Professor Deanna Kemp is the Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) – part of the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at the University of Queensland (UQ). She leads an international programme of work enabling a team of over twenty applied social researchers. Deanna has worked on mining and social performance for eighteen years, in corporate, operational, consulting and research roles. Her research focuses on company-community conflict, displacement and resettlement, and human rights and development challenges. Deanna serves on the International Council of Mining and Metals’ (ICMM) New Member Review Panel and is a member of the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA). She was recently appointed a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership.

Robert Boutilier is a social psychologist who specializes in gaining and maintaining a social license. He has conducted strategy development research and workshops on stakeholder engagement and community relations in over 20 countries and has measured the social license of over 50 mining and infrastructure projects. He has published four books and over a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters on topics in issues management, socio-economic development, social psychology, and stakeholder relations. Robert is an associate of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Leeora is a Principal in the Sustainability Services team where she leads social sustainability and CSR engagements. She is one of Australia’s leading authorities on stakeholder and community engagement, human rights, social license and extended corporate reporting. Prior to joining Deloitte in November 2017, Leeora was Managing Director for the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR). She is the author of The Social License to Operate: Your Management Framework for Complex Times (2013). This was the first book to be published on the social license. Her book and other papers on the social license to operate and have been extensively cited in scholarly works on the social license. Leeora has conducted over 50 “Stakeholder 360®” assessments for Australian corporations, which includes measurement of a company’s social licence to operate entailing interviews with thousands of stakeholders. She has used the results to prepare local license strategies for firms in the mining, energy, transport, government, banking and utilities sectors.