2nd meeting parallel sessions

Klev, Jørgen

Consultant for ECON

Jørgen Klev

Klev mainly works with petroleum economic issues, and in particular petroleum taxation, government support, valuations and financial modelling.

Klev has been engaged as a petroleum economic advisor to the South Sudanese Ministry of Finance since 2013 assisting With budget planning, petroleum taxation insight, petroleum revenue management and implementation of petroleum related legal framework.

Prior to that, Klev was the petroleum economic advisor to African Union High Implementation Panel in the negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan after South Sudan’s secession in 2011.

From, Bjørn G.

Investment Director, Asset Management Department, Norwegian Ministry of Finance

Bjørn G. From

Bjørn G. From is an investment director within the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. He holds a master degree in business and economics from the Norwegian School of Management and a post graduate degree in economics from a German university.

Before joining the Ministry of Finance in 2004 he worked with a large accounting firm in Norway, as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Germany and within investment banking in Germany.

Sjong, Mari Lise

Senior Adviser, Norwegian Environment Agency

Mari Lise Sjong

Sjongs profession is as a geographer educated at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim. She has worked with the NEA since 1988, covering diverse aspects of nature management. The last ten years Sjong has mainly worked with environmental impact assessment issues related to large developments (mainly renewable energy projects), and related to regulatory framework and methodology.

Kirkvaag, Ole

Partner, Arntzen de Besche
oki@adeb.no

Ole Kirkvaag

Kirkvaag is part of the Oil and Energy Group at the Oslo office. He primarily provides legal assistance as a consultant for governments in developing countries regarding legislation, supervision, regulatory questions and the structuring of the oil and energy sector, particularly regarding production sharing agreements (PSA), royalty questions and legal structure.

Kirkvaag has previously worked for the Ministry of Finance, OECD and TOTAL Norway.

Kristensen, Merete

Senior Associate, Arntzen de Besche
mkr@adeb.no

Merete Kristensen

Kristensen is part of the Oil and Energy Group at the Oslo office.

She primarily provides legal counseling to energy companies and other related industries.

Kristensen wrote her master thesis in the field of Norwegian tax law as a policy instrument in the management of natural resources.

Hytten, Gisela

Senior Advisor, SAI Norway

Gisela Hytten

Hytten heads the risk assessment group in the petroleum and energy sector at the OAGN.

She is originally from Switzerland and holds a master in political science from the University of Oslo and a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Gisela Hytten has been with the OAGN since 2011 and participated in the following audits:
• The Office of the Audit General’s investigation of authorities’ efforts to improve oil recovery from mature areas on the Norwegian continental shelf, Document 3:6 (2014-2015)
• The Office of the Audit General’s investigation of the State’s work on carbon capture and storage (CCS), Document 3:14 (2012-2013)
• The Office of the Audit General’s investigation into the Norwegian authorities’ control of the Norwegian emissions trading system, Administrative report 1 (2012-2013)

Struwig, Sybrand

Senior Audit Manager at the Auditor General of South Africa

Sybrand Struwig

Struwig has 12 years of experience in the public sector audit environment and are appointed as member of WGEI.

He has served as technical specialist in the audit research and development business unit of the Auditor-General of South Africa. In the role as a senior audit manager he has a role to take responsibility of the completion of a portfolio of audits, which consists of oil and gas, nuclear, aviation and forestry industries. The core audit responsibility is to ensure that all audit engagements are conducted in line with the required standards, legislation and adds value to the audit clients.

Struwig has also been responsible for research and training initiatives at the Auditor-General of South Africa around compliance auditing. He completed a Master’s degree in taxation and successfully complete a mini dissertation called “A comparative study of income tax legislation for foreign oil and gas companies investing in Africa”.

Baldé, Bady

Regional Director for Central African countries and Madagascar at the EITI International Secretariat

Bady Baldé

The EITI International Secretariat, based in Oslo, Norway, is a global coalition of governments, companies and civil society working together to improve openness and accountable management of revenues from natural resources. In this role, Bady supports and monitors EITI implementation in eight African countries.

Bady is also the Secretariat’s point person for governance of State Owned Enterprises and transparency of oil trades. Prior to joining the EITI in 2010, he worked at the Central Bank of Guinea, the German Development Corporation, and as a consultant at the World Bank. In 2012, Bady was seconded as an expert in Natural Resources Governance in the Governance, Economic Reforms and Financial Management Department of the African Development Bank in Tunis.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration in International Development from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and a “Maîtrise en Gestion des Entreprises” from the University of Conakry. He is fluent in English, French, and Fulani. Bady is a native of Guinea, and is married with two children.