EITI London Conference Agenda, 17 March 2005

Representatives from government, company and civil society organisations set out their policies and programmes to achieve transparency, tackle corruption and manage natural resource wealth. A number of governments indicated their readiness to participate in follow-up to the Initiative and to explore ways in which the principles could be developed at a country level. Other countries indicated a readiness to share experience and provide technical or financial support for follow-up activities.

AGENDA

Opening Session

Welcome, Introduction, and Format of the day
Adrian Wood, Director, Policy Division, UK Department for International Development

Opening Address
James Wolfensohn, President, World Bank

Morning Session 1: Why Transparency Matters

Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute
Jeroen Van Der Veer, Group Chief Executive Officer, Shell
Takatoshi Kato, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Comments from the Floor facilitated by Gareth Thomas

Interventions

Paul Mitchell, Secretary General, International Council on Mining and Metals
Simon Taylor, Director, Global Witness
Emmy Hafild, Secretary General, Transparency International Indonesia

Morning Session 2: Implementing EITI

Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, Timor-Leste
Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom
Nasir el-Rufai, Minister for Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Comments from the Floor facilitated by Gareth Thomas

Interventions

Prime Minister Hama Amadou, Niger
Richard Paniguin, Head of Region for Russia, the Caspian, the Middle East and Africa, BP
Mike Aaronson, Director General, Save the Children
Archibishop Dom Kamwenho, CEAST, Angola
Gonzalo Montenegro, Bolivian Ambassador, Bolivia
Dominic Fobih, Minister of Mines, Land and Forestry, Ghana

Afternoon Panel 1: Widening and Deepening Implementation

Comments from the Panel

Introduction facilitated by: Xavier Darcos, Development Minister, France
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Anglo-American plc.
Vice-Prime Minister Djoomart Otorbaev, Kyrgyz Republic
Andrew Natsios, Administrator, US Agency for International Development
Andrew Swiger, Executive Vice President, ExxonMobil
Peter Eigen, Chair, Transparency International
Samir Sharifov, Director, State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan

Comments and Questions from the Floor

Interventions

Michael Roy, Coordinator of French Platform for Publish What You Pay - Secours Catholique
Jean Pierre Bemba Gombo, Vice President in charge of Economic and Financial Affairs, Democratic Republic of Congo
Jose Ela Oyana, Secretary of State for Planning, Equatorial Guinea

Afternoon Panel 2: The Future of EITI

Comments from the Panel

Introduction facilitated by: Paul Boateng, Chief Secretary to the UK Treasury, United Kingdom
Jean Lemierre, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Abbé Georges Loemba Ndende, Coordinateur Diocésain, Commission Justice et Paix, Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo
Leigh Clifford, Chief Executive Officer, Rio Tinto
Christine Sahadeo, Finance Minister, Trinidad and Tobago
Yves-Louis Darricarrère, Executive Vice President, TOTAL
Howard Carter, Chief Executive Officer, F&C Asset Management
Sam Laidlaw, Executive Vice President, ChevronTexaco
Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact

Interventions

Christian Mounzeo, President & Coordinator – Publish What You Pay, Congo
Olivier Loubiere, Areva
Peter Grant, Managing Director, Woodside Energy
Leiv Lunde, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Polycarpe Abah Abah, Minister of Finance, Cameroon
Masnellyanti Hilman, Deputy Minister for Technical Infrastructure, Indonesia
Anton Artemyev, Director, Kazakhstan Revenue Watch, Soros Foundation
Emmanuel Kuyole, Programme Director, Integrated Social Development Centre, Ghana
Marcos Manuel N’Dongo, CPDS-Convergencia para la Democracia Social,
Equatorial Guinea
Mark Mullen, Transparency International, Georgia

Conference Close

Paul Boateng, Chief Secretary to the UK Treasury

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