Professor Päivi Lujala, project leader
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Päivi Lujala, an economist and human geographer by background, is Professor of Geography and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Oulu, Finland. She has lead several multidisciplinary projects on the links between primary commodity sector, development, and security. Her main current research focus on civil society’s role in natural resource revenue management and the design of transparency initiatives so that they promote more egalitarian and effective natural resource revenue spending in poorer but resource-rich countries.
Email: Paivi.Lujala(at)oulu.fi Webpage |
Research Fellow Diana Vela Almeida
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Diana Vela Almeida is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her current research aims to develop innovative community-based methodologies for citizen engagement and participatory procedures for access, control and management of natural resources in extractive conflict areas in Indonesia. Diana holds a PhD in Natural Resource Sciences from McGill University in Canada and a Master´s degree in Forest and Nature Conservation Policy from Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Her main areas of interest are the political ecology and ecological economics of natural resource governance, extractivism, plurinationality and social movements.
Email: diana.velaalmeida(at)gmail.com |
Senior Attorney Carl Bruch
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Carl Bruch is the Director of International Programs at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). A recognized authority on environmental governance, he has helped dozens of countries throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe strengthen their environmental laws, institutions, and practices. His work focuses on environmental peacebuilding (especially after conflict), environmental governance, adaptation, and environmental emergencies. He has provided technical and legal assistance, built capacity, and conducted research across Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, and Eastern Europe, including many conflict-affected and disaster-affected countries. He has edited more than ten books, authored more than 10 books, 70 journal articles and book chapters, and numerous reports.
Email: bruch@eli.org Webpage |
Senior Lecturer Christa Brunnschweiler
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Christa Brunnschweiler is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in economics at the School of Economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK. She is an applied economist who has studied various aspects of the natural resource curse and the causes of violent and non-violent conflict. She is currently looking at how resource ownership structures affect development outcomes; whether transparency in resource revenue management has an impact on individual behaviour and accountability using fieldwork in Ghana; whether information on pollution influences attitudes and behaviour of small-scale gold miners (also in Ghana); and how resource discoveries affect conflict at the micro level.
Email: C.Brunnschweiler(at)uea.ac.uk Webpage |
Researcher Muhammad Djindan
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Muhammad Djindan teaches at the Department of Politics and Government in Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. He holds a master degree in Environmental Sciences with a major in Environmental Policy from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Prior to the position at UGM, Djindan worked with international development organizations in the field of women’s rights, disaster risk reduction, and disaster emergency response in Indonesia. Currently he is managing the Resource Governance in Asia Pacific (RegINA) project – a cooperation project between UGM and Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI). Djindan’s research focus on natural resources governance in Indonesia.
Email: muhammaddjindan01(at)ugm.ac.id |
Senior Researcher Kendra Dupuy
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Kendra Dupuy is a political economist and Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Her research focuses on community development approaches in the mining industry, corruption and anti-corruption in the management of extractive industries, and how to ensure good governance in the oil sector. She has worked and consulted for a number of policy-focused institutes, including the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre and Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), the World Bank, the Natural Resource Governance Institute, and the Human Security Report Project.
Email: kendra(at)prio.no Webpage |
Executive Director Ishmael Edjekumhene
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Ishmael Edjekumhene is the Executive Director of the Kumasi Institute of Technology and Environment (KITE), a leading policy research and advocacy non-governmental organization working in the energy, environment and technology sectors in Ghana. Mr. Edjekumhene has over 19 years research and working experience in the energy, environment and technology sectors. His current research interest is in natural resource governance, especially revenue transparency and accountability. Ishmael is a pioneering member of Ghana’s Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) and served on the Committee from 2011-2014. He is also a Commissioner at the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Ghana. Mr. Edjekumhene holds a Master’s degree in Economics (Public Policy) from the University of Hull and a Bachelors degree in Land Economy from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
Email: iedjekumhene(at)kiteonline.net |
PhD Candidate Deanna Karapetyan
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Deanna Karapetyan is a PhD student in the School of Economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and a Master’s degree in International and Development Economics from the University of San Francisco (USF). Her research interests are at the intersection of environmental, development, and behavioural economics. She is currently focusing on field research in Ghana, and looking at how the experience of environmental degradation affects prosocial behavior and how information about pollution may change behavior.
Email: D.Karapetyan(at)uea.ac.uk Webpage |
PhD Candidate Sam A. Kasimba
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Sam A. Kasimba is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He holds a Bachelor degree in Social Science, specializing in African Studies and Social Anthropology, and a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Development Studies, specializing in Geography, both from NTNU. His PhD project examines benefit sharing trust funds as mechanisms for channeling high-value natural resource revenues back to the extraction areas. Currently he is working on trust funds and foundations in Ghana, with a specific focus on transparency, participation, participatory governance, and the implications of corporate-driven community development.
Email: Sam.Kasimba(at)ntnu.no |
Lecturer Nanang Indra Kurniawan
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Dr. Nanang Indra Kurniawan is a lecturer at Department of Politics and Government in Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. Nanang’s research focuses on natural resource politics, social movement, and state-making. He obtained his PhD from University of Melbourne with dissertation research on participatory mapping of customary land and state-making in Central Kalimantan. He is also the Program Coordinator of Resource Governance in Asia Pacific (RegIna) at Department of Politics and Government, UGM.
Email: nanang.indra(at)ugm.ac.id |
Professor Philippe Le Billon
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Philippe Le Billon is Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with the Department of Geography and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs. He holds a BSc, MSc, MBA (Paris 1) and PhD (Oxford). Examining linkages between environment, development, and security he has published widely on conflicts and natural resource governance. His publications include Wars of Plunder (Oxford UP, 2013) and Oil (Polity Press, 2017 with Gavin Bridge), along with about 40 refereed journal articles. He currently works on transparency issues as well as climate change policies, fisheries conflicts, and the protection of environmental defenders.
Email: philippe.lebillon(at)ubc.ca Webpage |
PhD Candidate Michael Ogbe
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Michael Ogbe is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana, and a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Development Studies, specializing in Geography from NTNU. His PhD is within the fields of Geographic Information Science and Natural Resource Management. His project seeks to develop and examine spatial crowdsourcing as a tool for citizen engagement in the management of oil revenues in Ghana.
Email: michael.ogbe(at)ntnu.no Webpage |
PhD Candidate Primi Suharmadhi Putri
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Primi Suharmadhi Putri is a PhD Candidate at the Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland. She holds a Bachelor degree in Politics and Government from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia, and a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Development Studies, specializing in Culture, Environmental, and Sustainability from University of Oslo, Norway. Her PhD project examines the impact of increased information disclosure on citizen engagement in natural resource governance, with an emphasis on the information needs and experiences of communities living in Bojonegoro, Indonesia, a region that hosts both industrial and artisanal oil and gas exploitation and has a high commitment to ‘open government’.
Email: putri.primi(at)gmail.com |
Senior Researcher Siri Aas Rustad
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Siri Aas Rustad is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) as well as a lecturer at the Norwegian University of Life Science. Her research interests are, among others, conflict related to natural resources, post-conflict natural resource management, extractive industries in fragile areas, human consequences of conflict and the geography of conflict. Her work has appeared in journals like World Development, Political Geography, Journal of Peace Research, International Interactions and Conflict Management and Peace Science. In addition she has edited two books.
Email: sirir(at)prio.org Webpage |
Professor Ståle Angen Rye
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Ståle Angen Rye is Professor in Human Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His current research focus on new forms of political participation and civic engagement outside formalized political institutions including: (i) citizens involvement in natural resource governance, and (ii) youth’s participation in urban development. Globalization, transnational relations, and citizenship are central dimensions in most of his work, which includes understandings of how political agency may be articulated across space and scale. The empirical fundament for most of Rye’s work is Norway and Indonesia, but also includes some from countries in Africa.
Email: stale.angen.rye(at)ntnu.no Webpage |
PhD Candidate Indah Surya Wardhani
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Indah Surya Wardhani is a researcher at Research Centre for Politics and Government (PolGov) and PhD student at the Department of Politics and Government, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. Her research focus on transparency in the extractive industry and the dynamic relation between local government and CSOs in supporting accountable natural resource governance. Wardhani holds undergraduate degree in Sociology from UGM and Master of Urban Management and Development from IHS-Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wardahani is part of the Asia Pacific Hub organizing team, serving the Resource Governance in the Asia Pacific (RegINA) program.
Email: indahsuryaw(at)gmail.com |
