BCD this Saturday 7pm with Global Witness
Beijing Community Dinner
Hello all,
BCD is proud to announce that Lizzie Parsons, senior advisor on China at the admired and hard-working NGO, Global Witness, www.globalwitness.org, will speak at BCD on Sept 7 at 7pm. Thanks to all of you who already RSVPed.
We have a few more seats left. Let us know if you're coming and we'll organise venue accordingly: details will be posted on our website by Thursday noon.
Please read below details of Global Witness, speaker:
Lizzie will speak about the management of natural resources around the world and, in particularly, the links between the oil, mining and timber sectors with conflict and corruption. She will focus on pertinent Global Witness cases from Africa, central and south east Asia where foreign companies – including those from Western countries and China – have had a detrimental impact on the economic, environmental or social wellbeing of communities, as well as approaches being used to tackle such problems.
Speaker bio
Lizzie Parsons has worked since 2006 for Global Witness. Until early 2012 she worked in the DR Congo team carrying out research, writing reports and putting forward policy recommendations about the management of natural resources in the country. She has worked on various issues on the Central African country including the risk of corruption in the formal mining sector, the financing of armed groups through the trade in minerals, legislative reform of the oil and gas sector and illegal timber logging.
Since March 2012 Lizzie has been Senior Advisor on China for Global Witness. This involves developing the organisation's engagement with the Chinese government, companies, academics, NGOs and media.
Prior to Global Witness Lizzie worked in the central Africa team of Human Rights Watch, based in London, working with researchers in Rwanda, Burundi and DR Congo. She has spent a year volunteering for NGOs in Uganda, Kenya and DR Congo.
She has a Geography degree from Oxford University and a masters degree in International Development Management from the London School of Economics.