As Guyana prepares for its oil and gas future, Cabinet ministers will today be engaged by top international experts and gloabal thinkers on natural resource management.

The event is being facilitated by Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs through its New Producers Group.

Chatham House is an independent policy institute based in London.

Several world renowned experts in the area of oil and natural resource management will lead the discussions with the Cabinet members.

According to the Ministry, the facilitators will be “Sir Paul Collier, noted Professor of Economics at Oxford University, Sir Shridath Ramphal, Caribbean Statesman and Advisor, Mr. Eric Parrado, former Manager of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Chile, Amb. Patrick Duddy, Lecturer, Duke University, Dr. Valerie Marcel, Chatham House Fellow, Prof. Matthew Andrews, Harvard, Kennedy School of Government, Prof. Peter Harrington, Harvard, Kennedy School of Government, Mr. Patrick Heller, Advisor, Natural Resource Governance Institute, and Dr. Paloma Mohamed, University of Guyana.”

The Government says the objective of the event is to move preparations to a deeper level of engagement on issues such as prioritizing spending on infrastructure, agriculture and social programmes, inter-generational savings, geo-political considerations, legal and institutional strengthening, benefit sharing and engagement and involvement of the people of Guyana, to name a few.

This caucus is expected to lead to further similar engagements in a scheduled and programmatic way in the months ahead.

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