Name: Disclosing Natural Resource Data to Advance Governance
Start: 2015-10-29T10:00:00-0600
End: 2015-10-29T11:00:00-0600

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Disclosing Natural Resource Data to Advance Governance

This session will discuss the importance of disclosing natural resource data to advance governance of the sector and emphasize issues that remain currently opaque such as contracts, beneficial ownership and environmental data. Panelists will highlight how the EITI process is currently being used in the different country contexts and discuss why transparency is critical to fight corruption in the sector.

Moderators

Michael Jarvis

Global Lead - Governance of Extractives, World Bank

Promoting transparency and accountability for better outcomes from natural resource sectors. Pushing the envelope on disclosure of information and use of data from oil, gas and mining and how it connects to benefits for citizens.

Juliana Peña

Speakers

Alicia Bárcena

Executive Secretary, ECLAC

Alicia Bárcena assumed office as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on 1 July 2008.She had previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Management at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Chef de Cabinet and Deputy... Read More →

Suneeta Kaimal

Chief Operating Officer, Natural Resource Governance Institute

Suneeta is a Steering Committee member and former civil society chair of the Open Government Partnership, an initiative of nearly 70 countries in which governments and civil society work together to advance transparency, accountability and citizen participation.She is currently c... Read More →