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Oxfam Job - Senior Policy Advisor - Extractive Industries

To apply visit http://www.oxfamamerica.org/whoweare/jobs/pages/open-positions?jvi=oaifXfwo,JobSenior Policy Advisor for Extractive IndustriesPolicy & Campaigns | Washington, DC, United States March 2013 OXFAM AMERICA JOB DESCRIPTION TITLE: Senior Policy Advisor for Extractive IndustriesLOCATION: Washington, DCDEPARTMENT: Policy and ResearchREPORTS TO: Senior Policy Manger for Extractive Industries…See More
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Mining Indaba - Is sustainability just a sideshow at African mining conference?

Is sustainability just a sideshow at African mining conference?Five challenges to the mining sector executives gathered in Cape Town next weekhttp://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2013/01/29/sustainability-sideshow/ by Keith Slack, Global Program Manager, Extractive IndustriesMining industry big-wigs will gather in South Africa next week for Mining Indaba,…See More
Feb 3
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Mining Indaba - Is sustainability just a sideshow at African mining conference?

Is sustainability just a sideshow at African mining conference?Five challenges to the mining sector executives gathered in Cape Town next weekhttp://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2013/01/29/sustainability-sideshow/ by Keith Slack, Global Program Manager, Extractive IndustriesMining industry big-wigs will gather in South Africa next week for Mining Indaba,…See More
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Community Consent Index: Company Public Positions on Free, Prior and Informed Consent at Washington DC

September 26, 2012 from 4pm to 5:30pm
Community Consent Index: Company Public Positions on Free, Prior and Informed Consent for Oil, Gas and Mining ProjectsOxfam Research Backgrounder Launch Event Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | 4:00 to 5:30 pm » WHERE Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036 » WHAT A panel discussion on Oxfam’s Community Consent Index, a report on public commitments made, and policies & procedures published, by major oil, gas and mining companies concerning…See More
Sep 13, 2012
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Oxfam launch - Community Consent Index Sept. 26 - Washington

 Community Consent Index: Company Public Positions on Free, Prior and Informed Consent for Oil, Gas and Mining ProjectsOxfam Research Backgrounder Launch Event Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | 4:00 to 5:30 pm » WHERE Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036 » WHAT A panel discussion on Oxfam’s Community Consent Index, a report on public commitments made, and policies & procedures published, by major oil, gas and mining companies concerning…See More
Sep 13, 2012
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Sep 13, 2012
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Can oil and accountability mix? Ghana's experiment at Washington, DC

June 1, 2012 from 12pm to 2pm
  Can Oil and Accountability Mix?Ghana’s Experiment with Citizen Oversight of Petroleum Revenues Panel Discussion and Lunch Friday, June 1, 201212 Noon – 2 p.m.Oxfam America1100 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005 RSVPs required by May 30 (lunch provided): nhailu@OxfamAmerica.org  Keynote speaker: Major Daniel Sowa Ablorh-Quarcoo, Chairman, Ghana Public Interest and Accountability CommitteeDiscussants:                        Mohammed Amin Adam,…See More
May 31, 2012
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Can Oil and Accountability Mix? Ghana’s Experiment with Citizen Oversight of Petroleum Revenues

  Can Oil and Accountability Mix?Ghana’s Experiment with Citizen Oversight of Petroleum Revenues Panel Discussion and Lunch Friday, June 1, 201212 Noon – 2 p.m.Oxfam America1100 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005 RSVPs required by May 30 (lunch provided): nhailu@OxfamAmerica.org  Keynote speaker: Major Daniel Sowa Ablorh-Quarcoo, Chairman, Ghana Public Interest and Accountability CommitteeDiscussants:                        Mohammed Amin Adam,…See More
May 22, 2012
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Can oil and accountability mix? Ghana's experiment at Washington, DC

June 1, 2012 from 12pm to 2pm
  Can Oil and Accountability Mix?Ghana’s Experiment with Citizen Oversight of Petroleum Revenues Panel Discussion and Lunch Friday, June 1, 201212 Noon – 2 p.m.Oxfam America1100 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005 RSVPs required by May 30 (lunch provided): nhailu@OxfamAmerica.org  Keynote speaker: Major Daniel Sowa Ablorh-Quarcoo, Chairman, Ghana Public Interest and Accountability CommitteeDiscussants:                        Mohammed Amin Adam,…See More
May 22, 2012
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Mar 26, 2012
Ian Gary is now friends with Andrea Ordonez and Anton Artemyev
Feb 13, 2012
Ian Gary posted a blog post

The transparent hypocrisy of big oil

The yawning gap between the transparency rhetoric of companies and the reality of their actions has never been more apparent than it is now.Ian GaryFebruary 9th, 2012The oil and gas industry loves to trumpet their support of international transparency initiatives and their tax contributions to the US government, but when a new law requires them to tell the…See More
Feb 10, 2012
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Ian Gary commented on GOXI's blog post 'Has increased transparency led to better development outcomes?'
"By the numbers—the fight for oil and mining company transparency 1504   Section in Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act requiring companies to disclose taxes, royalties, and other payments made to the US and foreign…"
Feb 1, 2012
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By the numbers - the fight for oil and mining company transparency

By the numbers—the fight for oil and mining company transparencyJanuary 31st, 2012 | by Ian Garyhttp://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/2012/01/31/by-the-numbers-the-fight-for-oil-and-mining-company-transparency/ 1504   Section in Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act requiring companies to…See More
Feb 1, 2012
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Feb 1, 2012
lars koch and Ian Gary are now friends
Nov 20, 2011

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Organisation
Oxfam America
Type of Organisation
Civil Society Organisation
Website
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/campaigns/extractive-industries
Job Title
Senior Policy Manager - Extractive Industries
About My Work
Ian Gary is Senior Policy Manager for Extractive Industries with Oxfam America. Prior to joining Oxfam in 2005, Ian was Strategic Issues Advisor – Extractive Industries at Catholic Relief Services (CRS) from 1999 to 2005. He has held positions with the Ford Foundation as well as international development organizations in the U.S. and Africa. Ian is the author of the Oxfam America report Ghana’s Big Test: Oil’s Challenge to Democratic Development (2009); co-author, with Terry Lynn Karl of Stanford University, of the CRS report Bottom of the Barrel: Africa’s Oil Boom and the Poor (2003); and co-author of Chad’s Oil: Miracle or Mirage? (2005), co-authored with Nikki Reisch and issued by CRS and Bank Information Center. He has testified twice before the US Congress and given presentations at the World Bank, Royal Institute of International Affairs, United Nations, U.S. State Department and Harvard University, among other venues. Ian was an advisor with the World Bank Extractive Industries Advisory Group from 2005-2009. Ian was a leading advocate in the Publish What You Pay US effort that culminated in a new US law requiring disclosure of payments from oil and mining companies to host governments around the world. He has conducted field research on extractive industries issues in Ghana, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Peru and Cambodia. He holds a MA degree from the University of Leeds in the Politics of International Resources and Development and a BA from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Areas of interest
Governance and anti-corruption, social accountability, human rights, contract and licensing, monitoring revenue collection, redistribution and sustainable development

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Oxfam Job - Senior Policy Advisor - Extractive Industries

Posted on March 21, 2013 at 22:27 0 Comments

To apply visit http://www.oxfamamerica.org/whoweare/jobs/pages/open-positions?jvi=oaifXfwo,Job

Senior Policy Advisor for Extractive Industries

Policy & Campaigns | Washington, DC, United States 



March 2013 OXFAM AMERICA JOB…

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Mining Indaba - Is sustainability just a sideshow at African mining conference?

Posted on February 1, 2013 at 22:57 0 Comments

Is sustainability just a sideshow at African mining conference?

Five challenges to the mining sector executives gathered in Cape Town next week

http://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2013/01/29/sustainability-sideshow/ 

by Keith Slack, Global Program Manager, Extractive Industries

Mining industry big-wigs will gather in South Africa next week for …

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Oxfam launch - Community Consent Index Sept. 26 - Washington

Posted on September 13, 2012 at 22:59 0 Comments

 

Community Consent Index: Company Public Positions on Free, Prior and Informed Consent for Oil, Gas and Mining Projects

Oxfam Research Backgrounder Launch Event

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | 4:00 to 5:30 pm

 

» WHERE

 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC…

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Can Oil and Accountability Mix? Ghana’s Experiment with Citizen Oversight of Petroleum Revenues

Posted on May 22, 2012 at 19:24 0 Comments

 

 

Can Oil and Accountability Mix?

Ghana’s Experiment with Citizen Oversight of Petroleum Revenues

 

Panel Discussion and Lunch

 

Friday, June 1, 2012

12 Noon – 2 p.m.

Oxfam America

1100 15th Street NW,…

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At 18:57 on March 17, 2011, Dr J Chris Anderson said…
That's a pity. I believe they are postponing the meeting now. I will be out until 13 April, so might catch up with you in Accra that week. Cheers, Chris
At 18:43 on March 17, 2011, Dr J Chris Anderson said…
Hey Gary, are you coming to the GIMPA meeting next week? Cheers, Chris
 
 
 

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