m4d alumni forum empowered women in mining and conference key speakers and panellists - summary bios...

Announcing our M4D Conference speakers and panellists who have ‘walked the talk’ …spear heading change and actively advocating for gender equality, changes to legislation, transparent governance, developing skills, knowledge, networks and capacity to improve people’s lives…

Ian Satchwell Director, IM4DCAustralia

Speaker and host

Ian has been Director of IM4DC since its inception in 2011. His career spans 28 years in industry and development policy, operating at the business-government-community interface with professional experience in Australia, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Prior to his IM4DC role he held senior roles in national economics consultancy firms, advising industry and government on issues relating to resources development and infrastructure; and management positions within minerals and energy industry bodies. His board-level experience includes three other business associations where he has been closely involved in policy development and strategy design, with particular emphasis on investment, trade, infrastructure and regional development. Ian is a member of the Board of Directors of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia and has held the role of National President of the Australia Indonesia Business Council.

Professor Kent AndersonDeputy Vice Chancellor (Community and Engagement)The University of Western AustraliaAustralia

Opening Remarks

Professor Anderson is an international lawyer specialising in Asian law. He joined the University of Western Australia as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Community & Engagement) in 2014. Before joining UWA, Kent was Pro Vice Chancellor (International) at University of Adelaide and before that dean of the then Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University. Prior to settling in Australia, Kent was associate professor of law at Hokkaido University, a commercial lawyer in Hawaii, and an airline marketer in Alaska. He is on the New Colombo Plan Advisory Board and previously chaired the Asia Bound advisory committee.

Professor Monique SkidmoreDeputy Vice-Chancellor (International)The University of QueenslandAustralia

Opening Remarks

Professor Monique Skidmore joined UQ in March 2014, as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (International). Professor Skidmore has university wide portfolio responsibility for international development, policy and strategy and brings to the position significant academic and senior leadership experience, most recently as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International and Major Projects) at the University of Canberra and adjunct professor at Australian National University. She has held significant academic and research roles in Australian and American universities. Her academic expertise is in the field of international relations, politics and government. She has a BSc and BA (Hons) in anthropology from the Australian National University, as well as an MA and PhD in Medical Anthropology from McGill University in Canada.

Lesley SiowiEnvironmental Scientist Department of Mining, Autonomous BougainvillePapua New Guinea

Conference Alumni representative and Panellist Reflection Session

Lesley graduated from the University of Papua New Guinea with a Bachelor in Science (BSc) majoring in Environmental Science. She joined the newly established Department of Mining in Bougainville in 2007 and was initially sent to train and work with organisations such as the Department of Mineral Policy and Hazard Management, the Mineral Resources Authority and Newcrest Mining Limited. Within her Autonomous Bougainville Government Mining department, Lesley works for the Policy and Regulatory branch, where they are focussed on establishing our mining policies, legislation and environment legislation.

Joanne FarrellGlobal Head of Health, Environment Safety and Communities Rio Tinto - ‘100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining’ Women in Mining UKAustraliaKeynote Speaker: Shared goals - realising benefitsPanellist: Engage: leaders and develop networks and capacity

Joanne has worked in the mining industry since 1981. She has a Bachelor degree in Science, majoring in Psychology and Economics from the University of Western Australia and a Graduate Diploma in Management from Curtin University.

Joanne is a Board Member of Energy Resources Australia and is also on the Board of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), and an Advisory Council member for Central Institute of Technology. In addition she is a member of Chief Executive Women. Her career in the mining industry has included human resources, health, safety, environment and communities’ roles across Australia as well as the United Kingdom and the USA. As recognition of her commitment in encouraging and facilitating the progress of women in the mining industry, Joanne was awarded the 2012 Women in Resources Champion by the Chamber of Minerals & Energy WA.

Professor Saleem H. Ali Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) and Professor of Politics and International StudiesThe University of QueenslandAustralia

Facilitator: Engage – leaders and develop networks and capacity In addition to his role at UQ, Professor Ali is also Adjunct Professor of Environmental Planning at the University of Vermont in the US. His research focuses on environmental conflicts in the extractive industries and how ecological cooperation can promote peace in international relations. He is the author of three sole authored books). Professor Ali was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011 and received an Emerging Explorer award from the National Geographic Society in 2010, and has since then also been a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. He received his doctorate in Environmental Planning from MIT, a Master's degree in Environmental Studies from Yale University and Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Tufts University.

Jelson Garcia Asia Pacific Regional Director Natural Resource Governance InstituteIndonesia

Panellist: Engage - leaders and develop networks and capacity

Jakarta based, Jelson leads the design and implementation of regional strategy to advance local, regional and international reform efforts in the governance of oil, gas and mining industries. Jelson has 18 years’ experience managing research, policy advocacy, problem project campaigns, training and community development in natural resource governance, development and climate finance, peacebuilding, agrarian reform and rural development. Before NRGI, Jelson was Program Director Asia, for the Bank Information Centre focussing on environmental and social safeguards, accountability, transparency, energy, private sector lending standards of IFI’s and supporting communities and civil society organisations in their campaigns for human rights protection, accountability and reconsideration of coal, mining, land reform, water, airport and high-risk energy infrastructure projects. His career spans NGOs, grassroots organisations, and the Office of the Philippine President. Jelson attended Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia for his BA in Anthropology and Comparative Sociology and the University of the Philippines for his masters studies in Anthropology

Sheyla Palomino OreGeoscientist ResearcherGeological Mining and Metallurgical InstituteEnergy and Mining Ministry PeruPanellist: Engage - leaders and develop networks and capacity

Sheyla Palomino Oré, graduated in Sanitary Engineering from the National University of Engineering, Peru. Her current research is focused on integrating studies of the geo-environmental aspects and mining activities. She is also part of the team that works in the geochemistry characterization of abandoned mines as part of the National Program of remediation of environmental mining liabilities in Peru.

Kitty HamiltonDevelopment Program Manager

Facilitator: Empower - advocacy and agents of change to improve people’s lives

Kitty has more than 7 years’ experience in community development, policy dialogue and stakeholder engagement in Africa and Asia. Her most recent work has been in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she established a grassroots human trafficking prevention and rehabilitation program for Hope for Children – an affiliate of Andrew & Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation. Kitty works closely with communities affected by human trafficking, as well as local and regional stakeholders including the African Union, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the UN’s International Organisation for Migration and the Government of Ethiopia and neighbouring countries on policy dialogue to establish country and regional solutions to the transnational crime. Kitty has a Masters degree in International Relations, specialising in China-Mongolia energy relations and majoring in Mandarin from Peking University in Beijing. Kitty’s interest in sustainable development was sparked during her one-year scholarship with the Australian Youth Ambassador for Development program in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She is currently studying at UQ’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining.

Steve Hogg TBCCounsellor Governance Policy & StrategyAustralian High Commission Port Moresby/Papua New GuineaPanellist: Empower - advocacy and agents of change to improve people’s lives

Bio to come

The Hon. Joe SungiMember of Parliament for Nuku Open and Vice Minister for Inter-Government Relations

Papua New Guinea

Panellist: Empower - advocacy and agents of change to improve people’s lives

Bio to come

Mwiya MwandawandeNational Coordinator, Extractive Industry Transparency Alliance and Consultant Fair Green Global Project Action Aid ZambiaPanellist: Empower - advocacy and agents of change to improve people’s lives

Mwiya is a Community Mining Environmental Activist and is currently a Consultant with the Action Aid Zambia Fair Green Project. He is also the National Coordinator for the Extractive Industry Transparency Alliance, a network of civil society and community based organisations working on natural resources governance and environmental justice. Mwiya is a trained sociologist and environmentalist with over 10 years’ experience in Communities and mining engagements. He has carried out research in community mining engagement in Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana.

Troy Hey Executive General Manager – Stakeholder RelationsMMG Limited Australia

Panellist: Empower - advocacy and agents of change to improve people’s lives

Troy joined MMG in April 2011 and was appointed Executive General Manager – Stakeholder Relations in August 2013. In his role, Troy oversees government, investor, sustainability and stakeholder relations issues for MMG’s projects and operations in DRC, Las PDR, Australia, Peru and Canada.

Troy has over 20 years of experience in sustainability and external affairs in the mining, aviation, gaming and beverages industry. He began his career in economic and public policy consultancy at the Allen Consulting Group and Australian Centre for Corporate Public Affairs. Troy has dual degrees in Law and Commerce from the University of Melbourne.

Michelle AndrewsDeputy Director General, Strategic Policy Department of Mines and PetroleumAustralia

FACILITATOR: Influence – legislation, policy and practice to achieve lasting benefits

Michelle Andrews was appointed to her current position in July 2011. Michelle has more than 25 years’ experience in the State Government and has developed an extensive network of contacts with a track record of negotiating outcomes with industry and peak bodies, contributing to major project approvals, reforming approval processes, establishing the Office of the Environmental Protection and providing policy advice to several Environment Ministers. In her role, Michelle is focussed on improving the way the department works with other government agencies, industry and community groups, and is leading fundamental changes in the department’s policy development and stakeholder engagement activities.

The Hon. Eng. Irene MuloniMinister of Energy and Mineral Development and Member of Parliament, Bulambuli DistrictUganda

Keynote Speaker: Empowered Women in Mining Breakfast Panellist: Influence – legislation, policy and practice to achieve lasting benefits

Minister Muloni graduated with an Honours degree in Electrical Engineering from Makerere University, Kampala, in 1986 and holds an MBA degree from Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2004). She is a corporate member of the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers, a certified public-private-partnership specialist, and a professional balanced scorecard practitioner. Irene was the Winner of the “Sarah Ntiiro Award” 2003; a recognition as a “model of excellence” by the Forum for Africa Women Educationists. She is an advocate for gender equality, women’s empowerment and utilisation of science and technology for sustainable development. Irene has worked in leadership and management roles in the energy sector for the last 23 years and in the telecommunications sector for five years. She also serves in a voluntary basis in both governmental and non-governmental organisations. In the energy sector, she served in a number of senior roles for the Government Electricity Utility; while in the telecommunications sector she served as an Executive Engineer. Irene also currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Finance Trust Bank, the 1st Women’s Bank in Uganda. Previously she served as a Board Member on numerous government Institutions and non- government organisations.

Professor Mark Griffin School of PsychologyThe University of Western Australia

Panellist: Influence – legislation, policy and practice to achieve lasting benefits

Bio to come

Dianne Aikung-Hombhanje Principal Legal Counsel/ Board SecretaryMineral Resources AuthorityPapua New Guinea


Dianne graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Papua New Guinea in 2002. She joined the Mineral Resources Authority, which is the national regulator of mineral exploration and mining’ in Papua New Guinea, in 2008. Prior to joining the MRA, she worked in the Department of Justice & Attorney General (Village Courts Secretariat) on a government PNG/UNICEF project called ‘Women & Children’s Access to Community Justice’.

Professor Marcia LangtonAM, PhD Macq U, BA (Hons) ANU, FASSA Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies Centre for Health EquityMelbourne School of Population and Global HealthThe University of Melbourne

Keynote Speaker: Alumni ForumPanellist: Influence – legislation, policy and practice to achieve lasting benefits

Professor Marcia Langton has forty years of experience in Indigenous affairs at the community, regional and national level and has specialised in Indigenous agreements with the mining industry and resource sector through the Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements research projects (atns.net.au). Her other research concerns Indigenous relationships with place, land tenure and legal recognition in Australia. She has contributed to Indigenous policy, serves on a number of boards, including as Chairperson of Guma ICRG JV Pty Ltd, as a director of Indigenous Construction Resource Group Pty Ltd, and is Co-Chair of Cape York Partnership. Awarded B.A. (Hons) from the Australian National University and a PhD from Macquarie University, she is an anthropologist and geographer, and often called upon to give expert advice on native title and resource issues, social issues and Indigenous management of land and resources. She is a Fellow of Trinity College, Melbourne, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Winthrop Professor Paul FlatauChair in Social Investment and Impact and DirectorThe University of Western Australia Centre for Social ImpactAustralia

Program Chair (Alumni Forum) Closing remarks (Conference)

Professor Flatau commenced his current role in December 2010 where he undertakes teaching, research and public engagement activities in the areas of social finance, social innovation, and the measurement of the economic and social impact of activities and programs. He has worked closely with the corporate, government, philanthropic and third (not-for-profit) sectors, in a collaborative effort to build community capacity and to measure the social impact of activity including the mining industry. He has been engaged closely with the IM4DC over the past four years. He has over 60 publications in applied economics and has made significant contributions to the analysis of social and economic outcomes and social impact and the effectiveness of programs and interventions.

Richard SlatteryDeputy Director – Education and Australian CapabilityIM4DCAustralia

Wrap up and thanks

Richard was appointed to his current role with IM4DC in 2012 and is responsible for the operational management of financial, human and infrastructure resources. Richard brings extensive development program experience having previously worked in a senior capacity with AusAID. Previously, Richard was based in Papua New Guinea as a Development Specialist for AusAID’s Sub National Program where his work was focused on engaging with the aid program for Papua New Guinea’s decentralised system and sub national levels of government and administration. Other AusAID roles included Provincial Program Specialist responsible for establishing the AusAID office in Provincial Papua New Guinea and working with AusAid units including Strategic Policy and Coordination and the Civil Society. In these roles, Richard was closely involved with local stakeholder liaison and in developing, managing and monitoring development assistance activities.

Empowered Women in Mining Breakfast

Our keynote speakers…

Nicole Roocke Deputy Chief Executive The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia Australia

Chair, Welcome and Opening Remarks

Having been appointed Deputy Chief Executive in May 2014, Nicole Roocke has responsibility for the policy portfolios including the regions of the Kimberley, North West, Mid-West and South West. Nicole has been with the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for a period of eleven years where she has been responsible for coordinating industry input on a variety of government regulatory and policy issues and facilitating communication within the minerals and resources sector.

Nicole has completed a Masters of Science in Industrial and Organisational Psychology fromUWA and a Masters in Risk Management from UNSW.

The Hon. Eng. Irene MuloniMinister of Energy and Mineral Development and Member of Parliament, Bulambuli DistrictUganda

Keynote Speaker: Empowered Women in Mining Breakfast Panellist: Influence – legislation, policy and practice to achieve lasting benefits

Minister Muloni graduated with an Honours degree in Electrical Engineering from Makerere University, Kampala, in 1986 and holds an MBA degree from Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2004). She is a corporate member of the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers, a certified public-private-partnership specialist, and a professional balanced scorecard practitioner. Irene was the Winner of the “Sarah Ntiiro Award” 2003; a recognition as a “model of excellence” by the Forum for Africa Women Educationists. She is an advocate for gender equality, women’s empowerment and utilisation of science and technology for sustainable development. Irene has worked in leadership and management roles in the energy sector for the last 23 years and in the telecommunications sector for five years. She also serves in a voluntary basis in both governmental and non-governmental organisations. In the energy sector, she served in a number of senior roles for the Government Electricity Utility; while in the telecommunications sector she served as an Executive Engineer. Irene also currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Finance Trust Bank, the 1st Women’s Bank in Uganda. Previously she served as a Board Member on numerous government Institutions and non- government organisations.

Sabina ShuggNational Lead, Mining Performance KPMG and Founder Women in Mining and Resources WA

Australia

Keynote Speaker: Empowered Women in Mining Breakfast

Sabina started her career in 1987 as the assay clerk at the new Jubilee Mine outside Kalgoorlie. After graduating from mining studies at WASM, she continued with Normandy at Golden Crown, Golden Grove, Big Bell, Mt McClure and Bronzewing. The first female to obtain and use a First Class Mine Managers certificate in Western Australia, she is a member of the WA School of Mines Graduate Association, and board member for Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities and the Australian Prospectors & Miners' Hall of Fame. In 2003 she founded Women in Mining and Resources WA; was named the Women in Resources Champion in the CMEWA inaugural Women in Resources awards in 2010 and was among the first 100 women inducted to the WA Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2013, Sabina was recognised in the AFR and Westpac Group Women of Influence Awards as one of the 100 Women of Influence in Australia and also named one of 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining.


Wrap Up


Announcing our M4D Alumni Forum speakers and panellists who have ‘walked the talk’


Welcome


Patricia Nduru MusinguraDirector, Monitoring and Inspection Uganda Human Rights CommissionUganda

Opening Remarks

Patricia has over 10 years’ experience as a human rights lawyer promoting and protecting human rights. She contributed to the development of an East African framework on good governance and the Plan of Action on Promotion and Protection of Human rights and was part of the high level Task Force on the draft East African Bill of Human Rights and the protocol to extend the jurisdiction of the East African Court of Justice to handle human rights. In her current role, Patricia is responsible for monitoring Uganda’s compliance with international human rights standards, analysing policies, bills and other relevant documents to assess compliance with international human rights standards and compiling and producing the Annual and special reports to Parliament. She is currently overseeing the development of the first National Action Plan of Human Rights in Uganda and the first initiative by the Justice, Law and Order Sector to document conflict related human rights violations during the 20 year conflict in Northern Uganda.

Professor Marcia LangtonAM, PhD Macq U, BA (Hons) ANU, FASSAChair of Australian Indigenous StudiesCentre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global HealthThe University of MelbourneKeynote Speaker: Alumni Forum


Professor Marcia Langton has forty years’ experience in Indigenous affairs at the community, regional and national level and has specialised in Indigenous agreements with the mining industry and resource sector through the Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements research projects. Her other research, concerns Indigenous relationships with place, land tenure and legal recognition in Australia. She has contributed to Indigenous policy, serves on a number of boards, including as Chairperson of Guma ICRG JV Pty Ltd, as a director of Indigenous Construction Resource Group, and is Co-Chair of Cape York Partnership. Awarded B.A. (Hons) from the Australian National University and a PhD from Macquarie University, she is an anthropologist

and geographer, and often called upon to give expert advice on native title and resource issues, social issues and Indigenous management of land and resources. She is a Fellow of Trinity College, Melbourne, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Robin EvansDeputy Director – Education and Australian CapabilityIM4DCAustralia

Chair: Case Study Presentations Session

Robin was appointed to his current role in 2011, and is responsible for developing and implementing the Centre’s education and alumni program. Robin has over 30 years of experience working in and around the mining industry. His roles in industry and academia have taken him to mining regions and operations around Australia, Latin America, the Asia Pacific and Africa. A mining engineer by training, prior to joining IM4DC he was based at The University of Queensland’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), where his work focused on the application of risk management and valuation processes to the area of sustainable development and the minerals industry. Robin has also undertaken projects on the social impacts of mine closure and the development of project-related sustainability indicators, and was responsible for the development and co-ordination of CSRM’s Education and Training Program. Since IM4DC commenced operations, Robin and the IM4DC Program Team have been responsible for the co-ordination and delivery of IM4DC’s integrated program of activities, including over 80 short courses and workshops both in Australia and overseas.

Dr Rowena Varela

Director, Research and Extension Caraga State University PhilippinesCase Study Panellist: Engage – leaders of today and tomorrow in best practice and new ideas

Dr Rowena Varela is an Entomologist who studies insect diversity and movements to look at habitat connectivity. Her interest in entomology led her to nickel mine rehabilitation where she and her team introduced the ‘Ecobelt’ - forest corridors to promote eco-system and habitat restoration. She studied landscape ecology and habitat connectivity because she believes ‘everything is connected to everything else’ and she shares this principle of interrelatedness with her students. At present, she heads the S&T Program for Responsible Mining in Mindanao, a research and development program funded by the Philippine Government through the Department of Science and Technology.

Bat-Orshikh ErdenebatExecutive DirectorDevelopment Solutions NGOMongolia Case Study Panellist: Develop - networks and build understanding, knowledge and capacity

Bat-Orshikh, is an alumnus of IM4DC 2014 CARD program. He has more than six years’ experience in design, implementation and evaluation of local community and business development programs and activities, and some four years on international trade in China, Turkey and Mongolia. In his current role, Bat-Orshikh is focussed on strengthening performance, governance and sustainability of local non-governmental organisations and social enterprises in Mongolia. He is also working with rural communities, especially in mine-affected areas, to develop entrepreneurial skills and knowledge. The development and application of new models of socially responsible business is a key feature of his future professional objectives and works.

Herizo Harimalala Tsiverisoa Lapidary and Jewellery Training DepartmentInstitut De Gemmologie de Madagascar

Madagascar

Case Study Panellist: Empower – advocacy and agents of change to improve people’s lives

Herizo Harimalala Tsiverisoa is a geologist and a lapidary trainer currently in charge of the lapidary and jewellery department at the Institut De Gemmologie de Madagascar. She is also involved in job creation and business opportunity programs to empower women and people with special needs following their training. Her previous roles include social and environmental impact assessment of a gold mining project in the east of Madagascar. She was also an Intern at GLW Conseils, a leading environmental impact assessment and mitigation firm where she assessed the economic, social and physical impacts of industrial and mining projects. Horizo studied at the University of Antananarivo Madagascar/ Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique d’Antananarivo/ Geology Department.

Dr Sizwe Phakathi Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Deputy Head: Safety and Sustainable Development, Chamber of Mines of South Africa Case Study Panellist: Influence – legislation, policy and practice to achieve lasting benefits

Dr Phakathi facilitated the implementation of the Culture Transformation Framework for the South African mining sector to ensure safer and healthier workplace conditions. His review of South Africa’s mining industry safety performance culminated in new occupation health and safety milestones for the industry. He has also recently been involved with a project aimed at improving safety, security and participation of women miners in South African mines. Dr Phakathi has conducted research and consultancy work for South African mining companies, authored and co-authored a number of research and change management reports, conference presentations, journal articles, monographs and book chapters and has won numerous awards for his research work.

Winthrop Professor Paul FlatauChair in Social Investment and Impact and DirectorThe University of Western Australia Centre for Social ImpactAustralia

Program Chair (Alumni Forum) Keynote, Workshop and Reflection Session Chair and Closing remarks (Conference)

Professor Flatau commenced his current role in December 2010 where he undertakes teaching, research and public engagement activities in the areas of social finance, social innovation, and the measurement of the economic and social impact of activities and programs. He has worked closely with the corporate, government, philanthropic and third (not-for-profit) sectors, in a collaborative effort to build community capacity and to measure the social impact of activity including the mining industry. He has been engaged closely with the IM4DC over the past four years. He has over 60 publications in applied economics and has made significant contributions to the analysis of social and economic outcomes and social impact and the effectiveness of programs and interventions.

Bright Oppong AfumLecturer and Departmental Examinations Officers University of Mines and Technology Ghana

Facilitator: Workshop Forum – Alumni Collaborate

Bright graduated as a First Class Mining Engineer and worked with AEL Mining Services before joining African Underground Mining Services (AUMS) as a Mining/Projects Engineer. Bright later won a Commonwealth Shared Scholarship in 2011 to study MSc Environmental Monitoring and Analysis at the Aberystwyth University (AU) in Wales, United Kingdom. He visioned and facilitated the formation of the African Society, and returned to AUMS as a Senior Mining/Projects Engineer. Bright is currently a PhD candidate with the Mining Engineering department of UMaT, working on a research project entitled “Speciation Analysis and Transportation Modelling of

Mercury Pollutants in the Birim River Basin, Ghana”. His areas of expertise are surface and underground mining operations, mine closure, reclamation and rehabilitation, environmental impacts assessments including air pollutants and blast impacts prediction and modelling, water pollutants speciation and modelling, and general projects management.

Aaron Soko Senior Inspector of Environment (Head of Environment Section)Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water Development, Mines Safety DepartmentZambia


Aaron is responsible for the timely review of the Environmental Impact Assessment reports and plans, conducting site verifications, regular sampling to monitor environmental status, certification of relevant lawful approvals, collection and management of relevant environmental information. He also collaborates with other stakeholder institutions within and outside Zambia on relevant data, information and records, timely calculation of environmental protection fund contributions and supervision of the Environment Section which is constituted of Inspectors of Environment, Mining Technicians, Research Assistants and Laboratory Assistants with whom he conducts reviews and ensures up-date of legislation pertaining to the mining industry.

Idah Ethel ZuluLecturer/ Assistant DeanCopperbelt UniversityZambia


Idah is a lecturer and researcher at the School of the Built Environment. She has a Master Degree in Urban Management and Development with a specialisation in Regional Development Strategies from the Erasmus University, Netherlands. She teaches Regional Development Planning, a key focus being how mining development can promote balanced regional development and translate into improvements in lives of local communities. She also consults on the developing of integrated development plans of some districts in Zambia. Previous to her role at the Copperbelt University, she worked with an NGO in carrying out environmental performance monitoring audits in mining firms.

Belinda Zimba

Facilitator: Workshop Forum – Alumni Collaborate Reflection session

Belinda is an environment management and social economic expert specialising in mining and mineral processing operations. She has executed several socio-economic and environmental management consultancies in Zambia’s extractive sector focussing on environmental and social planning, performance monitoring and audits, post-closure reclamation and monitoring. She has undertaken several Environmental and Social Impact Assessments for extractive companies in Zambia and coordinated projects in partnership with other national and international organisations. She has also spearheaded negotiations between communities living in the mining areas and the mining companies. Belinda has served on several policy working groups at sub-regional levels through African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society (AIMES) with support from the Third World Network-Africa; Afrodad and Tax Justice Network-Africa. She is one of the Emerging Leaders in African Mining, a group facilitated by IM4DC in collaboration with the AMDC.

Lesley Siowi

Environmental Scientist Department of Mining, Autonomous BougainvillePapua New Guinea

Conference Alumni representative and Panellist Reflection Session

Lesley graduated from the University of Papua New Guinea with a Bachelor in Science (BSc) majoring in Environmental Science. She joined the newly established Department of Mining in Bougainville in 2007 and was initially sent to train and work with organisations such as the Department of Mineral Policy and Hazard Management, the Mineral Resources Authority and Newcrest Mining Limited. Within her Autonomous Bougainville Government Mining department, Lesley works for the Policy and Regulatory branch, where they are focussed on establishing our mining policies, legislation and environment legislation.

Muza GondweAlumni CoordinatorIM4DC

Panellist: Reflection Session

Muza joined IM4DC as the Alumni Coordinator in 2014. She brings to IM4DC her experience managing blogs, discussion forums, and learning management systems to support online and offline communities of practice. Previously she has worked as a Research Associate and Lecturer in the Science Communication Program at The University of Western Australia. Prior to joining The University of Western Australia, Muza worked as a Lecturer at the University of Malawi where she was involved in the African Journals Partnership Project. Muza has also worked as the Managing Editor for a World Health Organization Project TropIKA.net where her role involved developing workflows and managing online collaborative software. She has also been involved in HIV/AIDS project management in Malawi and the Caribbean. Muza completed her PhD in Science Communication at The University of Western Australia in 2013 and is undertaking a Graduate Certificate in Social Impact.

Richard SlatteryDeputy Director – Education and Australian CapabilityIM4DCAustralia

Wrap up and thanks

Richard was appointed to his current role with IM4DC in 2012 and is responsible for the operational management of financial, human and infrastructure resources. Richard brings extensive development program experience having previously worked in a senior capacity with AusAID. Previously, Richard was based in Papua New Guinea as a Development Specialist for AusAID’s Sub National Program where his work was focused on engaging with the aid program for Papua New Guinea’s decentralised system and sub national levels of government and administration. Other AusAID roles included Provincial Program Specialist responsible for establishing the AusAID office in Provincial Papua New Guinea and working with AusAid units including Strategic Policy and Coordination and the Civil Society. In these roles, Richard was closely involved with local stakeholder liaison and in developing, managing and monitoring development assistance activities.

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