The course features lectures from twenty of the world's leading experts in natural resource governance. We are incredibly grateful for the time and energy they committed to this initiative.
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Lisa Sachs, Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. Since joining CCSI in 2008, she established and now oversees the three areas of focus for CCSI: investments in extractive industries, investments in land and agriculture, and investment law and policy. She has developed a robust research portfolio in each of these areas, and has overseen advisory work in Mozambique, Guinea, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia, Paraguay and Timor-Leste. She teaches a masters seminar at Columbia Law School and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs on Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development, and has helped to build course offerings and executive trainings at Columbia Law School on investment law and policy and sustainable development. She is a co-chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s thematic group on the Good Governance of Extractive and Land Resources and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of International Governance, Public-Private Cooperation and Sustainable Development. From 2014-2016, she was Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Mining & Metals. . She received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard University, and earned her Juris Doctor and a Masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, where she was a James Kent Scholar and recipient of the Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law.
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Patrick Heller, Advisor, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Patrick Heller is an advisor at NRGI and a senior visiting fellow at the Center on Law, Energy and Environment at the University of California – Berkeley. He has worked on legal reform and governance initiatives in the developing world for more than 15 years for organizations including USAID, the U.S. State Department, the Asian Development Bank, Creative Associates International and The International Center for Transitional Justice. Patrick’s work at NRGI focuses on the governance of state-owned oil and mining companies, the analysis of extractive industry contracts and pathways to sustainability for fossil fuel-producing countries. He contributes extensively to NRGI’s programs of technical assistance to governments and civil society organizations throughout the world, and to NRGI’s capacity development efforts. He has facilitated courses on oil, gas and mining legal frameworks with partner institutions including the University of Oxford (U.K.), Columbia University (U.S.), Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia), the Catholic University of Central Africa (Cameroon) and Externado University (Colombia). He holds a law degree from Stanford University and a master’s in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor, Columbia University and Director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist. Professor Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He served as the Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He was appointed as University Professor in 2016 and also serves as Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals and held the same position under former Secretary-Generals Ban Ki-Moon and Kofi Annan (on the Millennium Development Goals). Professor Sachs is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable economic development and the fight against poverty. His work on ending poverty, promoting economic growth, fighting hunger and disease, and promoting sustainable environmental practices, has taken him to more than 125 countries with more than 90 percent of the world’s population. For more than a quarter century he has advised dozens of heads of state and governments on economic strategy, in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He has authored three New York Times best sellers in the past 7 years: The End of Poverty, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, and The Price of Civilization. His most recent book is Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair & Sustainable.
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Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; Director, International Growth Centre
Sir Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College. From 1998–2003 he took a five-year Public Service leave during which he was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank. He is currently a Professeur invité at Sciences Po and a Director of the International Growth Centre. He has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural resources rich societies; urbanization in low-income countries; private investment in African infrastructure and changing organizational cultures. Recent books include The Bottom Billion (Oxford University Press, 2007) which in 2008 won the Lionel Gelber, Arthur Ross and Corine prizes and in May 2009 was the joint winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book prize; Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (Vintage Books, 2009); and The Plundered Planet: How to reconcile prosperity with nature (Oxford University Press, 2010). His latest book is Exodus: How migration is changing our world (Oxford University Press, 2013) In 2014, Paul received a knighthood for services to promoting research and policy change in Africa.
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Alexandra Gillies, Advisor , Natural Resource Governance Institute
Alexandra Gillies is a specialist on natural resource governance and transparency. Her recent work has focused on the political economy of oil, extractive sector transparency standards including the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the governance challenges associated with national oil companies and commodity trading, and the Nigerian oil sector. She has authored academic articles on these topics, and co-edited the volume Smart Aid for African Development (2009: Lynne Reiner). Alexandra holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Cambridge, where her research addressed the political economy of oil sector policymaking in Nigeria. She spent 2008 in Nigeria as a Fulbright Fellow. Prior to joining the Natural Resource Governance Institute, she consulted for organizations including World Bank, DFID, USAID and several political risk firms, and served as Assistant Director for the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University. Alexandra also holds degrees from the University of Ghana and Emory University. At NRGI, Alexandra has a key role in supporting various strategic planning efforts. She supports the design, development and implementation of NRGI country programs, serving as a resource for regional directors and country managers.
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Daniel Kaufmann, President & CEO, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Daniel Kaufmann is President and CEO of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, formerly Revenue Watch Institute – Natural Resource Charter. An economist, he 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.
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Mark Moody-Stuart, Former Chairman of Shell and Anglo American
Mark Moody-Stuart was Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group from 1998 to 2001 and of Anglo American plc from 2002 to 2009. After a doctorate in geology in 1966 at Cambridge, he worked for Shell starting as an exploration geologist, living in Holland, Spain, Oman, Brunei, Australia, Nigeria, Turkey and Malaysia, and UK. A director of Saudi Aramco 2007- , Accenture (2001-2015) and of HSBC (2001-10). Chairman of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium. (2008-) and of the FTSE ESG Advisory Committee. Vice Chairman of the United Nations Global Compact Board and Chairman of the Global Compact Foundation 2006-. Honorary Co-Chairman of the International Tax and Investment Center 2011-, Member of the International Council for Integrated Reporting, Chairman of the of the Global Business Coalition for HIV/AIDS 2002-2011, board member Global Reporting Initiative 2002-7 and the International Institute for Sustainable Development 2002-2011. Author of “Responsible Leadership – Lessons from the front line of sustainability and ethics”. Married to Judy with four children.
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Antonio Pedro, Director, UNECA Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Africa
Antonio M.A. Pedro is a mineral exploration geologist with over 30 years of broad experience of and exposure to development issues and management at national, sub-regional, and continental levels. He joined the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in 2001, where is currently the Director of ECA’s Sub-regional Office for |Eastern Africa, based in Kigali, Rwanda. He has has been at the forefront of mineral policy analysis and strategy setting and has published or led the publication of major studies and/or policy papers and think pieces on the nexus between the extractive sector and sustainable development. He led the work of the International Study Group on Africa’s Mineral Regimes (ISG), a major ECA initiative to ensure that Africa’s mineral resources fully contribute to the socio-economic development of the continent in a sustainable manner. The ISG work culminated in the publication of the “Minerals and Africa’s Development” report. He also spearheaded the formulation of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV) which was adopted by the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government, in February 2009. He is member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Co-Chair of its thematic group on the Good Governance of Extractive and Land Resources. He is equally a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on "Mining and Metals in a Sustainable World", Honorary Fellow in the Graduate School of Natural Resources Law, Policy and Management (CEPMLP) of the University of Dundee, and faculty member of the Executive Training on Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development, a joint programme of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) and of the Center on Globalisation and Sustainable Development (CGSD) at Columbia University. He serves in the Board of Directors and Advisory Groups of several institutions and global initiatives including the CCSI. He holds an MSc in Mineral Exploration from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London.
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Carole Nakhle, Founder and CEO, Crystol Energy
Dr Carole Nakhle is the founder and CEO of Crystol Energy. An Energy Economist, she specializes in international petroleum contractual arrangements and fiscal regimes; upstream oil and gas regulations; petroleum revenue management and governance; energy policy, security and investment; and world oil and gas market developments.With a unique breadth of experience, Dr Nakhle has worked with oil and gas companies (IOCs and NOCs), governments and policy makers, international organizations, academic institutions and think tanks, globally. She is active on the Governing Board of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), a program advisor to the Washington based International Tax and Investment Centre, and regular contributor to Geopolitical Intelligence Services and the Executive Sessions on the Political Economy of Extractive Industries at Columbia University in New York. She is also involved in the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development and acts as a Visiting Lecturer at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, lectures and supervises postgraduate research at the University of Surrey in the UK, and Saint Joseph University in Beirut. Dr Nakhle is a respected contributor to the global debate on energy matters, with more than 150 articles in academic journals, newspapers and magazines to her credit, as well as being a prominent speaker at international industry conferences. She has reviewed studies, books and reports for leading publishing houses and consulting firms and is an avid commentator on energy in the international media. She has appeared on Al Arabiyya, Al Jazeera, the BBC, CNBC, CNN, among others. She is the Executive Editor of Newsweek’s special edition ‘The Future of Innovation in the Oil and Gas Industry’. Dr Nakhle is also the author of two widely acclaimed books: Petroleum Taxation: Sharing the Wealth published in 2008, re-printed in 2012, and used as primary reference in leading universities and industry training courses; and Out of the Energy Labyrinth (2007), co-authored with Lord David Howell, former Secretary of State for Energy in the UK. She is currently working on a new book: Petroleum Fiscal Regimes and Wealth Management. Dr Nakhle has worked on energy projects in more than 40 countries and has been on exploratory visits to the Arctic and North Sea. She is also the director of the not-for-profit organization ‘Access for Women in Energy’, which she founded in 2007, to support the development of women in the energy sector, worldwide. In 2017, she gave evidence to the UK Parliament International Relations Committee on oil markets and the transformation of power in the Middle East and implications for the UK policy. In the same year, she received the Honorary Professional Recognition Award from the Tunisian Minister of Energy, Mines & Renewable Energy.
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Paulo de Sa, Practice Manager, Energy and Extractives Practice, World Bank
Paulo de Sa is the Practice Manager of the Energy and Extractives Global Practice at the World Bank, where he 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 FlaringReduction (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.
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Lise Johnson, Head, Investment Law and Policy at Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Lise Johnson’s work at CCSI centers on analyzing the contractual, legislative, and international legal frameworks governing international investment, and shaping the impacts that those investments have on sustainable development objectives. She focuses in particular on analyzing international investment treaties and the investor-state arbitrations that arise under them, examining the implications those treaties and cases have for host countries' domestic policies and development strategies. In addition, she concentrates on key institutional and procedural aspects of the legal framework, including efforts to increase transparency in and legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement. She has a B.A. from Yale University, J.D. from University of Arizona, LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and is admitted to the bar in California.
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Matthew Genasci, Founder, Mining Policy Group
Matthew Genasci is a lawyer and policy advisor focusing on extractive sector law and policy, with an emphasis on mining and petroleum fiscal regimes, mineral rights licensing and tenders, and contract negotiations. Before starting Mining Policy Group, Matthew headed the law and economics team at the Natural Resource Governance Institute. He has worked on a range of resource projects and policy reform processes in countries throughout East, West & Southern Africa, East & Southeast Asia, South America, and Central Asia & the Caucasus. Matthew also works with international organizations, research institutes and development agencies on a variety of research and training projects related to natural resource governance. Matthew was previously international and corporate tax counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. Matthew has a J.D. from Stanford Law School and an M.A. in International Relations & International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
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Daniel Franks, Programme Manager, Minerals for Development, United Nations Development Programme
Dr Daniel Franks is the Chief Technical Advisor and Programme Manager of the ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme at the United Nations Development Programme. Dr Franks is well known for his research on sustainable development in the extractives sector. He is the author of more than 100 publications including the book Mountain Movers: Mining, sustainability and the agents of change (Earthscan, 2015) and his highly cited study with Rachel Davis on the costs of company-community conflict in the extractives sector, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Originally trained as a geologist, Dr Franks retrained in political and social sciences. He has field experience at more than 70 mining and energy sites internationally and in more than 37 countries. Prior to joining UNDP he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland and a Senior Social Scientist at the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water. He has been a Visiting Professor at Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile; Columbia University, New York; the University of Eastern Finland; and the University of Western Australia. He is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Minerals Policy & Economics (Resources Policy) and Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal.
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Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment University of Delaware
Saleem Ali is an environmental planner whose research and practice focuses on ways of resolving ecological conflicts through technical and social mechanisms, as well as exploring novel ways of peace-building between corporations, governments and communities. He holds the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professorship in Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware, USA. He has also held the Chair in Sustainable Resources Development at the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute in Brisbane, Australia (where he retains professorial affiliation). Previously he was Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Natural Resources where he was founding director of the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security. His books include Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, (Yale Univ. Press); Environmental Diplomacy (with Lawrence Susskind, Oxford Univ. Press), Mining, the Environment and Indigenous Development Conflicts (Univ. of Arizona Press) and Islam and Education: Conflict and Conformity in Pakistan’s Madrassas (Oxford Univ. Press). He has also authored over a hundred other peer-reviewed publications and been the editor of acclaimed anthologies including “Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution” (MIT Press) and “Diplomacy on Ice: Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic” (with R. Pincus, Yale Univ. Press). He received his doctorate in Environmental Planning from MIT, a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from Yale University and Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Tufts University (summa cum laude).
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Deanna Kemp, Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
Deanna is a leading international expert focused on the social and political challenges of the global mining industry. Deanna specialises in industry-engaged social science that bridges company and community perspectives on extractive industries. Particular areas of interest include company-community conflict, displacement and resettlement, and human rights and development challenges. Deanna is also interested in how the global mining industry is organised, resourced and incentivised to respond to these pressing challenges.Deanna commenced her research career with UQ in 2006 as a Senior Research Fellow with CSRM. In 2012, she was promoted to Associate Professor and CSRM’s Deputy Director and in 2016 to Professor and Director of People Centres for the SMI, encompassing CSRM and the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre (MISHC). Deanna has made significant contributions to positioning CSRM as a world-leading centre of research excellence. In her current role, Deanna manages and delivers high-profile research, leads diverse project teams, and supervises more than 30 staff and students.Deanna serves on the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB), the New Member Review Panel for the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), and was recently appointed a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership. She is a member of the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA), the International Network of Displacement and Resettlement (INDR) and the Society for Applied Anthropological Association (SfAA).
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Cristina Villegas, Deputy Director of Mines to Markets, Pact
Ms. Cristina Maria Villegas serves as deputy director of Pact’s Mines to Markets (M2M) program, which implements some of the biggest artisanal mining programs in the world. She is a recognized global expert in Artisanal & Small-scale Mining (ASM) and has 10+ years of experience within the development sector. She specializes in ASM rural development strategies, mineral sector governance & capacity building, sustainability, gender & mining, reducing child labor in mining, and ethical sourcing/risk management in artisanal mining supply chains. With direct field experience across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, she advises multi-million dollar ASM development programs involving diverse materials such as diamonds and gold, to coal, salt, gypsum, the “3Ts” (conflict minerals) and beyond. She is a member of Fairtrade’s Technical Advisory Committee for Gold, is an Expert Associate of the Artisanal Gold Council, advisor to the Responsible Ecosystems Sourcing Platform’s Gemstones Working Group, and a member of the Precious Stones Multi-Stakeholder Working Group. She is regularly consulted as an ASM Expert on gold, gemstones, and ‘conflict minerals’ by such organizations such as: Harvard, Global Witness, The World Bank, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, UN Women, USAID, the US Department of State, US Department of Labor, major international management consultancies, and journalists for the Economist, Guardian, and specialist mining publications. Her written work on ASM has appeared in publications for the World Bank, United Nations, USAID, Kimberley Process guidance for ASM diamond producer countries, and recently via the Cambridge University Press. A social scientist by training with an interest in economics, the environment, and the power of the private sector, she has a Master’s degree in Human Rights focused on natural resources & civil conflict from the London School of Economics (LSE) and graduated with distinction from the University of California at San Diego. She has previously worked for Catalyst Resources Development Group LLC, Estelle Levin Ltd. (ELL), WWF, the Fund for Global Human Rights, and the World Bank.
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Mohammed Amin Adam, Deputy Minister of Energy, Ghana
Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam is Ghana's Deputy Minister of Energy (with responsibility for the petroleum sector). He has worked extensively on extractive industries and resource management as a University lecturer, advisor on resource governance and a campaigner for transparency in resource management around the globe. He has advised governments and provided technical support to civil society and parliamentary committees on energy, mines and finance in Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, South Sudan and Kenya.
Before working in the Ministry of Energy, Amin Adam was the Founder and Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP). He also worked as an Energy Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Energy in Ghana, Commissioner of Ghana’s Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, Deputy Minister of State for the Northern Region, and Mayor of Ghana’s third city of Tamale. He was also the Africa Coordinator of extractives industries in Ibis.
He holds Board positions in the Open Contracting Partnership; the Natural Resources and Community Review, the Weston Oil and Gas Fund; and Zoil Oil Waste Services, among others.
Dr. Adam holds a PhD. in Petroleum Economics from CEPMLP of the University of Dundee in the UK specializing in petroleum fiscal systems, fiscal policy in resource-led economies, and resource governance. He also holds an MPhil (Economics) and B.A. (Hons) Economics from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana and is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Economists of Ghana (ICEG).
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Perrine Toledano, Head, Extractive Industries, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Perrine Toledano leads the Center’s focus on extractive industries and sustainable development. She leads research, training and advisory projects on fiscal regimes, financial modeling, leveraging extractive industry investments in rail, port, telecommunications, water and energy infrastructure for broader development needs, local content, revenue management, and optimal legal provisions for development benefits. Prior to joining CCSI, she worked as a consultant for several non-profit organizations, including the World Bank, DFID and Revenue Watch Institute, and private sector companies, including Natixis Corporate Investment Bank and Ernst and Young. Her experience includes auditing, financial analysis, IT for capital markets, public policy evaluation and cross-border project management. She has a Masters of Business Administration from ESSEC in Paris, France, and a Masters of Public Administration from Columbia University.
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Cielo Magno, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, University of the Philippines
Cielo Magno is Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines’ School of Economics and the National Coordinator of Bantay Kita, the Publish What You Pay Coalition in the Philippines. She represents civil society in the multi-stakeholder group of the Philippine Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and a member of the Global Council of Publish What You Pay (PWYP). She is a fellow of Action for Economic Reforms and Social Watch-Philippines. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in economics from the University of the Philippines. As a Fulbright scholar, she earned her PhD in Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University in Boston.
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Michael Stanley, Mining Sector Lead, World Bank
Michael Stanley is the Global Lead - Extractives within the World Bank Group, Washington D.C. Michael provides technical leadership on global lending operations in the extractives sector, the generation of knowledge products and learning, formulation of sector strategy to guide the World Bank Group in its engagements, and development of professional oil, gas and mining staff. Michael has strong global experience in resource development over a twenty eight year career, both within the private sector and within recently within the World Bank Group since 2003. He has worked in resource development projects across Latin America, Europe & Central Asia, Africa, South Asia and East Asia Pacific regions. Michael is widely recognized for his policy advice to governments to inform sector development, understanding of the interventions to improve sector governance, and broad experience in aligning investments from the public and private sector towards more sustainable outcomes. Michael continues to support broader knowledge management of extractive industry sector issues both for internal use within World Bank Group, and for global dissemination through the EI Source Book online, open-source platform. Michael is a Canadian with degrees in Geoscience (H.BSc. Western University), Mineral Exploration (M.Sc. McGill University), and Mineral Economics/Mining (Ph.D).
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Anthony Paul, Principal Consultant, Association of Caribbean Energy Specialists
Anthony Paul is Principal Consultant at Association of Caribbean Energy Specialists (ACES) Ltd., a leading Caribbean oil, natural gas and power advisory firm, based in Trinidad and Tobago. In his 30 plus years in petroleum and mining, he has held technical, commercial, management and leadership roles, spanning the entire petroleum exploration and production value chain in Government and State and Multinational companies. As a consultant, he provides strategy, business development and implementation support through critical analysis of the inter-related policy, regulatory and technical and commercial industries facets. He draws on T&T's extensive experiences in transmitting an integrated approach (the “Trinidad and Tobago Model”) for capacity development, local value addition and retention and good governance in support of sustainable development from extractives. He has worked in East, West & Southern Africa, Middle East, Central & Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, He holds a BSc(Hons) in Geology from Imperial College, University of London and an MS in Exploration Geophysics from the University of Houston, Texas.
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Håvard Halland, Visiting Scholar, Stanford Global Projects Center, Stanford University
Håvard Halland is a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Global Projects Center. Prior to this, he was a senior economist at the World Bank’s Finance & Markets Global Practice, Investment Funds Group. His research and advisory work focus on sovereign wealth funds and strategic investment funds. In particular, his work has focused on fund mandates, governance frameworks, as well as economic and policy implications of SWFs’ domestic investment. He is an author or joint author of academic and policy research papers, book chapters, magazine articles and blogs, and regularly presents at international conferences and seminars. He earned a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge.
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