Natural Resources and Violent Conflict - WaterWiki.net

xivcontributorsSylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney is with CERDI, is a professor at theUniversité d’Auvergne, and is also a member of the Conseil de Surveillanceof Agence Française de Développement. She has contributed numerouspapers to journals and written several books on developmentissues, especially monetary policy and exchange.Gavin Hayman is the lead campaigner and investigator for GlobalWitness and has been working on oil revenue misappropriation andcorporate malfeasance since 2001. He is also an associate fellow of theSustainable Development Programme at the Royal Institute of InternationalAffairs, where he has written extensively on various environmentalcrime and commodity tracking issues.Philippe Le Billon is an assistant professor at the Liu Institute forGlobal Issues, University of British Columbia, Canada. He has workedwith the Overseas Development Institute and the International Institutefor Strategic Studies (IISS) on war economies and the regulation of extractiveindustries in conflict areas. He recently authored Fuelling War:Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts (IISS/Oxford University Press).He can be contacted at philippe.lebillon@ubc.ca.Leiv Lunde is a partner and senior policy analyst with ECON Centrefor Economic Analysis (www.econ.no), based in Oslo. Lunde is apolitical scientist with broad experience in research and policy analysisin areas such as environmental policy, development cooperation,humanitarian policy and conflict prevention, and corporate socialresponsibility. From 1997 to 2000, Lunde served as state secretary forinternational development and human rights in the Norwegian Ministryof Foreign Affairs.Mai Oldgard holds an M.Sc. from Copenhagen Business School, whereshe specialized in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporategovernance. At ECON Centre for Economic Analysis, she specializesin issues such as CSR challenges to the oil and insurance industries,and has coordinated a major scenario project on the future of theNorwegian energy industry.Michael Ross is an assistant professor of political science at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his Ph.D.from Princeton University and has been a Visiting Scholar at the WorldBank. He has an ongoing project on “the resource curse” and hasmost recently written the paper “How Does Natural Resource WealthInfluence Civil Wars?” Most of his publications and working papersare available at www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/ross.