Kevin Telmer, PhD - Executive Director Kevin Telmer is a Founding Director of the Artisanal Gold Council. He is an expert in ASGM with 15 years experience working in the field with miners and governments in technical, social, policy, and business capacities. Dr. Telmer works in partnership with, UNEP, UNIDO, ICMM and the mining industry, and NGO partners such as SONAMIPE and ARM in Peru, YTS in Indonesia, the Blacksmith Institute and NRDC in the US, the World Bank's Secretariat on Communities in Small Scale Mining (CASM), and others. His advice and expertise are sought after by numerous groups around the world. Dr. Telmer started working in ASGM in 1995 in the Amazon and continued this work in many countries across three continents. He is a voice on the international stage on ASGM and has been published in numerous sources on the issue. Dr. Telmer holds an H.BSc in geology, received his PhD from the University of Ottawa in Geochemistry, and has been an associate professor at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria since 1999. He also chairs the International Commission on Geosciences for Environmental Management (IUGS-GEM). Ms.Keane is a senior scientist in NRDC's Health and Environment Program. She is a public health specialist with over 25 years of experience working on domestic and international environmental health issues. In the US, her work experience has covered a range of topics, including toxics emissions reporting, air pollution regulation, pesticides management, and water quality standards and criteria. Internationally, she has worked with local, regional, and national-level stakeholders, and with the international donor community, to evaluate priority environmental health issues and to recommend appropriate solutions, from community- based programs to new national polices. Her work has included projects in Russia, the Caspian Sea Region, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, and Yemen. Se has also visited Jamaica, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to investigate water- related issues in those countries with local NGOs, government officials and international institutions. At NRDC, Susan's main responsibilities are international advocacy for global mercury supply and demand and reductions. and collaboration with the US-based retailers to reduce the environmental impacts of their supply chains and to eliminate the sale of toxic chemicals in their stores. Ms, Keane has been working in partnership capacity with the Artisanal Gold Council since its founding in 2008, she holds a Masters degree in environmental health management from the Harvard School of Public Health. Merwan H. Engineer, PhD Merwan Engineer holds a PhD from Queen's University and is a Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria. His research spans a number of topics areas. Most recently, he has been working on banking models for explaining the 2008/09 financial crisis. Also, he is active in developing improving indexes of human development so that they can be useful in development planning. An ongoing research program involves simulating the population dynamics if age group tribal societies. The bulk of his earlier work develop theories for explaining why paper money has value in the presence of potential competing media of exchange (e.g gold). His papers on political economy develop models for constraining despotism. Dr. Engineer has held visiting positions at Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Center for Development Studies (Kerala), and Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi). Currently, he is Associate Editor of the Indian Growth Development Review, Council Member of the Canadian Economic Association, Research Affiliate Centre for Studies in Demography and Ecology, and Senior Fellow of the Remini Centre for Economic Analysis. Dr. Enginner has been on the Artisanal Gold Council board since 2010. Paul Schure, PhD Paule Schure is a Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria where he has been since 2000. He spent a year as a Postdoc student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1999-2000) and four months as a consultant at the European Investment Bank in 1998. He has held visiting positions at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European Investment Institute (2002 and 2005), the University of Bonn (2003), Utrecht University (2008), and the University of Amsterdam (2009). Dr. Schure's research is on Financial Intermediation, Industrial Organization, and European Integration. His work has appeared in various international Economics and Finance journals. He has been Secretary/ Treasurer of the European Community Studies Association- Canada (ECSA-C) since 2004. He was co-organizer of of the ECSA-C biennial conferences of 2008 and 2010 and organizer of the 2010 Financial Institutions Summer School, that was held at the University of Victoria. He was guest co-editor of the 2008 special issue of the Canadian Journal of Agriculture Economics. Dr. Schure has been a board member of the Artisanal Gold Council since 2010. |
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 Choose Site Language Fifty thousand gold shops in the world's artisanal gold supply chain There are approximately 50,000 small gold shops serving artisanal and small scale gold miners worldwide... the first link in the artisanal gold supply chain to consumers... World Artisanal Gold Production World's artisanal miners produce 330 tonnes of gold per year or 12% of official world production...
Silver causes increase in mercury consumption Although gold is the primary target of most Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Miners that use mercury, the role of silver on mercury consumption can be astonishing... Price of mercury rising faster than gold The price of mercury has has hit a new high...    |
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