DIRECTOR
David Blatchford
David is an environmental scientist with 40 years’ business management and environmental and social consulting experience in energy and mining sectors. He was a Vice President at Dames & Moore, an international engineering and environmental consulting company, from 1992 to 2000, before becoming almost exclusively involved in large, project-financed oil and gas projects, specifically BP’s Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) project, Hunt Oil’s Peru LNG project, ExxonMobil’s Papua New Guinea and Mozambique LNG projects, Total’s Papua LNG project (Papua New Guinea) and Australia Pacific LNG’s coal seam gas project. His role in each of these projects has included extensive involvement with Lenders and their consultants.
director
Bruce Dakers
Bruce has worked in senior management positions since 1986 and is a social and labour specialist with a strong business and project management background. Originally, he worked in a variety of human resource and industrial relations roles in the natural resources sector. For the past 13 years he has worked as a consultant in both the private and public sectors. Since 2008 Bruce has specialized in labour relations, community relations, organizational development and contractor management in large construction projects in the mining, oil and gas industries most recently in South Africa, Yemen, Mozambique and PNG.
operations manager
Natalie Schade
Natalie has over 15 years’ experience in the oil, gas and mining industry. From 2009 to 2014, Natalie worked on the ExxonMobil PNG LNG Project as an Executive Assistant to senior management, whilst taking on additional responsibilities including Lender Visit Coordinator, Document Controller on the P’nyang Expansion Project and visited PNG to assist with the National Admin Competency testing and training. Prior to this, Natalie worked at a leading Project Management company which gained her extensive project experience and understanding on a diverse range of energy, government and mining projects.
ASSOCIATE
Robert Barclay
Robert has more than 30 years’ consulting experience, much of it spent on managing social impacts of large infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on land acquisition and resettlement. Robert has worked on all sides of major projects delivery – social impact assessment, planning and implementation for developers; international standards compliance due diligence and auditing for financiers; and social safeguards compliance reviews for loan processing for a development bank (ADB). Robert has worked in varying roles on social and land access and resettlement issues for more than ten LNG projects including the PNG LNG project, Papua New Guinea; the Tangguh LNG project, West Papua, Indonesia; the Mozambique Gas Development Project, Mozambique; the OK LNG Project, Nigeria; and, the BTC pipeline traversing Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. Robert was a co-author of the updated IFC Resettlement Good Practice Handbook (forthcoming).
ASSOCIATE
Danielle Martin
Danielle has 20+ years’ experience in environmental, social and governance management for large scale infrastructure project development. She is most accomplished in social performance management, focusing on stakeholder engagement, community and economic development, and social impact assessment and measurement. Her work has been primarily for or with resource companies internationally, many funded by international finance institutions. Specifically, Danielle has led or participated in several resource projects (LNG included) in Papua New Guinea including leading the design and execution of the ESHIA social and health studies for the Papua LNG project in 2016-2018. In this capacity, Danielle led the social/health field teams in several highly efficient and successful survey campaigns for the collection of baseline data for the ESHIA.
Associate
Justine Weston
Justine is a social and human resource specialist who has been working in the oil and gas sector since 2010. She has worked on projects in PNG for Total and ExxonMobil, and for Anadarko Petroleum Company working in Mozambique, South Africa, and the USA. During this time she has written, managed, and monitored various social (labour, camps, and community relations) contractor management plans and is developing a labour study as part of an ESHIA. Her expertise lies in the development and implementation of labour (worker relations and camp management), community relations, and contractor management systems; especially in relation to risk management and the development of strategies to avoid, minimise or mitigate social risks. Justine has worked in projects funded by international finance institutions and export credit agencies and is fully conversant with the social requirements of such projects.
Associate
Christo Kloppers
Christo has been involved in Industrial Relations Management, Organizational Development, Human Resources and training in the private and public sectors for more than 25 years. His experience working and consulting in the private sector covered the broad Organisational Development, Human Resources and Employee Relations fields and he has conducted management training in both the public and private sectors. He has consulted and worked internationally in various industries, most notably in the oil and gas, and mining sectors where over the past few years he has mainly focused on projects in Yemen and Mozambique.
associate
Bill Ford
During 34 years with Chevron, Bill performed HSSE roles spanning both onshore and offshore upstream, as well as downstream, operations in the United States, Angola and Kazakhstan. Bill implemented environmental programs involving air, water and waste management, and completed site remediation projects. He developed environmental performance standards, compliance plans and procedures, plus conducted training and auditing. He facilitated ESHIA development and carried out beneficial environmental projects. He also interfaced with regulatory agencies and participated in legislative/regulatory advocacy, including directing industry advocacy efforts. In his last Chevron assignment, as HSSE Manager for an onshore gigaproject in Kazakhstan, Bill established HSSE and regulatory affairs programs within the framework of the Company’s Operational Excellence Management System.