Publish What You Pay

Mamadou Taran Diallo is President of the Guinean Association for Transparency (AGT), President of the National Coalition Publish What You Pay Guinea and a member of the Steering Committee of EITI Guinea. Taran holds a diploma in Accounting Management from the Higher School of Administration at the Polytechnic Institute of Gamal Abdel Nasser Conakry. In addition to his civil society work, Taran is a sports enthusiast and helps train young people to play football.

Camilo holds an MSc in Conservation Ecology (Resource Governance) from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is president and research coordinator of KUWUKA JDA - Youth Development and Environmental Advocacy in Mozambique. Member of the Mozambican EITI MSG, the steering committee of CSO platform on natural resources and extractive industry and PWYP country chapter coordinator and PWYP data extractor. He also served as head researcher of environment and land research unit at Cruzeiro do Sul Research Institute and as SARW’s country coordinator and advocacy officer in Mozambique.

Starjoan ‘Starj’ D. Villanueva is a researcher, peace and development worker, trainer and facilitator with 20 years of extensive knowledge and experience on key issues affecting Mindanao in Southern Philippines.

She is currently the Executive Director of the Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao (AFRIM), Inc., a research and policy advocacy organisation established in 1978 at the height of martial law in the Philippines. She is a part-time lecturer at the Mindanao State University (MSU) Graduate School in General Santos City where she completed her Master’s degree in Public Administration, major in Development Administration. She is also a fellow at the Asia-Pacific Center for Peace and Security Studies based in Hawaii, USA. She sits as CSO Mindanao representative in the Multi-stakeholders’ Group of the Philippine Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (PH-EITI), and Member of the Board of Trustees of Bantay Kita-PWYP Philippines. She is a feminist and staunch advocate of women’s rights and gender equality, and a member of the Women Waging Peace Network that promotes women participation in peace and security matters worldwide.

Tur-Od Lkhagvajav is the President of Transparency International (TI) – Mongolia, and, since 2015, has been an EITI National Council member and a PWYP – Mongolia Coalition Coordinating Committee member. Between 2016 -2017 he was elected to serve as Co-Convener & Steering Committee member of Asia Democracy Network (www.adn21.asia).

He was appointed by the President of Mongolia as member and elected chairman of the Public Oversight Council (with 15 leading CSOs and mass media representatives as its members) at the Independent Authority Against Corruption in May 2014 until 2018. Prior to that, Tur-Od was Legal Assistant to the President of Mongolia and Special Adviser to the Minister of Justice in 2012-2014. He served CEO and Secretary-General of Mongolian Bankers Association, and Managing Director of Mongolia Economic Forum/MEF as a part-time advisor to the Prime Minister of Mongolia, and also as Deputy CEO of XacBank, Mongolia’s first microfinance development bank, including as its Social & Environmental Manager. From 1999 was working in UNDP Mongolia, including as its first-time Governance Practice Manager. Tur-Od started his professional career at the Ministry of Justice as a legislative drafting expert.

Jana Morgan is the Director of Publish What You Pay - United States and leads the coalition’s efforts to bring transparency and accountability to the oil, gas, and mining sector. Her work includes guiding the coalition’s advocacy and research strategies to ensure the strong implementation of Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act. She also collaborates with PWYP coalitions around the world to push for a global oil, gas, and mining payment transparency standard. She is an alternate civil society representative on the United States Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative multi-stakeholder group, as well as a Global Council member of PWYP International, representing North American and Europe. Previously, Jana worked at Global Witness, doing advocacy and in country field research on Afghanistan’s extractive sector, conflict minerals exploitation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the development of governance systems for Uganda’s emerging oil sector. Jana holds a MA in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Conflict Resolution. She received her BA in Government from St. Lawrence University.

Ibrahima Sory Diallo is strengthening safeguards in mining laws, curbing environmental abuses, and mobilizing civil society to regulate Senegal’s growing mining industry. His goal is to remediate and protect groundwater and safeguard the health of local populations in mining areas. Since Senegal has no experience regulating the modern mining industry, Ibrahima believes it is not enough to call attention to various abuses—true reform instead requires a step-by-step approach incorporating government, business, and civil society. Ibrahima is beginning to achieve landmark victories with the government through his organization, La Lumière.

Aroa de la Fuente has worked in Mexico as a researcher for Fundar, Center of Analysis and Research since 2009. She is one of two people in charge of the Extractive Industries Project where she is responsible for all matters related to oil and climate change. As part of her responsibilities she co-coordinates issues related to Extractive Industries of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) process in Mexico. She is also actively engaged in the movement to get the Mexican government to adopt the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) agreement since 2011. Aroa has ample experience in networking at both the national and international levels. She represents Fundar and the Mexican agenda in the Latin American Network on Extractive Industries; she oversees the strategies that the Climate Change Public Funding Group implements in order to improve public expenditure on climate change policies; and she is a founding member of the Mexican Alliance Against Fracking. Aroa holds a master’s degree in International Cooperation for Development from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid as well as a degree in Psychology. She also holds a Technical Certificate in Extractive Industries from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

aroa@fundar.org.mx

With 11 years working within the President’s team for the Government in Tunisia; 15 years at the Tunisian Public Radio & Television; and 12 years working with civil society, Sihem joins PWYP’s Global Council with a strong background. Sihem is fluent in Arabic, French and English, has good knowledge of the political landscape and of the functioning of the legislative, executive and judicial powers. Sihem is s founder and member of several associations and network organisations in Tunisia, including being the President of the Tunisian Association of Development & Law (ATDD) since 2004.

She was in charge of the energy portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, has been the representative of the first ministry to the advisory committee on mining and the advisory committee of hydrocarbons, been a member observer representing Tunisian civil society at the meetings of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB). She is regional coordinator (Greater Tunis) of the Tunisian coalition of transparency in the extractive industries and she is also vice president of the coalition.

Suneeta Kaimal is the Chief Operating Officer of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), ensuring citizens realize the benefits of their countries’ endowments of oil, gas and minerals. NRGI is an independent non-profit organization that works with innovative agents of change within government ministries, civil society, the media, legislatures, the private sector, and international institutions to promote accountable and effective governance in the extractive industries. Suneeta oversees NRGI’s strategic planning and implementation, driving a responsive, opportunistic, yet strategic approach to addressing new challenges and opportunities in resource governance. She ensures regional and country level engagements in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eurasia, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa, as well as the global work of the Capacity Development, Research and Data, Governance, and Legal and Economic program teams align with and further the organization’s mission. Suneeta is Civil Society co-Chair of the Open Government Partnership, a 65-country initiative in which governments and civil society work together to advance transparency, accountability and citizen participation. She serves on the Advisory Council of the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law, which seeks a legal environment that strengthens civil society, advances the freedoms of association and assembly, fosters philanthropy, and enables public participation around the world. Suneeta is also a founding board member of Roots of Health, a local NGO focused on improving the health of women and girls, and their communities, in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, in the Philippines. Suneeta holds a Masters in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University, where she was a Hart Leadership Fellow. Suneeta is also the Chair of the PWYP Global Council.

skaimal@resourcegovernance.org

Simon Taylor is a co-founder and director of Global Witness, a non-profit organisation that investigates and campaigns to prevent natural resource-related conflict and corruption and associated environmental and human rights abuses. Simon launched Global Witness’ oil and corruption campaign over a decade and a half ago, which began the global call for transparency of payments made by companies to governments for oil and gas extraction. Exposing corruption in these sectors led to Global Witness’ conception of the Publish What You Pay Campaign.