Speakers

The plenary sessions will involve the audience in an engaging and interactive discussion about the impact that the EITI is having and the future challenges which need to be addressed. World leaders from governments, companies, civil society as well as international organizations and academia will deliver keynote speeches and take part in executive session panels to discuss and propose solutions. The audience is invited to actively contribute and participate in the debates in a wide range of workshops.

Speakers at the 5^th EITI Global Conference include:

INGILAB AHMADOV, Director of the Public Finance Monitoring Center, Baku, Azerbaijan

ZAINAB AHMED, Executive Secretary of NEITI, Nigeria

HE AMEER SALIM AL-AIDAROOS, Minister of Oil & Minerals, Yemen

HE MICHÈLE ALLIOT-MARIE, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, France

CHRIS ANDERSON, Senior Director, Africa, Environment & Social Responsibility, Newmont Ghana 

BALDANJAV ARIUNSAN, Vice-Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Mongolia

HUMPHREY ASSISI ASOBIE, Chairman, NEITI, Nigeria

ABDOUL AZIZ ASKIA, Permanent Secretary, EITI Niger

GUBAD BAYRAMOV, Coordinator of Azeri EITI NGO coalition and Chairman of Economic Research Center  

EDWARD BICKHAM, International Council on Mining and Metals

KWAKU BOA-AMPONSEM,Chartered Accountant, Boas & Associates, Ghana

RICHARD BOUCHER, Deputy Secretary General, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

HE FAUSTIN ARCHANGE TOUADERA, Prime Minister of Central African Republic

STUART BROOKS, Manager, International Relations, Chevron

ALFRED BROWNELL, President and founder, Green Advocates Liberia

GILLES CARBONNIER, Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies-Geneva & Guilé Foundation

PAUL COLLIER, Professor, University of Oxford

ROBERT COURT, Head of Global External Affairs, Rio Tinto

PHIL HEMMENS, Senior Vice President, Exploration & Production Division, Eni S.p.A.

DAVID DIAMOND, Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment, AllianzGI Investments Europe

HE ABDOU DIOUF, Secretary General, International Organization of La Francophonie

HE SALAMATOU GOUROUZA DJIBO, Minister of Mines and Energy, Niger

HE KWABENA DUFFOR, Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana

PETER EIGEN, Chair, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

AYOUP ELRASHDI, Senior Policy Officer for Industry at the AUC

CHE ER, CITIC

OBIAGELI EZEKWESILI, Vice President for Africa, World Bank

GBEHZOHNZAR FINDLEY, Senator of Liberia

INGRID FISKAA, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway

HE MOHAMED LAMINE FOFANA, Minister of Mines and Geology, Guinea

BENNETT FREEMAN, Senior Vice President for Social Research and Policy at Calvert Asset Management, Inc

ALEXANDRA GILLIES, Governance Advisor, Revenue Watch Institute

HE ARMANDO GUEBUZA, President of the Republic of Mozambique

SANJEEV GUPTA, Deputy Director, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department

PRAVIN J. GORDHAN, Minister of Finance, South Africa

DANIEL JAVIER CÁMAC GUTIÉRREZ, Vice-Minister for Energy, Perù

SHELLY HAN, Advisor to Senator Benjamin Cardin, co-author of new U.S. transparency legislation, U.S. Helsinki Commission

ANTHONY HODGE, President, International Council on Mining and Metals

DIDIER HOLLEAUX, Director of Exploration and Production, GDF Suez 

ROBERT D. HORMATS, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs, USA

ANDY HOWARD, Executive Director, Goldman Sachs Sustain Team

MO IBRAHIM, Chair and Founder, Mo Ibrahim Foundation

SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI, Managing Director, The World Bank

WENRAN JIANG, Mactaggart Research Chair, University of Alberta

DONALD KABERUKA, President, African Development Bank

HE OLIVIER KAMITATU, Minister of Planning, Democratic Republic of Congo

HE JAKAYA KIKWETE, President of Tanzania

ANDRE KINGHAM, Vice-President,  Global Communications, SAP AG

CHANDRA KIRANA, Southeast Asia Regional Coordinator, Revenue Watch Institute

GUDRUN KOPP, Parliamentary Secretary of State to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

HUGUETTE LABELLE, Chair of the Board of Directors, Transparency International

ANNE LAUVERGEON, Chief Executive Officer, AREVA

KARIN LISSAKERS, Director, Revenue Watch Institute

KARINA LITVACK, Director GSI Team, F&C Investments

STEPHEN LUCAS, Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Policy Integration, Natural Resources Canada

CHRISTOPHE DE MARGERIE, Chief Executive Officer, TOTAL

BISHOP LOUIS PORTELLA MBUYU, Bishop of Congo-Brazzaville

GILBERT MAOUNDONODJI, Coordinator of the Group for Alternative Research and Monitoring of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Project

JULIE MCDOWELL, Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment, Standard Life Investments

JIM MILLER, VP Safety and Environmental Affairs, Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold

PETRAQ MILO, Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Albania

KALIA MOLDOGAZIEVA, Director, Human Development Center 'Tree of Life', Kyrgyzstan 

ANTONIO ANDREA MONARI, Resident Director General, European Representative Office, Asian Development Bank

CHRISTIAN MOUNZEO, PWYP Congo, President Rencontre Pour la Paix et les Droits de l’Homme, Republic of the Congo

SHAHMAR MOVSUMOV, Executive Director, State Oil Fund, Azerbaijan

ISABEL MUNILLA, Director, Publish What You Pay United States

HE MAXWELL M.B. MWALE, Minister of Mines and Minerals Development, Zambia

RIMTÉBAYE NASSINGAR, PWYP Tchad

HE SYLVAIN NDOUTINGAÏ, Minister of Mines, Energy and Hydraulics, Central African Republic

HANS NIJKAMP, Executive Vice President and Country Chairman for Shell Iraq

HE DAMMIPI NOUPOKOU, Minister of Mines and Energy, Togo

FAITH O. NWADISHI, Executive Director, Koyenum Immalah Foundation, National Coordinator PWYP Nigeria

STEPHEN O'BRIEN, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, DFID, United Kingdom

KAZUYA OGAWA, Minister, Japanese Embassy in France

MARC ONA, Executive Secretary, Brainforest, National Coordinator PWYP Gabon.

DIARMID O’SULLIVAN, Team Leader Oil Campaign, Global Witness

HE ROZA OTUNBAYEVA, President of Kyrgyz Republic

AGNÈS SOLANGE ONDIGUI OWONA, EITI National Coordinator, Cameroon

HE ALFREDO PIRES, Secretary of State for Natural Resources, Timor-Leste

HE HENRI DE RAINCOURT, Minister for Cooperation, France 

HUGUES RENAUX, Managing Partner, CAC 75

ANTHONY RICHTER, Associate Director, Open Society Institute

WALTER RONCAL, Former Regional Government of Cajamarca

BOB ROONEY, Executive Vice President, Legal and General Counsel, Talisman Energy

BAIBA RUBESA, Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Statoil

KEITH RUDDOCK, General Counsel, Upstream International, Royal Dutch Shell

KLAUS RUDISCHHAUSER, Director: ACP General Affairs, EuropeAid Development and Co-operation Directorate-General, European Commission

PAULO DE SA, Manager of the Oil, Gas and Mining Division, World Bank 

RADHIKA SARIN, International Coordinator, Publish What You Pay

HE CAROLYM SEEPERSAD-BACHAN, Minister of Energy & Energy Affairs, Trinidad & Tobago

HE HUSSAIN AL-SHAHRISTANI, Deputy Prime Minister, Iraq

HE ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF, President of Liberia

KEITH SKEOCH, Chief Executive Officer, Standard Life Investments

HE WAHIDULLAH SHAHRANI, Minister of Mines, Afghanistan

CLARE SHORT, Chair-candidate, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

GEORGE SOROS, Founder, Open Society Foundations

ANTONIO TAJANI, Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, European Union

NOBOU TANAKA, Executive Director, International Energy Agency

SIMON TAYLOR, Founding Director of Global Witness

HE ABOU BAKAR TRAORE, Minister of Mines, Mali

SHAR TSOLMON, EITI National Coordinator, Mongolia

EPIFANIO BACA TUPAYACHI, Manager, Citizen Oversight Programme, Grupo Propuesta Ciudadana, Peru

HE STEVEN VANACKERE, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Institutional Reforms, Belgium

NADA VILLERMAIN-LECOLIER, Head of Responsible Investment, French pensions reserve fund (FRR) 

PETER VOSER, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Dutch Shell

T. NEGBALEE WARNER, Liberia

XUELING YANG, Chief Representative, AVIC, and CEO of AVIC International Europe

NATALYA YANTSEN, Director, NGO Tax Standards Formation, Member of the Oil Revenues - Under Public Oversight Coalition, Kazakhstan

JIA YU, CPI International Minerals & Investment Co., part of the China Power Investment Group

HE OMAR ZAKHILWAL, Minister of Finance, Afghanistan