Ron B. Anderson is an Associate with Sustainable Finance Ltd. In 2004, he assisted the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in its ongoing review of their environmental and social policies, preparing sector-specific environmental guidelines as well as taking a lead role in the institution's internal "Lessons Learned" exercise to capsulize a decade of experience in developing environmental and social review procedures and implementing environmental and social safeguard policies.

From early 1992 to December 31, 2003, he was with the Environment and Social Development Department, IFC. His experience covers most sectors but he specialised in the environmental and social review of many high-risk private sector investments (Chile: Pangue Hydroelectric Project; Azerbaijan/Georgia: Early Oil Project; Chad/Cameroon: Petroleum Export Pipeline Project and Uganda: Bujagali Hydroelectric Project). In 2001, he received an IFC corporate award for his work. Between 2001 and 2003, he was IFC's Chief Environmental Advisor. In this position, he was responsible for the environmental and social review clearance for all Category-A projects in IFC. In addition, he provided procedural and strategic advice on high-profile projects (e.g., the Azerbaijan/Georgia/Turkey: BTC Project)

Prior to joining IFC, he spent eight years working on environmental and social issues surrounding the Canadian program for the disposal of high level nuclear waste. This experience was brought to consulting on private sector projects (such as a large thermal power project in New Brunswick, Canada).                                       <back>