Since 2003, Alamine Ousmane Mey has been Director General of the Afriland First Bank, Cameroon‘s first private bank that is not foreign-owned. A qualified financial expert and electrical engineer, Alamine studied in Germany, Belgium, Tunisia and other countries. He is a member of the board of a number of companies, including SAFAR S.A., an insurance company in Chad, and SACONETS S.A., a telecommunications company in Cameroon. Since 2004, he has been chairperson of the Gatsby Foundation in Cameroon.

Dr Richard Sherrington is a Senior Social Scientist for UK-based social, environmental and engineering consultancy Wardell Armstrong LLP. Prior to joining Wardell Armstrong he was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology and Centre for African Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he still enjoys formal associateship. He is a seasoned socio-economist with fifteen years experience in international development and has extensive research and strategy consultancy experience in the mineral resources sector. Richard has advised clients such as De Beers, Barrick Gold and Rio Tinto on issues relating to ASM, CSR and social change management especially in Africa. Above all, he is interested in developing ways to achieve socially and environmentally sustainable resource extraction which accord equitable wealth and welfare creation for all stakeholders.

Having completed his degree in his home country of Cameroon, Joseph Njuma studied development sociology in Johannesburg and went on to work as a consultant in numerous English and French-speaking states in Africa. Since the beginning of this year, he has worked as a consultant with Synergy Global Consulting, based in South Africa. Here, he drafts strategies and projects for companies and associations such as AngloGold Ashanti, Moto Gold Mine and the South African Chamber of Mines, within the framework of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Social Investment initiatives of his clients.

Lizzie Parsons is Campaigner in the DRC team at Global Witness. Previously she worked for several human rights and development agencies with a particular focus on the Great Lakes region and East Africa. She has degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University.