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OK Festival 2014, Patrick Alley Interview

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Patrick Alley gave a keynote at OKFestival 2014 and is a director and co-founder of Global Witness. Patrick Alley is founder of Global Witness and a member of the WEF Global Agenda Council for Conflict prevention. He is also a director of Global Witness and co-founded the organisation in 1993. He took part in Global Witness’ first investigations into the Thai-Khmer Rouge timber trade in 1995, and since then has taken part in over fifty field investigations in South East Asia, Africa and Europe, and in subsequent advocacy activities. Patrick has focused on natural resource governance issues in resource-rich countries, including post-conflict, including Cambodia, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Zimbabwe, and focuses on the thematic issue of Conflict Resources, and on forest and land issues, especially challenging industrial scale logging and land grabbing in the tropics. Patrick is involved in the strategic leadership of Global Witness, and is a member of the WEF Global Agenda Council for Conflict prevention. Learn more about Open Knowledge here: http://www.okfn.org Learn more about OK Festival here: http://2014.okfestival.org ...more
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OK Festival 2014, Patrick Alley Interview
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Patrick Alley gave a keynote at OKFestival 2014 and is a director and co-founder of Global Witness. Patrick Alley is founder of Global Witness and a member of the WEF Global Agenda Council for Conflict prevention. He is also a director of Global Witness and co-founded the organisation in 1993. He took part in Global Witness’ first investigations into the Thai-Khmer Rouge timber trade in 1995, and since then has taken part in over fifty field investigations in South East Asia, Africa and Europe, and in subsequent advocacy activities. Patrick has focused on natural resource governance issues in resource-rich countries, including post-conflict, including Cambodia, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Zimbabwe, and focuses on the thematic issue of Conflict Resources, and on forest and land issues, especially challenging industrial scale logging and land grabbing in the tropics. Patrick is involved in the strategic leadership of Global Witness, and is a member of the WEF Global Agenda Council for Conflict prevention. Learn more about Open Knowledge here: http://www.okfn.org Learn more about OK Festival here: http://2014.okfestival.org

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