Jodi Liss directs and manages of The Center for Resource Stakeholders. She has worked on issues of natural resources, extractive industries and conflict for the United Nations and the World Bank, and taught Energy, Environmental and Resource Security for New York University. She became interested in social performance at a personal level when her home community in Pennsylvania developed an environmentally and socially positive approach to a new local energy project. In addition, as an experienced instructional designer for multiple universities, she has developed trainings on natural resource management with civil society groups in the United States, Uganda and Argentina. Her writing on the social impacts of energy have been published in Negotiation Journal and elsewhere. She is a member of the Social Practice Forum, and is certified as a Social Impact Assessor by the International Association of Impact Assessors.
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 small businesses in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
Laura Goodman has worked in education for more than 15 years. Currently, she is an independent development consultant for international educational institutions.
