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Suneeta Kaimal

President and Chief Executive Officer
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Suneeta joined NRGI’s predecessor organization, the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) in 2009 as the deputy director responsible for regional and country engagements across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. Following the merger between RWI and the Natural Resource Charter in 2013, Suneeta became chief operating officer, ensuring NRGI’s strategy and approach was relevant, demand-driven, and evidence-based. Overseeing the leadership and senior management teams, she guided the translation of the strategy into innovative, impactful thematic and regional programs and supported NRGI’s institutional effectiveness and sustainability. Suneeta served as interim president and chief executive officer in 2020, surmounting the strategic and operational challenges of the global pandemic.
 
Suneeta is the secretary/treasurer of the board of directors of The International Center for Not-For-Profit Law, working to improve the legal environment for civil society, philanthropy, and public participation around the world. She was the first female civil society chair of the Open Government Partnership, an organization of reformers inside and outside of government from more than 75 countries and served on the steering committee for eight years. Suneeta was the first chair of the global council of Publish What You Pay, a civil society movement of more than 1000 organizations working to improve natural resource governance. She is also a founding board member of Roots of Health, a local NGO focused on improving the health of women and girls and their communities, in the Philippines.

Suneeta holds a master’s in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a bachelor of arts from Duke University, where she was a Hart Leadership Fellow.

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Transforming Natural Resource Governance: Break Silos, Sharpen Politics

Suneeta Kaimal, Daniel Kaufmann, Erica Westenberg, Norman Eisen, Michael Jarvis, Kelsey Landau, Robin J. Lewis, Allison Merkel, Mario Picon
23 February 2021

NRGI’s 2021 Agenda: Toward a Sustainable Future for Resource-Rich Countries

Suneeta Kaimal
22 January 2021

Time to Pivot: The Role of the Energy Transition and Investors in Forging Resilient Resource-Rich Country Outcomes

Suneeta Kaimal, Daniel Kaufmann, Erica Westenberg, Mario Picon, Norman Eisen, Michael Jarvis, Kelsey Landau, Robin J. Lewis, Allison Merkel, Victoria Bassetti
15 January 2021

Business as Usual Is Not an Option: The Future of Natural Resource Governance

Norman Eisen, Daniel Kaufmann, Suneeta Kaimal, Michael Jarvis, Kelsey Landau, Allison Merkel, Erica Westenberg, Mario Picon, Robin J. Lewis
9 December 2020

Enabling Resilience in Unprecedented Times

Audrey Gaughran , Suneeta Kaimal
10 August 2020

NRGI Receives Top Rating from Transparency Watchdog

Suneeta Kaimal
29 June 2016

Lessons from Lima: What can OGP Learn from EITI?

Suneeta Kaimal
4 March 2016

Three Years Too Many: Ilgar Mammadov and a Crossroads in Azerbaijan

Suneeta Kaimal, Galib Efendiev
4 February 2016

Civil Society Faces Steep Obstacles, New Responsibilities, NRGI's Kaimal Says

Suneeta Kaimal
2 November 2015

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