• Peter S. Heller is Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department in the International Monetary Fund. His major interests are public finance as it relates to public expenditure policy, social security, and fiscal policy, economic development, and health economics.

A panel comprised of representatives from the mining industry, a country with significant mining activities, an NGO, and the World Bank Group will discuss different approaches to some of these difficult questions and how international financial institutions can be of help in finding the best answers. The discussion will focus on four areas:

• What economic development opportunities can be realized through the exploitation of
  mineral resources in developing countries?
• How can mining projects be developed such that they have a beneficial impact on the poorest? What responsibilities do mining companies have in this context?
• What social, cultural and environmental risks accompany mining - and what can be done to mitigate these risks for the communities involved and for the environment?
• How can development institutions, governments, communities, NGOs and mining companies work together to ensure responsible mining operations? What role should international financial institutions play?

• Rex McLennan is Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Placer Dome Inc., Canada. Prior to joining Placer Dome, he was with Exxon Corporation where he held positions in economics and planning, corporate finance and treasury operations. In Placer Dome Inc., he has held the positions of Treasurer, Vice President, Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, and Executive Vice President. He is a member of the Financial Executives Institute and the Conference Board of Canada and National Council of Financial Executives.
• Dan O' Brien is Director of Private Sector Programs at CARE USA. He is responsible for developing and supporting strategies for working with key businesses. These include policy development, consultation processes around social and environmental responsibility, and partnerships that promote sustainable development. Prior to his current position, he held a number of different positions with CARE including Regional Director for Asia, Country and Assistant Country Director for CARE Indonesia, and Regional Program Advisor for Asia and Latin America. Before joining CARE, Mr. O'Brien was the Associate Peace Corps Director in Guatemala.
• Andreas Raczynski is Director of the Technical and Environment Department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in the World Bank Group. The Department’s responsibilities include the review and monitoring of IFC-financed projects, including the impact of projects on local populations. He also represents IFC on the boards of Société d’Exploitation des Mines d’Or de Sadiola (Mali), Minera Escondida (Chile) and the Peru Privatization and Development Fund. Before joining IFC in 1986, Mr. Raczynski spent 20 years in the private sector in the mining industry, principally in Latin America and Asia.
• Richard Sandbrook is Project Coordinator for Minerals, Mining and Sustainable Development (MMSD), United Kingdom. He was a co-founder of Friends of the Earth in the United Kingdom and has served on the UK Round Table for Sustainable Development, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Council for Western Europe, and the Earth Council Institute Costa Rica. He is a member of the Green Globe group that advises the UK Foreign Secretary and the Ministers for the environment and international development. He is an advisor to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on environmental issues.
• Clive Wicks is a Senior Fellow of World Wildlife Fund-United Kingdom (WWF-UK) where he is Head of the International Program for Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to joining WWF, he was general manager of two small enterprises and spent 20 years with British American Tobacco Company in Africa. He is a member of the Chartered Marketer, the Institute of Exporters and a Fellow of the Institute of Management.

• Frank Maranto is Advisor at the International Monetary Fund Bureau of Technology Services. He has had experience working on all aspects of financial and economic statistical time-series data management systems. In the International Monetary Fund, he was the chief architect and designer of the first statistical time series system in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a principal in the automation of the statistical publications IFS, DOTS, BOPS, and GFS, and has been a central leader in the development and implementation of the economic time-series systems over the last 30 years.

• Jonathan Berman is President of Political and Economic Link Consulting (PELC), based in New York. The firm advises governments, multilateral institutions and corporate clients on commercial operations affected by armed conflict. Mr. Berman's most recent publication, "Corporations and Conflict: How Managers Think About War", appears in the Fall 2000 edition of Harvard International Review.
• Hilary Bowker is President of Bowker Media + Communications which devises communications strategies to help companies and organisations stay ahead of the media curve. She also moderates conferences and seminars and works on video projects in partnership with the London based Amazing Productions. Previously she was Senior European Anchor for CNN.
• Daniel Lubetzky is Chairman and Founder of PeaceWorks Holdings in the United States. PeaceWorks is a company that promotes peace through business by manufacturing consumer products made through cooperative ventures among neighbors striving to coexist. He serves as Chief Executive Officer of Match21 which is a technology company that builds dynamic, interactive exchanges for business portals on the web for the Global Volunteer Network.
• Nejira Nalic is Director of BOSPO an NGO in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has been working with the Danish Save the Children. For two years during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, she organised women volunteers to work at the hospital, with elderly people and refugees/displaced people through an NGO called Red Lily.
• Andrés Peñate is Regional Adviser for Latin America for British Petroleum (BP). He is working with the Global Political Affairs Team of BP in its headquarters in London to ensure the early identification of opportunities and risks arising from political developments in Latin America. Before joining BP, he worked at the office of the Presidency of the Republic of Colombia.

• Carlos Alberto Primo Braga is Manager of the Information for Development Program (infoDev), and Deputy Director of the Global Development Gateway initiative. He was a professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.
• Hilary Bowker is President of Bowker Media + Communications which devises communications strategies to help companies and organisations stay ahead of the media curve. She also moderates conferences and seminars and works on video projects in partnership with the London based Amazing Productions. Previously she was Senior European Anchor for CNN.
• John Middleton is Director of Distance Learning and Global Outreach for the World Bank Institute. In this position he is responsible for a number of World Bank initiatives using information and communication technologies for development learning, including the Global Development Learning Network, the Global Knowledge Partnership, and a range of internet-based learning programs. Before joining the World Bank Group his positions included small college president and planning advisor on educational technology to the Government of Indonesia.
• Michael Potashnik is Director of the Global Development Gateway initiative. He also serves as Senior Internet Advisor, Information Solutions Group, World Bank Group. Prior to these assignments, Mike was Head, Education and Technology Team and Lead Specialist, Education and Technology in the Human Development Department of the World Bank. He has published widely and serves on several Boards of Directors, including the United States Open University and the Arab Open University.
• Elizabeth Tang is Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. She is responsible for finance, personnel and program management and administration. From 1992 to 1994, she was seconded to work for the International Union of Food Workers as the Education Secretary in the Asian Region.
• Mamphela Ramphele is Managing Director of the World Bank Group. As a member of the senior management team, Dr. Ramphele is responsible for managing the institution’s human development activities in the areas of education, health, nutrition, population and social protection. She provides oversight and guidance to the World Bank Group's efforts with client governments in strengthening human development support systems. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, she was Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town.
• Jozef Ritzen is Director of the Distance Learning Unit in the World Bank Institute a Dutch national, plays a critical role in bringing together the World Bank’s knowledge of best global development practices across the spectrum of the Bank's activities and in helping operational vice presidencies apply this knowledge in support of our clients. Prior to coming to the Bank, he was Minister of Education, Culture, and Science of The Netherlands from 1989 till 1998.

• Hilary Bowker is President of Bowker Media + Communications which devises communications strategies to help companies and organisations stay ahead of the media curve. She also moderates conferences and seminars and works on video projects in partnership with the London based Amazing Productions. Previously she was Senior European Anchor for CNN.
• Bono is a founding member of the Irish rock group U2 and spokesperson for Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt campaign in 1998. He presented the case for debt relief to members of the US President, Congress and Senate. He joined delegations at the G8 Summit in Cologne, the United Nations and at the Pope’s summer palace. Although concessions were made, he continues to campaign for expansion and delivery of debt cancellation.
• Lauren Lenfest is Vice President of the International Development and Trade Group of Oracle Corporation. She is Chair of the Pacific Basin Economic Council Working Committee on E-Commerce; and serves as a private sector member of the Sub-Saharan Advisory Committee to the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. Prior to joining Oracle, she was at Digital Equipment Corporation where she served as a senior member in the International Division.
• Elizabeth Tang is Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. She is responsible for finance, personnel and program management and administration. From 1992 to 1994, she was seconded to work for the International Union of Food Workers as the Education Secretary in the Asian Region.
• Mamphela Ramphele is Managing Director of the World Bank Group. As a member of the senior management team, Dr. Ramphele is responsible for managing the institution’s human development activities in the areas of education, health, nutrition, population and social protection. She provides oversight and guidance to the World Bank Group‘s efforts with client governments in strengthening human development support systems. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, she was Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town.