Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
According to its website the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) seeks through partnerships between government, companies, and civil society to ensure the transparency of payments by companies to government and of revenues received by those governments, to encourage accountability.
Peter Eigen was offered 'an invitation from Gareth Thomas, the UK’s minister for international development, to lead an International Panel to take forward the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)."
International Advisory Group Members
Chair: Peter Eigen, Transparency International
Sam Laidlaw, Executive Vice President, Chevron Texaco
Graham Baxter, Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, BP
Edward Bickham, Executive Vice President, External Affairs, Anglo American
Yannick Tagand, DE/ETI, Ministère des Affaires étrangères, France
Larry Greenwood, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Development. Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Samir Sharifov, Executive Director, State owned Oil Fund of Azerbaijan
Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, Minister for Solid Minerals Development, Nigeria
Carlos Garaycochea, EITI Coordinator, Adviser to the Minister of Energy and Mines
Karin Lissakers, Open Society Institute
Gavin Hayman, Lead Campaigner, Global Witness
Sabit Bagirov, Chairman of Board, TI Azerbaijan
Father Patrick Lafon, General Secretary, Central African Bishops Conference, Cameroon
Karina Litvack, Director, Head of Governance & Socially Responsible Investment,F&C Asset Management
Supporters
Ben Mellor, Head of EITI Secretariat
Tim Ayres, EITI Secretariat
Peter van der Veen Manager, Mining Department, World Bank