OfD visits Timor-Leste

Sigrid Russwurm and Liv Marte Nordhaug from Oil for Development participated in a workshop on 28 - 29 May2009 on setting up a national oil company (NOC) in Timor-Leste. Participants at the workshop included Timorese politicians, public sector staff, civil society representatives and the international donor community.

The presentations and subsequent discussions touched upon a range of relevant topics related to governance of the petroleum sector.

As part of the trip Russwurm and Nordhaug also held a range of meetings with the Secretariat of State for Natural Resources, the Ministry of Finance, the EITI working group, project advisors and others.