mining Unit, Sustainable Energy Department of the World Bank with responsibility for the unit’s operations in Africa, Middle East, Europe, Central Asia, East Asia and the Pacific. His goal is to support countries to develop and manage responsible oil, gas and mining industries that contribute to inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction. Christopher worked in mines and lived with communities in Papua New Guinea and the Philippines before joining the Bank in 1999.

Kevin Sherlock, Mining Development Officer, Nokiiwin Tribal Council Kevin Sherlock has worked with First Nations in northern Ontario, Canada for over twenty-five years. His initial involvement was in education, where he worked in several isolated communities as both teacher and principal, later taking administrative roles with innovative distance education and urban educational projects. In 2002 he took on a more technical role working with First Nations across Ontario, and later with industry, on a number of capacity development initiatives involving the water and wastewater and mining sectors. Kevin is currently with Nokiiwin Tribal Council as Mining Development Coordinator. In this capacity he works with member communities

as they seek a balance between traditional and cultural values, economic pressures and resource development opportunities.

Josef Skoldeberg, Head of Communications for Infrastructure & Natural Resources, IFC Josef Skoldeberg oversees external and internal communications for IFC's investments in the oil, gas, mining, telecoms and infrastructure sectors. Josef covers a $13 billion loan and equity portfolio with projects in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He has worked on a number of large IFC projects including the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia, Minera Yanacocha in Peru, Ghana's offshore Jubilee oil field and the Simandou Iron Ore project in Guinea. In addition to representing IFC, he provides counsel to IFC clients on stakeholder relations and strategic communications. Prior to joining IFC, Josef was a research associate at the

Center for Strategy and Competitiveness in Stockholm where he focused on the economies of the Baltic Sea Region. Josef holds a masters degree from the Stockholm School of Economics and undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

Aldo Souza, Jr., Head of Social Projects, Anglo American Iron Ore Brazil Aldo Souza is responsible for the Minas-Rio Local Stakeholder Engagement Programme which includes 2500+ local stakeholders across 35 municipalities and local communities in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro states in Brazil. He also responds to the 390 BRL million institutional investment portfolio for Minas-Rio project implementation, including social investments, sponsorships, donations and other partnerships. Aldo’s past experience includes leading the Minas-Rio PMO and Business Development functions, in Anglo American as well as strategy consulting positions at Accenture and an internship position at IFC. Aldo holds a BSc Mining Eng (Honors) from the

Universidade de São Paulo and an M.B.A. in Finance & Accounting from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Christian Spano, Group Manager, Socio-economic Development, Anglo American Christian has worked for more than ten years in extractive industries including the forestry industry (strategy), power generation (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 supporting the implementation 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. Christian studied economics with a specialization in microeconomics and market failures (Magna Cum

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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.

Aaron Steeghs, Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, IAMGOLD Corporation Aaron has been the Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility at IAMGOLD Corporation since 2009. He is responsible for the company’s strategy on issues relating to Aboriginal, community and civil society engagement, as well as human rights, reporting and partnership development. Previous to joining IAMGOLD, Aaron worked in the sector for Breakwater Resources and Canadian Business for Social Responsibility. He has also worked for several Canadian and Peruvian-based development NGOs including the Stephen Lewis Foundation and the Coady International Institute. Aaron holds a BA in Anthropology from St. Francis Xavier University, an MA in International

Development from Dalhousie University and an International MBA from the Schulich School of Business.

Larry Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT; Director, MIT Science Impact Collaborative; Vice Chair, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer at the Consensus Building Institute Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT where he heads the MIT Science Impact Collaborative and teaches courses on international environmental treaty negotiation, water diplomacy, public dispute mediation and environmental planning practice. He is Vice-Chair of the inter-university Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (www.pon.harvard.edu), which he helped to create in 1983 and founder of the not-for-profit

Consensus Building Institute through which he provides mediation services in complicated public disputes around the world (www.cbuilding.org). Professor Susskind's latest book (with Shafiqul Islam) is Water Diplomacy: A Negotiated Approach to Managing Complex Water Networks (Resources for the Future, 2012). At present, he is also working with university partners at Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh) to enhance public engagement in hydro-development decisions in Patagonia and with colleagues at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) to document sustainable city development efforts in Malaysia.

Simon Thompson, Chairman, Tullow Oil Simon Thompson is chairman of Tullow Oil and a non-executive director of Amec, Rio Tinto and Sandvik. Simon held investment banking roles with N M Rothschild and S G Warburg before joining the Anglo American group in 1995, where he held a number of senior positions including executive director. He has previously served as a non-executive director of AngloGold Ashanti, Newmont Mining Corporation and Rusal.

Javier Velarde, Vice President, General Manager and Corporate Affairs, South America, Newmont Mining Corporation Javier Velarde Zapater’s main focus and responsibility is to incorporate the social and political aspects of Newmont activities into the business plans and long-term strategy. Mr. Velarde leads the company stakeholder engagement and communication strategy as well as the government affairs and legal compliance aspects of the company. Mr. Velarde was responsible for the Legal Affairs of Newmont Corporation internationally, based in Denver, Colorado (USA). Previously, Mr. Velarde was responsible for Yanacocha’s legal, regulatory and corporate affairs since 2006 as

Regional Vice President and Legal Counsel of Newmont Peru Ltd. Mr. Velarde is a member of the Executive Committee of Minera Yanacocha and Vice President of Los Andes de Cajamarca Association (Corporate Association of Minera Yanacocha). He is a graduate of the University of Lima (1990), and earned a Masters Degree in Environmental and Resource Law from the University of Utah (1997).

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Liz Wall, Social Development Specialist, Shared Resources Ltd . Liz Wall is a social development specialist with over 15 years of global experience assessing and addressing social, environmental and health risks associated with extractive and other sector investments in developing countries. She has extensive experience in Africa, Central Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe and South America. After working in the private sector and for the International Finance Corporation, she set up a consulting firm, Shared Resources Pty Ltd, over five years ago. She continues to work with extractive companies large and small on issues relating to the delivery of development benefits through the extraction of natural resources.

Mark Wall, Vice President, Security & Crisis Management, Barrick Gold Corporation Mark Wall has worked in the risk and security areas for 28 years, the last 18 years in the global mining sector for Barrick, Placer Dome and Western Mining Corporation (Now BHP Billiton), and several years as a specialist consultant focused on the mining sector, where, as the principal of a risk and security consultancy Mark led non-technical risk assessments, security reviews and audits of more than ten operations and projects in complex environments around the world. Previously, Mark worked for 10 years within the Australian government in the areas of tactical/counter terrorist operations and criminal investigations. Mark has completed business and leadership

programs at Harvard Business School in the United States and Oxford Business School in the United Kingdom, he holds a Masters Degree in Security from the faculty of Health, Engineering and Science at Edith Cowan University in Australia, an Advanced Diploma in Risk Management and a Diploma in Project Management. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, based in The Hague, The Netherlands and is also a member of the Steering Committee of the United Nations Business for Peace platform.

Travis Walsh, Senior Financial Analyst, Ecom Agroindustrial Corp. Ltd Travis Walsh has a unique background that includes applying treasury and risk management functions to contribute to sustainable business growth. He works to create sustainable solutions to address global challenges including: developing supply chains, addressing poverty, climate change and other inequalities in his role as Senior Financial Analyst, Sustainability at ECOM Trading. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Texas Tech University, a CSM/SAI Platform Sustainability Master Class from IMD Business School and a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) designation.

Monika Weber-Fahr, Chief Knowledge Officer and Senior Manager of the Independent Evaluation Group, Communication and Strategy Unit (IEGCS) and Chair of the Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) Board

Monika Weber-Fahr has worked for nineteen years in a variety of relevant functions across the WBG. Formerly, as Director of the Sustainable Development Network, she spearheaded efforts to build analytical and advisory services provided by Network staff into a cohesive, effective and client-responsive portfolio. Prior to SDN, Monika worked with the IFC where she set up the Sustainable Business Advisory practice, serving as its Global Business Line Leader, working with

firms towards the adoption of environmental, social and governance practices and technologies. Before joining IFC, Monika built and led the Global Development Learning Network and Multimedia Division at the World Bank Institute. Prior to this, Monika served as a Senior Economist at the joint IFC/Bank Mining Department; worked with the Bank's Corporate Strategy Group, setting up the first Development Marketplace, a high profile innovation management effort, and supporting a variety of corporate initiatives; and worked as a TTL of urban sector and energy efficiency projects in the World Bank’s Eastern Europe department. Monika brings private sector experience from working for a number of years with the Boston Consulting Group. She holds a PhD in business economics and has pursued undergraduate and graduate studies in economics, international relations and business administration in Germany, Italy and the UK.

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Jan Wehebrink, Manager, Global Portfolio, Infrastructure and Natural Resources, IFC Jan Wehebrink has been working in structured and project finance as well as treasury operations since 1990. Since joining IFC 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, including Peru LNG. From November 2011, Jan has managed IFC’s Global Portfolio, Natural Resources and Infrastructure department, responsible for a range of investments, primarily in oil gas and mining, as well as contributing to IFCs internal portfolio strategy and reporting functions. Prior to joining IFC, Jan worked for Woodside Petroleum and Australia LNG as Assistant Treasurer and Project

Finance Manager. Prior to that, Jan spent eight years at the EBRD in London and Budapest. Jan started his career at Midland Montagu in London and Milan. Jan was educated in the UK, with a BSc(hons) in Economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Marielle Canter Weikel, Senior Director, Responsible Mining and Energy, Conservation International Marielle leads CI’s Responsible Mining & Energy program and CI’s strategy for engaging multinational mining and energy companies in developing more sustainable environmental policies and strategies. In that capacity she serves as a senior technical advisor for the program and in support of CI’s field programs, working across all sector partnerships. Marielle’s areas of expertise include application of the mitigation hierarchy, biodiversity offset design, performance standards, impact assessment, water management strategies, and government policy. Marielle

previously led CI’s strategy to engage companies on freshwater conservation and is trained in the Water Footprint Network methodology. She also served as manager for the Energy & Biodiversity Initiative. Over her CI tenure, Marielle has managed and advised on complex relationships between CI and dozens of large multinational companies across a variety of sectors. Prior to joining CI, Marielle worked as an environmental, health and safety consultant, and held numerous positions in the public policy and government arenas. Her Masters’ research focused on the implementation effectiveness of mining companies’ environmental policies and strategies, and undergraduate research included field investigation of environmental conflict in the Lake Victoria region of East Africa and the connections between water availability and urban sprawl in the southwestern US.

Kevin Wilkins, Program Director, GrowCocoa Kevin currently serves as the Program Director for GrowCocoa, the cocoa livelihoods and sustainability partnership of US-based Blommer Chocolate Co., North America's largest cocoa processor and ingredient chocolate supplier, and Singapore-based Olam International Ltd., a leading global agri-business supplier. In this role, Kevin oversees program activities, global communications, outreach and partnerships, and works with the Olam and Blommer teams to improve programs and expand operations in West Africa and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining GrowCocoa, Kevin was the Director of Operations and Africa Business Development for CG/LA

Infrastructure, a Washington, DC-based infrastructure advisory firm. He has previously worked in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Ghana, where he focused on developing and implementing agricultural and educational programs in partnership with local and regional governments and community-based groups. Prior to his work in West Africa, Kevin held two appointments during the administration of President George W. Bush and served as a U.S. Marine. Independently, Kevin serves as a co-chair to the Society for International Development’s Private Sector Development Workgroup and is an active member within other international development and veterans associations.

Luc Zandvliet, Director, Triple R Alliance Luc Zandvliet is the Director of Triple R Alliance Inc., a small collective of experts who support both juniors as well as mayors operating in frontier markets with their social performance approaches. He has conducted over 80 site visits with 25 companies – mainly in the oil and mining industries – in 20 countries, in a variety of capacities from conducting conflict impact assessments to coaching staff and implementing influx management plans, community engagement strategies and grievance procedures. Before starting Triple R, together with Mary Anderson, Luc authored Getting it Right; Making Company-Community Relations Work, documenting best practices with regard to

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company-community relations in contexts of social and political instability. The book is based on the lessons learned through the Corporate Engagement Project, which Luc directed. Sixty companies participated in this effort to develop practical management options for companies that want to ensure their presence has a positive, rather than negative, impact on local stakeholders. Luc is also a Senior Associate with Shift, which is an independent, non-profit center for business and human rights practice.

The Sustainability Exchange Team

Anna Akhalkatsi is a Global Product Specialist with the Supply Chain and Community Investments

practice area of the Sustainable Business Advisory Department at the IFC. In this capacity, she has worked with several investment clients on SME development, linkages, farmer capacity building and access to market issues. Anna brings 14 years of investment and advisory experience from across the World Bank Group. As part of her career with IFC, Anna has served as country representative for Georgia, portfolio officer for SME banking investments, business linkages specialist. Before joining IFC, Anna worked as an economist at the World Bank focusing on private sector development and structural reforms. Anna holds a Master’s degree in Economic Policy

Management from the University of Auvergne, France.

Maria Arsenova is an Operations Officer with IFC based in Washington, DC with over 8 years of

experience on social development issues. Her work is currently focused on assisting private sector companies with challenges of designing sustainable programs in their communities, social risk management, monitoring and evaluation, and sustainability reporting. In her career at IFC, Mrs. Arsenova worked with project proponents to develop community participatory monitoring programs in a number of large-scale oil and gas projects such as Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Peru LNG pipeline projects. She worked with diverse companies that include Petrotesting oil and gas exploration and production company in Colombia, Schahin Group in Brazil, and DSCL Group in India

to develop their sustainability strategies and produce sustainability reports. Since 2011, Mrs. Arsenova started focusing on the needs of IFC clients in the forestry sector. She worked with forestry clients in Nicaragua, India, and Indonesia, assisting them in developing stakeholder engagement and monitoring systems. Mrs. Arsenova co-authored IFC’s Handbook on Strategic Community Investment and recently led a Global Survey on Best Practices in Community Relations in the palm oil sector.

Karla Diaz Clarke is an Operations Officer at IFC’s Strategic Community Investment Department

where she designs, implements and supervises revenue management and community engagement projects related to the extractive industries. She is also the Gender Champion for the Sustainable Business Advisory area in LAC. Prior to joining IFC, she design, planned, and implemented projects at two major international consulting firms: Ernst & Young and Deloitte Consulting in the retail and telecommunications sectors in Peru and Brazil; did market research in the oil sector for Euromonitor International in England and France; and was an advisor to the Minister of Foreign Trade in Peru specializing in competitively and export development. She holds an MBA from the

Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris) and a degree in Business Administration from the University of Lima.

Rodrigue Djahlin is currently the Regional Sector Leader for SBA in the extractive sector in Africa.

In his position, he managed projects with IFC client and is currently leading a team of three staff on the implementation of IFC the local supplier development program with Rio Tinto in Guinea. He is also responsible for advisory services business development in the region and is currently working to finalize and launch new programs in Ghana, Mozambique and Liberia.

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Adriana Maria Eftimie is a Social Development Specialist with IFC Advisory Services. She is part

of the Strategic Community Investment global team that provides help to the private sector to enhance benefits to communities. Her work focuses on extractive 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 expertise 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 practice 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 Extractive Industries Program, which supports the development of approaches and operational tools to address gender issues in extractive industries activities and raises awareness of these critical issues among World Bank staff, governments, civil society, and major oil, gas and mining companies.

Sherry Goldberg is a consultant in IFC’s Sustainable Business Advisory department. She is part of

the Strategic Community Investment global team as well as IFC’s Gender Secretariat, where she focuses on gender issues in the extractive industries as well as energy access for rural women. Previously, Sherry has done research to develop proposed non-financial disclosure guidelines for the Shanghai Stock Exchange's extractive industry companies to link social and environmental performance to financial performance and investor confidence. She has also worked on issues of extractive industries and sustainable development for the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment in New York and the Center for Human Rights and Environment in

Córdoba, Argentina, as well as served as a Climate Change and Sustainable Development Fellow at Women’s Environment and Development Organization in New York. Sherry worked for four years at NGO Natural Resources Defense Council on communications and environmental justice litigation. She has a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in International Environmental Studies and Political Science from the University of Washington.

Brian M Gurr is a consultant on IFC's Strategic Community Investment global team, where he

focuses on communications and the financial valuation of sustainability investments in the plantation 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 multi-nationals, in the agribusiness, forestry, and non-timber forest products sectors. His passion lies in applying market-based solutions to environmental conservation and poverty alleviation challenges, which he pursues through application of his technical skills in value chain analysis, corporate social and environmental management, SME development and entrepreneurship. His career initially

focused on Central America, but has expanded in recent years to include Africa and Southeast Asia. Prior to IFC, Brian worked at a major international conservation organization managing global and site-specific projects promoting the sustainable production of palm oil. Brian holds a Masters in Business Administration from George Washington University, and undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Spanish from the University of Virginia.

Toniqua Hay is a Consultant with IFC's Sustainable Business Advisory Department. She has over

10 years of operations, consulting, training and project management experience. Her international work consists of program design, monitoring transparency, fiscal accountability, service delivery performance, and human resources management. Prior to her engagement with the IFC, she has worked with USAID in Tanzania, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, The Home Depot, and a boutique operations strategy consulting firm where she worked with energy and manufacturing clients across North America. Toniqua holds a Masters of Public Administration from Cornell University and Bachelors of Science in Management and Operations from Georgia Institute of

Technology.

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Felicity Kolp is a Policy Officer in IFC’s Environment, Social and Governance Department in

Washington, DC. She works on a range of issues related to human rights and social development in the private-sector context. She has a PhD in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, master’s degrees in International Development Policy and International Human Rights Law from Duke and Oxford Universities, and a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.

Maria Iturralde MacDicken is a multi-skilled Knowledge Management and Learning professional

with more than 25 years of combined experience in project management, visual communications and instructional design, with key emphasis on events, web, databases, publications, presentations and trainings. She has been with IFC for 16 years and currently works as a Learning Analyst with the Environment, Social and Governance Department, and the Sustainable Business Advisory Group at IFC. Maria graduated with a B.S. degree in Tourism Management from the University of the Philippines.

Gosia Nowakowska-Miller is a Local Procurement and Community Investment Specialist for

International Finance Corporation's Sustainable Business Advisory Department, Strategic Community Investment unit devoted to ensuring the distribution of local benefits and community engagement linked to the investments IFC makes around the world, in sectors ranging from infrastructure and natural resources to agriculture. She advises private sector clients operating in Africa, Asia and Latin America on designing and implementing local procurement strategies and programs. Gosia has co-authored the Guide to Getting Started in Local Procurement. Ms. Nowakowska-Miller has been with the IFC for over 10 years working on small and medium

enterprise (SME) capacity building and local procurement issues focusing on oil, gas and mining sectors. Prior to IFC she worked at SCOR Reassurance in Paris developing new markets in Eastern Europe, and in Warsaw, Poland launching a business management software for SMEs. She has a MBA and a Masters Degree in International Affairs from George Washington University, and a B.A in International Relations from Boston University.

Fernando Ruiz-Mier is a Senior Operations Officer at IFC’s Community Investment Department

where he leads the design and supervises the implementation of the Revenue Management and other Strategic Community Investment work in Latin America. Prior to IFC he headed two leading consulting firms in Bolivia: Ruiz Mier Consulting and Research and KMPG Consulting, specializing in public services regulation, local development and poverty. He has done extensive research and consulting work in Bolivia, Venezuela, Mozambique, Angola, Guyana and Honduras for various bilateral and multilateral organizations. He also held the position of Manager in the Andean Development Corporation and served as Vice-Minister in Bolivia in three occasions in the Ministry

of Human Development, the Ministry of Planning and the Ministry of Finance. Fernando holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Purdue University.

Debra Sequeira is head of the Policy Team in the Environmental, Social and Governance

Department of the IFC. She coordinates policy issues and analytical work on aspects related to Performance Standards implementation. Debra has over 25 years of experience in the field of social development, with a focus on private sector operations.

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Stephanie Sines is an Operations Officer with IFC's Sustainable Business Advisory team in Africa.

She has seven years of experience in local content development and mining community investment. She is currently providing technical assistance to the Simandou Project through the IFC-Rio Tinto Local Supplier Development Program in Guinea. Ms. Sines holds an MBA from Georgetown University.

Anna Vorotniak has a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Master’s Degree in Audit and

Accounting. She has 3 years of experience working in the Supply Chain and Customer Development departments for Unilever LLC in Ukraine and over the past 2 years has worked in IFC’s Washington, DC office providing team support for the Financial Operations and Sustainable Business Advisory departments.