About Us

Jodi Liss is the Director of The Center for Resource Stakeholders. She has worked on issues of extractive industries and conflict for the United Nations and the World Bank, and taught Energy, Environmental and Resource Security for New York University. An experienced instructional designer who has built online courses for multiple universities, she has developed e-trainings on natural resource management for and with civil society groups in the United States, Uganda and Argentina. Her writing on the social impacts of energy and mining have been published in Negotiation Journal and elsewhere.  
Advisors: 
Hugh Thompson is the Director of Teneriffe Services Pty Ltd in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He is also Senior Manager Technical Services at Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited. He has worked for Worley as Global Director, Open Pit Mining and for Theiss as Project Development Manager - Americas and Africa.
Veronica Crowley is the founder and managing director of Casement Unlimited, a social enterprise dedicated to growing businesses in rural areas of the developing world, especially Africa.
Laura Goodman has worked in education for more than 15 years. Currently, she is an independent development consultant for international educational institutions.