Campus lecture 2013
Description
The Mining Society (MV) is organising in collaboration with
the KIVI-NIRIA, Mining Section
CAMPUS Lecture 2013:
'Natural Resources: Where are the Limits?'
-Conflicts on Water and Mining-
with guest speaker: Jaime de Bourbon Parme, Special Envoy Natural Resources Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This special CAMPUS lecture 2013 will address issues such as:
- Demand and scarcity of natural resources
- R&D/Research
- Geopolitics and raw materials
- 'Soft infrastructure'
- Raw material chains
- NL raw material strategy
- Corporate Social Responsibility/
CSR in the mining sector
Note: The lectures will be given in English
16:30 Reception with coffee/tea.
17:00 Welcome by Randy Calis, President, Mining Association.
17:05 Introduction by Stefan Luthi, Section Head Applied Geology, Department of Geoscience & Engineering, Faculty of CiTG.
17:10 'Water is the Natural Resource'
Introduction by Ebel Smidt, guest associate in the Water Management Department of the Faculty of CiTG since 2008, certified Mediator and active in conflicts over water (the most 'natural' resource) including between Israel and Palestine and Jordan, in Africa and Arab countries. Mr Smidt has over 30 years of experience in international (ground) water management and is conducting PhD research on the relationship between mediation and water management.
17:30 "Natural Resources: Where are the Limits?"
Campus lecture by Jaime de Bourbon Parme, Special Representative for Natural Resources, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
18:00 Discussion round (based on a number of propositions):
'Geoscience & Engineering and our Natural Resources'
18:25 Closing remarks by Duco Drenth, Chairman KIVI NIRIA, Mining.
18:30 Drinks and after-dinner chat in the garden at the CiTG faculty.
Speaker(s)
Prince Jaime de Bourbon de Parme
His Royal Highness Prince Jaime de Bourbon de Parme has been Special Representative for Natural Resources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2011. Prince Jaime studied international relations at Brown University (USA) and completed this study with a postgraduate Master's degree in International Economics and Conflict Management at Johns Hopkins University in America, with internships at WWF and the Red Cross, among others.
He works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. First as first secretary of the Dutch embassy in Baghdad, then as political advisor (polad) attached to a military peacekeeping mission in Pol-e Khomri in Baghlan province of northern Afghanistan. The prince worked on secondment in the Brussels office of euro commissioner Neelie Kroes until the summer of 2007, then returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague, where he holds the position of Special Representative for Natural Resources
Location
Delft University of Technology, Faculty CiTG
Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft (room A)
Organiser
Mining
Mining Society
Name and contact details for information
Duco Drenth