Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment

Prime Minister Angula has been the third Prime Minister of the Republic of Namibia since independence in March 1990. Prior to being appointed Prime Minister in 2005, he was the Minister of Higher Education, Training and Employment Creation, during which he oversaw the establishment of a unified education, cultural and sportive system for the country. He is a Member of the Namibian Parliament and the ruling party’s Politburo and Central Committee, and was a Member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the country’s Constitution. Prior to Namibia’s independence, he led a delegation of Officers of the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia to negotiate a cease-fire agreement with South African Government. Subsequently, he assumed the task of Voter Registration and Education of the Election Directorate of the South West Africa People’s Organization. He holds M.A. and M.ED. degrees from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Zambia. In 2010, he received the President’s Medal of Excellence from the Teacher’s College at Columbia University.

Rafael Benke is Vale’s Global Head of Corporate Affairs. He joined Vale in 2006 to support the set up of its international affairs department and was later appointed Vice President of Corporate Affairs and International Relations for Vale Inco in Toronto.  More recently he served as Senior Executive, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability at Vale International in Switzerland. At Vale, he focuses on international policy and regulatory affairs, trade and investments, sustainable development, indigenous peoples and community development.  He is Vale’s representative in the ICMM’s Executive Working Group and a member of Royal Dutch Shell’s External Review Committee. Previously, he held positions in the public and private sectors, including legal advisor to Brazil's Secretary of Foreign Trade; coordinator of international affairs in the Brazilian Textile Industry Association; consultant for the Organization of American States; associate at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP; and general manager for international affairs at the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a Master in Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo and an LLM from the University of Warwick. He was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and a fellow of the Institute of International Economic Law.

Mark Cutifani was appointed to the board of AngloGold Ashanti in September 2007 and as Chief Executive Officer in October 2007. He is chair of the Executive Committee and a member of the Transformation and Human Resources Development, Safety, Health and Sustainable Development, Risk and Information Integrity and Investment committees. He has considerable experience in gold mining, having been associated with the industry since 1976. Prior to joining AngloGold Ashanti, he held the position of chief operating officer at CVRD Inco, a Toronto-based company, where he was responsible for Inco's global nickel business. He graduated with First Class Honors from Wollongong University as a Mining Engineer.

Peter Eigen has worked in economic development and governance for several decades. He has worked as a World Bank manager of programs in Africa and Latin America; from 1988 to 1991 he was the Director of the Regional Mission for Eastern Africa of the World Bank. In 1993 he founded Transparency International (TI), an NGO promoting transparency and accountability in international development. From 1993 to 2005 he was Chair of TI and is now Chair of the Advisory Council. In 2005, he chaired the International Advisory Group of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), was its Chair from 2006 to 2011 and is now EITI Special Representative. He has taught at Frankfurt Main, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University of Washington and Bruges College of Europe. Since 2002, he is an Honorary Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universität, Berlin. He was awarded an ‘Honorary Doctor’ degree at the Open University, UK, the Readers Digest Award "European of the Year 2004," and the 2007 Gustav Heinemann Award. Since 2007 he is a member of Kofi Annan's Africa Progress Panel. He was a member of the Management Board of the African Legal Support Facility of the African Development Bank from 2009 to 2011. He is the founding chair of the Berlin Civil Society Center, member of the board of the NGO Kabissa, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Arnold-Bergstrasser-Institute in Freiburg.

R. Anthony (Tony) Hodge has been the President of ICMM since October 2008. He is also Professor of Mining and Sustainability at Queen’s University, Canada. For the past decade, he has been an Associate with the International Institute for Sustainable Development and is Past President of the Mineral Economics and Management Society. For the past 35 years, he has practiced as a professional engineer.  Since 1997 he has been President of Anthony Hodge Consultants Inc. From 1989–1992, he was President of Friends of the Earth Canada. He served on the Prime Minister’s National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy from 1992-1996. In 2001-2002, he led the North American component of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development project. In 2003–2004, he facilitated the Tahltan Mining Initiative which led to publication of Out of Respect – the Tahltan, Mining and the Seven Questions to Sustainability. From 2003–2005 he was Senior Advisor to Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization which was charged with developing a strategy for long-term management of used nuclear fuel. He received his B.A. Sc. and M.A. Sc. degrees from the University of British Columbia (Geological Engineering) and his Ph. D. from McGill University based on work that focused on assessing and reporting on progress toward sustainability. 

Patrice Motsepe is the founder of African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and is currently its Executive Chair. He was a partner in one of the largest law firms in South Africa, Bowman Gilfillan Inc.  He was a visiting attorney in the US law firm McGuire Woods Battle and Boothe.  In 1994, he founded Future Mining, which grew rapidly to become a successful contract mining company.  He then formed ARMgold in 1997, which listed on the JSE in 2002.  ARMgold merged with Harmony in 2003 and this ultimately led to the take-over of Anglovaal Mining (Avmin). Avmin’s name was then changed to African Rainbow Minerals (ARM). In 2002 he was voted South Africa’s Business Leader of the Year by the CEOs of the top 100 companies in South Africa.  In the same year he won the Ernst & Young Best Entrepreneur of the Year Award.  He is also the Non-executive Chair of Harmony and the Deputy Chair of Sanlam.  His various business responsibilities included being President of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), the representative voice of organised business in South Africa, from January 2004 to May 2008.  He is the President of Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club. He is also the recipient of numerous business and leadership awards.

Antonio M.A. Pedro is a mineral exploration geologist with 30 years of experience in mineral resources development at national, sub-regional, and continental levels. He is currently Director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)’s Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa in Rwanda; previously, he was the Chief of Infrastructure and Natural Resources Development at ECA headquarters in Ethiopia. At ECA, he has been at the forefront of mineral policy analysis and formulation; he has played a leading role in the formulation of the Africa Mining Vision adopted by the African Union Heads of State in February 2009 and coordinated the work of the International Study Group on Africa's Mineral Regimes. He has served as Director-General of the Southern and Eastern African Mineral Centre, a research centre in Tanzania, and Managing Director of several state-owned mining companies in Mozambique. A native of Mozambique, he has a Masters in Mineral Exploration from the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College, London.

Karl P. Sauvant is Resident Senior Fellow at the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment; Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. Until February 2012, he was the Founding Executive Director of the VCC. Prior to coming to Columbia University in 2006, he was Director of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD’s) Investment Division. While at the UN, he created, in 1991, the prestigious annual World Investment Report, of which he was the lead author until 2004. He is the author of, or responsible for, a substantial number of publications on issues related to economic development, FDI and services. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business, and in 2006, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the European International Business Academy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.

David M. Schizer was named the fourteenth Dean of Columbia Law School and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law in 2004. As Dean, he has more than doubled the amount of support given to Columbia Law School, significantly broadening the base of donors that contribute leadership gifts. He has strengthened Columbia’s support for students and graduates working in government and public interest jobs. In 2007, he announced guaranteed summer funding for all J.D. students working in public interest internships, and in 2008 he announced significant enhancements to Columbia Law School’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program by doubling the income threshold, accelerating loan forgiveness and enhancing benefits to working parents. He was appointed Dean at the age of 35, making him the youngest Dean in the School's history. One of the nation's leading experts in tax law, he worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell prior to joining the Columbia Law faculty as Wilbur H. Friedman Professor of Tax Law in 1998. He is a graduate of Yale University where he earned his B.A., M.A. and J.D. degrees. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the 1994-95 term, and for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1993-94 term.  

M Sornarajah is CJ Koh Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore and the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of Public International Law at the University of Malaya. He was previously Head of the Law School of the University of Tasmania, Australia. He studied law at the University of Ceylon, the Yale Law School, the London School of Economics and King's College, London. He is the author of several books on international law, including the International Law on Foreign Investment (3rd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2010). He has been counsel or arbitrator in several leading investment arbitrations. He is an Honorary Member of the Indian Society of International Law.

Louis Wells has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His principal consulting activities have been concerned with foreign investment policy and with negotiations between foreign investors and host governments. His research interests include multinational enterprises; international business-government relations; foreign investment in developing countries; and foreign investment by firms from developing countries. He was the Coordinator for Indonesia Projects, Harvard Institute for International Development, Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1994-5. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a member of the Foreign Advisory Board at the Lahore Business School, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received a BS in Physics from Georgia Tech and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School.