Speakers

SPEAKERS

Alan Fine is Public Affairs Manager at AngloGold Ashanti, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. His functions focus mainly on dealing with matters of public policy as they affect the company and the business world generally. These include, among other things, matters related to the South African mining charter and black economic empowerment, HIV/AIDS, sustainability reporting, relationships with governments etc.

 

He also represents AngloGold Ashanti, or organisations to which the company is affiliated, in its interaction with other organisations, for example sits on committees of Nedlac – National Economic Development and Labour Council – South Africa’s tripartite negotiating form, and of Business Unity South Africa, the country’s employer federation.

 

He has been with AngloGold Ashanti since July 2002. Prior to that he was a journalist for 18 years, mostly at Business Day newspaper where he worked as deputy editor, Cape editor, features editor and labour editor – specialising in labour, politics and public policy.

 

From 1978 until 1984, after graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a degree in economics, he worked as a trade unionist for the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union.

 

 

Atle Sommerfeldt, ordained pastor, has been the General Secretary of Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) since 1994. Through NCA’s focus on advocacy, he has worked with CSR- issues for many years, for example: Hydro’s involvement in India, ethics related to the Norwegian Petroleum Fund, ethical trading, and in 2008 especially through our focus on the mining industry in Tanzania.

 

 

Beate Ekeløve-Slydal is a political advisor and lobbyist at Amnesty International Norway. Human rights and business is one of her main responsible areas. She's a political scientist specialised in international politics and the combat of international terrorism. She's a writing co-editor of a textbook on human rights which has been translated into five languages. She has also published a number of articles and gives lectures frequently.

 

Bent Sofus Tranøy is a researcher at Fafo and is a professor at Høgskolen i  Hedmark. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Oslo and is
Master of Science from London School of Economics and Political Science. He was involved in the ARENA-program and the Makt- og demokratiutredningen at University of Oslo. He has been a guest researcher at WZB in Berlin. He won the award Brageprisen for his book ”Markedets makt over sinnene” (the power of the market on the minds) in 2006.  He is author and editor of several articles and books.

 

 

Cecilie Hultmann joined the UN Global Compact Office in New York in May 2006 where she has been a part of the communications team in addition to being responsible for the Global Compacts activities related to public-private partnerships for sustainable development. Recently relocating to Norway, she is now working as a consultant for the Global Compact Office. In addition, she is currently a corporate responsibility advisor for Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise. Ms. Hultmann has a background from the UN Development Programme, where she worked on business contributions to the Millennium Development Goals, and the UN World Food Programme. Ms. Hultmann holds a joint graduate degree in public administration and international development studies from Roskilde University and a joint degree in sociology and communications from the University of London, Goldsmith College. 

Charmian Gooch is the co-founder and co-director of the Nobel Peace Prize nominated campaigning organization, Global Witness which addresses the links between natural resource exploitation and the funding of conflict and corruption. She jointly led its first campaign which exposed the illegal trade in timber between the Khmer Rouge and Thai logging companies and their political and military backers. This resulted in the cutting off of logging revenue to the Khmer Rouge and put forestry reform at the centre of international donor policies.

 

Charmian launched Global Witness’ second groundbreaking campaign, combating conflict diamonds in 1998 following detailed research and investigations across Africa and Europe. Following on from this she led international policy work to develop the Kimberley Process and has also lobbied for other major international initiatives to address the corrupt exploitation of natural resources including the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and Publish What You Pay (PWYP). In 2005 Charmian was presented with The Gleitsman Foundation International Activist Award and this year Global Witness received the Center for Global Development / Foreign Policy Magazine Commitment to Development Ideas in Action Award

 

Prior to founding Global Witness Charmian worked as a researcher and campaigner at the Environmental Investigation Agency (1987-1992) and as the Public Relations Manager at Media Natura (1992-1995). She has a degree in History from the University of Wales.

Elin Enge, Executive Director of ForUM, has for 30 years been actively engaged in environment and development issues through national and international NGOs. She has been Head of information in Norwegian Save the Children, Director of The Norwegian Campaign and ForUM for Environment and Development, advisor at the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, Director of the Norwegian Development Fund, Advisor in Norwegian Peoples Aid.

 

She was a member of the Norwegian Commission on Norwegian North-South and Aid policies.

 

She has held several international positions in the NGO movement; Board Member in WEDO (Women for Environment and Development Organisation), Earth  Action, Founder of the European network, ANPED and Chair of Reality of Aid, Chair of the Sophies Foundation  and Chair of the Drylands Co-ordination Group.

 

Erik Hagen is journalist at www.norwatch.no. Hagen has reported on the social aspects of the mining sector, and visited in December 2008 a local village next to AngloGold Ashanti’s Geita mine in Tanzania. Norwatch is an independent news service which covers Norwegian investments in developing countries, particularly looking at how the companies relate to human rights, labour rights and environmental standards.

 

 

Erik Solheim is Minister of the Environment and International Development. He is a long time member, and former leader, of the Socialist Left Party.

Erling Borgen is a journalist, writer and filmmaker. He has made more than 80 documentaries from all over the world. Most of these have dealt with human rights issues. He has been a correspondent for NRK in Latin-America and in the USA. Today he is running his own TV-production company and is an active participant in the public debate. For many years, he has been following the development of the Guantanamo base, and investigated Kværner’s activities there. When NRK refused to broadcast a film that included information about Kværner in Guantanamo, it became clear that Kværner had sent a letter to NRK where they had warned against the contents of the film.

 

Halvor Molland is vice president of communication in Hydro. He is holding a masters degree in chemistry from Norwegian University of Technology and Science. He has been working for the Norwegian company Umoe, NATO's Stabilisation force (SFOR)  in Bosnia in Hercegovina and Swiss-based ABB prior to joining Hydro in 2006. Molland is also an experienced freelance journalist.

 

 

Hannah Ellis is Coordinator of the Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition in the UK and head of strategy for the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ).  The ECCJ brings together national platforms of civil society organizations including NGOs, trade unions, consumers’ organizations and academic institutions promoting Corporate Accountability (CA) from all over Europe. ECCJ represents over 250 civil society organisations present in 16 different countries around Europe like the FIDH and national chapters of Oxfam, Greenpeace, Amnesty International and Friends of the Earth. The Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition is best known for its successful campaign around UK Company Law Reform, and will be launching a new campaign for a UK Commission on Human Rights, The Environment & Business later this year.

 

 

Joris Oldenziel has a Masters degree in International Relations and is working as Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) in the Netherlands. His area of expertise is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Accountability. He has extensive experience in researching the policies and practices of Multinational Corporations with a particular focus on labour and human rights issues in global supply chains. He has worked extensively on code development, monitoring and verification of multi-stakeholder initiatives and CSR certification schemes.

 

Joris Oldenziel has also been actively involved in mobilizing civil society organisations at national as well international level in the area of corporate responsibility and accountability. He is co-founder of the Dutch CSR Platform, a coalition of more than 40 Dutch civil society organisations and OECD Watch, a network of more than 80 civil society organisations worldwide promoting the use of the OECD Guidelines. Both networks are being hosted by SOMO. Furthermore, Joris Oldenziel is co-founder and currently holds a seat in the Steering Group of the European Coalition for Corporate Justice, a European wide network of CSR coalitions.

 

Karen Curtis is Deputy Director of the ILO International Labour Standards Department. Karen Curtis is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School and majored in Philosophy at Barnard College. She joined the ILO Standards Department in 1988 after serving a fellowship at the Minnesota Lawyers for International Human Rights. Ms. Curtis, Deputy Director of the International Labour Standards Department, has specific responsibility for freedom of association matters, an area in which she has been working for fifteen years. In January 2004, Ms. Curtis had the responsibility of chief of the Secretariat for the Commission of Inquiry established to examine trade union rights violations in Belarus.

 

Katherine Gallagher is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), where she focuses on holding individuals, including US and foreign government officials, and corporations, including private military contractors, accountable for serious human rights violations. Among the cases she is working on are Arar v. Ashcroft, Matar v. Dichter, Saleh v. Titan and Estate of Atban v. Blackwater.

Prior to joining CCR, she worked at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from 2001-2006.  She has also worked as a legal advisor for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Kosovo, with the United Nations International Independent Investigating Commission in Beirut, Lebanon, and with the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown.   During the negotiations to establish the International Criminal Court, she worked as a member of the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice in the International Criminal Court, to ensure that gender-based violence and discrimination are adequately addressed.

Katherine received a joint M.A. in Journalism and Middle East Studies from New York University in 1995 and a J.D. from the City University of New York in 2000.

 

Kathryn McPhail, Senior Program Director at the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) joined ICMM in 2002 following over 20 years of development work with the World Bank Group in Washington D.C. and four years in the British High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya.

Since 2002, Kathryn has led the development of ICMM’s Sustainable Development Framework. This comprises ten principles, reporting indicators and third party assurance. She leads and oversees ICMM’s successful Resource Endowment initiative, a policy research project designed to identify good practice and to document the socio-economic contribution of mining investments in poor countries. She managed ICMM’s participation in the World Bank Group’s Extractive Industries Review, the IFC’s Performance Standards review, the successful development of a joint World Bank/ICMM Community Development Toolkit and ICMM’s submissions to the UN Secretary General Special Representative on Business and Human Rights.

At the World Bank, Kathryn designed the monitoring system used to track the compliance of World Bank projects with social and environmental policies. She also developed good practice social assessment guidelines for the Global Environmental Facility. She represented the World Bank Group on the Assurance Group for the Metals, Mining and Sustainable Development project (MMSD).

As program manager at the World Bank and IFC, Kathryn participated in the design, implementation and evaluation of development operations in thirty developing countries. She has authored over 40 articles and publications. In 2008, she won third prize in the Second Annual IFC/FT Essay Competition for a research paper: ‘Sustainable Development in the Mining and Minerals Sector: The Case for Partnership at Local, National and Global levels’. She was born in Nairobi, Kenya and brought up in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

 

Kristian R. Andersen is currently the Acting Head of Business Outreach, UNDP Nordic Office. This involves promoting the UN Global Compact to Norwegian companies, as well as advocating for increased responsible investments in developing countries - through the strategy named Growing Sustainable Business.

 

Lakshmi Bhatia joined Gap Inc.'s Social Responsibility Department in 1997 when the department was being established. She is currently Gap Inc.'s Director - Global Partnerships, Social Responsibility, heading a Global team based in the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa. Ms Bhatia and her team are responsible for stakeholder engagement and various collaborative initiatives with industry, governmental and civil society organisations related to supply chain issues.

Prior to joining Gap Inc. Ms Bhatia was working with various non-profit organisations based in India. Formerly, she was responsible for monitoring factory compliance against Gap Inc.'s Code of Vendor Conduct in North India and Nepal. She has had the unique opportunity to observe the development and evolution of Gap Inc.'s Global Compliance programme and its successes and challenges.

Ms Bhatia serves on the Ethical Trading Initiative's Board of Directors and is also on the Executive Committee of the Multi Fibre Arrangement Forum. Both organisations are headquartered in the UK. She graduated in psychology and has a Masters Degree in social work.

Leif Sande is the president of Industry Energy, the fourth largest union in LO (Confederation of Norwegian Trade Unions), with 55 000 members. He has a mechanics trade certificate, has worked in the industry, been a politician and a union representative. He was the vice president of the Norsk Olje- og Petrokjemisk Fagforbund union (NOPEF) from 1985 and its leader from 2000 until the merger of NOPEF and Norsk kjemisk industriarbeiderforbund (NKIF) in 2006.

 

 

Liv Tørres is a political scientist with background from the Fafo Institute for Applied Social Sciences; University of Oslo, Norwegian People's Aid, Norwegian Research Council et al. She has worked extensively with the issues of corporate social responsibility, labour standards, development and democratisation, labour movements and civil society.

 

Margaret Sutherland has been head of the UK National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises since March 2007.  She has worked for the Department for Business since 2000 in a variety of policy posts, including trade, equality and competition.

 

Mark Curtis is a development consultant and was formerly the Director of the World Development Movement, head of policy/advocacy at Christian Aid and ActionAid and a research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He has written five books on UK/US foreign policy and international development and is currently specialising in mining and food/agricultural policy.

 

 

Mette Yvonne Larsen graduated Cand. Jur. (LLB) from the University of Oslo in 1989. She earned the right to appear before the Supreme Court in 2003. She is a board member of the International Commision of Jurist Norway, and a member of the Human Rights panel of the Norwegian Bar Association. In her work she focuses among other things on criminal law, the rights of prisoners and surveillance of torture.

 

Njal Hostmaelingen (b. 1965, Master of Law 1992) is a researcher and Head of the National Institution Unit at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights, University of Oslo. He was previously a Deputy Judge at the Sorumsand District Court, a research assistant for the late Professor Torkel Opsahl, and a human rights consultant for different ministries, academic institutions and private companies in Norway. Hostmaelingen is in addition editor of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights, member of the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board and member of the board of the Norwegian International Law Association. He is the author and editor of numerous books and academic articles.

 

Ole Ketil Helgesen has been a journalist in Teknisk Ukeblad (Technology Review Weekly) since 2005, and sub-editor for Energy since 2006. Freelance journalist from 2001 to 2004 for Petromagasinet, among others. Consultant for the department of communication in the Norwegian energy company Lyse from 2004 to 2005.

Education: Journalism – 2 years. Bachelor in social science and human resource management (college of Stavanger/University of Stavanger).

 

 

Per N. Bondevik has a broad experience within development work, with more than 12 years of experience from a number of countries. His field experience is in particular related to 7 years working and living in Bolivia, but includes numerous field visits and interactions with organizations from a number of countries in Africa and Latin America.

Trained as an economist at the University of Oslo, his first experience with development work parted from local development work in Bolivia, including microfinance, community development, financial management as well as organizational development.

Gradually, his area of work has shifted towards focusing on the more structural challenges when it comes to combating poverty, more specifically the role and responsibilities of private companies, investors and the political space in which they operate. Bondevik has in particular focused on the importance of transparency and accountability in the extractive industries, through his engagement in the Publish What You Pay campaign, both in the Norwegian chapter, where he is heading the steering committee, and through supporting the formation of national chapters in selected countries where Norwegian Church Aid is active. Another key areas of interest include ethical investments, active ownership, both regarding the Norwegian State Pension Fund and the Norwegian Government directly, as well as standard reporting requirements for the often neglected 2/3 of the triple bottom line; social and environmental aspects.

Currently, Bondevik is working as a political advisor on Corporate Social Responsibility in Norwegian Church Aid, a main Norwegian development NGO, and heading the thematic focus group in the Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development within the same area.

 

Ståle Eskeland was born in 1943. He was Cand.jur. 1970 and Dr.juris 1988. He has been professor in criminal law at the University of Oslo since 1990. He published a number of books and articles related to criminal law, rule of law, evidence and miscarriage of justice topics. Currently, he is working on a comparative study related to "the most serious crimes" in Norwegian and international law.

 

 

Truls Tunmo is educated as journalist, and studied law for two years at the University of Oslo. He has been working at Teknisk Ukeblad since 2006. He has also worked at Eidsvold Ullensaker Blad, Allers, Hamar Arbeiderblad, Norsk Ukeblad, Aftenposten Aften and Nordstrand Blad.

 

 

Tundu Antiphas Lissu was born in Singida, Central Tanzania in January, 1968. He trained as a lawyer in Tanzania, obtaining an LLB, and in Great Britain, where he graduated with distinction from the School of Law of the University of Warwick. Since 1999 he has devoted himself to studying corporate mining industry in Tanzania and to organizing resistance against the abuses that have become the hallmark of corporate mining in that country. An attorney, Mr. Lissu has defended pro bono hundreds of villagers and community activists persecuted for demanding rights to their ancestral lands and resources. He has represented rural communities in actions before the Tanzanian Human Rights Commission as well as in Tanzanian courts. Mr. Lissu has also campaigned far and wide to create awareness of the human rights abuses and the plunder of mineral resources of poor countries such as Tanzania that is carried out by foreign mining multinationals. For these activities, his home and office were raided by Tanzanian police and Mr. Lissu arrested and later charged with sedition in 2002. The sedition charges were dropped in May of last year after nearly six years. Mr. Lissu works as Mining Program Manager with the Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT), an NGO based in Dar es Salaam. He is married with two children.

 

Yann Queinnec is the director of Association Sherpa, association of jurists based in Paris. Before joining Sherpa he used to practice as tax and legal adviser within Landwell & Partners (law firm correspondent to PricewaterhouseCoopers) from 1997 to 2004. He has practiced in Central Africa (Chad, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea) from 1997 to 2001 where he advised major multinational companies in the oil and gas sector, agrofood industry, bank and insurance sectors. He came back to Paris office in 2001 and joined the Entertainment Media department until 2004.

 

He obtained in 1995 an LLM in International Business Legal Studies (University of Exeter) and in 1996 a Master DJCE (Diplôme Juriste Conseil d'entreprise - University of Rennes). He has started contributing to Sherpa network in 2005. Apart from the coordination of Sherpa's files he has published various papers, namely /OECD Guidelines for multinational enterprises - an evolving legal status/ (June 2007) and /Legal tools for transnational social and environmental accountability /(To be published with CNRS in March 2009). He has been actively involved in advocacy campaigns to reform corporate business law at global scale and namely directed Sherpa’s contributions to the European Coalition for Corporate Justice work in elaborating proposal of reforms at the EU level (/Supply chain and liability – Legal tools for parent company Liability, /Nov 2007 ; /Redefining Corporation – How can new EU corporate liability rules help?, /Sept 2007).//