EVENT:
  Reforming Legal Frameworks for Mining and Economic Development in Africa
  - CMSS Presents: A Breakfast Meeting with Congolese Diplomat Ms. Stephanie Mbombo Bodson
		
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:00 - University of WA Club, Hackett Entrance 1, Hackett Drive, Crawley
		
Ms. Stephanie Mbombo Bodson
Date: Thursday 20th February

Breakfast Meeting: Reforming Legal Frameworks for Mining and Economic
Development in Africa

Also supported by Minerals and Energy Institute, Centre for Exploration
Targeting.

Summary:

Ms. Stephanie Mbombo Bodson, former Congolese diplomat, will lead a
discussion on reforming legal frameworks for natural resource
development in order to promote economic and social development,
environmental sustainability, and improving business ethics.
Researchers in the UWA Law School and Centre for Exploration Targeting
will also be invited to contribute to the discussion.

Africa has many mineral-rich regions, particularly in the Democratic
Republic of Congo, and many Australian mining and engineering companies
are currently working in Africa or have plans to work there.

Place: University of WA Club, Hackett Entrance 1, Hackett Drive,
Crawley.  A hot breakfast will be served during the meeting.

Time 7.00 am – 9.00 am

Cost $35 per head, $20 for students (5 places are reserved for students,
provided reservations and payment are received in time). RSVP to cmss-
sscs@uwa.edu.au, notifying any dietary requirements, credit card name,
number, expiry.

Background of Speaker

Stephanie Mbombo Bodson has a background in European law, diplomacy,
international relations between European and African countries, project
evaluation and policy development. She graduated from the Free
University of Brussels with a Masters in International and European law
in 2009.  She has also worked on antipersonnel landmine issues and
relevant international humanitarian law as it affects Angola and
Democratic Republic of Congo.  She has worked for the Belgian government
and as an intern for the Development Committee of the European
Parliament as well as the European Commission.  She served as department
head in the Congolese Diplomatic Academy, part of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Kinshasa where she was
responsible for development partnerships as well as fundraising and
human resource management.

She has also worked as an assistant to the president of the High
Military Court in Kinshasa, working on law reform issues. During the
last two years, she obtained much experience as lecturer in European Law
(Masters Level) and as the person in charge of the Monitoring and
Evaluation of Millennium Development Goals at the United Nations in
Morocco.  Before she commenced her career in the public sector, she was
Secretary General of the Congolese Union of Consumers and worked as a TV
program host and journalist in Congo.  Ms Mbombo is visiting Western
Australia to learn more about the capacity of Australian mining
companies interested in working in Africa and to help promote economic
development based on income from natural resource development.
		
For more information:
  James Davies
  cmss-sscs@uwa.edu.au
  (+61 8) 6488 4554

Starts       : Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:00
Ends         : Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:00
		
RSVP Required.
			
Last Updated : Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:06