Michael Stanley
Dr Michael Stanley
World Bank Group
Michael Stanley is Lead – Extractives for the World Bank Group, based in Singapore. He has worked in resource development for more than thirty years within the commercial and public sectors across Latin America, Europe & Central Asia, Africa, South Asia, and East Asia / Pacific regions. Michael specializes in policy and lending operations, aligned with the challenges of climate change within the energy sector. Michael is the Global Leader for the World Bank’s “Support to Energy Transition in Coal Regions” assisting a diverse group of stakeholders to establish the good-governance frameworks necessary to manage social impacts to workers and communities, while ensuring environmental mine reclamation and repurposing of land and assets.
Michael has degrees in Geoscience (BSc. Western University), Geoscience (MSc. McGill University), and Mineral Resource Economics / Mining (Ph.D. University of Arizona). Michael is co-editor of the Extractive Industries Source Book, both the online, open-source platform and first-edition print version (2018) with more than 65,000 copies distributed world-wide.
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