Jorge Chamot is an energy executive advising governments on policy and business development across Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He served as Peru’s Minister of Energy and Mines from 1999 to 2000. He has worked for a state-owned company, a Texan independent energy conglomerate and a private European shipping and trading firm. His understanding of the intricacies of policy-making and implementation allows him to adopt a comprehensive approach to national and regional development programs. Jorge Chamot holds Petroleum Engineering and MBA degrees with further studies in Oil Planning and International Development.

Boris Dolgonos is a partner at the international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and has advised on a wide range of mining issues, investment and financing transactions, including initial public offerings, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings, and privatizations. His mining practice has focused on government representation and capacity development, including negotiating mining concessions, drafting model mining agreements and financing transactions. Boris serves on the Board of Directors of the International Senior Lawyers Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing legal services for human rights and economic development throughout the world. He received a Law degree from the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard.

Marcelina Joel has more than 10 years of professional experience in the mineral resources oil and gas and energy sector. Since 2021, she holds the role of legal advisor at the Kimberly Process Unit Mozambique. Previously, she has worked for more than 9 years for the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy in Mozambique. Part of her responsibilities at the ministry role were the licensing of small-scale mining activities and other infrastructure installations as well as the negotiation of resource concession contracts, administrative litigation and legal advising processes. Marcelina Joel started off as Legal advisor from 1999-2003, served as Deputy National Director of Mines from 2013-2015 and from 2015-2016 as Provincial Director of Mineral Resources and Energy.

Cielo Magno teaches at the University of the Philippines’ School of Economics, first as Assistant professor and since 2020 as Associate Professor. From 2016-2022 she represented the civil society in the international board of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), and she previously coordinated Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Philippines and was a founding member of the EITI in the Philippines. Cielo Magno sat as member of the board in a number of organizations including Bantay Kita-PWYP Philippines, Action for Economic Reforms and Center for Energy, Ecology and Development. She is also a member of the Executive Session on Extractives Industries of the Center for Sustainable Investment (CCSI).

Helmut Nicolaus has been a Berlin-based attorney specializing in Public and European Law since 1993. He opened his own law firm in 2017 and has authored various publications on aspects of public law, including environmental, mining and electoral law. In 1989/90, he worked as an advisor to the French Minister for the Environment, focusing on Franco-German relations. In 1991/92, he served as Director of the Minister’s Office in the Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Women in the German state of Brandenburg. Helmut Nicolaus studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, Clare College, Cambridge, Freie Universität Berlin and the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in Paris. He holds a Master of Arts and Doctorate in Philosophy.

Karl P. Sauvant, PhD, is Senior Fellow, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) and Lecturer-in-Law, Columbia Law School, New York. In 1998, he began championing the establishment of a facility to help developing countries negotiate large-scale contracts with international investors (during 2011-2016 in co-operation with Peter Eigen). In 2006, he established a Program that became the CCSI, serving as its Executive Director until 2012. During 2006-2011, he was Co-Director of the Millennium Cities Initiative, to assist African medium-sized cities attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). As Director of UNCTAD’s Investment Division, he founded the annual World Investment Report (lead author until 2004). Throughout his career, he has focused on issues related to FDI and development. He has published extensively on these issues (https://ssrn.com/author=2461782).

Derya Thompson’s background in civil and structural engineering includes 29 years’ experience of both large Infrastructure and transportation projects. Her local and international transit and mobility experience includes working on key Infrastructure projects in USA, Canada, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Turkey including recent projects in California on the design and management of California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR), Gerald Desmond Replacement Bridge and other LA Metro, OCTA, LA City and County projects. She has considerable experience in designing bridges, guideways, elevated/aerial stations, cut and cover tunnels and stations and other major civil structures. She currently serves as Director, Sepulveda Transit Corridor, for Meridiam since 2021, as Chief Engineering Council Member for Hyperloop Transportation Technologies since 2016.

Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management (Emeritus) at Harvard Business School, where he taught courses and conducted research on international business, largely on investor-host government relations. He advised governments and international organizations on foreign investment policies and negotiations with foreign investors, particularly for mining. He served as an expert for governments in  more than a dozen  investor-state arbitrations. Back in 1975, he and David N. Smith of Harvard Law School wrote Negotiating Third World Mineral Agreements: Promises as Prologue.