Carolina Benavides
read moreMs. Benavides is a Peruvian-based psychologist. Her international experience includes improving poverty conditions in regions affected by violence, applying the Progress Out of Poverty Index (PPI), and assisting organizations with their sustainability reporting.
Ms. Benavides is currently executive director of NeVo Consultores -sister company of the NGO Nexos Voluntarios- which conducts a wide variety of projects related to managing and measuring social, environmental and economic impact, with organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), FMO, Technoserve, JP Morgan, United Nations Population Fund, Mibanco, and the Peru Opportunity Fund. Ms. Benavides has also worked with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma providing technical assistance for the implementation of mental health services in Peru. Ms. Benavides' training includes the Global Reporting Initiative sustainability reporting guidelines, and the IFC Performance Standards and Equator Principles.Martin Birley, MS, PhD, DIC
read moreMartin has advised development banks, development agencies, governments and multinationals companies. He also authored many books, papers, reports and guidelines, co-founded the health section of International Association on Impact Assessment (IAIA) and the International HIA Consortium. Martin is the Founding Director of Birley HIA.Mehrdad Nazari, MBA, MSc, LEAD Fellow
read moreMehrdad is the CSR & ESIA Practice Leader and Director of Prizma. Mehrdad has 18 years of international experience in environmental, social and CSR risk assessment and management. He also provides advisory services and training focused on IFC Performance Standards, the Equator Principles (EP2), the European Bank's (EBRD) Performance Requirements and the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) sustainability reporting framework.Mehrdad was previously Principal Environmental Specialist at the European Bank (EBRD), focused on an extractive portfolio exceeding $2 billion; CSR Research Director at CoreRatings (now Innovest/RiskMatrics), advising asset managers; and Project Manager with Dames & Moore (now URS), an engineering consultancy. Mehrdad is a sought after trainer on IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles and GRI Sustainability Reporting. Mehrdad is also a sought after CSR coach and advisor for first-time sustainability reporters. He has delivered over 25 short courses in Canada, China, Panama, Peru, UK, USA and Venezuela since 2006. He also advised IFC’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman office (reviewing community complaints), is a certified ISO 14,001 Lead Auditor, a GRI-approved trainer on sustainability reporting, a member of the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA), and serves on the External Editorial Committee of the Mining.com Magazine. Please contact Mehrdad to receive a listing of his recent ESIA and CSR projects and related client references.Mehrdad studied geosciences and business administration in Germany, US and the UK. He was a Fulbright grantee and is a Fellow of Rockefeller Foundation's Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) program. He has also developed and implemented grant-funded initiatives dealing with biodiversity offsets, stakeholder dialogue, conflict resolution, transboundary oil spill response and sustainability reporting.Dr. Denes Bulkai
read moreDenes is a Chemical Engineer with a career spanning over 30 years and is based in Hungary. Until recently, Denes was a Senior Environmental Advisor at the European Bank (EBRD), focused on industrial energy efficiency projects, metallurgical and chemical industries, and vehicle manufacturing.While at the EBRD, his main responsibility included management of environmental and social due diligence on investment projects, including environmental and social audits, impact assessments, development of corrective action plans and monitoring their implementation. His project experience includes iron, steel and other metallurgical industries, inorganic and petrochemical industries, vehicle manufacturing, including shipbuilding, railway wagon, locomotive, truck and passenger car manufacturing. In the area of infrastructure development he conducted due diligence on motorway, railway, airport and seaport re/construction, public transport, district heating, waste disposal, water supply and sewage treatment system modernization projects. He also managed industrial energy efficiency projects, energy audits, technical assistant projects and training programs for junior bankers and financial intermediary partners and their consultants.
Prior to joining the EBRD, Denes worked in industrial research centers, government agencies, international consultancy and at the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). His project experience includes Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
In addition to his training as a Chemical Engineer (MSc, PhD), Denes also holds postgraduate degrees in Economics and History. Denes is fluent in English, Hungarian and German, has a good knowledge of French and a working knowledge of Russian. Denes is currently residing in Hungary.
Timothy Murphy, BA, MPhil
read moreTim's professional career spans over 35 years. He is based in the UK and previoulsy served as the Director of the Environmental Appraisal Unit of the European Bank (EBRD). Prior to that, he headed the Environmental Consultancy arm at WS Atkins, one of Europe's largest engineering and planning consultancies.Among the environmentally significant EBRD projects on which Tim worked were metallurgical processing plants in the Russian Federation and Slovakia, mining projects in Uzbekistan and the far east of Russia, oil projects off the Pacific Coast of Russia and in the Caspian Sea region, nuclear power projects in Slovakia and Ukraine, and thermal power projects in Ukraine and Bulgaria. Tim also worked closely with other international funding institutions, including the IFC, the World Bank (IBRD), and the Asian Development Bank. He contributed to an external review of IFC/MIGA's Compliance Advisor Ombudsman Office, reviewed EBRD's draft Safeguard Policies and proposed Independent Recourse Mechanism, and conducted an in-depth review of the African Development Bank's approach to Sustainability. Tim's previous clients and projects included the World Bank, United Nations Environment Programme, UK Department of Energy, British Rail (Channel Tunnel Rail Link Project), UK Department of Transport (Second Severn Crossing), Sultanate of Oman (Controller of Environmental Planning), Ministry of Defense, Eurotunnel, the National Rivers Authority, and a variety of industrial and commercial organizations. Non-UK projects included the environmental impact assessment of hydro-electric projects in Uganda, Sri Lanka, Botswana and Malaysia, reservoirs in Morocco and Algeria, steelworks in Algeria and Brazil, land reclamation in Bahrain, a refinery and smelter in Oman, several industrial plants in Hong Kong, and mining developments in India and Malawi. Tim pursued his academic training in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA Hons, Oxford), and Town and Regional Planning (MPhil, London). Wayne Forman, BS, MS
read moreWayne has over 35 years of professional experience, including 25 years with Freeport McMoRan Inc., where he also served as Director of Corporate Environmental, Health & Safety Affairs.His expertise includes environmental site assessments, due diligence investigations, environmental audits, environmental impact evaluations, ecological baseline studies and environmental regulatory/permitting matters, and related policy development, strategy planning, and public affairs for mining, oil & gas and chemical processing industries around the world. Wayne's numerous certifications include Lead Auditor for ISO 14000 Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Audits. His project experience covers Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming; and, in Canada, Panama, Indonesia, Spain, Trinidad/Tobago and the former Soviet Union (Russia, the Ukraine), Australia, Chile, China, Egypt, Italy, Peru, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Koichiro Ishimori, BA, MA.
read moreKoichiro is based in Japan and his 10 years of international professional experience includes positions as an Evaluation Officer at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Program Officer at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID).His past clients/projects include the World Bank, UNFPA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Japanese Government, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and JBIC. Koichiro’s experience includes Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Morocco, USA and Switzerland. He studied economics, and technology/science and international public policy at Rikkyo University (Japan), University of Denver (USA), and the University of Sussex (UK). He is also a Fellow of Rockefeller Foundation’s Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD), and speaks Japanese, English and French. Koichiro is the President of the Value Frontier, Co., Ltd, a consulting firm based in Tokyo specializing in consultations on international development projects and climate change.Dr. William Kennedy
read moreBill's career spans over 30 years. He is currently an ESIA advisor to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and based in Canada. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, and the Head of the Environmental Policy and Strategy Unit of the European Bank (EBRD).At the CEC (Montreal ,Canada Concordia He also held other senior posts with the Dutch Ministries of Environment and Foreign Affairs, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Formally trained in Political Science (MA and PhD), Dr Kennedy is fluent in German, Dutch and French, has a good knowledge of Spanish and a working knowledge of Russian.University ,Montreal. Gudars Nazari, Information Systems Expert
read moreGudars has over 15 years of international experience developing solutions from design to implementation that streamlined business operations for financial institutions, hospitality, air-cargo industry, telecom and IT solution providers. He is based in Germany and his certifications include Microsoft Certified Business Management Solutions Specialist (Applications, Customization and Configuration) for MS CRM 4.0.
Since 2003, he has provided independent advisory and interim project management services to American Express, Frankfurt, Visionapp, Frankfurt, Microsoft Germany, Munich, Zentropypartners (member of McCann–Erikson), Frankfurt, Laptop Computer GmbH, Frankfurt. Previously, Gudars was a Senior Project Manager at Chordiant Software Int, Frankfurt, where he was responsible for the enterprise wide delivering and integration of the Chordiant CRM solution to one of the top 10 insurance companies in Germany. He was also Program Manager at Axiom Consulting Group, California, where he conducted business and technical analysis for an Internet portal for the hospitality industry. Gudars reported the findings to CEO, providing critical insight to project feasibility, timeline and profitability that resulted in corporate savings of $9 million. Other appointments included Senior Project Manager with Icon Medialab, San Francisco; Manager for Fraud Monitoring System, Pacific Gateway Exchange, California; Senior IT Consultant and Innovation Manager, Pass Consulting Corp., Germany and Fort Myers; and the Deutsche Bank, Germany. Gudars studied computer sciences and economics at technical colleges in Germany and obtained his Diplomas in Computer Sciences and business administration.Dr. Don Proebstel
read moreDon has a special interest in biodiversity offsets and sustainability and spearheaded the development of a partnership with Conservation International (CI) to advance GRI's strong commitment to environmental and social responsibility for its Brisas copper and gold mining project inVenezuela Russian Academy of Sciences, theMoscow State University and theWild Salmon Center
Carolina Benavides
read moreMs. Benavides is a Peruvian-based psychologist. Her international experience includes improving poverty conditions in regions affected by violence, applying the Progress Out of Poverty Index (PPI), and assisting organizations with their sustainability reporting.
Martin Birley, MS, PhD, DIC
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