Gary was the first Director of Social Development with Newmont Mining Corporation, where he was instrumental in developing the company's global policies in the areas of human rights and community engagement.

Tim counsels multinational resource companies on identifying and managing social impact and how to gain and maintain community support for projects.

A former journalist, Colleen manages the company's business operations worldwide.

Tom was vice-president for external relations at Freeport Indonesia for eight years and directed all community affairs, local and provincial government relations and security programs for the most extensive single-site sustainable development program in the world.

Nestor is associate dean of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of the Philippines where he teaches courses in anthropology.

A former defense attaché with the U.S. government, Don has provided senior counsel in corporate social responsibility to extractive industry clients in Africa and Asia. He has also supported a variety of humanitarian organizations in managing conflict reconciliation issues. In addition, he has advised many clients on how to build socially responsible security on their projects based on the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights.

Maurice’s 35-year media career includes editing business newspapers and managing a major metropolitan Canadian television newscast.

Nilo has strong skills working with non-profit organizations in natural resource management and community-based development.

Sylvie is a communications specialist with 15 years experience in the field.

Don specializes in facilitating public meetings and executing community engagement programs for land developers, local governments, international extractive companies, and educational institutions.

Randy is a results-oriented economist with more than 25 years’ experience in management, communications, consulting and public relations.

Nick works with companies, governments, donors and multi-lateral institutions on political and conflict analysis.

Carol has participated on independent engineering teams assessing projects against IFC Performance Standards, EBRD Requirements and the Equator Principles for projects in Africa, Europe and the Americas. In addition she implemented the community relations team and local hiring programs within external relations department for a large-scale mining project, and is an experienced social impact and risk assessor.

Neyza is a research analyst and specialist in security and risk management based in Manila.

Angus leads desktop components of independent engineer assessments to determine conformance with IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles and EBRD Performance Requirements. Based on his familiarity with the standards, he led the development of an internal project assessment tool and user guide, PRIMATE, to guide large-scale mining projects seeking project financing.