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Project Working Group Member Bios
Review of GRI 403: Occupational Health and Safety
27 March 2017

© GRI 2017

Contents
Project Working Group Members ......................................................................................... 3
Chair of the PWG – Dr Sharron O'Neill ......................................................................................................... 3
Frank Barry............................................................................................................................................................... 3
Isidora Diaz Heredia .............................................................................................................................................. 4
André Fey ................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Richard Jones ........................................................................................................................................................... 4
Viktor Kempa .......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Nancy Leppink ......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Dr Olivier LO .......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Dr David Michaels .................................................................................................................................................. 6
William G. Perry ..................................................................................................................................................... 7
Dana Sasarean ......................................................................................................................................................... 7
Dr Herbert Schilthuis ............................................................................................................................................ 7
Kathy A. Seabrook ................................................................................................................................................. 8
Larry Stoffman ......................................................................................................................................................... 8
Dr Derek Yach ........................................................................................................................................................ 8
GSSB Sponsors ......................................................................................................................... 9
Kirsten Margrethe Hovi ........................................................................................................................................ 9
Stiaan Wandrag ....................................................................................................................................................... 9Page 2 of 9Project Working Group Members
In accordance with due process, the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) has selected the following
members to participate in the Project Working Group that will deliberate and recommend updates to GRI
403: Occupational Health and Safety in 2017. The members represent diverse, multi-stakeholder backgrounds
and bring an excellent combination of relevant knowledge and experience in occupational health and safety.

Chair of the PWG – Dr Sharron O'Neill
Senior lecturer, School of Business, University of New South
Wales, Australia
Constituency: Mediating Institution (Academic)
Dr Sharron O'Neill is a senior lecturer in the School of Business at the
UNSW Canberra. Sharron holds academic and professional accounting
qualifications and her PhD and subsequent research has focused
primarily on corporate accountability for work health and safety(WHS). These projects have examined the design, measurement,
reporting and assurance of WHS performance indicators used ininternal and external reporting. Sharron has a particular interest in
non-financial indicators of WHS performance and advises government,
investors and industry on WHS performance measurement andreporting. Her research projects bring the accounting and safety
professions together with industry, government and academia and she
is a member of CPA Australia, the Australian Institute of Company
Directors, the Safety Institute of Australia and the National Safety
Council of Australia. Prior to her academic career Sharron was afinancial accountant working in manufacturing, transport and healthcare
industries.

Frank Barry
Health and Safety Advisor, Irish Congress of Trade Unions(ICTU), Ireland
Constituency: Labor
Frank Barry was a Senior Scientific Officer with an Irish Government
Agency for many years. He is a qualified engineer, he is currently
working in Maynooth University as a Safety Adviser, he is a Health and
Safety consultant to Industry and the Education sector.
He is a serving member of ECHA, Risk Assessment Committee (RAC)
and a ETUI Representative on the Working Party on Chemicals (WPC)at DG Employment Luxembourg, he is also a member of a number ofStandard CEN and ISO TCs Standards committees, and is a member ofthe Employment Appeals Tribunal in Dublin.

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Isidora Diaz Heredia
Group Head of Health and Safety Management Systems,
LafargeHolcim Ltd, France
Constituency: Business
Isidora Diaz has 15+ combined years of experience in health and safety
and sustainability areas both in the waste management and in theconstruction materials industry at country, regional and global levelwith dual technical and business background.
She is currently Head of Health and Safety Management Systems in
LafargeHolcim.
She holds a MBA and bachelor’s degree in Chemistry as well as a MSc
in industrial hygiene, safety and psychosociology.

André Fey
VP and Head of HSE, Norsk Hydro ASA, Norway
Constituency: BusinessCurrently heading the corporate team for health, safety, security andenvironment (HSE) at Norsk Hydro, Oslo, Norway, since 2011.
Born and educated in Wuppertal, Germany, finishing university in 1997and starting the professional career as a safety engineer at a German
aluminium company in Bonn, Germany. After take-over by Norsk
Hydro, joining the central team for HSE. Taking on the position of HSE
director for the extrusion part of Hydro’s business, working out of
Lausanne, Switzerland. Before moving to Oslo into the current
position, serving as a production manager at an aluminium extrusionsite in Raeren, Belgium.

Richard Jones
Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Institution of Occupational
Safety and Health (IOSH), UK
Constituency: Mediating Institution (Professional Body)
Richard leads on developing the Institution’s policies and public affairs
strategy, including parliamentary activities and support of campaigns
and media. He manages the Institution’s external liaison, consultation,
representation and relationship-building. Representing IOSH on
external strategic committees, he is a member of ISO PC 283
committee, developing ISO 45001.
A Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner, Fellow of IOSH and a
CIPR Accredited Practitioner, Richard has an MSc in risk management
and safety technology. With an engineering background, he has been ahealth and safety professional for 27 years and his management
experience includes 16 years at a strategic level.

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Viktor Kempa
Senior Researcher, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI),
Belgium
Constituency: Labor
Viktor Kempa graduated from the Faculty of Mining and Geology of theTechnical University of Ostrava in 1982 and obtained a post-graduate
degree in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) from the same
university in 1988. Prior to joining the ETUI in 2002 as Research officer
in the field of health and safety, he was Head of the OHS and
Environmental Protection Department of the Czech Trade Union ofMine, Geology and Oil Industry Workers and a member of the
National Tripartite Committee on OHS and of the National Council on
OHS in the Czech Republic.

Nancy Leppink
Chief, Labour Administration, Labour Inspection andOccupational Safety and Health Branch, International Labor
Organization (ILO), Switzerland
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Appointed on June 2, 2014, as the Chief of the Labour Administration,
Labour Inspection, and Occupational Safety and Health Branch(LABADMIN/OSH) within the Governance and Tripartism
Department.
Ms. Leppink holds a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School
and BSc in Psychology from the University of Washington. Prior tojoining the ILO, Ms. Leppink was a presidential appointee as a senior
executive and led the Wage and Hour Division of the United State
Department of Labor. From 1999-2009, she was the Chief GeneralCounsel for the State of Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry
and from 1985-1999 she was a State Assistant Attorney Generalpracticing the areas of human rights, occupational safety and health, andlabour and employment law.
Ms. Leppink has over 25 years of experience as a strategist and leader
in employment and labor policy, law, administration, enforcement andcompliance. She has experience at national, international and statelevels working with public, private and non-profit sectors. She has
extensive knowledge of policy and law in the areas of employment andlabor standards, occupational safety and health, and human rights. She
brings to the ILO significant skills in the development and strategic
implementation of legislation and regulations. She has managed diverse
groups and organizations ranging from small teams to the 1600+
employees of the Wage and Hour Division.

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Dr Olivier LO
Senior Medical Ambassador, International SOS Foundation,
SingaporeConstituency: Civil Society Organization
Dr LO started his career with International SOS (1991) in Geneva,
then Hong Kong and held senior medical leadership appointments in
Asia region, leading to his additional nomination as International SOS
Foundation Ambassador - Duty of Care (2012-).
His medical qualifications include specialization in Air and Space
Medicine, Tropical Diseases, Public Health as well as Disaster Medicine,
Emergency Crisis Management, Occupational Medicine (UK) and istrained in Maritime Occupational Health Medicine (NIVA, Finland).
Dr LO received his Diploma of Doctor of Medicine from the Louis
Pasteur Medical University in Strasbourg, France. He is a qualified
Occupational Health and Safety Management System Auditor(SEQM/IRCA), member of the French Medical “Conseil de l’Ordre”,
Fellow at the Royal Society of Medicine (UK), member of the ACOEM– American College of Occupational & Environment Medicine (USA),member of International Maritime Health Association as well as theInternational Society of Infectious Diseases (ISID). He is the appointed
National Secretary (Singapore) of the International Commission on
Occupational Health (ICOH) 2015-2018. He also holds an international(aircraft) private pilot’s licence.

Dr David Michaels
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken
Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington
University, USA
Constituency: LaborDavid Michaels, PhD, MPH is an epidemiologist and Professor ofEnvironmental and Occupational Health at the Milken Institute Schoolof Public Health of George Washington University in Washington, DC.
From 2009 until January 2017, he was the United States Department ofLabor’s Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, thelongest serving Assistant Secretary in OSHA's history. From 1998 to2001, Dr. Michaels served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Environment, Safety and Health, charged with protecting the workers,
community residents and environment in and around the US nuclear
weapons facilities.

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William G. Perry
Director, Directorate of Standards and Guidance, U.S.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),
USA
Constituency: Mediating Institution (Government)
William Perry is Director of the Directorate of Standards andGuidance at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration(OSHA), where he is responsible for leading the development ofstandards and guidance products covering a wide variety ofoccupational safety and health hazards. He currently leads OSHA’s
efforts to integrate occupational safety and health into corporate
sustainability initiatives and reporting, and oversees the Agency’s
initiatives to promote implementation of safety and health programs by
employers. Mr. Perry has 37 years of experience as an industrial
hygienist, senior health scientist, and policy analyst on occupationalsafety and health regulation.

Dana Sasarean
Senior ESG Analyst – Mining, Sustainalytics, Canada
Constituency: Investor
As a senior ESG mining analyst with Sustainalytics, Dana is analysing the
ESG risk and performance of some of the world’s largest mining
companies. She is especially interested in health and safety, carbon
emissions, clean tech, corruption, biodiversity, water, and community
impact. Dana has over ten years of expertise in the oil and gas industry
and has worked for companies such as Innovest, RiskMetrics, andMSCI, where she was the Energy Sector Content Lead. Dana holds
Finance and Banking BA from the West University in Timisoara and a
Master in Environmental Studies from the York University in Toronto.

Dr Herbert Schilthuis
Global Director Health and Safety, Heineken International,
the Netherlands
Constituency: BusinessCurrently responsible for driving the global health and safety agenda in
HEINEKEN, Herbert Schilthuis continues to develop his expertise ininfectious diseases, tropical medicine, health promotion andorganization of health care. He has been supervising medical care for
Heineken employees and their family members in Africa, including the
Joep Lange HEINEKEN HIV Workplace Program and advising theHeineken operating companies in Africa on health and safety since2007. Previous to joining Heineken, Schilthuis worked for the
Netherlands’ Health Inspectorate, supervising public health across thecountry, founded the National Coordination Centre for Travel Health,served on Amsterdam’s Municipal Public Health Department, andworked for Médecins Sans Frontières in South Sudan and Cambodia.

Page 7 of 9Kathy A. Seabrook
Chair of the Board of Directors, Center for Safety and Health
Sustainability (CSHS), USA
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Kathy A. Seabrook is the founder and President of Global Solutions,Inc., working with organizations to strategically manage their safety,
health and environmental risks through integration with their business,sustainability, operational and commercial excellence strategies. She
holds OH&S certifications in the US, UK and Europe, is a publishedauthor, US Expert to PC 283/ISO 45001 OH&S Management Systems
and member of the US ANSI Z10 OHSMS committee. She is Chair of
the Board - Center for Safety and Health Sustainability, past president American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and Fellow of theInstitution of Occupational Health and Safety and ASSE.

Larry Stoffman
Labour Consultant, Canadian Labour Congress, Canada
Constituency: Labor
Mr. Stoffman has represented the Canadian Labour Congress and its
affiliated unions on Health Canada’s Current Issues Committee since
its inception in 1992. He also served as a Governor of the Hazardous
Materials Information Review Commission. He was the CanadianLabour Representative at the U.N. (ECOSOC) sponsored negotiationof the Globally Harmonized System of Chemical Classification andLabeling (GHS). He is Canadian delegate and a Trade Union
representative on ISO OSH Management Project Committee (283). He
formerly chaired the National Environmental & Occupational
Exposures Committee, (Canadian Partnership Against Cancer) and theUFCW National Council Health & Safety Committee.
Mr. Stoffman is a graduate of the University of British Columbia(political science) and studied industrial toxicology at Simon Fraser
University, where he also served as Director of the Worker Resource
Centre in 1981.

Dr Derek Yach
Senior Vitality Consultant, Vitality Group, USA
Constituency: BusinessDerek Yach has focused his career on advancing global health. He is
Senior Vitality Consultant of the Vitality Group, part of Discovery
Holdings Ltd. Prior to that he was SVP Global Health and Agriculture
Policy at PepsiCo, where he supported portfolio transformation andled engagement with major international groups and new African
initiatives at the nexus of agriculture and nutrition. He has headed
global health at the Rockefeller Foundation, has been a Professor of
Global Health at Yale University, and is a former Executive Director
for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health at the World
Health Organization (WHO). At WHO, he served as cabinet director
under Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland, where he led thedevelopment of WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Page 8 of 9and the Global Strategy on Diet and Physical Activity. Dr. Yachestablished the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South
African Medical Research Council. He has authored or co-authoredover 250 articles covering the breadth of global health. Dr. Yach serves
on several advisory boards, including Cornerstone Capital, theWellcome Trust, the World Economic Forum, and (formerly) the
Clinton Global Initiative. His degrees include an honorary DSc from
Georgetown University, MBChB from the University of Cape Town,
BSc (Hons Epi) from the University of Stellenbosch, and an MPH fromthe Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

GSSB Sponsors
Kirsten Margrethe Hovi
Vice-president and head of Extra-Financial Reporting, Norsk
Hydro ASA, Norway
Constituency: Business
Kirsten has worked for many years for Hydro within different areas
including HSE, CSR, human resources, quality management, strategy,
process engineering and communication. Since 2004 she is responsiblefor Hydro's extra-financial reporting. She has also actively participatedin developing general and industry specific reporting standards,
representing both the mining and the oil and gas industry. She has beena GRI practitioner since 2003 and a member of GRI’s Global
Sustainability Standards Board since January 2014.
Born in Norway, Hovi graduated with a Master’s degree in Chemical
Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology(NTNU) in 1983. She studied French at Alliance Française in Paris in1984 and holds an economics degree from the Norwegian School ofManagement (1989).

Stiaan WandragHead Sustainability Advisory, Sasol Group, South Africa
Constituency: Business
Based in Johannesburg, Stiaan is a registered veterinary surgeon andalso has as M.Phil. (Environmental Management), with the focus on
Human Rights. He started his career in veterinary research(Toxicology), and was the Responsible Care Leader for the South
African Operations of the Dow Chemical Company for eight years.
Stiaan is since 2006 responsible for Sasol’s sustainability reporting
globally. He is a member of the GRI since 2011, and is also a memberof the local GRI Network Advisory Committee in South Africa. He is
also serving on the Advisory Committee on Integrated Reporting inSouth Africa. He has strong experience in research, quality assurance,
safety, health and environmental management, human rights, ethics,
sustainability reporting and sustainability data assurance.

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