Global Expert Network
Acorn International’s network includes top social and environmental management practitioners around the globe. We are proud to collaborate with internationally recognized experts in such fields as:
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Our friends and collaborators include:
DWIGHT J. GOLDMAN | P.E., CSP
Mr. Goldman has over 40 years of experience as an Engineer and Consultant for operational Health, Safety and Environmental programs, including PSM, SEMS, Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance.
Philippe Jean | PHD
Dr. Philippe’s key activities are Training, Capacity Building, Due Diligence Audits, and all permitting activities (Baseline surveys, EIAs, Strategic EIAs). He has 33 years of experience in environmental & financial risk consulting, working for the Industry (Oil & Gas, Mining, Manufacturing), and governments in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.
Chris Loreti
Mr. Loreti is the founder and Principal of The Loreti Group, an environmental consulting firm assisting clients on issues surrounding sustainability, energy, and climate change. He has over 30 years of experience in environmental consulting, serving industrial, government, and non-profit clients.
Robert Barclay
Mr. Barclay has over 25 years of experience in international consulting, specializing in involuntary resettlement for large, oil and gas, mining, petrochemical and infrastructure projects.
Specialties:
Resettlement planning implementation, monitoring and auditing; social risk assessment; pre-finance social due diligence; social impact assessment.
Ted Cammarata
Mr. Cammarata, principal of Timberwood Consulting, LLC. Prior military service and over thirty-five years experience in onshore and offshore oilfield operations, project management, and business development. Assignments throughout the United States, Africa, Asia and South America to include startup of new businesses and operations in five countries and due diligence field assessments associated with acquisitions of unconventional oil and gas resources.
Jean Marc Bidjo
Mr. Bidjo is a senior professional with many years of experience in management of various aspects of projects and stakeholder engagement, primarily in the oil and gas industry. His career experience includes extensive and successful engagement in government affairs, stakeholder alignment and HSES while advancing to a position in general management.
Clare Bebbington
Ms. Bebbington is a senior external affairs director with over 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, particularly in challenging political and security environments and in both operating and contracting organisations. She now runs her own non-technical risk management consultancy, Audire Consultants. She is Director of the John Smith Trust, which runs programmes in good governance, the rule of law and social justice and is on the Board of a charity supporting a major cultural heritage project in Iraq.
Nancy Tootle
Ms. Tootle possesses more than 25 years of public and private industry managerial experience and has developed and implemented strategic business plans and workforce programs with Fortune 100 companies in aerospace, oil and gas, and chemicals. At Shell, Nancy served as the U.S. External Relations, Social Investment Manager and as Social Performance Advisor for Shell Exploration and Production. Her focus included all Unconventional assets in the U.S. including divestitures. Ms. Tootle has presented at numerous venues, ranging from the Johnson Space Center, to the National Science Foundation, to Texas A&M’s Mays School of Business. She has also published in the Society for Human Resource Management HR Magazine and Mercer Human Capital Management. Nancy’s recent focus areas have included overseeing sustainability and environmental conservation programs, company Foundation management and business risk assessment.
Ana Mallen | PHD
Dr. Mallen is a senior CSR executive with +19 years of experience in community organizing and +10 years of experience in the extractive industry in Latin America. She specializes in helping companies develop and implement social management systems that embed respect for human rights in operational systems. She is an expert on due diligence, social impact studies, involuntary resettlement, work with indigenous communities, local content and security issues in conflict areas. Her work emphasizes stakeholder participation, strategic investments on community development that measure RoS (Return on Sustainability), public-private partnerships, and anti-corruption and transparency strategies. To ensure the continuity of these systems throughout the life-cycle of a project, her approach centers on transferring social management knowledge to company teams.
Neil Cousins
Mr. Cousins is founder and Managing Director of Bluedot Associates Ltd. He has 20+ years’ experience delivering coastal and marine biodiversity assessments and action planning, ESIA studies, ICZM and marine spatial planning studies, teaching and capacity building.
He has worked across Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions, and has delivered studies for offshore wind farms, submarine cables and pipelines, ports and harbour developments, dredging and disposal, upstream offshore oil and gas, coastal development and defence, climate change, coastal habitat creation, shoreline management, protected areas management, etc.
Kwame Boakye-Agyei | PHD
Dr. Boakye-Agyei is a Health, Safety, Environment and Security Management (HSES) professional with more than 20 years of experience in supporting Oil & Gas and other extractive industries on occupational health, safety, social and environmental sustainability performance and strategies.
Kwame currently chairs the HSES section of the Ghana Upstream Oil and Gas Chamber, and consults for international projects focusing on Oil and Gas safety and risk assessments, environmental and social impact assessments, and regulatory compliance safeguarding the social license for extractive operations in Africa. Recent engagements include working for Kosmos Energy as the Regional HSES Director for operations in the Africa region and consulting for the World Bank in Washington DC.
He holds a PhD in Environmental Science and Public Policy at the George Mason University and is a Board member for the Ghana SPE Section.
Lisa Dean
Ms. Dean is a multi-lingual sustainable development professional known for bridging the worlds of international economic development and corporate social responsibility. She pioneered the application of the community development and livelihood promotion skills earned with extensive NGO practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America to the field of sustainable development, communities and social performance within the corporate sector, specifically within the extractive industry. This work with extractives has included the development of social performance policies and standards, the provision of practical advice to local practitioners on how to constructively engage with communities and stakeholders, and support to sustainable local and regional economic development. She is a recognized subject matter specialist in resettlement and livelihood restoration, human rights protection, and gender.
Irge Satiroglu | PHD
Dr. Satiroglu is a specialist in social impact assessment and resettlement, with 15 years of experience. Worked in various energy, water resources, transportation and oil projects in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. Skilled in stakeholder engagement, social risk analysis, land acquisition and resettlement planning with a gender perspective in line with the World Bank and IFC safeguard policies.
Martin Wouch
Mr. Wouch has more than 30 years of global environmental, health, safety (EHS), social investment, and sustainability experience in a wide range of industries, including oil & gas, mining, used oil recycling, manufacturing, renewable energy, electric transmission, construction, remediation, and real estate development. Martin has managed and supported projects and organizations with risk management, EHS management systems, EHS compliance and management systems auditing, sustainability, due diligence, corporate social responsibility, indigenous people issues, spill response planning, training, regulatory compliance, and conformance with international financial institution requirements. He has worked on projects from the planning through abandonment stages coordinating with all levels of management, operational personnel, multi-disciplinary teams, government officials, community representatives, and NGO’s.
Acorn International’s network includes top social and environmental management practitioners around the globe. We are proud to collaborate with internationally recognized experts in such fields as:
- Health, Safety and Environment: Management Systems
- Pipeline development assessments and planning
- Air emissions modeling
- Field operations
- Social Performance and social risk management
- Resettlement
- Marine Biology
- CSR and Sustainability
- Oil spill modeling
- Cultural heritage
- Spill response planning and capacity building
- Oil field waste management
Our friends and collaborators include: