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Event Date |
Tue Jun 13 EEST - Wed Jun 14 EEST (over 1 year ago)
In your timezone (EST): Mon Jun 12 5:00pm - Tue Jun 13 5:00pm |
Location |
Centre International de Conférences Abdou Diouf (CICAD)
Pôle urbain de Diamniadio - B.P. 4026, Rufisque, Senegal |
Region | EMEA |
It will gather more than 1,000 stakeholders to take stock of progress in publishing and using open data to inform decision-making, analysis and public debate on accountable natural resource management. The conference will celebrate achievements in natural resource transparency and multi-stakeholder dialogue, while also looking to the future to consider how should adapt to a changing energy landscape and growing demand for an open and accountable resource sector.
2023 Speakers
PLENARY SESSIONS:
H.E. Mr Macky Sall
President, of the Republic of Senegal
Rt Hon. Helen Clark
Chair of the Board, EITI
H.E. Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani
President, of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
H.E. Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou
Prime Minister, of Niger
H.E. Jonas Gahr Støre
Prime Minister, of Norway
H.E. Jonas Gahr Støre
Prime Minister, of Norway
Hon. Diamantino Pedro Azevedo
Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Angola
Hon. Awa Marie Coll-Seck
Minister of State, Chair EITI National Committee, Senegal
Hon. George Mireku Duker
Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources (Mines), Ghana
Hon. Antoinette N'Samba Kalambayi
Minister of Mines, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Hon. Louis-Paul Motaze
Minister of Finance, Cameroon
Hon. Jean-Baptiste Ondaye
Minister of Economy and Finance, Republic of the Congo
Hon. Sharkhan Iran Sharkhanovich
Vice-Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development, Kazakhstan
Hon. Arifin Tasrif
Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Indonesia
Hon. Lamine Seydou Traore
Minister of Mines, Mali
Bady Baldé
Deputy Executive Director, EITI
Alex Cobham
Chief Executive, Tax Justice Network
Opoku-Ahweneeh Danquah
Chief Executive Officer, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
Lawrence Dechambenoit
Global Head of External Affairs, Rio Tinto
Rohitesh Dhawan
President and Chief Executive Officer, ICMM
Abdoulaye Mar Dieye
Special Coordinator for development in the Sahel, UN
Gabriela Egaña
Head of Citizen Participation, Ministry of Mines, Chile
Peter Eigen
Founder, Transparency International
Jorge Arturo Reina Garcia
Director of Transparency and Corruption Prevention, Secretariat for Transparency and Fight against Corruption, Honduras
Joanne Jones
Communications Director, EITI
Suneeta Kaimal
President and CEO, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Daniel Kaufmann
Senior Fellow at Results for Development and at the Brookings Institution, and President Emeritus, NRGI
Paul Maassen
Chief of Country Support, Open Government Partnership
Sebastião Martins
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sonangol
Themba Mkhwanazi
CEO of Bulk Commodities, Anglo American
Richard Nephew
Coordinator on Global Anti-Corruption, U.S. Department of State
Demetrios Papathanasiou
Global Director Energy and Extractives Global Practice, World Bank
Saad Rahim
Chief Economist, Trafigura Group Pte Ltd
Mark Robinson
Executive Director, EITI
Wael Sawan
Chief Executive Officer, Shell
Nicolas Terraz
President Exploration & Production, TotalEnergies
Njoya Tikum
Resident Representative a.i Senegal & Manager Sub-Regional office for West & Central Africa, UNDP
Prof. Kevin Chika Urama
Chief Economist/Vice President for Economic Governance & Knowledge Management, African Development Bank Group
Rhoda Weeks-Brown
General Counsel and Director of the IMF Legal Department, IMF
PARALLEL AND PARTNER SESSIONS:
Pilar Acosta
Coordinator EITI, Transparencia por Colombia
Hon. Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam
Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance, Ghana
Souad Aden-Osman
Executive Director, Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA)
Charles Afeku
Advisor to the Director/CEO, African Legal Support Facility
Kristine Aghalaryan
Journalist, Investigative Journalists of Armenia (HETQ)
Jerry Ahadjie
Chief Minerals Officer, African Natural Resources Mgt. and Investment Centre, African Development Bank
Ibrahima Aidara
Deputy Regional Director, Open Society Foundations - Africa
Hon. Francess Piagie Alghali
Minister of State, Office of the Vice-President, Sierra Leone
Ali Nazar Faeq Al-Shatari
Deputy Director General, State Oil Marketing Company (SOMO)
Mike Anderson
Senior Vice President, Sustainability and External Affairs Kosmos Energy
Patricia Pinto Arenas
CSO representative, EITI Subnational Arequipa Peru
Hon. Mawunyo Mila Aziable
Minister Delegate to the President of the Republic, in charge of Energy and Mines, Republic of Togo
Grace Barrasso
Vice President, Environment and Sustainable Development, ArcelorMittal
Nick Beattie
Company Secretary and CFO, Savannah Energy plc
Anthony Bebbington
International Program Director, Natural Resources and Climate Change, Ford Foundation
Edward Bickham
Senior Adviser, World Gold Council
Benjamin Boakye
Executive Director, Africa Center for Energy Policy
Ridwan Botji
Head of the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources, Southeast Sulawesi province, Indonesia
Yannick Bouterige
Research Assistant, Taxation Program, Ferdi
Evelynne Change
Chief Governance Officer, African Development Bank
Nafi Chinery
Africa Director, NRGI
Michael Clements
Director for International Programmes, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
TJ Conway
Principal, Climate Intelligence, RMI
Vanessa Cueto
Vice President, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR)
Nana Akua Dehye II
Queen Mother of Sanzule, Ghana
Agustina De Luca
Community Engagement Manager, Open Ownership
Maja de Vibe
Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Statkraft
Hon. Miguel Diaz
Vice Minister of Mines, Ministry of Energy and Mines, Dominican Republic
Barbara Dischinger
Director and Founder, International Women in Mining
Sophie Donszelmann
Manager, ICMM
James Ensor
Chief Executive Officer, BHP Foundation
Hon. Ismaila Madior Fall
Minister of Justice, Senegal
Aminata Ly Faye
Corporate Affairs Manager Senegal, Endeavour Mining
Richard Folland
Head of Policy and Engagement, Carbon Tracker
César Gamboa
Executive Director, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR)
Jeff Geipel
Mining Shared Value Founder and Managing Director, Engineers Without Borders Canada
Shannon N. Green
Assistant to the Administrator, USAID Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance
Titus Gwemende
Division Director-Equity, Open Society Foundations
Tamika Halwiindi
Environmental Governance Officer, Transparency International Zambia
Raphael J Heffron
Professor of Energy Justice & the Social Contract, CNRS & University of Pau
Hon. Hovhannes Harutyunyan
Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure, Armenia
Robin Hodess
Strategy Lead, B Team
Don Hubert
Founder and President, Resources for Development Consulting
Rushaiya Ibrahim-Tanko
Project Director, PPA Transparency project, Energy for Growth Hub
Mukhlis Murtadlo Ishak
Vice President Tax, PT Freeport Indonesia
Hon. Bruno Jean Richard Itoua
Minister of Hydrocarbons, Republic of the Congo
Michael Jarvis
Executive Director, Transparency and Accountability Initiative
Hon. Rinaldo Jeanty
Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Lands and Minerals Sector, Natural Resources, Canada
Yungongo Theophilus Jong
Policy Research and Advocacy Lead, AFRODAD
Benjamin Katz
Manager, Minerals Sector Programme, Centre for Responsible Business Conduct, OECD
Jean-Jacques Kayembe
National Coordinator, EITI-DRC
Marit Kitaw
Interim Director, African Minerals Development Center
Nicolas Kobiane
Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Forecasting, Burkina Faso
Guillaume Kurek
Chief Executive Officer GCO, Eramet Group
Rodrigo Lauria
Head of Climate Change, Vale
Jennifer Lewis
Deputy for Programs, Anti-Corruption Task Force, USAID
Karim Lourimi
Chartered Public Accountant and Partner, Enerteam
Cielo Magno
Undersecretary, Fiscal Policy and Monitoring Group (FPMG), Department of Finance, Philippines
Valérie Marcel
Co-Founder and Director, New Producers Group
Alanna Markle
Policy and Research Manager, Open Ownership
Rafael Gimenez Martin
Tax Sr. Manager, Global Tax Compliance, Repsol
Alan McLean
Former Executive Vice President Taxation and Controller, Shell plc
Esteban Manteca Melgarejo
Senior Country Manager LAC, EITI
Aubrey Menard
Senior Policy Advisor, Oxfam
Adrian Mill
Managing Director, ESS
Clancy Moore
Chief Executive Officer, Transparency International Australia
Richard Morgan
Head of International Government Relations, Anglo-Amercian
Akere T. Muna
Laywer and Founder of Transparency International Cameroon
Vuyisile Ncube
Corporate Advocacy Coordinator for the Making Clean Energy Clean program, Earthworks
Aida Diop Ndiaye
President, WIM Senegal
Mukupa Nsenduluka
Policy Officer Tax and Natural Resource Governance, Tax Justice Network Africa
Aryanto Nugroho
National Coordinator, Publish What You Pay
Naadira Ogeer
Economic Adviser, Commonwealth Secretariat
Oghor Okhai-Akhigbe
Head, Extractives and Natural Resources, African Legal Support Facility
Gay Alessandra Ordenes
Asia Director and Anti-corruption Lead, EITI
Oleksiy Orlovsky
Democracy and Good Governance Program Director, International Renaissance Foundation
Papa Alioune Badara Paye
Deputy Permanent Secretary, EITI Senegal
Fernando Arturo Peña
Director, Dominican Observatory of Public Policy (ODPP-UASD)
Mario G. Picon
Director, The Governance Action Hub Results for Development
Robert Pitman
Senior Governance Officer, NRGI
Isabelle Ramdoo
Deputy Director, IGF
Maria Lya Ramos
Associate Director, Extractive Industries Global Program, Oxfam
Christopher Rice
Executive Vice President, Taxation & Corporate Structure, Shell
Lorena Roa
National Coordinator, EITI Colombia, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Colombia
Hon. Johana Rocha
Vice Minister of Mines, Colombia
Julia Ross
Director of People and Sustainability, Tullow Oil plc
Yessica Prieto Ramos
National Directress of Research and Projects, Crudo Transparente
Louise Russell-Prywata
Acting Executive Director, and Director of Policy and Advocacy, Open Ownership
Sebastian Sahla
Policy Manager, EITI
Hon. Abdessalam Ould Mohamed Saleh
Minister of Petroleum, Mines and Energy, Mauritania
Matthieu Salomon
Acting Governance Programs Director, Senior Governance Officer, NRGI
Mauricio Alarcon Salvador
Executive Director, Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo
Tebuho Suuya
Senior Economist, Ministry of Finance and National Planning, Zambia
Viola Tarus
Policy Advisor Tax and Extractives, IISD
Telye Yurisch Toledo
Economist and researcher, Terram Foundation
Hon. Raphael Tonpi
Vice Minister of State Enterprises, Papua New Guinea
Hon. Judith Suminwa Tuluka
Minister of State in charge of Planning, MSG Chair, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Maria Dolores Vallenilla
International Relations Advisor for Latin America, Anglo American plc.
Hon. Ousseini Hadizatou Yacouba
Minister of Mines, Niger
Mustapha Mani Yusuf
Director, Monitoring and Coordination, Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office
2023 Sponsors
• Anglo American
• ArcelorMittal
• BHP
• BP
• Chevron
• Equinor
• Exxon Mobil
• Freeport-McMoRan
• Glencore
• Kosmos Energy
• Newmont
• Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
• Rio Tinto
• Shell Inc
• Staatsolie
• Total Energies SE
• Trafigura Group
• Tullow Oil
• Vale