Putting Partnerships to Work

Dr Michael Warner is a Research Fellow with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London. For three years he managed the Secretariat of the Natural Resources Cluster (covering the oil, gas and mining sectors) for the World Bank's Business Partners for Development programme. In this role he acted as the broker or advisor of multi-sector partnerships involving RPG in India, Shell in Nigeria, BP in Colombia, Anglo American in Zambia and Placer Dome in Venezuela.



Michael has a PhD in Environmental Management from Imperial College, University of London and worked for a number of years in developing countries as a consultant with Environmental Resources Management, London. In the mid-1990s he joined the ODI, specialising in the adaptation of interest-based negotiation to resolve disputes and develop partnerships between communities, business, governments and NGOs. He now manages a new programme at ODI to improve the social and economic performance of corporate investment in developing countries.



Michael is the author of Complex Problems ... Negotiated Solutions (ITDG Publishing, 2001) and of a novella on the art of partnership broking, The New Broker: Brokering Partnerships for Development (ODI, 2003). He is also Director of the consultancy company Sustainable Negotiation Services International (SNSi) Limited.





Dr Rory Sullivan has been Director, Investor Responsibility with Insight Investment (the asset management arm of HBOS plc) since October 2002. In this role, he is responsible for leading Insight's engagement activities relating to climate change, human rights, and corporate social responsibility. He also contributes to Insight's broader work on corporate governance.



Rory has 15 years' experience in environmental management and public policy, having worked for the private sector and government agencies in Australia, South-East Asia, Africa and Europe. His experience includes evaluating development-focused partnerships (health, education, water) on behalf of the World Bank's Business Partners for Development programme, advising Environment Australia and the OECD on the design of pollution release and transfer registers, and assisting public- and private-sector organisations with the implementation of environmental and risk management systems.



Rory is the author (with Hugh Wyndham) of Effective Environmental Management: Principles and Case Studies (Allen & Unwin, 2001), and the editor of Business and Human Rights: Dilemmas and Solutions (Greenleaf Publishing, 2003). He has written over 100 articles, book chapters and papers on human rights, environmental policy and development issues. He is also co-editor of Responsible Investment (2006).



Rory holds a first-class honours degree in electrical engineering (University College Cork, Ireland), masters' degrees in Environmental Science (University of Manchester, UK) and Environmental Law (University of Sydney, Australia), and a PhD in Law (Queen Mary, University of London, UK).