The Advisory Panel for the Extractive Industries Evaluation

The role of Advisory Panels is to advise the World Bank Group's independent evaluation management and team with respect to the design, conduct, and results of evaluations. Drawn from diverse backgrounds, members bring quite different perspectives and serve in their own capacity as experts in the study area. Their responsibilities include bringing to bear external expert views on policy, analytical, and operational issues related to the policies and programs being evaluated, and reviewing and commenting upon the intermediate and final products of the evaluation on a periodic basis.


For the Extractive Industries Evaluation, the Advisory Panel included:

• James Cooney, General Manager, Strategic Issues, Placer Dome Inc.
• Cristina Echavarrķa, Director, Mining Policy Research Initiative, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
• Arvind Ganesan, Director, Business and Human Rights, Human Rights Watch
• Michael Rae, Program Leader — Resource Conservation, WWF, Australia
  (formerly World Wildlife Fund, now World Wide Fund for Nature)
• David Rice, Group Policy Adviser, Development Issues, BP