Alvarado, Ana Maria

Ana María Alvarado García representa al Nucleo Agrario Cerro de San Pedro y desde el año 2000 participó en un movimiento de resistencia contra una empresa minera canadiense que ha invadido las tierras de su pueblo. Sus derechos vigentes en materia agraria dentro de nucleo agrario le han permitido participar directamente en los juicios agrarios que han emprendido contra esta empresa (Minera San Xavier) de capital canadiense. A la fecha han utilizado todos los recursos legales posibles y todas las estrategias de lucha permitidas dentro de la ley, pero, según ella, el endeble sistema de justicia mexicano ha pasado por alto muchas normas y preceptos que de ninguna manera permitirian la operación de esta empresa, mas sin embargo, esta operando con la complascencia de las autoridades de los tres niveles de gobierno, convirtiendose este caso en un caso de impunidad total.

Arana Zegarra, Marco

Ariss, Rachel

Rachel Ariss is a professor in the Department of Sociology, Lakehead University. Her research focuses on social and legal change, and how social relationships manifest in law, with an emphasis on aboriginal rights. She is currently writing on the legal dispute between Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and Platinex.

Atkins, David

David Atkins, Hydrologist, M.S. Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, M.S. Physics, is a hydrologist and environmental scientist with over 15 years of experience. He has conducted numerous investigations of the effects of extractive resource projects on water resources in North, Central and South America and in Indonesia. His recent work with the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman, World Bank Group, highlights his experience with theIFC safeguard policies. He has conducted independent evaluations of community environmental concerns at the Yanacocha Gold mine in Peru, the Marlin Gold mine in Guatemala, and the Antamina copper and zinc mine in Peru. Through this work he has gained experience evaluating the environmental and socioeconomic concerns of communities influenced by mining projects. He also has extensive experience working with diverse groups of stakeholders to develop consensus on technical issues.

Mr. Atkins conducted a technical assessment of a complaint to the CAO regarding environmental impacts from the Antamina copper and zinc mine in Peru. Citizens in the coastal community where the mining company operates a mineral concentrate ship loading facility were concerned that activities could have led to contamination of Huarmey Bay and impacts to the fish stocks that support an important industry in the region.

Bebbington, Anthony

Anthony Bebbington is Professor of Nature, Society and Development in the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, an ESRC Professorial Fellow, and Research Associate of the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, Peru.  Previously he was Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder and has been a Social Scientist with the World Bank where he was part-time team member and advisor to the World Development Reports in 2006 and 2000/1.  He has held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the Fulbright Commission and the Inter-American Foundation.   

His work addresses the political ecology of rural change with a particular focus on social movements, indigenous organizations, livelihoods, extractive industries and socio-environmental conflicts.  He has worked throughout South and Central America, though primarily in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.   His current work on extractive industries and development addresses both mining and hydrocarbons, and involves a team of researchers and doctoral students.  Findings are summarized at the website www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/andes and key publications include: Minería, movimientos sociales y respuestas campesinas: una ecología política de transformaciones territoriales (Mining, social movements and peasant responses: a political ecology of territorial transformations) (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/CEPES, 2007); Mining and development in Peru, with special reference to the Rio Blanco Project, Piura (Bebbington et al, Peru Support Group); and the “Contention and ambiguity: mining and the possibilities of development” (Bebbington et al.), a focus paper for Development and Change (2008, 39(6).

Other recent books and edited collections include Can NGOs Make A Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives  (Zed, 2008, with D. Mitlin and S. Hickey), Institutional Pathways to Equity (World Bank, 2008, with A. Dani, M. Walton and A. de Haan), Development success: statecraft in the South (Palgrave, 2007 with W. McCourt) and "Social Movements and the Dynamics of Rural Development in Latin America" a special section of World Development (2008, with R. Abramovay and M. Chiriboga).

Berry, Albert

Albert Berry is Professor emeritus of Economics at the University of Toronto. His main research interests, with focus on Latin America, are labour markets and income distribution, agrarian structure, the economics of small and medium enterprise, and the impacts of international economic integration. Apart from his academic positions he has worked with the Ford Foundation, the Colombian Planning Commission and the World Bank. He teaches undergraduate courses on “The Political Economy of Development” and “The Economics of Small Enterprises in Developing Countries” and a graduate course on Economic Development.

Bourassa, André

André Bourassa is an engineering physicist and an economist. He works with Natural Resources Canada as an international policy advisor on minerals and metals related sustainability issues. He is the Secretary of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development. He was Vice-President, Metal Stewardship, of the International Council on Metals and the Environment, the predecessor to today's International Council on Mining and Metals or ICMM. He is also President and Director of an international development NGO doing community based development in India.

Boyce, Richard

Richard Boyce is President of Local 7619 of the United Steelworkers. He represents about 1,000 members who work at the giant Teck owned Highland Valley Copper mine. The mine is located in North Central British Columbia.
He has worked in the mining industry for 36 years. He has been an activist in the Steelworkers Union for over 30 years. Through the United Steelworkers Humanity Fund, he has worked with trades unionists that work in the mining industry in Chile, Peru and Brazil. He has extensive experience in negotiating collective agreements with Teck/Cominco.

Bradshaw, Ben

Ben Bradshaw is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph.  Most broadly, his research seeks to identify the determinants of environmental degradation in Western society, and the various tools of governance that might best alleviate such degradation.  His interest in the extractive sector stems from his 5-year old research program focussed on Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) negotiated between mining firms and would-be impacted Aboriginal communities to improve impact mitigation and enable local capture of benefits associated with mining developments.  This SSHRC-supported research seeks to investigate the origins of IBAs, their effectiveness, and their relationship to regulatory systems governing mining developments in the Canadian north.  He is the originator of the IBA research network (see www.impactandbenefit.com), which brings together academics, regulators, Aboriginals, industry representatives, and consultants with experience with, and/or knowledge of, IBAs for the purpose of identifying knowledge gaps and facilitating research to address those gaps.

Burton, John

John Burton is a Fellow in the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
He specialises in social mapping, landowner identification and land ownership issues in Melanesia, the social impacts of mining on traditional owners, and Native Title research in Australia.
He was previously lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at the University of PNG, Senior Anthropologist at the Torres Strait Regional Authority, and has worked on social mapping and social impact projects at the Lihir, Porgera, Freeport and Ok Tedi mines among others.

Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
Tel: (+61) 2-6125-8786.  Fax: (+61) 2-6125-1635.
Email: john.burton [at] anu.edu.au
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Campbell, Bonnie

Dr. Bonnie Campbell is a Professor of political economy at the Department of Political Science at the University of Quebec in Montreal where she heads the Research Chair C.-A..Poissant on Governance and Aid for Development. She is also the Director of the Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique. Professor Campbell received her doctorate degree in Development Studies from Sussex University. She has carried out research on the policies of the multilateral financial institutions, on the issue of governance and poverty reduction strategies. Dr. Campbell was Chair of the Board of Directors of the North-South Institute (Ottawa) (2003-2006) and is currently a member of the Conseil scientifique of CIRAD, Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement, Paris and a member of the International Study Group of the UNECA on the revision of mining regimes in Africa. Past responsibilities have included Director of the Francophone African Development Doctoral Dissertation Workshops Programme from 1995-1999 for the Rockefeller Foundation; Co-Director of the Programme Francophone de Formation à la Recherche pour le Développement en Afrique, for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from 1998-2000 and President of the  Canadian Association of African Studies, 1989-1990.  She has written extensively on issues related to international development, governance and mining and is the author of many journal articles, and author, editor or co-editor of eight volumes including Restructuring in Global Aluminium, with Magnus Ericsson (Eds.), London, Mining Journal Books Ltd, 1996,   Regulating Mining in Africa: For whose Benefit? Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, Sweden, 2004 and  Qu’allons-nous faire des pauvres? Réformes institutionnelles et espaces politiques ou les pièges de la gouvernance pour les pauvres, L’Harmattan, Paris 2005.

Canel, Eduardo

Eduardo Canel is the Director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) and Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science teaching International Development and Latin American and Caribbean studies. His main academic interests include state-civil society relations; social movements; local participatory democracy; social capital; and decentralization and local governance in Latin America. His current research focuses on the changing nature of state-civil society relations in Latin America resulting from neoliberal restructuring and democratization. His forthcoming book Barrio Democracy in Latin America. Participatory Decentralization and Community Activism in Montevideo (Penn State University Press, 2009) examines the contrasting experiences of participatory decentralization in three working class neighborhoods in Montevideo city, highlighting how much local conditions shaped participatory processes and the outcome of institutional reforms.

Carter, Angela V.

Angela Carter, assistant professor in Memorial University's Environmental Studies Program at Grenfell College, is completing a PhD in political science at Cornell University.  Using political ecology theory, the dissertation analyzes problematic environmental policy trends surrounding oil developments in four highly petroleum-dependent governments (Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, Alaska and Wyoming) and explains these trends with reference to the political structures created by oil dependence. She also engages with government, non-governmental organizations and industry on the environmental implications of extractive industries in Newfoundland and Labrador through Transport Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador Regional Advisory Council on Oil Spills and the Newfoundland and Labrador Environment Network's Steering Committee.

Chappuis, Maria

Maria Chappuis— Mining Engineer, Minerals Economist, advises international organizations, governments and businesses on environmental and economic issues concerning the mining industry.  Ms. Chappuis was formerly General Director of Mining (DGM) of the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Peru where her principal responsibilities included the enforcement of environmental and safety standards in the mining industry.  As Head of the Cabinet of Advisers to the Vice Minister of Mines, she led the drafting of the first environmental regulations for any Peruvian industry (in this case the mining industry) and the regulations for Mine Closure and Orphaned Mines Remediation processes.  Ms. Chappuis has taught at the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima and the Universidad Católica del Perú.  She has served as a board member of mining companies such as Hierro Peru and Centromin Peru and has represented the Peruvian Government in international conferences and organizations such GIEC-International Group of Copper Studies.  Ms. Chappuis has worked as a consultant for organizations including the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America, World Bank Regional Office, DANIDA from Denmark, GTZ and BGR from Germany.  Ms. Chappuis graduated with honors as a mining engineer from the Catholic University of Peru and obtained a Master of Science degree in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines.  She has taken specialization courses and seminars sponsored by the World Bank, PDAC-Toronto, Centek-Sweden, and ESAN.  She is the author of numerous articles on Peruvian mining and environmental issues.

Cisneros, Paúl

Paúl Cisneros es estudiante del programa de doctorado en Ciencias Sociales con especialización en estudios políticos de la FLACSO Ecuador. Realiza su tesis de doctorado investigando las reformas al sector minero del Ecuador de los últimos 2 años. El estudio de 4 experiencias de conflictos ambientales que provocan esta reforma servirá para discutir la relación entre la forma en la que el el enfrentamiento de varias formas de entender la relación entre sociedad y medio ambiente afecta el desempeño democrático de la toma de decisiones sobre el mismo medio ambiente.
Este estudio está conceptualizado como una continuación del trabajo de investigación desarrollado durante los estudios de maestría en Estudios Socioambientales en FLACSO Ecuador en los que se investigó por la forma en la que comunidades locales influyen en las formación de política pública para la gestión de un parque nacional y los bloques de extracción petrolera que se superponen con sus territorios.

Coumans, Catherine

Catherine Coumans holds an M.Sc. (London School of Economics) and a Ph.D. (McMaster University) in Cultural Anthropology. She carried out Postdoctoral research at Cornell University and taught at Cornell and McMaster. She is currently Research Coordinator and responsible for the Asia-Pacific Program at MiningWatch Canada.
Catherine has worked with NGOs and mining affected communities in India, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Kanaky-New Caledonia. Her work has focused on indigenous peoples affected by Canadian mining companies. She has provided expert testimony on mining in two congressional inquiries in the Philippines (1999, 2001), before the Constitutional Court in Indonesian (2005), before the Sub-Committee on Human Rights and Democratic Development in Canada (2005), and in an Amici brief for the Supreme Court of the United States (2008). In 2006 she participated on the Advisory Group of the Canadian Government's National Roundtables on CSR and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries.
Catherine is the author of numerous peer reviewed reports and articles on mining. She co-authored the Framework for Responsible Mining: A Guide to Evolving Standards (2005) and most recently published "Realising Solidarity: Indigenous peoples and NGOs in the contested terrains of mining and corporate accountability" (chapter in Earth Matters, Greenleaf, 2008).    

Cragg, Wesley

Dr. Cragg is a graduate of the University of Alberta and the University of Oxford where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He is currently Director Business Ethics Programs in the Schulich School of Business at York University and Director of the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network.  Much of Dr. Cragg’s research has focused on resource-based development in cross cultural environments.  A major study now concluded examined the ethical parameters of four Canadian resource extraction projects all with First Nation involvement. A second study, also now concluded focused on the value of ethics codes in guiding corporations in international settings.
Currently, Dr. Cragg is engaged in building a business ethics research network (www.CBERN.ca) with the goal of mobilizing and profiling business ethics research in Canada. CBERN is designed to encourage cross disciplinary research across academic disciplines and faculties and to draw university researchers into dialogue with leaders and researchers in business, government and the voluntary sector.
The ethical parameters of resource extraction is one of the dominant themes of the network.

Dashwood, Hevina S.

Hevina S. Dashwood is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University, Canada.  Dashwood’s broad research interests encompass international relations, international development and Canadian foreign policy.  Her current research on Canadian corporate social responsibility (CSR) was funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).  Dashwood is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on CSR in the mining sector.  Dashwood is working on a book manuscript on corporate social responsibility and Canadian mining companies.  She is a collaborator with the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN), the recipient of a $2.3 million SSHRC Strategic Clusters grant over seven years.  With CBERN as a partner, Dashwood is a co-investigator in a new (as of 2007) collaborative, multi-perspective case study project on Canadian mining companies in developing countries.  With funding from SSHRC’s International Opportunities Fund, Dashwood will be conducting case study research on Canadian mining companies in Africa.  This project will build on her earlier research on international development in Africa, which produced the following book:  Zimbabwe: The Political Economy of Transformation (University of Toronto Press, 2000).

de Costa, Ravi

Ravi de Costa is interested in political and cultural relations between Native and non-Native peoples. His work has focused on Australia and Canada, and he has written on a range of topics including, treaty-making, reconciliation and apologies, and indigenous political history.

De Echave C., José

ha seguido estudios de economía en Francia en las universidades de Paris I y Paris III, obteniendo el título de Doctor en Economía en 1989 con una tesis dedicada al estudio de la evolución de la deuda externa en el Perú. Igualmente tiene un post grado en Economía Internacional y Desarrollo.

Desde 1990 trabaja la problemática minera, abordando temas relacionados a aspectos productivos, las relaciones laborales, la problemática ambiental y las relaciones con las poblaciones del entorno. Ha sido consultor de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) para la elaboración del estudio sobre “Condiciones y Medio Ambiente de Trabajo en el Sector Minero en el Perú” y es co autor de la investigación sobre Minería y Comunidades: Manejo de Recursos Naturales y Pobreza para la Universidad de Massachussets y el Political Economy Research Institute. Es integrante de la Red Internacional Minería y Comunidades (MAC).

Desde la fundación de CooperAccion se desempeña como responsable del programa de Minería y Comunidades y director del Boletín Actualidad Minera del Perú. 

Ha publicado los siguientes libros:

Minería y Reinserción Internacional en el Perú.

Las inversiones canadienses en la minería peruana.

Minería y comunidades en el Perú.

La construcción de un proceso de toma de decisiones comunitarias frente a las operaciones mineras.

La gestión de conflictos en las zonas de influencia de la actividad minera. 

La Mesa de Diálogo de Tintaya.

Diez años de minería en el Perú. 

Enríquez, Maria Amélia R da S

Doctora en desarrollo sostenible por el “Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável” (CDS), de la Universidad de Brasilia (UnB), Brasil, 2007, Magíster en Geociencias por la Universidad Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), en 1993, especialización en teoría económica por el Centro de Estudios Superiores de Pará, Brasil (CESEP), en  1987, graduación en Economía por la Universidad Federal de Pará (UFPA), en 1986. Actualmente es profesora de la Universidad de la Amazonía (UNAMA) y de la Universidad Federal de Pará (UFPA). Es presidente de la Sociedad Brasilera de Economía Ecológica (ECOECO). Tiene experiencia en las áreas mineración y desarrollo regional, licenciamiento ambiental, planificación estratégica y áreas afines, actuando, principalmente, en los siguientes temas: desarrollo sostenible, industria mineral e impactos regionales en los municipios de base mineradora de Brasil. Actúa, desde mayo de 2008, como asesora económica de la Secretaría de Geología, Mineración y Transformación Mineral (SGM) del Ministerio de las Minas y Energía (MME).

Ferry, Elizabeth Emma

Elizabeth Ferry is a sociocultural anthropologist with special interests in silver mining in Mexico. Her first book, Not Ours Alone: Patrimony, Value and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico (Columbia, 2005) was an ethnographic examination of the Santa Fe silver mining cooperative in Guanajuato, and the ways the miners and their families used the category of "patrimonio" to refer to the silver, jobs in the cooperative, and cultural properties of the city and the nation. She is also the co-editor, along with Mandana Limbert of an edited volume: Timely Assets: The Politics of Resources and their Temporalities (School of Advanced Research Press, 2008), and is currently finishing a historical ethnography of mineral specimen collecting and the production of U.S.-Mexican transnational space. She is developing a new project on corporate social responsibility in silver mining, especially focused on Canadian companies operating in Mexico.

Fidler, Courtney

Courtney Fidler, MASc, is a recent graduate from the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia. Her graduate work examined Aboriginal (Tahltan Nation) involvement in mineral development and the role of negotiated agreements (NAs) alongside the existing regulatory framework.  Her present research interests include the principle of Free, Prior, Informed Consent and comparative work on the impacts of mining projects on Indigenous peoples in Canada and Australia. 
Courtney has experience in the public and private resource sector and currently works with the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, British Columbia.

Flores Navea, Jorge Alfonso

Jorge Alfonso Flores Navea nació el 1 de abril de 1970 en la ciudad de Vallenar, capital de la provincia del Huasco, Chile; su padre don Jorge Flores Vega, un agricultor del sector rural de camarones, y su madre doña Sixta Navea Gonzáles, dueña de casa.
Su enseñanza media la cursó en la "escuela técnico profesional, ex escuela de minas de Copiapó", el cual era considerado uno de los mejores colegios de chile; ingreso a la universidad de la serena obteniendo el 5º mejor puntaje de la carrera ingeniería en ejecución en minas, la cual tuvo que suspender por falta de recursos económicos. Ingresa a la vida laboral el año 1990 como ayudante de jefe de turno planta en faena "los colorados", mina de hierro de la zona.
En enero de 1994 ingresa a trabajar en Cia. Minera Quebrada Blanca, propiedad de la transnacional Teck Cominco en ese entonces, lo que obligo a radicarse en Iquique.
En enero del 2004 regresa a su ciudad natal Vallenar donde asume como presidente de accionistas de agua y propietarios de predios agrícolas de un canal de regadío en el sector rural de camarones formando parte de la "junta de vigilancia del Rió Huasco" orientada a proteger las aguas frente a la ejecución del proyecto minero "Pascua -lama", propiedad de Barrick Gold.
En forma paralela, en julio del 2006 es electo presidente del sindicato de trabajadores de minera Quebrada Blanca con la primera mayoría de votos y en la actualidad esta directiva ha posicionado a este sindicato como pioneros en la búsqueda de protección de la salud de los trabajadores que laboran en la "altura crónica intermitente".

Fraser, Gail

Gail Fraser is an (avian) ecologist by training.  She is currently an assistant professor in the Faculty of Environmental studies. Her interest in extractive industries, specifically offshore oil and gas, intersects with her work on marine birds in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), many species of which are highly vulnerable to oil pollution. From this starting point, Fraser’s research has branched out into various aspects about environmental impact assessments, access to pollution data and informing the environmental management of the offshore industry in Canada. This work is primarily conducted in collaboration with a non-governmental organization, the Alder Institute, based in NL whose mandate is to translate science into public knowledge.  Recent work includes an international comparison of the public availability of oil spill data from oil and gas operations and the transparency of environmental management of the offshore industry in NL.

Gibson, Virginia

Ginger Gibson works as an anthropologist with communities affected by extractive industries projects. As a Trudeau Scholar, she completed her PhD research in Mining Engineering studying the negotiation of change by Dene miners, families and communities in the diamond mining economy of northern Canada. Her research for communities affected by mining in Latin America and Canada has focused on negotiation, capacity building, engagement and risk assessment and communication. She is currently working for indigenous governments on social and mining and mineral policy issues, and writing a Community Toolkit for the negotiation of Impact and Benefit Agreements together with Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh.

Grinspun, Ricardo

Ricardo Grinspun teaches economics and is a fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University in Toronto. He is a former director of CERLAC and has directed several large scale international development projects, including a six year CIDA-funded linkage project with Chilean partners on agroecology and sustainable rural development. He is responsible for five books and numerous other publications on questions of development and international trade, hemispheric integration, and Canada’s role in the Americas. He is co-editor and co-author of Whose Canada: Continental Integration, Fortress North America, and the Corporate Agenda, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.

Hennessy, Logan

Logan Hennessy is an Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University. His primary interests are in indigenous environmental politics, particularly the ways in which native communities experience and resist the extraction of natural resources and territorial loss.  His work analyzes these linkages between extractives-based land change and differentiation within indigenous movements in South America.  Based on fieldwork with multiple Amerindian communities and organizations, his studies of the Amerindian movement in Guyana address the conflicting interests in ethnogenesis, land rights, and small- and medium-scale mining.  He has also worked in Ecuador to document the consequences of competing interventions over oil development in the Huaorani/Yasuni/Tiputini complex.  Lately his work explores the meaning of sustainable mining and mining reform, and the tensions between these goals and principles of informed consent and land rights.  These interests have led to a recent partnership with the San Francisco based NGO, Pacific Environment.  His research on Canadian and Australian partnerships with First Nations and Aboriginal communities provided the text for a translated guide to good neighbor agreements for use in PE’s community-based-organizing in the Russian Far East.

Hernández, Purificación

Mi nombre es Purificación Hernández Sabillon y soy Técnico Industrial y trabajo como Técnico de Minería con la Organización Asociación de Organismos No Gubernamentales ASONOG, con el programa de Incidencia Gestión de Riesgos y Minería (IGR- Minería) También soy miembro fundador de la Comisión Política de la Alianza Cívica para la Democracia ACD de Honduras.
ASONOG y la Iglesia Católica del occidente del País encabezada por el Monseñor Luís Alfonso Santos Obispo de la Diócesis de Copan forman el 25 de Julio del 2006 una alianza estratégica y es así como surge en nuestro País un espacio de lucha unificado actualmente con mas de 35 Organizaciones que se llama Alianza Cívica para la Democracia ACD.
ASONOG trabaja el tema de Minería desde 1998 brindando asistencia y asesoria a pobladores de comunidades afectadas.
Actualmente a través de la ACD se hace alta incidencia ante los Diputados del Congreso Nacional para lograr la aprobación de una nueva Ley General de Minería.

Hilson, Gavin

Gavin Hilson is Lecturer in Environment and Development at the University of Reading. He carries out research on the social and environmental aspects of small-scale mining in West Africa and the Guianas. He received his Ph.D. from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine'.

Himley, Matthew

I hold a BA in English and International Studies from Northwestern University and an MA in Geography from Syracuse University.  Currently a doctoral candidate in Geography at Syracuse, my interests lie at the intersection of political ecology, critical resource geography, and agrarian studies.  My research is motivated by a desire to understand and explain struggles over changing patterns of natural resource use in Andean South America.  For my MA thesis, I examined the contested history of conservation initiatives in an indigenous smallholder farmer cooperative in highland Ecuador.  My doctoral research focuses on the relationship between social mobilization and neoliberal resource governance in the context of Peru’s recent mining boom.  Through an in-depth analysis of the evolution of mine-community relations at the Pierina Project, a large-scale gold mine in the department of Ancash owned by Barrick Gold Corporation, I evaluate the efforts and abilities of local villagers to influence decision-making regarding the social and ecological impacts of mining within a policy context that has favored industry self-regulation over government intervention.

Hitch, Michael

Michael Hitch, PhD., P.Geol. is an Assistant Professor at the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia. He is a licensed Professional Geologist in both Alberta and British Columbia.  Dr. Hitch’s current research includes Anthropocentric CO2 sequestration with reactive mine waste rock, aboriginal input and participation in mine design and operation and sustainable resource utilization. Dr. Hitch received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology Lake Superior State University, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in 1986, a Master of Science Degree in Geology from the University of Ottawa in 1990, and a PhD in Environmental and Resource Studies from the University of Waterloo in 2006.

Idemudia, Uwafiokun

Uwafiokun Idemudia is an assistant professor with the Division of Social Science at York University. He teaches in the International Development, African Studies and Business and Society programmes. His research focuses on corporate social responsibility and development nexuses, political economy and ecology of resource extraction and conflict. His most recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Journal of Business Ethics, and Resource Policy. Idemudia is at present exploring the structural and systemic constrains facing corporate and governmental accountability in the Nigerian oil industry.

Imai, Shin

Shin is an is the co-director of the Red Latinoamericana de educación e investigación en derechos humanos (RedLEIDH) and of the Intensive Program in Aboriginal Lands, Resources and Governments. He has written about Goldcorp and Skye Resources in “Breaching Indigenous Law: Canadian Mining in Guatemala”. One of his current projects is with GRUFIDES on the Yanacocha gold mine in Peru.

Ite, Uwem

Dr Uwem Ite is currently the Team Leader, Sustainable Development and Social Impact Assessment, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited. Prior to joining Shell in July 2006, he was an Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Lancaster University, United Kingdom (1995-2006), with significant research interests in environment and development issues (with a focus on corporate social responsibility) in developing countries. His research publications have appeared in several international journals, including Sustainable Development, Journal of International Development, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, and The Geographical Journal.

Jeremic, Rusa

Rusa Jeremic is Global Economic Justice Program Coordinator for KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives. Kairos works in solidarity with local communities and regional networks in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. In particular, Kairos works closely with communities resisting Canadian mining operations in Mexico, Guatemala, and the Philippines. In addition, Kairos is an active participant in the national coalition the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability that is calling on the government to create mandatory and binding legislation to ensure that companies operating abroad uphold human rights. Rusa holds an M.A. in Political Science from York University and is a satirist in her spare time.

Keenan, Karyn

Karyn Keenan is Program Officer at the Halifax Initiative, a coalition of over twenty development, environment, faith-based, human rights and labour organizations.
Karyn has twelve years’ experience working for environmental and social justice non-governmental organizations, both in Canada and abroad.  Her work in Peru and Bolivia focused on the social and environmental impacts of mining, oil and gas operations.  In Peru she participated in a multi-stakeholder dialogue process between indigenous communities and a multinational mining company. 
Karyn was involved in the Government of Canada’s National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries as a member of the multi-stakeholder Advisory Group.
Karyn holds degrees in biology, law and environmental studies.  She was called to the Bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2001.

Kimball, Sarah

Sarah Kimball holds a degree in Geological Engineering from Queen’s University. She has spent 3 field seasons working in Canada’s Northern Baffin Island on the development of an iron mine. While working in the North, she developed an interest in the social and environmental impacts of mining and energy projects. She is currently completing a Masters of Applied Science at the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia with a focus on geothermal energy.

Kirsch, Stuart

Stuart Kirsch is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. His research interests include ritual and myth, indigenous movements, mining and indigenous peoples, political ecology, and property. He is most recently the author of Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea (Stanford 2006). His current research examines corporate responses to critique. Kirsch has consulted widely on indigenous rights and environmental issues.

Klages, Gregory

Gregory Klages is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with the Ryerson University Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility, where he is contributing to development of CSR case studies concerning Canadian mining companies operating in developing countries, using an innovative multi-perspective, collaborative methodology.

Kraemer, Romy

I am a third year PhD student in the department of Business-Society Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. In my PhD research, I examine industrial mining development and local resistance in the context of India's bauxite industry. The first stage of field work will take place from November 2008 to February 2009 with another visit planned for summer 2009. I am interested in the rhetoric of the 'local license to operate', firms' risk management strategies, and the political nature and financing of large scale industrial development in emerging economies. 
I studied psychology with a focus on work and organisational psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. While working as a research assistant at the University of Aberdeen on an industry grant from BP I got interested in the social aspects of natural resource development and decided to change subjects and pursue a PhD into this direction.

Laforce, Myriam

Myriam Laforce is a researcher at the Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique (GRAMA, http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/grama/), part of the Research Chair C.-A. Poissant (www.poissant.uqam.ca) on Governance and Aid for Development at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She completed in 2006 a Master’s degree in Political Science at the same university. Her research interests focus on the political processes surrounding the management of foreign mining activities impacts in Peru and on the main implications of present forms of liberalisation in the mining sector. Since 2006, she is involved in a GRAMA research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) based on the analysis of the regulation processes that led to the singing of specific agreements between mining companies and aboriginal communities in two regions of Canada in the 1990s.
For more information about her work: http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/ieim/spip.php?auteur465

Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala

I grew up in the lower Damodar area of Bengal, India, near the eastern collieries, from where I went to Lady Brabourne College and Calcutta University and did my PhD in 1985. I became involved, since 1990s, with local struggles over rights on resources and livelihoods. Consequently, my research turned towards examining environmental changes in a coal mining region and women living in marginal and resource-constrained situations. I joined the Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program in 2002 since when I have received several grants, successfully undertaken projects, and consultancies.

My current research focus is on community initiatives and development in mining and water sectors, and for this, I often use a ‘gender lens’ to look into the heterogeneities within the broad community. My work focuses primarily on South Asia; for example, I am undertaking research on the social impacts of coal mining in India. In my view, the brunt of social changes in mining areas is often borne by women in rural and peasant communities. I also have an ARC-funded linkage grant studying the interface between large-scale mining and the community with emphasis on community empowerment in East Kalimantan. This project stems from my belief that ‘community development’ by mining companies must include the specific objective of women’s empowerment. Another exciting theme that I am currently exploring is that of livelihoods in artisanal, small-scale, and at times illegal mining. For more on ASM see www.asmasiapacific.org

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Lapointe, Ugo

Ugo Lapointe has a B.Sc. degree in economic geology (Queen’s University) and is currently a Master’s student at the Institute of environmental sciences/studies at UQAM. He is actively involved in two research groups: the Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique (GRAMA) and the Pakumshumwau-Matuskau Protected Area Project, a community-university research alliance project between the Cree community of Wemindji and McGill University. His research interests include the social and political processes and conditions that shape relationships between communities, mining corporations, and governments in Quebec and Canada. Specifically, his Master’s thesis focuses on the negotiation of environmental protection through the signing of a mining agreement between the Cree Nation of Wemindji and Goldcorp Inc. Ugo is cofounder of the coalition Pour que le Québec ait meilleure mine!, a not-for-profit organization which advocates for more community-oriented mining policies and regulations and improved social and environmental mining practices. In collaboration with a Quebec-based ethical investment firm, Ugo recently helped conduct the first assessment of mining companies’ environmental and social performances in Quebec.

Larrain, Rene

Rene Larrain has worked as a miner for many years at Quebrada Blanca Mining Company  .  He is part of the union leadership of the Quebrada Blanca Mining Company Workers Union.  Rene has been very active in promoting worker-to-worker linkages with the Steelworkers unions at Teck Mining Company particularly in issues related to the impact of work in altitude in workers' health.

Larrea, Carlos

Ph.D. York University, Canadá, Economía política.
Maestría, Ciencias sociales, Fundación Bariloche, Argentina.
Post-doctorado: Salud y desarrollo, Harvard University.
Profesor: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.
Consultor independiente: Banco Mundial, PNUD, OIT, BID, OPS, UNICEF, etc.
Libros principales recientes:
Coordinador. Pueblos Indígenas, Discriminación y Capital Humano en el Ecuador, 2007.
Hacia una Historia Ecológica del Ecuador. 2006.
Dolarización, Crisis y Pobreza en el Ecuador. 2004.
(Con Jeannette Sanchez). Pobreza, Empleo y Equidad en el Ecuador.  2002.
(Con Wilma Freire y Chessa Lutter). Situación Nutricional de los Niños Ecuatorianos. 2001.
Coordinador. Desarrollo Social y Gestión Municipal en el Ecuador. 1999.

Laxer, Gordon

Gordon Laxer is the Director and co-founder of Parkland Institute (www.ualberta.ca/parkland), a non-corporate, research network at the University of Alberta. A Political Economy professor, he has published over 35 journal articles and book chapters. Laxer is author or editor of five books, including Open for Business. The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada, which received the John Porter Award. Laxer is a public intellectual who appears frequently in print and on broadcast media. He was first Chairperson of the Toronto chapter of the Waffle movement for an 'independent Socialist Canada' (1969), and first President of Edmonton's Chapter of the Council of Canadians (1985). Currently, Laxer is on the Council's board. Laxer is writing a book "Freezing in the dark? An Energy Security Plan for Canadians", and is preparing for such an outcome by cycling through Edmonton's winters.

Li, Fabiana

I am currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. My research interests include environmental politics, the dynamics of global capitalism, transnational social movements, and the production of knowledge in the context of conflicts over natural resources. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork on transnational mining activity in Peru, my dissertation examines the new forms of grassroots politics that emerge through contested representations of nature. My work focuses on two main sites of conflict: the smelter-town of La Oroya, located in the Central Highlands, and the Northern department of Cajamarca, the site of Peru's largest gold mine (Yanacocha). While conflicts over mining in Peru are not a new occurrence, my dissertation examines the increasing prominence of environmental concerns in disputes over rights. For my future work, I plan to expand upon this research on mining conflicts while focusing more specifically on the economy of gold, tracing the transnational networks that connect sites of gold extraction to corporate headquarters and centers of finance.

Lindsay, Nicole

Nicole Lindsay is a second year PhD student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research is focused on discourse, power and politics in the Latin American mining industry, with a particular emphasis on the role of semiotics in conflict between Canadian multinational corporations and mining-affected communities. She has recently completed field research for an Export Development Canada case study of Barrick Gold's Pierina mine in Ancash, Peru, and has co-authored a paper published in Canadian Foreign Policy (October, 2008) on the trends and limitations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for Canadian mining companies operating in Latin America. Nicole lives in Victoria, B.C., where she teaches in the School of Communication and Culture and the Faculty of Management at Royal Roads University.

Lo, Marieme

Marieme Lo earned a MSc and PhD from Cornell University, and is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, after holding a visiting fellowship at the University of Oxford. The scope of her research includes the political economy of gender and development, transnational trade, livelihood diversification, the human ecology of environmental disaster and conflict, and emerging paradigms in the nexus between disaster and human security. As gender and development expert also, Dr Lo has been contributing to NGOs and grassroots organizations’ capacity development, change process management, social and policy advocacy, and advocacy campaign strategizing around extractive industries in Africa.

Lovelace, Robert

Robert Lovelace is a retired Chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and now serves as the Chief Negotiator.  He is presently engaged with bringing the province of Ontario to an equitable consultation process regarding exploration for Uranium in the Ottawa Valley.  Robert also teaches Aboriginal Studies courses at Queen`s University and Indigenous sustainability science at Fleming College.  He has written extensively about community development as a model for "resistance" and achieving sustainable living. 
Robert has developed a serious critique of government and industry`s strategies of co-management agreements with Indigenous communities.  He sees the present industrial liberality and government acknowledgment of rights as euphemistic domination.  Through a generation of direct action he concludes that governments encourage violent confrontation as a means to discourage honest dissent.  Solutions, in his words, will arise when "literate warriors" master the popular discourse and lead grassroots initiatives to rebuild Indigenous cultures.

Marshall, Judith

Judith Marshall is a labour educator and writer who works in the Global Affairs and Local Issues Department of the United Steelworkers. She has been actively involved in building global networks for many years, along with organizing popular education programmes on global issues.

Muller, Ana Garcia

I've studied Political Science at the Free University of Berlin (Germany), where my main themes of study were regional integration, privatization processes, free trade regimes, and social movements. My MA thesis focused on the negotiations of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) from the critical perspective of social movements in Brazil. In this reseach I analyzed Cardosos' and Lula's foreign policies, and social movements' participation. Since 2005 I have worked for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Sao Paulo as a project coordinator, where a great part of our work consists in the support and development of political debates and political education courses with social movements and organizations in the Southern Cone region. I've worked since 2006 on the issue of European transnational corporations in Latin America. I am active in the EU-LA bi-regional network "Enlazando Alternativas", and I've worked on the construction of the Permanent People's Tribunal against neoliberal politics and European TNCs in Vienna (2006) and Lima (2008). I'm involved with the struggle of fishers' communities in the western zone of Rio against the instalation of an industrial steelcomplex by Thyssen Krupp together with Vale, and I've worked on the presention of this case at the People's Tribunal in Lima.

Naanen, Ben

I was born in Nigeria in 1957, had my first degree in history from the University of Nigeria in 1980, my MA (1984) and PhD (1988) from Dalhousie Univ. Halifax, Nova Scotia. I did postdoctoral research as a Commonwealth Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, held fellowships at Northwestern University, Evanston , Ill, and the World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, where I was also a consultant in 2005. I have also undertaken a number of international assignments, including leading an election monitoring mission to Zanzibar.
I am currently a professorial candidate at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
I was pioneer General Secretary of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) (1992-99). In that capacity I led MOSOP's global campaign against Shell and the policies of the military dictatorship in Nigeria at the time. Ogoni protests under the leadership of MOSOP led to the suspension of Shell's operations in Ogoni in April1993. Shell has to this day not been able to resume activities in Ogoni. In June 2008 in an attempt to end the Ogoni-Shell impasse and release Ogoni oil, the President of Nigeria announced a revocation of Shell's license in Ogoni. I remain part of the process going on in Ogoni to assist the government select an operator for Ogoni oil.
I have been exposed to national politics as I was candidate for the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the platform of the main opposition party in in the 2003 general elections ( I was denied victory through the electoral manipulation of the ruling party).
I also run an NGO currently (Niger Delta Environment and Relief Foundation) that has been involved in conflict resolution, human rights and environmental and research activities in the troubled Niger Delta region where Nigeria's oil is produced.

North, Liisa

Liisa North is the author or co-author of nine books and about fifty book chapters and journal articles on party politics, civil-military relations, and political economic development processes in Chile, Peru, Peru, and Ecuador; on the civil wars, United Nations peacekeeping missions, and human rights and refugee crises in El Salvador and Guatemala; and on Canadian-Latin American relations, with a particular focus on peace promotion and development assistance. She also has written numerous journalistic pieces published in various magazines and national newspapers. She is the co-editor of a book that emerged from a previous CERLAC-organized conference on conflicts involving mining and petroleum corporations: Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America (2006). In  2005, she received the Pio Jaramillo Alvarado Prize in the Social Sciences, awarded annually by FLACSO-Ecuador, with CONESUP and UNESCO, for lifetime contributions to knowledge concerning the Andean Region of South  America.

Obi, Cyril

Dr Cyril Obi is currently the Coordinator of the research programme on Post-Conflict Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa, at the
Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in Uppsala. He is presently on leave from the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, where he is an Associate Research Professor.
Cyril has published extensively on international environmental politics and energy security issues, oil-related conflict in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta and the Gulf of Guinea, globalisation, oil, politics, governance and peacebuilding in Africa. Some of his writings have been translated into French, Arabic, Italian, Norwegian, German, Chinese and Spanish.

O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran

Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has written numerous articles and books in the fields of resource economics and resources policy, negotiation, social impact assessment and Indigenous studies. He has recently published a monograph on environmental agreements in Canada, and in November 2008 co-edited (with Saleem Ali) Earth Matters: Indigenous Peoples, Extractive Industries and Corporate Social Responsibility (Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield).

During the last 15 years Professor O’Faircheallaigh has worked with Aboriginal communities on negotiation of mining agreements. He has been retained as an adviser and negotiator by many of Australia’s leading Aboriginal organizations, including the Northern, Central, Kimberley, Cape York and Yamatji Land Councils. Between 1998 and 2000 he served as Policy Adviser to the Queensland Indigenous Working Group, Queensland’s peak Indigenous organisation in relation to native title, cultural heritage and resource management. He is currently completing a comparative study of negotiations involving mining companies and Aboriginal peoples in Australia and Canada, and working on a number of negotiations in the mining and oil and gas industries in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Nunavut.

Osuoka, Isaac ‘Asume’

Before joining the doctoral program of the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) at York University, Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka has been Director of Social Action, a Nigerian project for education and solidarity for communities and activists for environmental justice and democracy. He is also a joint coordinator of the Gulf of Guinea Citizens Network (GGCN), an advocacy initiative by community and civil society actors for effective enforcement of standards of legal, political, and social responsibility in natural resources exploitation and management in the countries of the Gulf of Guinea.
Osuoka has worked for over a decade to support communities in the Nigeria and other countries in the Gulf of Guinea region, organising programs that encourage change in policy and practice of oil corporations, governments and international finance institutions. He had served as Coordinator of Oilwatch Africa (1997-2006), a network supporting resistance, exchange of experiences and solidarity building for communities and civil society organisations in sub-Saharan Africa. Osuoka has participated in several international conferences on environment, energy and mining and has been a panellist at the Expert Group Meeting on the Use of Non-Renewable Resource Revenues for Sustainable Local Development organised by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. He has also represented communities in committees set up by the Nigerian Presidency to address the crisis in the Niger delta.

Orta, Martí

Biólogo por la Universitat de Barcelona, actualmente es doctorando del Programa de Ciencias Ambientales de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Su investigación, en colaboración con la Federación de Comunidades Nativas del Río Corrientes (FECONACO), se centra en los impactos ambientales de las actividades petrolíferas en el Territorio Achuar (Amazonía Peruana), combinando cartografía participativa, GIS y teledetección. Ha convivido con el pueblo Achuar por períodos intermitentes desde 2005 hasta la actualidad. Desde la perspectiva de la economía ecológica y la ecología política, también ha estudiado el avance de la frontera petrolera en la amazonía peruana.

Patroni, Viviana

Viviana Patroni is an associate professor in the Division of Social Science at York University. Between 2000/2003 and 2004/2007 she was the director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, also at York. Her work has focused on the experience of development in Latin American, the changing nature of state-labour relations under neoliberalism and the emergence of new forms of unionism in Argentina. Her most recent work includes an interest on the impact of Canadian investment in the Latin American mining sector. Her articles have appeared in Capital and Class, Research in Political Economy, LABOUR, Capital and Society among other journals and she is one of the co-editors of Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America (2006). She is currently also the co-director of a Canadian-funded project of activities aimed at supporting the development of a Latin American network for human rights education and research.

Peerla, David

David Peerla is a political advisor to the Nishnawbe Aski Nation and an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology, Lakehead University. He is active in the campaign to defend the aboriginal and treaty rights of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and many other First Nations in Treaty No. 9.

Ragusa, Paul

Paul Ragusa earned an engineering degree from Concordia University in Montreal in 1981.   Mr. Ragusa has worked in the International sphere for over 15 years and has worked in Americas specifically for thirteen of those.

Mr. Ragusa is an oil and gas specialist mainly involved in energy programming in developing countries.  In that capacity, he has been involved in developing policies/strategies and providing advice and expertise to the Agency on energy sector issues. This has included leading and coordinating multi disciplinary project teams for programming and in major projects /initiatives that impact on the Agency's mandate.  He is well versed on Corporate Social Responsibility in the extractive sectors and has developed the CIDA Andean CSR strategy and is currently involved in planning several CSR projects (in the extractive sectors) in the Latin America and Caribbean region.  

Mr. Ragusa is project manager for several CIDA funded energy projects focusing on resource governance and on strengthening capacity within government institutions to regulate and monitor hydrocarbon sector activities.  Prior to CIDA, he worked in regulatory capacity functions with Natural Resources Canada, Indian and Northern Development and the National Energy Board in relation to offshore and northern oil and gas operations.

Ramirez, Laura

Laura Ramirez has been active in the United Steelworkers for over 20 years. She is currently the Latin America Programme Coordinator for the Global Affairs and Workplace Issues Department of the Steelworkers. For many years, Laura has been involved in promoting workers' connections and developing international union networks, including Teck's. She is currently the coordinator of the global Xstrata Unions Network.

Ramirez, Marcia

Marcia Ramirez is a 25 year old woman activist from the Junin area of Intag, Ecuador. She is current president of the Junin Women's Group; president of the Youth Distance Education Group, and President of the Junin Ecological Tourism Group. She is also secretary of the Community Development Council. The CDC is a very small grass-roots organizations working with communities closest to the mining area in the area of human rights, sustainable development, and is an important front line of defense in keeping the mining companies out of the region. Since May of 2004, Marcia has been one of the key activist in the struggle to save the Intag Valley, and the Junin area in particular, from large-scale mining development by Canadian Copper Mesa Mining Corporation. To date, her work has helped stop the development of what would have been of the world's biggest open-pit copper mine. Marcia lives with her farming parents and brothers and sisters in the Chalguyacu Alto village. Besides her many organizational responsibilities, she is also pursuing her high-school degree through a distance-education program.

Rogge, Malcolm

Born in Winnipeg, Canada in 1969, Malcolm Rogge is a filmmaker and writer based in Toronto. His debut feature documentary film, Under Rich Earth, had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. After four years studying theatre, philosophy and literature in Winnipeg, Malcolm completed a Masters in Environmental Studies at York University and a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He melds his passion for art and politics using diverse approaches in film and video. His experimental, short fiction and non-fiction films and videos have been exhibited in festivals and galleries across Canada. Rogge has also worked for human rights and environmental organizations in Canada and Ecuador, and he is on the editorial board of a national magazine devoted to politics and social justice.

Sangadji, Arianto

Arianto Sangadji is Visiting Fellow in Asian Institute, at University of Toronto. He is ex Director and co-founder of Yayasan Tanah Merdeka, (Free Land Foundation) which a NGO is working with local communities who are affected by transnational mining companies in Central Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Santiago, Myrna

Myrna Santiago is associate professor of History at St. Mary's College of California where she teaches Latin America and World History and directs the Women's Studies Program.  Her research focuses on labor and environmental history.  Her book, "The Ecology of Oil:  Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938," won the 2007 Bryce Wood Award for the Outstanding Book on Latin America in the Social Sciences and the Humanities as well as the 2007 Elinore Melville Prize for the best book on Latin American Environmental History.

Sawyer, Suzana

Suzana Sawyer is Associate Professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. Her book Crude Chronicles (Duke University Press 2004) explores conflicts among indigenous peoples, a multinational corporation, and a neoliberalizing state in Ecuador. She argues that struggles over resources are simultaneously material and symbolic, remaking (and containing) nature, nation, and citizenship in the process. Suzana’s current research examines a class action lawsuit against Chevron from three different angles--critical legal studies and corporate law, science studies and epidemiology, and civil society and social movements. Since 2006, Suzana has also led an UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) project examining conflicts that have erupted among states, multinational corporations, international institutions, and indigenous communities in conjunction with mineral and hydrocarbon extraction in eight different countries around the world. She has published in Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Critique, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Perspectives, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Social Analysis, and Cultural Survival.

Scott, Dayna

Professor Dayna Scott is cross-appointed between Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York. Her current SSHRC-funded research project, Environmental Justice for the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, tackles the issue of chronic pollution on an Ontario reserve. Specifically, she seeks to apply a critical perspective to the examination of law's treatment of the "risks" of long-term, low-dose exposures to pollutants. Professor Scott's 2005 dissertation is a socio-legal analysis of the transformative potential of international law’s “precautionary principle” as it has been employed by the environmental health movement. She is interested in questions of environmental regulation and governance from an interdisciplinary perspective, especially work that interrogates the interaction between local and global modes of governing and ways of knowing.  For 2008-09, Professor Scott has been appointed as the Director of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health.

Simmons, Alan

Alan Simmons is Senior Scholar, Graduate Program in Sociology, and Fellow, Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CERLAC), York University.  His research is in the areas of economic globalization, migrant transnationalism, and development. 

Slack, Keith

Keith Slack is Extractive Industries Program Manager in the Washington, DC office of Oxfam America, an international humanitarian relief and development agency. He coordinates the organization’s extractive industries reform program, which promotes greater respect by corporations, international financial institutions and governments for the basic rights of communities in developing countries affected by oil and mining operations. He worked previously for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights in Washington, DC and in Peru for Catholic Relief Services. In 2002-2003, he held a research fellowship at the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs in New York. His publications include articles in Ethics and International Affairs, Human Rights Quarterly and the Los Angeles Times and a chapter in a new volume on neoliberalism in Latin America. He holds an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a B.A. from Vassar College.

Slowey, Gabrielle

Gabrielle Slowey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.  Her community-based research considers ways in which neoliberal globalization, self-government and resource development (specifically oil and gas extraction) intersect. In her most recent project she compares political and economic development pressures and levels of self-government in Old Crow, Yukon and Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. This project is supported by a SSHRC Northern Development Research Grant (2006-2009) and forms part of a larger IPY (International Polar Year Grant) Project 310: The Impacts of Oil and Gas Activity on Peoples in the Arctic Using a Multiple Securities Perspective (GAPS). Her previous projects have focused on northern Alberta, James Bay Quebec and New Zealand. She is the author of Navigating Neoliberalism: Self-Determination and the Mikisew Cree First Nation (UBC Press, 2008).

Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken

Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert (Ph.D. Yale) is Associate Professor of Latin American and Global History at McGill University.
My current research focuses on the long-durée history of mining in Latin America. This research line includes the environmental history of mining from the colonial period to the present, early modern metallurgical sciences and practices, as well as the transformations of the mining industry in the late twentieth century, with a particular focus on the role of Canadian companies and governments therein.
Since 2006 I have worked as the coordinator for MICLA, a research collective based at McGill that investigates the scope and ramifications of the rapid growth of Canada’s mining industry in Latin America over the last twenty years. Over the past two years, students and faculty members of the group have worked together to set out a research agenda aimed at gathering information about these operations as well as their impacts on local communities and environments. Members of the collective have presented our findings in a variety of venues including DFAIT, CCIC, Yale, Laval and have also written up research reports commissioned by NGOs and communities in Canada, Colombia and Mexico engaged in this issue. We are currently working on a book-length “Field Guide to Canadian Mining in the Americas”.

Szablowski, David

David Szablowski is an assistant professor appointed to the Law & Society program at York University.  He is a founding member and coordinator of the Extractive Industry Research Group at York.  His research examines the influence of globalization on domestic, international, and transnational legal authority, with a particular focus on the regulation of extractive industries.
His book, Transnational Law and Local Struggles: Mining, Communities and the World Bank (Hart 2007), explores the multi-scalar nature of a mining conflict in north-central Peru.  The book presents a micro-macro study which examines the intensely local dynamics of this conflict together with the influence of a transnational legal regime managed by the World Bank.  Professor Szablowski is currently engaged in a research project examining the operationalization of emerging transnational norms requiring informed consent or consultation for extractive industry development on indigenous territory.

Thorp, Rosemary

Rosemary Thorp is the Senior Researcher responsible for the Latin American Programme at the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security, and Ethnicity (CRISE) at Oxford’s Department of International Development Her current work is on conflict, ethnicity and inequality in Peru. She is the author of Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: an Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century (1998) and the co-editor of three companion volumes:  Vol. I: The Export Age: The Latin American Economies in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Vol. II, Latin America in the 1930s: The Role of the Periphery in the World Crisis; Vol. 3: Industrialization and the State in Latin America: The Postwar Years. She is also the author or co-author, among many other works, of: Decentralizing Development: the Political Economy of Institutional Change in Colombia and Chile (2001), Economic Management and Economic Development in Peru and Colombia (1991); Latin American Debt and the Adjustment Crisis (1987); Peru, 1989-1977: Growth and Policy in an Open Economy (1978).

Turner, Terisa

Terisa Turner studied at the University of York (U.K.), Oberlin College (U.S.A.), and received her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. As a United Nations energy specialist she has worked in Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East. She has edited Oil and Class Struggle (1980), Arise Ye Mighty People! Gender, Class and Race in Popular Struggles (1994), Gender, Feminism and the Civil Commons (2001), Women and Global Climate Change (2007), and articles on fossil fuel moratoria, resource conflict, international political economy, gender and subsistence. As a founding member of the International Oil Working Group, she worked to implement the United Nations oil embargo against apartheid South Africa. Through First Woman: the East and Southern African Indigenous Knowledge and Oral History Network, she records the life histories of old women who engaged in the 1950s Mau Mau anti-colonial war. Since 2006 she has focused on ‘commoners against climate change.’ She is an editor of the Journal of Asian and African Studies and Capitalism Nature Socialism.

Ugalde, Vicente

Licenciado en Derecho, Maestro en Estudios Urbanos por El Colegio de México y en Administración Pública por la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencia Política de la Universidad de Paris (Panthéon-Assas), institución que también le otorgó el grado de Doctorado en Derecho. Tiene además una "licence" en Filosofía por la Universidad Sorbona de Paris (Paris IV) y concluyó los estudios de Maestría en Derecho con especialidad en Constitucional y Administrativo por la UNAM. Es Profesor-Investigador del CEDUA en el Colegio de México. Su trabajo se ha centrado en el estudio de la política de residuos peligrosos en México, tema sobre el que tratan algunas de sus publicaciones, también se interesa en la inspección ambiental y recientemente en la juridización del medio ambiente. Es candidato a investigador del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.

Uribe Iniesta, Rodolfo

Investigador de la Dirección de Investigación y Educación Superior del Gobierno de Tabasco.  Coordinador de Investigación del IV Comité Regional de Comisión Mexicana para la UNESCO zona Sureste. Director de la Estación de Radio Indigenista "La Voz de los Yokot'anob".  Investigador Invitado del Instituto de Estudios de Iberoamérica y Portugal de la Universidad de Salamanca, España.  Asesor de Metodología en Proyectos de Desarrollo de la Coordinación Universitaria de Atención a las Comunidades Indígenas Universidad de Guadalajara, México.  Investigador Titular del Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Investigador Nacional Nivel II Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Conacyt.
A partir de 1985 he participado en actividades de promoción y defensa de derechos humanos, derechos indígenas y medio ambiente en Tabasco, Veracruz, Campeche y  Chiapas, desde 1995 en Jalisco y desde 1997 en Morelos.  Como parte de estas actividades he mediado en conflictos locales entre PEMEX y campesinos tabasqueños e impartido cursos de asesorìa y sensibilización a empleados de PEMEX.

Vandergeest, Peter

Peter Vandergeest (Ph.D., Cornell, 1990) teaches and writes in the areas of political ecology, agro-food studies, the cultural politics of environment and development, and Southeast Asian studies. He has published articles and a co-edited book on development-induced displacement, the social aspects of forestry, and the political ecology of shrimp aquaculture. Prof. Vandergeest's current research focuses on governmentality and regulation in agro-food transitions in Southeast Asia; state power as expressed through professional forestry in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand; and the social justice implications of emerging environmental certification regimes for shrimp and salmon.

Vasquez, Mirtha

Abogada  egresada de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca- Perú.  Post Grado seguido en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, especialidad Gerencia Social.  Master seguido en la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía – España, especialidad de Derecho Ambiental. Docente de la Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca en la cátedra de Derecho Ambiental.
Actual Directora Ejecutiva de la ONG. GRUFIDES de Cajamarca Perú, institución dedicada a la defensa de derechos ambientales y sociales de comunidades afectadas por industrias extractivas mineras. Grufides es una de las organizaciones líderes en la defensa del medio ambiente y lucha contra las industrias mineras en Perú.  Somos parte de la Red Muqui (Red Nacional de organizaciones de defensa de derechos ambientales) y la Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos.

Walter, Mariana

Mariana Walter es licenciada en Ecología Urbana (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento) y  Master en Estudios Ambientales de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) y desarrolla sus estudios doctorales en el Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Ambientales de la UAB. Se desempeña en la coordinación del proyecto europeo CEECEC (Civil Society Engagement with Ecological Economics, www.ceecec.net) que busca articular e intercambiar diversas formas de conocimiento entre Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil y Expertos en Economia Ecológica de diversos países del mundo. Sus investigaciones tratan acerca de los conflictos mineros en América Latina. Ha estudiado la emergencia y expansión del movimiento antiminero en Argentina y actualmente trabaja sobre la problemática minera en Ecuador.

Wanless, Cory

Cory Wanless first became interested in the implications of Canadian mining abroad while working in Mufulira Zambia with a land rights organization in the summer of 2005.   He was surprised and troubled to learn that the mine that was inflicting significant harm on the local community through eviction subsistence farmers from mine land and pollution of local air and water was Canadian.
On his return, Cory founded an international human rights working group called the Umuchinshi Initiative (a word that means respect in Bemba) at the University of Toronto.  The Umuchinshi Initiative participated in the 2005 National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Sector (see their Recommendations), and has recently completed a case study on the failure of the OECD guidelines to prevent the eviction of subsistence farmers from mine land in Zambia.  Cory is currently articling at Klippensteins Barristers & Solicitors, a small law firm that focuses on social justice issues, including the impacts of mining on people in the developing world and in Northern Ontario.

Webb, Kernaghan

Dr. Kernaghan Webb is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Business, Ryerson University Faculty of Business (Ted Rogers School of Management), in Toronto, Canada. He holds Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate degrees in Law. He is the Founding Director of the Ryerson University Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility, and is a Special Advisor to the United Nations Global Compact on the ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Standard. Formerly, Dr. Webb was a senior legal policy advisor with the federal Department of Industry. He participated as a government member in the Extractive Sector Roundtable process. Dr. Webb has played leadership roles in the development of a number of international and national standards and codes initiatives. He has written and published extensively on innovative approaches to regulation, including the role of voluntary codes and standards and their inter-connections with the formal legal system. His work on regulatory offences has been quoted and followed by the Supreme Court of Canada. Dr. Webb is a co-investigator in the SSHRC-supported Canadian Business Ethics Research Network, and is the Principal Investigator in a SSHRCC-funded project focusing on the development of CSR case studies concerning Canadian mining companies operating in developing countries, using an innovative multi-perspective, collaborative methodology.

UN Global Compact, Interview with Dr. Webb  

Weitzner, Viviane

Viviane Weitzner is a senior researcher at The North-South Institute, and manager of NSI’s collaborative research project “Indigenous Perspectives to Decision-Making about Mining and Other Activities affecting Indigenous Lands in Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada.” For the last decade, she has been working with Indigenous organizations and communities in Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada to support and document their experiences interacting with extractive industries. Viviane’s research interests focus on community-based natural resources management (especially co-management and free, prior and informed consent processes), community-to-community exchanges and development (Indigenous partnerships in particular), conflict management and public participation processes, and Indigenous and Tribal rights. Viviane’s project work has highlighted communities in conflict over natural resources, ranging from hydroelectric development affecting Cree peoples in Canada’s north, to protected areas affecting Afro-Caribbeans in Costa Rica and Indigenous peoples in Canada’s Arctic, to mines affecting Indigenous people in Suriname, Guyana and Colombia. She did her graduate studies in natural resources management at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba.

Whiteman, Gail

Wildau, Susan T.

Susan T. Wildau, M.A, is a Partner of CDR Associates (www.mediate.org), a leading international conflict management and training firm. Ms Wildau has worked in the field of complex, multi-party conflict management for over thirty years and is an internationally known mediator, facilitator, grievance system designer and trainer. She has provided conflict management assistance to address a wide range of international, development, public policy, environmental and organizational issues. She is the leader of CDR’s Sustainable Development practice area.  

Many of her projects have focused on stakeholder engagement systems and dialogues to address high stakes, social and natural resource conflicts that emerge when the interests of development, the natural environment, and societies collide.  She is well versed in working in conflict sensitive areas and in helping communities and companies develop grievance mechanisms, participatory monitoring programs and other community engagement initiatives that improve social and environmental performance, promote positive development impacts, reduce risk, and strengthen communities.

Wildau’s innovative facilitation, training and consultation work have brought her to Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific Region, Western and Eastern Europe and North America. Much of her work involves the extractive industries. For example, served as a consultant to the IFC’s Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman where she and the CAO teaam helped to establish an innovative dialogue process and participatory monitoring program that involved representatives from a gold mining project, affected communities, government and civil society in Northern Peru.

Cynthia Williams

Cynthia Williams (B.A., Berkeley, JD (cum laude) NYU) holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. Prior to her appointment at Osgoode, Professor Williams was the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois College of Law where she taught for 12 years.  Her research focuses on corporate law, comparative corporate governance, corporate responsibility and securities law.  She has authored or co-authored interdisciplinary papers in these fields in the Academy of Management Review, the Georgetown Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law, the University of Virginia Law Review and an Oxford University Press book chapter, among others.  Her Harvard Law Review article, "The Securities and Exchange Commission and Corporate Social Transparency", was the lead article reprinted in the Securities Law Review 2000, and was recognized by Corporate Practice Commentator as one of the 10 best corporate or securities articles published in 1999.  She is a founder and member of the coordinating team of the global Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, which is a collaboration between academics and financial market professionals. Together with Prof. John Conley, anthropologist and law professor at the University of North Carolina, she currently works on the role of the Equator Principles in the evolving transnational framework of banking regulation and social and environmental regulation of major infrastructure development. Email: cwilliams [at] osgoode [dot] yorku [dot] ca.

Xavier, Andre M.

Andre Xavier, Master in business administration with focus on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has worked in Brazil as CSR consultant and university teacher. Research and teaching topics include: Stakeholder Mapping; Conflicts with communities; Corporate Social Responsibility. Currently is PhD Student at Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia researching on stakeholder mapping in mining communities.

Zalik, Anna

Dr. Anna Zalik teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Her research concerns the merging of industrial security and development aid, focusing on oil industry responses to social resistance in extractive sites. She conducts ongoing work in Nigeria and Mexico, with new research in the Canadian Tar Sands. Recent publications include "LNG and Fossil Capitalism" in the November 2008 edition of Monthly Review.

Zoe, John B.

John B .Zoe is a member of the Tlicho First Nation. He currently serves as the Tlicho Executive Officer for the recognized Tlicho Government, and the major art of his work is managing the development of the governance and corporate tructures. Mr. Zoe was born and raised in Rae-Edzo in the Northwest Territories, and he still resides in this community. In the early years his community spoke only the traditional language, and stories were an everyday natural routine. In 1992, Mr. Zoe became the chief negotiator for the Tlicho First Nation (Dogrib Treaty 11 Council). He participated in the negotiations with the governments of Canada and the Northwest Territories to help settle the land claim and obtain self-government, completed in 2005. Under the self-rule agreement, the Tlicho First Nation is responsible for 39,000 square kilometres of land between Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake, an area about the size of Belgium. The agreement is built on the stories that he and the team had heard, and with the help of the elders, this story has been added. There are three operating diamond mines in the traditional territory of the Tlicho Nation.

Zorrilla, Carlos

Carlos Zorrilla has lived in the Intag region of Ecuador since 1978. He is owner of the Intag Cloud Forest reserve, where, together with his family he developed a small-scale ecotourist business, and produces shade-grown coffee.
He is founder and co-founder of several environmental and farming organizations, including: the Santa Rosa Community Forest Rangers (1993); DECOIN -Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag (1995);  the Rio Intag Coffee Association (1998), and the Ecuadorian Network of Private Protected Forests (Red Nacional de Bosques Privados del Ecuador, 1994).
Mr. Zorrilla is recognized as having played a leading role in the struggle to keep mining companies out of the Intag area of Ecuador ever since he helped found DECOIN in 1995, where he is current executive director. Carlos was one of the leaders of the anti-mining struggle targeted by the mining interests in 2006 when his home was raided by police bearing arrest and search warrants based on fictitious charges (the lawsuit against him was subsequently found to be malicious and reckless by the courts).
DECOIN actively works in conserving Intag's biological, water and threatened forest resources, in environmental education and alternative development.  The small-grass roots organization successfully challanged a World Bank mining development project in Ecuador, and is seen as one of the leading Intag organizations proposing mining-free development in the country.
Mr. Zorrilla lives at his cloud-forest home in Intag with his wife, where divides his time between farming, ecotourism and his administrative responsibilities for DECOIN.
Carlos was born in Cuba, and migrated to the USA at age eleven.  He first visited Ecuador in 1975, and became a permanent Intag resident in 1978. His farm is part of a private protected area covered in cloud forests.