This presentation by Dr. Saleem H. Ali will seek to address the ways in which the mining industry must adapt to growing calls globally for a more systems oriented approach to sustainability. The speaker will share perspectives from the international development arena building on his role serving on the United Nations International Resource Panel and the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility - the world's largest multilateral trust fund for the environment held in trusteeship by the World Bank.
Dr. Saleem H. Ali is the di-rector of the Minerals, Materials and Society Program and the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware. He is a Senior Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Sustainable Investment. Professor Ali's field-work experience involving extractive industries has spanned over 100 countries on six continents for which he has also been named a National Geographic Explorer and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. His books include Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, (Yale Univ. Press) and Environmental Diplomacy (with Lawrence Susskind, Oxford Univ. Press), as well as over 150 peer reviewed journal articles. Professor Ali received his doctorate in Environmental Planning from MIT, a Master's degree in Environ-mental Studies from Yale University, and Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Tufts University (summa cum laude). He is a citizen of Australia, Pakistan and the United States.