World Bank Extractive Industries International Advisory Group, Biographies

1.    Hon. Mercy Almona-Isei. Since 1999, Mercy Almona-Isei has been a Parliamentarian of the Nigerian ruling party (PDP) in the Nigeria House of Representatives. She is currently Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Gas and was formerly chair of the Petroleum Committee and the Environment Committee. She is active in inter-parliamentary work. She is a member of Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (Globe) and Parliamentary Network on the World Bank (PNOWB). She was educated in Nigeria and the UK.

2.     Mr. Mario Francisco Calafell Loza is Vice-President Public Affairs, Pan American Energy LLC.  He finished his secondary education at the National School of Buenos Aires and graduated as Lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires Law School.  He was a scholar at the Harriett Foundation in the United States and he attended the National Defense Senior Course of the Argentine National Defense School.  He also completed the Senior Management Program from the Corporate Senior Studies Institute (IAE, its acronym in Spanish), associated to the Austral University.Currently, he holds the offices of Public Affairs Vice-President of Pan American Energy and he is responsible for government affairs, interactions with the community and corporate communication within the company.  In the hydrocarbon sector, he was Astra Capsa’s Incumbent Director and advisor to the president SAPIC Flanges. Mr. Calafell Loza was president of the Foundation Idea y Accion. In the teaching field, he was part of the Academia as professor of the subjects Political Economics and Commercial Law II Buenos Aires University Law School.

3.       Mr. Ian Gary, Senior Policy Advisor for Extractive Industries, Oxfam America. Ian Gary joined Oxfam America’s Policy and Advocacy office in Washington, D.C., in September 2005. Prior to this, he was the lead staff person for Catholic Relief Services’ Extractive Industries Initiative, a four-year old research and advocacy program linking field staff, project support and international advocacy. CRS supports church and local civil society projects addressing extractive industries in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Angola and Sierra Leone. The growing global portfolio of CRS supported projects addressing extractive industries now includes Peru and Azerbaijan. Ian is the co-author, with Terry Lynn Karl of Stanford University, of the CRS report Bottom of the Barrel: Africa’s Oil Boom and the Poor, released in June 2003. In February 2005, he co-authored with Nikki Reisch, Bank Information Center, a follow-up report, Chad’s Oil: Miracle or Mirage? He is a frequent media commentator on African oil and extractive industries issues and was a member of the African Energy Task Force at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ian has lived in Ghana and Zimbabwe and has conducted field research on oil related issues in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Congo- Brazzaville and Angola. He holds a MA degree from the University of Leeds in the Politics of International Resources and Development.

4.    Dr. R. Anthony (Tony) Hodge was appointed ICMM President in May 2008, and will take up the post full-time on 1 October 2008. Tony is currently Kinross Professor of Mining and Sustainability in the Department of Mining Engineering, and Helen and Arthur Stollery Professor of Mining Engineering and Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He will continue his teaching responsibilities until the end of 2008 – thereafter he will continue his Queen’s professorship, relinquishing payment and using his research grants in support of students.For the past decade he has been an Associate with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (Winnipeg) and is Past President of the Mineral Economics and Management Society (MEMS). For the past 35 years, he has practiced as a professional engineer.  Since 1997 he has been President of the consultancy that bears his name, Anthony Hodge Consultants Inc.

He received his B. A. Sc. (1972) and M. A. Sc. (1976) degrees from the University of British Columbia (Geological Engineering). He was awarded his Ph. D. (interdisciplinary) in 1995 from McGill University as a result of work that focused on assessing and reporting on progress toward sustainability.  Early in his career his work took him to Belize, Tanzania, Dominican Republic, Panama and across Canada and the United States. From 1989 – 1992, Anthony was President of Friends of the Earth Canada. He served on the Prime Minister’s National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) from 1992 - 1996. Through 2001 and 2002 he led the North American component of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD – North America) project.

In 2003 – 2004, he facilitated the Tahltan Mining Initiative which led to publication of the report Out of Respect – the Tahltan, Mining and the Seven Questions to Sustainability.  In 2003 he completed a review of best practices of mine closure in North America. From 2003 – 2005 Anthony served as Senior Advisor to Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) which was charged with developing a strategy for long-term management of the used nuclear fuel. In 2006, he served as a member of the Independent Peer Review Panel for closure of the Yukon’s Faro Mine and subsequently chaired the Faro Closure Assessment Team. He is also currently Chair of the Advisory Panel which is serving in a review capacity for Newmont Mining Corporation’s Community Relationships Review.

5.          Dr. Stephen Lucas is the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Minerals and Metals Sector, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). Prior to his appointment in April 2007, he was Director General of the Policy, Planning and International Affairs Directorate in Health Canada's Health Products and Food Branch, where he was responsible for modernization of Canada's regulatory system for health products and food. Dr. Lucas started his career at the Geological Survey of Canada in 1988 and held a number of successively more senior positions in NRCan before joining the Strategic Policy Sector in NRCan in 2000 as Senior Director, Science, Innovation, Regional and Aboriginal Affairs. Dr. Lucas holds a Bachelor of Science in Geological Engineering from Queen's University, and a Ph.D. in structural geology from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

6.    Mr. Herman Mulder, Retired Senior Executive Vice President, Co-Chairman of the Group Risk Committee, Group Coordinator of Sustainable Development, ABN Amro Bank NV Netherlands. He was also Group Coordinator of Sustainable Development. Before he assumed this position in 1998, he was Global Head of Structured Finance (Credit Structuring, Project Finance, Syndications, Leveraged Finance, Financial Engineering).He is a frequent speaker at international conferences on issues related to Risk Management (including Basel 2), Sustainable Development, International Trade etc. He was a non-executive Director of Bank of Asia (Thailand) from 1999 till 2004.He is one of the initiators of the Equator Principles.

7.    Dr Sixtus C. Mulenga is General Manager – Corporate Albidon Zambia Ltd.,where he is responsible for Business Development, Joint Venture Management, Government and Corporate Relations, Community Relations and Corporate Governance. Albidon Zambia Ltd is a subsidiary of Albidon Ltd, an Australian mining and mineral exploration company listed on both the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM) Albidon zambia Ltd is developing Zambia’s first nickel and platinum group metals mine.He is a mining-geologist with over twenty-five years mining industry experience both in Zambia and global mining industry, and has held corporate executive management positions for the last fifteen years. He holds a PhD Degree in Geology, MSc & DIC in Engineering Geology – University of London, Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine, Royal School of Mines and BSc ( Hons) Geology (CNAA) Polytechnic of North London (now University of North London). He also holds an Executive Management Certificate, Ashridge College, UK, and Certificate in Partnership Brokering, Business Partners for Development, UK.

Dr Mulenga is a Chartered Engineer – UK Engineering Council, a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Member of the Institution of Mining & Metallurgy, Executive Member of the International Mine Water Association, Member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia, Member of the Zambia Institute of Directors and Council member of the Zambia Chamber of Mines. He served as chairman of the Zambia National Economic Diversification Task Force, which comprised government and private sector experts, and was responsible for developing and implementing economic diversification plans for the Zambian Economy. He was a member of the Zambian Government Negotiating & Technical Team during the privatization of the Zambian mining Industry (1996 - 2000), and is currently a member of the World Bank Group Extractive Industries Advisory Group and the Reference Group (Advisory) to the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) Office for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).He is the author of numerous papers.

9.    Mr. Leon Rajaobelina is currently the Regional Vice President of the Conservation International’s Madagascar Program and has held several key positions both within the Madagascar Public Sector and internationally. Having majored in public finance, his involvement in the public sector has focused on macro-economic policy and has resulted in his appointment as the Director General of Economy of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (1972-1973), Governor of the Central Bank (1973-1983) and later the Minister of Finance and Budget (1989-1991). Mr. Rajaobelina’s national career has been complemented by a prestigious international one as he was appointed an Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, a position he held from 1966 to 1972. Later, he was appointed the Ambassador of Madagascar to the United States from 1983 to 1989.

10.    Dr. Hans Peter Schipulle, Retired Deputy Director General, Global and Sectoral Tasks, German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. Dr. Schipulle is responsible for management of a department with six divisions covering a broad range of activities, including environment, water, energy, transport, ICT, agriculture, health, education, social security and cooperation with the corporate sector.

Recent tasks: Representing German development cooperation: at international senior official coordination meetings on MDGs relating to health and education (2003, 2004); World Bank conference on “Scaling up Poverty Alleviation” (Shanghai 2004); World Aids Conference (Bangkok 2004); CCD/COP6 (Havana 2003); GEF Assembly (Beijing 2002); World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg 2002); UN Conference on Financing for Development (Monterrey 2001). Head of the German negotiation team on the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria/GFATM Managerial responsibility for the preparation of the International Conference on Freshwater (Bonn 2001) and Renewables2004 (Bonn). Chair of a multistakeholder roundtable on “Codes of Conduct on Social Standards” (since 2001).

From 1987 to 1999, Dr. Schipulle served as head of the Ministry’s environment, natural resource management and forestry division. From 1981 to 1986, he gained field experience in development cooperation as program coordinator for the German Development Service in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Before he joined the Cooperation Ministry in 1974 as a spokesman for the Minister, he was an editor at a German broadcasting company.

11.    Dr. Shihab-Eldin, Retired Director, Research Division, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Vienna and Acting Secretary General; former Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, Kuwait University.  From 1970 to 1980 Dr. Shihab-Eldin was assistant professor of physics and later vice rector of academic affairs at Kuwait University. In 1976, he also became director general of the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, where he served until 1986. More recently he has served as director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Regional Office for Science and Technology in the Arab States, Paris, France; as the UNESCO representative to Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen also based in Paris, France; and as director of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Division for Africa, East Asia, and Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation, Vienna, Austria. Dr. Shihab-Eldin is a member of numerous professional societies and has served on the Board of Directors of more than thirty organizations, including the United Nations Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for Development, New York; Arab Thought Forum, Amman, Jordan; and the International Scientific Council for Science and Technology Policy Development, UNESCO. Dr. Shihab-Eldin holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, USA..

12.    Mr. Yin Wu, Director General of Energy Bureau of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China. Mr. Yin Wu was born in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province in September 1952. After graduating from Mining Extraction Dept. of Huainan Coal Institute in 1976 with a Bachelor’s Degree, he furthered his study at China University of Mining and Technology and got a Master’s Degree in 1999. From 1976, he worked as technician, assistant to engineer, engineer, deputy technical division chief, deputy director and director at Qinshan Mine attached to Xuzhou Mining Bureau of Jiangsu Province and then as Chief Economist and Deputy Director General of Xuzhou Mining Bureau.From December 1995 to April 1997, he acted as Deputy Director of Jiangsu Provincial Administration Office of Coal Industry, and Deputy General Manager of Coal Industrial Group Corporation of Jiangsu Province.

In April 1997, he took the position as Deputy Director General of Operation Coordination Department at Ministry of Coal Industry. In July 1998, he was designated as Deputy Director General of Industrial Management Department at State Bureau of Coal Industry. From December 2000 to May 2003, he worked as Deputy Director General of Industrial Planning Department at National Economy and Trade Commission. In May 2003, he joined Energy Bureau of NDRC as Deputy Director General and was promoted to Director General in December 2004.