Filipe Calvão is a socio-cultural anthropologist, and an associate professor of anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID). Calvão holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and his research examines extractive economies and corporate governance in postcolonial Africa, the qualities and technologies of transparency in the global gemstone industry, and the social impact of technological transformations in digital economies.
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Lindsay Bell is an assistant professor of anthropology at Western University, Canada. She researches the impacts of mining and oil development in the Arctic (Canada, Alaska, Finland) as well as the transnational governance of extractive industries. She is the current editor in chief of the Journal for the Anthropology of North America.
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Matthieu Bolay is a postdoc at the Graduate Institute. He received his Phd from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) where he researched the moral economies and mobile livelihoods of gold miners in West Africa. His research focuses on the relations between artisanal and large scale mining, on gold and gemstones trading networks in subsaharan Africa, on industry initiatives on responsible sourcing, and on issues of in/exclusion of labour in mineral supply chains.
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Brian Brazeal is a Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Chico in the United States. He has research expertise in the international trade in colored gemstones and in the African religions of Brazil. He founded and directs the Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology where he produces ethnographic documentary films with his students and colleagues.
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Defne Gönenç has received her PhD in political science/international relations from IHEID, Geneva in 2018. She obtained her MSc from the University of Cambridge and her BSc from the Middle East Technical University. She specializes in global environmental politics, the political economy of the environment, the political economy of developing countries, extractive economics, dam politics, India and Turkey. In the project team, her focus was mainly on data collection for the database creation.
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Catherine McDonald holds a master in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Her research interests center around the role of technology and responsible investment in extractive industries and in corporate social responsibility endeavours, to further transparency and long-term sustainability in global supply chains.
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Victoria Ostrovsky is a law student and research assistant at Western University. She completed her undergraduate degree at Western University, specializing in anthropology. Her interests lie in law, technology, and in understanding the way international regulations are translated through law and practice on state levels.
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 Jiyoung (Michelle) Han is a master's student at the Graduate Institute, where she is currently pursuing a master in development studies. Her research interests include mineral supply chains, private sector actors, and the implication of technological intervention to the workforce and local communities in the extractive industry. In this project, she manages the Global Extraction Networks blog.
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