2012 speakers include

	Paulo Alonso Advisor to the President Petrobras		Emmanuel Buah Deputy Minister for Petroleum Republic of Ghana
	Engr. Ernest Nwapa Executive Secretary Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NNPC)		Elias Kilembe Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC)
	Hugo Perez Cordova Development Manager, Suppliers and Contractors Pemex		Kenan Nouwailat Partner Accenture
	Tam Brisibe Former Member of the House of Representatives Republic of Nigeria		Jim Walton Director of Strategic Planning, Energy and Chemicals Fluor Corporation
	Alessandro Ciocchi Vice President V-Ships Offshore (Brazil)		Sheila Khama Director, Extractive Resources African Center for Economic Transformation
	Simon Daly Project Manager Africa / West Africa Regional Manager, Protective Coatings International Paints Ltd		Susan Kubanis Sustainability Manager Bechtel Corporation
	Jillian Lilico Managing Director Demeter Development		Michael Hackenbruch Senior Advisor Urbanpol
	Ehimen Paul Local Content Coordinator Cape Oil		Deirdre E. White President & CEO CDC Development Solutions
	Dr. Michael Warner Director Local Content Solutions

Meet the Chairman

Dr Michael Warner is a trainer, author and consultant in the practice of Local Content management. He is currently Director of the training and consultancy firm Local Content Solutions. He has over twenty years experience aligning business interests and company performance with the economic, social and environmental priorities of host countries, and has worked across 30 countries, in Europe, Africa, S.E Asia, Middle East and Latin America, and consulted to BP, Shell, BG, Total, World Bank, IFC, WEF, DFID, UNDP, Newmont, Anglo American, Alcan, AMEC, Balfour Beatty, Sodexho and others.

Dr Warner was Local Content and Supply Chain Sustainability Manager for the BG Group from 2008 to 2010, where he worked in the Contracts and Procurement function as architect of BG policy, procurement procedures and country strategies for Local Content across the Group. He was also responsible for the Group’s risk-based procedures for supply chain sustainability, which were launched across the Group in 2010/11.

Between 1998 and 2001 he was Co-ordinator of the Oil, Gas and Mining Secretariat of a World Bank programme Business Partners for Development (BPD). He spent eight years as a Research Fellow with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as Director of the Business and Development Programme, working on Local Content and inclusive business in the oil, gas, mining, agriculture, infrastructure and ICT sectors. Whilst at ODI, in collaboration with the International Business Leaders Forum, he co-founded the highly successful Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme (PBAS). He currently runs the LCS Master Class in Local Content.

Dr Warner has made appearances to discuss business and international development on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service and CNBC, and is the source of articles in Newsweek Magazine and The Guardian Newspaper. He is the author of a number of books on business and development, and of the forthcoming book “Local Content in Procurement”, to be published by Greenleaf Publishing.