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Oversight

NRGI’s legal structure and its governance and advisory bodies

The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, since 2006.

The Natural Resource Charter Limited (NRCL) is a private company limited by guarantee and a charity organization registered in the United Kingdom since 2011. NRGI is the sole member of NRCL and the two entities are affiliated through a cooperation agreement.

The Natural Resource Governance Institute – EU (NRGI EU) is a not-for-profit association registered in Belgium. NRGI EU is governed by a general assembly that consists of NRGI staff as members. NRGI is affiliated with NRGI EU through a funding agreement.

NRGI is also registered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Peru, Senegal, Tanzania and Tunisia.

Advisory Council

In addition to its oversight bodies, NRGI convenes a non-governing expert advisory council. Advisory Council members share guidance and insight with NRGI teams.

Former NRGI Governing Board members

  • Bennett Freeman
  • Ernest Aryeetey
  • Joseph C. Bell
  • Paul Collier
  • Alan Detheridge
  • Sean Hinton
  • Mo Ibrahim, Chairman of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation
  • Yuli Ismartono
  • Warren Krafchik
  • Michael Spence (Former Advisory Council Co-Chair), William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business
  • Smita Singh
  • Ernesto Zedillo (Former Governing Board Chair), Former President of Mexico; Frederick Iseman ’74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Professor in the Field of International Economics and Politics; Professor of International and Area Studies; and Professor Adjunct of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.

Natural Resource Charter Ltd, UK Former Trustees

  • Abdulatif Al-Hamad, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
  • Luísa Diogo, Former Prime Minister of Mozambique
  • Mo Ibrahim, Chairman of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation
  • Ernesto Zedillo (Former Governing Board Chair), Former President of Mexico; Frederick Iseman ’74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Professor in the Field of International Economics and Politics; Professor of International and Area Studies; and Professor Adjunct of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.
  • Shengman Zhang, Chairman of Asia Pacific at Citigroup, Inc.

Former Revenue Watch Institute Board members

  • Tulegan Askarov
  • Joseph C. Bell
  • David de Ferranti, Results for Development Board Chair and Senior Advisor
  • Daniel Kaufmann, President Emeritus and Former CEO of NRGI  
  • Karina Litvack, Governance and Sustainable Investment Specialist
  • Willy Olsen, Senior Advisor at INTSOK
  • Stewart J. Paperin, Managing Director at LionRock Partners LLC and Leopard Rock Property Group
  • Anthony Richter (Former Chair), Director of Special Initiatives at the Open Society Foundations

Former Trustees of the Natural Resource Charter Ltd, UK

  • Tony Venables, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford