Expert speaker line-up for the 2015 event

David Atkins is a hydrologist and environmental scientist with over 15 years of experience. He has conducted numerous investigations of the effects of extractive resource projects on water resources in North, Central and South America and in Indonesia.

His recent work with the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman, World Bank Group, highlights his experience with the IFC safeguard policies.

He has conducted independent evaluations of community environmental concerns at the Yanacocha Gold mine in Peru, the Marlin Gold mine in Guatemala, and the Antamina copper and zinc mine in Peru.

Through this work he has gained experience evaluating the environmental and socioeconomic concerns of communities influenced by mining projects. He also has extensive experience working with diverse groups of stakeholders to develop consensus on technical issues.

Mr. Atkins conducted a technical assessment of a complaint to the CAO regarding environmental impacts from the Antamina copper and zinc mine in Peru.

Citizens in the coastal community where the mining company operates a mineral concentrate ship loading facility were concerned that activities could have led to contamination of Huarmey Bay and impacts to the fish stocks that support an important industry in the region.

Dr. Chris Anderson, an anthropologist, is Rio Tinto’s strategy leader and corporate functional lead for Communities in the Americas, with a particular focus on Indigenous communities. He also contributes to Indigenous communities work worldwide and provides advice and support to operations on Rio Tinto standards on Communities practice, in particular contributing to the Group’s Community agreement-making innovation and implementation. He is a member of the board of the Open Contracting Partnership of the World Bank Institute and of the Valuation Advisory Committee for First Peoples Worldwide. He is a past chair of the International Council on Mining & Metals Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples working group. Dr. Anderson is also Adjunct Professor Anthropology, University of Queensland and a Member of the American Anthropological Association and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Anderson previously worked from 2005 for Newmont Mining Corporation as Director, Corporate & External Affairs Africa, having previously served as Group Executive Social Responsibility in Newmont Mining Corporation’s head office in Denver, USA from 2002.

Prior to joining Newmont, Dr Anderson was Executive General Manager Public Affairs for Normandy Mining, Australia’s largest gold mining company.  He was Chief Executive of the South Australian Museum from 1993 to 1998 and previously taught anthropology at the Universities of Queensland, California at Los Angeles, and Adelaide.  Dr Anderson is a specialist in social performance, community relations, stakeholder engagement and cross-cultural consultation.  Dr Anderson received his Bachelor of Arts degree (Hons.) in Anthropology, a Ph.D. in Anthropology and a Diploma of Organizational Psychology all from Queensland University in Brisbane Australia.  

James Viray has extensive experience working with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), governments and multinational corporations in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. He developed his expertise on sustainable development through conducting assessments, engaging stakeholders from village chiefs to Presidents, and designing and implementing global development projects throughout Africa and Asia. Uniquely, he has had the opportunity to assess sustainable development issues from the perspective of an international NGO, a government agency and a major oil & gas company. 

James is responsible for driving sustainability through ConoccoPhillips’ supply chain by engaging suppliers and contractors on their management of environmental, social and governance issues. Focusing on sourcing and procurement processes that promote sustainable practices, metrics for measuring suppliers' sustainability performance and capacity-building to help them meet the company's sustainability expectations.

Recognized for his innovative work, James has published articles on corporate social responsibility and has represented the United States at the United Nations and OECD.

Rafael spent 8 years at Vale working with international business strategy, policy & regulatory affairs, international trade & investments, sustainable development, CSR. He joined in 2006 to structure the international affairs area and was part of the team who led the acquisition of INCO. He was appointed VP Corporate Affairs for Vale Inco in Toronto. He then served as Senior Executive, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability at Vale International in Switzerland; and the latest 3 years as Vale's Global Head of Corporate Affairs.

Prior to it, Rafael held relevant positions in the public and private sectors, including legal advisor to Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretary; international coordinator in the Brazilian Textile Industry Association; consultant to the Organization of American States in Washington DC; international associate at the WTO in Geneva; legal associate at Steptoe & Johnson LLP; and general-manager for international affairs and trade at FIESP. He is also a former member of Royal Dutch Shell’s External Review Committee (ERC) in the Hague.

Rafael is an attorney and holds a Master in Law of International Economic Relations (PUC-São Paulo) and a Master-LLM in IEL (University of Warwick, UK). He was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University and fellow of the Institute of International Economic Law, in DC. He served as the Assistant-Editor to the JIEL (Oxford University Press). He pursued business education at the IMD (Lausanne), and FGV/ISAE (Brazil).

Luc has been working to support the stakeholder engagement of companies operating in frontier markets since 2000, when he established the Corporate Engagement Project (CEP) at CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, a US-based non-profit. The CEP engages companies in a collaborative effort to gather lessons and develop practical management options in order to ensure that their presence has positive, rather than negative, impacts on local stakeholders.

From this work, Luc wrote Getting it Right, Making Corporate-Community Relations Work, with Mary B. Anderson in 2009 (Greenleaf Publishers). The book, intended for company managers and business school students, documents best practices in company-community relations, especially in contexts of social and political instability, and is currently used by several oil and mining companies as their main guidance on the issue.

Luc then founded Triple R Alliance (TRA), a small collective of experts that has provided support to companies operating in frontier markets. Luc's approach has been to accept periodic longer term on-site managerial assignments in order to appreciate the practical challenges that social performance departments face at the field level. He has drawn on these experiences in conducting conflict/human rights impact assessments, in coaching staff and in developing engagement approaches and management systems. Luc has conducted over 90 site visits with 30 companies (mainly in the oil and mining industries) in 25 countries, including places such as the DRC, Nigeria, Colombia, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea. Other than directly working with companies, Luc has collaborated with industry associations such as PDAC, IPIECA and ICMM on the facilitation of pilot projects with industry members or by drafting guidance for the the industry.

He is frequently asked by companies, governments and civil society groups to facilitate strategy sessions or to present on industry trends, to benchmark industry practices or to speak on specific topics such as grievance mechanisms, management systems or performance management.

Luc is also a Senior Associate with Shift, an independent, non-profit center for business and human rights practice.

Before working in the corporate social performance discipline, Luc worked in the humanitarian field with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ethiopia and with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Burundi, the DRC, Uganda, Sudan, Eritrea and Sierra Leone.

Dr. Silvana Costa is a community planner and social performance professional, and for the last 15 years her focus has been socially responsible mining development. Before joining New Gold in late 2011, Silvana has worked as a private consultant, and for the British Columbia (BC) Provincial Government. Her work experience includes policy development, socio-economic impact assessments, environmental and community engagement and development and the design and implementation of corporate social responsibility strategies in the extractives sector.

As the Senior Advisor, Environment and Social Responsibility at New Gold, Silvana is involved in planning and implementation of corporate initiatives related to environmental and social responsibility, the development of corporate social responsibility standards, strategies and policies as well as sustainability reporting.  Her work includes close coordination with sites in Mexico, US, Canada and Australia to continuously improve ESR performance in a way which respects the expectations of New Gold’s investors, Aboriginal partners, local communities, regulators and other stakeholders.

Silvana has also been the Chair of the Association for Mineral Exploration of BC (AME BC) CSR Committee since 2013. The CSR Committee has worked diligently to increase the awareness and uptake of social responsibility practices within the BC exploration and development sector.

Chile has worked on engagements for corporations, governments, and non-profits for over 10 years. He is most interested in the interplay between business and society and the ways in which that interplay can improve social and environmental outcomes.

Chile has worked with companies and nonprofits in the US and abroad in developing and implementing shared value strategies, particularly in the extractives sectors. He has led a year-long research project investigating shared value in oil and gas and mining. He has also worked with the Hilton Foundation on refining their foster youth strategy.

Chile has been helping companies develop and implement strategic growth initiatives and the organizational structures to support them. He also has assisted non-profits in creating and refining fund-raising strategies and worked with US state and federal environmental regulatory agencies on program design and evaluation.

Veronika M. Kohler is the Director of International Policy at the U.S. National Mining Association and responsible for all of the association's engagement on international issues that impact the mining sector.

Veronika joined NMA in 2010 after working for The World Bank in the Sustainable Energy, Oil, Gas and Mining Division for five years. During that time she worked on mining projects in Africa, Central and South America, and Asia and on overarching global issues impacting the mining sector. Veronika facilitated continuing efforts on Communities and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining work.

She received her undergraduate degree from George Mason University and her graduate degree from Universidad Jaume I.

Greg Gould is Director of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) and is responsible for the collection and disbursement of billions of dollars annually in revenues owed the Federal government and American Indians from energy production on all Federal and American Indian lands. Additionally, he is responsible for ONRR’s compliance, enforcement, and financial management programs.

Mr. Gould began his career with the Department of the Interior as a Geologist in the New York Outer Continental Shelf office of the Bureau of Land Management in 1981. Prior to serving in his current position, Mr. Gould served as head of the Environmental Division within the former Minerals Management Service and was responsible for exercising policy and staff direction over a nationwide program for environmental assessment of the Outer Continental Shelf. The Division provided policy guidance, direction, and program oversight with respect to evaluating the potential and actual environmental impacts associated with extraction of offshore minerals, including oil, gas, sand, gravel, and renewable energy production. The Division ensured agency policies and industry practices conformed to the Nation’s environmental policies and laws; managed the National Offshore Environmental Studies Program; and oversaw the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement for the 5-Year Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program.

In addition to his Executive Branch work, Mr. Gould served as an energy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Oceanography.

Mr. Gould earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the State University of New York, a Master’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University, and graduated from the John F. Kennedy School of Government Senior Executive Fellows program at Harvard University.

Danielle Brian has been the Executive Director of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) since 1993. POGO is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that champions good government reforms. POGO’s investigations into corruption, misconduct, and conflicts of interest achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government. Information about POGO, including the organization's financial disclosures, can be found here:http://www.pogo.org/about/ Ms. Brian was inducted into the Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame, was twice ranked by Ethisphere magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in business ethics, and received the Smith College Medal. Brian serves on the board of Taxpayers for Common Sense, and is the chair of the Steering Committee for Openthegovernment.org. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Government from Smith College, and her Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Over the last dozen years of a three decade-long career, Bennett Freeman has worked at the intersection of governments, international institutions, multinational companies, investors and NGOs to improve corporate conduct and to promote human rights and sustainable development around the world. An innovative leader in business and human rights, natural resource governance and socially responsible investment, he has played pioneering roles in developing several now well-established multi-stakeholder initiatives and global standards.

As Senior Vice President for Sustainability Research and Policy at Calvert Investments since April 2006, Bennett Freeman leads the environmental, social and governance research, analysis, public policy and shareholder advocacy work of the largest family of sustainable and responsible (SRI) mutual funds in the U.S with nearly $13 billion assets under management based in Bethesda, MD. Freeman has contributed to Calvert’s leadership on Sudan divestment; extractive revenue transparency; Internet freedom of expression and privacy; workplace diversity; water sustainability; and climate change adaptation.

Freeman serves as Chair of the Advisory Board of Global Witness; Vice Chair of the Board of United to End Genocide; a Trustee and International Advisory Board member of the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHBR); Board Secretary of the Global Network Initiative (GNI); a member of the Governing Board of the Revenue Watch Institute; and Board Chair of EG Justice. Freeman served on the Board of Oxfam America from 2002-10 and represented Oxfam and the Publish What You Pay Coalition on the Board of the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) from 2006-09. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is a frequent lecturer and media commentator on sustainable investment, corporate responsibility and human rights.

Patrick Field is Managing Director of CBI and Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program. He leads CBI's Energy, Environment and Land Use practice and has helped thousands of stakeholders reach agreement on natural resource, land use, water, and air issues across the United States and Canada. Patrick is experienced at working with diverse large groups at the interface of policy, politics, and technical complexity, those seeking collaborative action and public engagement, and socially disadvantaged groups such as Native Americans and First Nations. He often works with and between local, regional, state, and federal governments and is a dynamic trainer and lecturer, delivering curricula to professionals across sectors in the U.S. and globally.

Patrick is listed on the roster of conflict resolution professionals of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, E.P.A’s master contract for ADR professionals, and the Massachusetts Office of Collaborative Practice (MOCP). He is co-author of the award-winning book,Dealing with an Angry Public, as well as numerous journal articles and research papers. He was born and raised on a ranch in rural western Colorado and currently resides in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Building on more than 25 years of international development experience, Kyle has led many of FSG’s Global Health and Global Development engagements.

Since 2002, Kyle has managed over 100 consulting projects for FSG in the areas of strategy, program design, operations and evaluation. He encourages FSG’s teams to think creatively and practically to create client solutions for social impact; helps set the vision for the firm and manages the annual business plan; and he writes and speaks on ideas related to global health, global development and companies’ engagement with society.

Prior to joining FSG, Kyle was a strategy consultant at OnTheFrontier, a Monitor Group company. He worked with Professor Michael Porter on domestic competitiveness projects and advised Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, on the country's future 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 continent: mass marketed insecticide treated mosquito nets, female condoms, and a novel network of HIV/AIDS voluntary counseling and testing centers.

The high visibility, economic impact, community expectations and time sensitive nature of The Games present similar social challenges to the Mining, Oil and Gas industry.

Dr. Braga is responsible for developing and managing the sustainability, accessibility and legacy programs of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio 2016.
She has a profound expertise in sustainability. Her background combines a PhD in applied economics with a successful hands-on experience in managing sustainability projects for local and national governments, research institutions, global companies and NGOs. She also lectured at a number of postgraduate level, in Brazil and Switzerland. 
Before joining Rio 2016 in March 2012, Dr Braga worked as Scientific Head of Sustainable Sport and Event at the AISTS (International Academy of Sports Science and Technology) and as a senior researcher at IMD Business School.

At the early age of 15, Tania Braga already wanted to build a more sustainable future for the planet. Today, with a professional career of more than 20 years, she currently helps adopting the “sustainable mindset” in all the Rio 2016 Games planning. She draws a panorama of the area and explains: “For us, Games-time is now”.

In his current role as Co-Chair of the San Francisco Bay Area Super Bowl 50 Sustainability Sub Committee Neill is responsible for leading the Host Committee’s commitment to deliver a “Net Positive” Super Bowl – socially, environmentally and economically. The Host Committee intends that Super Bowl 50 will be, with the support of its many corporate partners, the most giving, most shared and most participated in Super Bowl ever and aims to set a new benchmark for how Super Bowls are delivered post 50.

Neill is also Chief Catalyst for One World Play Project, an award winning BCorp whose mission it is to deliver the transformative power of play to children around the world,  anywhere and everywhere, Neill is responsible for the company’s strategic and commercial affairs. One World Play Project has to date, with the support of its Founding Partner Chevrolet, delivered over 1 million almost indestructible One World Futbols to over 160 countries and in the process positively impacted the lives of over 35 million people. By allowing them to play, whatever their circumstances.

Neill provides strategic, commercial and engagement solutions for brands, sports and non profits wishing to collaborate at the intersection of “profit + purpose” and in the process amplify shared value in support of a sustainable future.

Mr. Anderson serves as Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, Inc., a company that plans to revolutionize current space exploration and help ensure humanity's prosperity for generations to come.  Planetary Resources is bringing the natural resources of space within humanity’s economic sphere of influence.

Mr. Anderson graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia where he studied aerospace and software engineering.

He is a Board Member of the X PRIZE Foundation and the Koshka Foundation, and he also serves as the Chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.

Mr. Anderson has been an active member of the Young Presidents Organization and in 2008, he was chosen by the World Economic Forum (Davos) as a member of the Forum of Young Global Leaders.

Tom Fisher serves as a Sustainable Development Manager for the Caterpillar Corporate Sustainability Group.  He initiates, manages and promotes sustainable projects within Caterpillar, our supply chain, dealers and customers. Tom is responsible for the Revenue from Sustainable Products project.  He is the process owner of the Chairman’s Award for Sustainability, focusing on sustainable products/processes and services within Caterpillar.  Tom is responsible for the Divisional Sustainability Coordinators organization, acting as a conduit for ideas that are generated within the individual divisions.  In addition, he participates in the generation of the Caterpillar Sustainability Report and the submission for the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

Prior to Sustainable Development, Tom worked in Global Mining for Caterpillar World Trade (CWT), a wholly owned subsidiary.  He marketed and sold commodities that CWT traded or bartered machines for.  He specialized in metallurgical coal, steam coal, metals and industrial minerals.  Before Caterpillar, Tom was Director of Quality and Safety for Hagerty Steel and Aluminum, a Caterpillar supplier of parts and fabrications.  He started his career with a 15 year run with Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Company working as the Quality Assurance Manager within a production facility.

Tom earned a BS in Chemistry and Biology from Eureka College and a MS in Microbiology from Western Illinois University.  He is a Certified Quality Manager with ASQ.

Prior to joining CBI, Tushar earned a Master’s degree in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served as both a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs and an Indicorps Fellow and worked at the Center for Court Innovation. He is a certified mediator and has provided mediation services in Massachusetts District Court and has trained mediators at the Harvard Mediation Program.

Tushar speaks Hindi, having lived and worked in India for two years. He has also lived and studied in Chile and speaks conversational Spanish.

Focuses on Energy development and regulation, international development, corporate stakeholder engagement, river remediation, climate change adaptation, commercial negotiations.

• Housatonic River Remediation – Co-facilitator of negotiations between the Environmental Protection Agency, state agencies from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and the General Electric Company around the remediation of the Housatonic River due to PCB contamination. Also co-facilitator of the related Housatonic Citizens Coordinating Council public engagement process.
• Osage Nation Negotiated Rulemaking – Co-facilitator of negotiations between the Osage Nation and the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to revise regulations governing the Bureau’s trust management of the Osage Minerals Estate.
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy – Conducted research and developed a paper exploring U.S. federal and state regulation of shale gas development, including hydraulic fracturing. Developing a companion paper exploring local regulatory responses to shale gas development and hydraulic fracturing.

Overview

Building on more than 25 years of international development experience, Kyle has led many of FSG’s Global Health and Global Development engagements, and he has been a key contributor to the firm's shared value, catalytic philanthropy, and collective impact frameworks.

Role at FSG

Since 2002, Kyle has managed over 100 consulting projects for FSG in the areas of strategy, program design, operations and evaluation, and he speaks frequently at social sector and industry conferences and roundtable events.  Kyle has worked with the world's leading companies and funders, including the Shell Oil Company, Aetna, Eli Lilly & Company, Pfizer, Verizon, Merck, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and he is currently a member of the Global Health Council’s Board of Directors.

Before FSG

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.

Education

• University of Texas, McCombs School of Business and Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, MBA and MPA
• American University, Washington, DC, BA in international studies

Affiliations

• Board Member, Global Health Council
• Global Philanthropy Committee, Council on Foundations
• Options International

Publication highlights

• “Ahead of the Curve: Insights for the International NGO of the Future” (FSG, December 2013)
• “Competing by Saving Lives: How Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies Create Shared Value in Global Health” (FSG, March 2012)
• “Lobbying for Good” (Stanford Social Innovation Review; Winter 2009)
• “Smarter Programming of the Female Condom: Increasing Its Impact on HIV Prevention in the Developing World” (FSG, October 2008)

View a list of Kyle’s publications here.

Learn more about Kyle’s select client engagements here.

Guillermo is married and currently with two sons.

He is Sustainability Director for Minera San Rafael, at Tahoe Resources.

He has more than 15 years of experience on sustainability, ethics, communication and competitiveness.

He was advisor to the Board of Directors of CentraRSE, founder and its first Executive Director for more than 7 years. CentraRSE is a coalition of companies in Guatemala, dedicated to promoting Corporate Social Responsibility and is the representative of the WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) for Guatemala.

He has also worked as a consultant supporting companies in their sustainability strategies in sectors like: renewable energy, mining, agribusiness, agrochemicals, transport, among others.

Prior to this, he was the Executive Director of PRONACOM (National Competitiveness Program of Guatemala), a private-public-partnership to improve competitiveness and foreign direct investment.

He holds a degree on Business Administration. He has post-graduate studies on Management of the Universidad Pontíficia Católica de Chile and a master’s degree on International Relations and Public Administration at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.

He collaborates in the Board of Directors of companies and several non-for-profit organizations. He has been a university professor since 2002 and has attended and given multiple seminars in more than 11 countries.

Alex James is the Global Manager for Sustainability at Halliburton, working within the Global HSE and Service Quality team. His focus areas are sustainability strategy and external reporting, including responsibility for the annual Corporate Sustainability Report. A key objective is working with Halliburton’s 13 product service lines and support functions to reduce sustainability impacts across the value chain and to empower our stakeholders to reduce theirs.
Alex holds a Master’s degree in environmental technology from Imperial College, London, specializing in business and environment. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry from King’s College, London. Alex is a member of the Institute for Environmental Management and Assessment and a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.