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Local Content Policies in the Oil, Gas, and Mining Sector
September 30-October 01, 2013Vienna, Austria
The conference’s main objective is to share and discuss recent research on local content policies, and how to make them more effective for the benefit of governments, industry, and communities.

Context

Developing resource-rich countries have a real opportunity to harness their oil, gas and mining resources for sustained and inclusive growth.

One of the most potent ways to achieve this objective is to generate endogenous growth based on increased domestic content for economic diversification. This is what local content policies (LCPs) are intended to achieve.

When properly designed, these policies also generate opportunities for regional integration and international trade and can gradually reduce countries’ dependence on external aid.

The event

The World Bank’s Sustainable Energy Department and Oil, Gas and Mining Unit are organizing a Global Conference on Local Content in the Oil, Gas, and Mining sectors, to be held in Vienna on September 30-October 1, 2013.

The two-day event will gather policy makers, industry associations, major petroleum, mining and service companies, suppliers associations, practitioners, civil society representatives, and other partners and donors from over 50 petroleum and mining producing countries.

The event is co-sponsored by the Petroleum Governance Initiative (PGI), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and Exxon Mobil.

Objectives

The conference’s main objective is to share and discuss recent research on local content policies, and how to make them more effective for the benefit of governments, industry, and communities.

Speakers and participants will share their knowledge and experience to generate common understanding of the potential benefits of local content policies and the conditions that lead to successful outcomes.

The conference also aims to create a community of practice around this key topic to support continuous knowledge sharing. Participants will be invited to explore innovative solutions through which the World Bank may support the public and private sectors in their efforts towards efficient local economic diversification.

PROGRAM - Download Agenda (PDF)

Monday, September 30, 2013 - Morning

8:00 – 8:30      Registration

8:30 - 9:30       Welcome, Opening Remarks

o   Ellen Goldstein, Country Director and Regional Coordinator for Southeast Europe and Central Asia, World Bank

o   Abdoulaye Kone, Director, Mining, Petroleum, and Renewable Energy, West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)

o   Aidan Davy, Deputy President and Senior Program Director, International Council of Mining and Metals

o   Wolfgang Kraus, Senior Associate, IPIECA

9:30 - 11:00     Session 1 - Introduction.  This session will discuss trends in local content policies and emerging lessons learned. It will present different stakeholder views on this topic. Why is local content important to the World Bank’s mission of poverty reduction? How did countries with long history of resource exploitation use local content policies to enhance the economic and social benefits of resource extraction? Why is local content beneficial to the industry?

Moderators:   Paulo de Sa, Manager, Sustainable Energy Department, Extractive Industries, World Bank

Abdul Razak Noormahomed, Vice Minister, Ministry of Mineral Resources, Mozambique.

Lead Presentation:    Svein Olav Svoldal, Adviser, Department of Economic Development, Equality and Governance, NORAD

Panel:  

o   Raphael Kaplinsky, Development Policy and Practice, Open University

o   Samuel Gayi, Head of the Special Unit on Commodities, UNCTAD

o   Lindsey Napier, Private Sector Adviser, Governance and Extractives Team, Africa Regional Department, DFID

o   Gabriel Dansou Lokossou, Executive Secretary, Africa Petroleum Producers Association (APPA)

o   Natalie Stirling-Sanders, Upstream National Content Manager, ExxonMobil

Q & A

11:00 – 11:30  Coffee, Tea Break

11:40 - 13:00   Session 2 - What is local content?  Definitions of local content vary widely between companies, governments, IFIs, etc. This session will discuss the way different definitions of local content drive policy outcomes. What do we mean with “local” and “content”? Are we merely talking about locally registered firms? Or are we referring to different levels of value-addition, geographic location, and national participation?

Moderator:    Kristina Svensson, Senior Operations Officer, Oil, Gas, and Mining Unit, World Bank

Lead Presentation:    Anthony Paul, Principal Consultant, Association of Caribbean Energy Specialists, Ltd.

Panel:

o   Rupert Barnard, Group Managing Director, Kaiser Associates Economic Development Practice

o   Claudia Viale, Research Associate for Latin America, Revenue Watch Institute

o   Raul Gonzales Martinez, Joint Director, General Directorate of Councils and Committees, Deputy Secretary of Hydrocarbons, Mexico

o   Evelyn Dietsche, Contractor Advisor, Development Economics, BG Group

o   Mercedes Eworo Milam, Advisor, Ministry of Mines, Industry, and Energy, Equatorial Guinea

o   Fraser Thompson, Principal Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute

Q & A

13:00 – 14:30  Lunch

13:00-13:30 Keynote address: Aluisio G. de Lima-Campos, Chairman of the ABCI (Brazilian International Trade Scholars) Institute. Local content policies and global economies.

Monday, September 30, 2013 - Afternoon

14:40 - 17:00   Session 3 - Industry partnerships to support suppliers’ development. This session will share knowledge and information regarding industry level initiatives to build sustainable local supply chains. How can international oil, gas, and mining companies create policies and practices to increase local supplier participation? How can suppliers work together to increase access to extractive industry contracts? What level of transparency could be applied to tendering processes? How can industries work as a group to facilitate increased purchases of local goods and services? What is the role of local training institutes and NGOs in providing this training? What are the main obstacles to ensure sustainable outcomes?

Moderator: Gosia Nowakowska-Miller, Operations Officer, Sustainable Business Advisory, IFC

Lead Presentation:    Osvaldo Urzua, Manager, Government and Institutions Relations, BHP Billiton, Chile

Panel:

o   Simon Blamires, Supply Chain Manager, Newmont Ahafo Ghana

o   Dinah Azare, Local Content Manager, Tullow Oil

o   Simbi Wabote, Shell C&P local content manager

o   Luiz Pacheco, Vice President, Planning, Pacific Ruviales Corporation, Colombia

o   Nils Tcheyan, Director, Government Affairs and Policies, Africa, General Electric

o   Pamela Chavez Crooker, CEO, Aguamarina

Q & A

17:00 – 18:30  Welcome Reception


Tuesday, October 1, 2013 – Morning

9:00 - 10:45     Session 4 - Employment and skills development. A recent survey on skills shortage in the oil and gas and mining industry suggests that the most effective solution to close the skills gap involves the close collaboration between industry and governments. This session will explore alternative approaches to reducing the skills gap, and the role of the private and public sectors.

Moderator:    Mike Morris, Director, Policy Research in International Services and Manufacturing, University of Cape Town  

Lead Presentation: Harry Pastuszek, Vice President for Enterprise and Community Development, CDC Development Solutions

Panel:

o   Marcelo Mafra, National Petroleum Agency, Brazil

o   Antonio Pedro, Director, United Nations Commission for Africa for the Africa Mining Skills Initiative

o   Hernan Araneda, Head, Center for Innovation in Human Capital, Chile

o   Timothy Melvin, Country Director for Liberia, Building Markets

Q & A

10:45 - 11:15   Coffee, Tea Break

11:15 – 12:40  Session 5 - Enabling the development of industrial capacity: Resource corridors, clusters and SEZs. This session will discuss the use of public policies to leverage extractive industries to build local industrial capacity. The session will explore the obstacles to the development of domestic suppliers (lack of access to finance, poor business environment, lack of business skills, poor EHS standards, and lack of energy and infrastructure, etc.), and measures to improve the business environment to foster the participation of local firms. The role of regional or sub-regional clusters and resource corridors will also be discussed.

Moderator:    Osmel Manzano, Principal Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

Lead Presentation:    Ian Satchwell, Director, International Mining Development Centre

Panel:

o   Michael Hackenbruch, Principal Advisor, Urbanpol.

o   James Dobbin, President, James Dobbin International/Rio Tinto Guinea and Mozambique

o   Alexander Kim, First Deputy Governor of Khanty-Mansiysk, Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation

o   Dmitry Lipyavko, General Director, Blue Line Project Company

o   Marcio Senne de Moraes, Corporate Affairs Head for Europe and North America, Vale

13:00 – 14:30  Lunch  

13:00-13:30 Keynote address: Ernerst C. Nwapa, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board. Local Content Implementation: Lessons from Nigeria

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 – Afternoon

14:30 - 16:00   Session 6: Local content policies design and implementation issues.   This session will focus on issues related to the design and monitoring of implementation of local content policies. The discussants will address critical questions such short and long term policy objectives, choice of policy tools and reporting metrics, monitoring arrangements, and the role of civil society, and special challenges related to local content development in frontier and emerging markets.

Moderator:      Silvana Tordo, Oil, Gas, and Mining Unit, World Bank

Lead Presentation:      Nicolas Maennling, Economics and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, Columbia University Law School

Panel:

o   Stephen Masele, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Tanzania Datuk Shahrol Azral bin Ibrahim Halmi, Director, National Key Economic Areas, Oil, Gas and Energy, PEMANDU, Malaysia

o   Nurlan Zhumagulov, Senior Manager, Local Content Development Department, Contract Agency, Ministry of Oil and Gas, Kazakhstan

o   I Gusti Putu Suryawirawan, Director for Base Metal Industries, Ministry of Industry, Indonesia

o   Eric Bisil Bamamen, Extractive Industries Program Coordinator, Center for Environment and Development, Cameroun

o   Ernerst C. Nwapa, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board

Q & A

16:00 - 16:30     Coffee, Tea Break

16:30 - 17:30   Session 7 - Next steps and closing. The objective of this session is to summarize the conclusions of the conference. It will also discuss the potential of setting up a forum for continued knowledge exchange/community of practice on local content policies, and mechanisms for cooperation and support to governments and companies in resource-rich countries.

Moderator:    Paulo de Sa, Manager, Oil, Gas, and Mining Unit, World Bank

Panel:

o   Antonio Pedro, Director, United Nations Commission for Africa

o   Marinke van Riet, International Director, Publish What You Pay (PWYP)

o   Kate Charmichael, Manager, Social and Economic Development, International Council of Mining and Metals

o   Wolfgang Kraus, Senior Associate, IPIECA

o   Osmel Manzano, Principal Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

o   Marc Banzet, Acting Director of Governance and Economic Growth, Strategic Policy and Performance Branch of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

o   Lahra Liberti, Senior Adviser on Natural Resources , OECD Development Centre

17:30   Adjourn

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    Raphie Kaplinsky, Professor of Development Policy and Practice, The Open University, UK

    Raphie Kaplinsky is a professor of Development Policy and Practice at The Open University in the United Kingdom. Amongst other engagements, Professor Kaplinsky participated in the World Economic Forum’s Metal and Metals industry Partners Strategy Meeting in November 2011. He has presented to various meetings on industry and policy stakeholders organised by the Common Fund for Commodities and UNCTAD 2010 and 2011 and with Ministers of Industry at UNIDO and addressed the African Chief Executives Forum on the role which benchmarking can play in supply chain development.
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    Ellen Goldstein, World Bank Country Director, Western Balkans

    Ellen Goldstein is the World Bank’s Country Director for the Western Balkans – which includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia . She is based in Vienna, Austria. Prior to this position, she was World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh and Nepal, in which she led the policy dialogue with government and stakeholders, and collaborated with development partners to promote greater aid effectiveness. In these two countries she managed a portfolio of more than 50 operations totaling nearly US$ 6 billion in soft IDA Credits.
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    Kate Carmichael, Social and Economic Development, ICMM

    Kate Carmichael joined ICMM in January 2012, after working as a part-time consultant since July 2011. She works on the Social and Economic Development work program, focused on the Mining: Partnerships for Development project. Immediately prior to joining ICMM, Previously she worked as Head of Strategy for Cancer Research UK and as a manager with Accenture's Global Strategy Practice, primarily in the oil and gas sector.
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    I Gusti Putu Suryawirawan, Director of Industrial Facilitation Development for Indonesia, Region I

    I GUSTI PUTU SURYAWIRAWAN, is Director of Industrial Facilitation Development for Indonesia’s Region I, covering Sumatra and Kalimantan Island, or the West part of Indonesia. He began his career after earning a major in industrial engineering, from the Institute Technology Bandung. In March 1983, the Ministry of Industry in Jakarta, offered him the opportunity to manage the new Data Center Division, then after ten years promoted him to deputy director of software development where he introduced information system technology and the usage of the Internet to the Ministry of Industry among others as well as the private sector. He has been active in several international events, such as UNCTAD’s Trade Point Programme, and ASEAN’s Information and Communication Technology Working Group.
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    Osvaldo Urzua, Manager, Government and Institutions Relations, BHP Billiton, Chile

    Osvaldo Urzua has worked with Bhp Billiton and the Escondida Mine since 2008, first as cluster Program Manager, then as External Affairs Manager, and since 2012 as Institutional and Government Manager. In 2012 the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, presented BHP Billiton with the Mining Council Award for Best Practices in Large-Scale Mining – specifically for the World-Class Supplier Development Program. He has a PhD in Science and Technology from University of Sussex.
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