Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Global Conference 2019

The 2019 Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Global Conference took place on 17-19 June at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Conference Centre in Paris. The conference provided an opportunity for heads of state, civil society activists and industry leaders to discuss emerging trends and best practices in the good governance of natural resources. Read the full announcement from EITI here.

NRGI staff moderated and spoke at a number of sessions and side events at the conference. Follow the conversation using #EITI2019.

17 June (Monday)

Side event: Civil society half-day (by invitation only)
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• NRGI president and CEO Daniel Kaufmann spoke at this event and a number of NRGI staff led working groups.

Side event: Extractives data: Use, impact, collaboration
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
OECD Conference Center, Auditorium
 

• Presented by NRGI, Global Witness and Oxfam
• Featuring NRGI’s Alexander Malden

Side event: Quantifying the economic, environmental and social costs and benefits of extraction
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
OECD Conference Center, Room CC12
Extractive industries can generate substantial revenues—but how do we measure, report and utilize information on environmental and social impacts to ensure good governance of natural resources? Fiscal and non-fiscal impacts are often monitored and governed by different actors leading to incomplete understanding of the sector’s overall impacts. Can more integrated modelling, measurement and reporting improve policymaking and sector governance?

• Presented by NRGI, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and Mining Shared Value
• Featuring NRGI’s Nicola Woodroffe
• Session summary here

Side event: How open data enhances state-owned enterprise performance and benchmarking
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
OECD Conference Center, 2 rue Andre Pascal, 75775 Paris

• Presented by NRGI and the African Development Bank
• Learn more with NRGI's new briefing Big Sellers: Exploring the Scale and Risk of National Oil Company Sales

Featuring:

• Cameroon Minister of Finance Louis-Paul Motaze
• NRGI advisor Patrick Heller
• African Natural Resource Centre's Fred Kabanda and Cosmas Ochieng
• YPF's Lorena Sanchez (TBC)
• Ghana National Petroleum Corporation's Linda Tamakloe

18 June (Tuesday)

Plenary session 3: Disclosure by default: mainstreaming through open data
11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.

• Featuring NRGI’s Daniel Kaufmann
• Learn more with NRGI's consultation briefing EITI Mainstreaming: Opportunities and Risks for the Role of Civil Society in EITI

Executive session 5: A face to the name: How government and industry can use beneficial ownership data to strengthen anticorruption
2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

• Featuring NRGI’s Laury Haytayan

Plenary session 4: The role of transparency in fighting corruption in the extractives sector
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

• Featuring NRGI’s Alexandra Gillies

19 June (Wednesday)

Side event: Leveraging information technology in EITI mainstreaming
8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
 

• Featuring NRGI's Anders Pedersen

Executive session 8: What states get from the sale of their oil, gas and minerals
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

• Featuring NRGI’s Joseph Williams
• Learn more with NRGI's new briefing Big Sellers: Exploring the Scale and Risk of National Oil Company Sales