Barrick Beyond Borders - May 2012 - Barrick Gold Corporation

A BARRICK GOLD REPORT ON RESPONSIBLE MINING | BEYOND BORDERSBEYOND BORDERS NEWSBarrick appoints newCorporate Social ResponsibilityAdvisory BoardFirst meeting held in AprilTOP: BARRICK’S CSR ADVISORY BOARD, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, INCLUDES ED LIEBOW, GARESMITH, ARON CRAMER, ELIZABETH DOWDESWELL, JOHN RUGGIE, AND ROBERT FOWLER.Barrick has established a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)Advisory Board and named five distinguished individuals toserve as inaugural members. The Advisory Board will provideadvice and guidance to Barrick management on the company’sglobal CSR performance and evolving best practices.“These highly respected individuals bring a wealth of expertiseand experience in corporate responsibility matters that will bea great asset to Barrick,” said President and CEO Aaron Regent.“Their input and guidance will help us to further improve ourpractices and manage emerging issues affecting our companyand the global mining industry.”The Board will serve in an advisory capacity and act as asounding board on a broad range of CSR issues, including communityrelations, sustainable development, the environment,human rights and security, and stakeholder engagement. It willalso provide a forum for constructive feedback, dialogue andcollaboration, and inform Barrick’s CSR programs and futurepractices.Advisory Board members reflect a diversity of CSR expertiseand stakeholder groups. Members will provide advice in anindividual capacity, rather than on behalf of any organizationor stakeholder group. They have been chosen based on theirin-depth knowledge of social and environmental best practicesfor international companies and their understanding of the keyissues affecting the mining industry.The Board held its first meeting on April 4 in Toronto. Themeeting was attended by Regent, Kelvin Dushnisky, ExecutiveVice President of Corporate and Legal Affairs, and other membersof the company’s senior leadership team. The all-day sessionincluded discussions on the environment, safety and health,community relations, and security and human rights. It was aproductive meeting that included helpful initial feedback fromnew Board members.The inaugural members of the CSR Advisory Board are:Aron Cramer, President and CEO of Business for SocialResponsibility and a globally recognized authority on CSR.Elizabeth Dowdeswell, President and CEO, Council ofCanadian Academies, and former Executive Director of theUnited Nations Environment Program.Robert Fowler, diplomat and senior foreign policy advisor tothree Canadian Prime Ministers and Canada’s longest-servingAmbassador to the United Nations.Ed Liebow, Director of the Battelle Memorial Institute’s SeattlebasedCenter for Public Health Research and Evaluation.Gare Smith, senior partner at Foley Hoag LLP and formerPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. StateDepartment’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.John Ruggie, author of the U.N. Guiding Principles on Businessand Human Rights, will serve as a Special Consultant to theBoard as part of his advisory role in the CSR practice at FoleyHoag LLP. He is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rightsand International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F.Kennedy School of Government, and Affiliated Professor inInternational Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.2May 2012