Graeme Deegan (Managing Director)

Graeme Deegan has a BSc from the University of NSW worked for 17 years in the resources sector around the world in a variety of technical and management roles.

Graeme began consulting on human resource management in 1994 and became interested in the area of social consulting through his work in regional Australia with community and Aboriginal issues and related to equitable employment and other social concerns within major resource developments.

Graeme expanded his base of operations when he started travelling to Africa and S.E. Asia dealing more specifically in the areas of socially responsible and sustainable development strategies for resource companies operating in developing countries.

Graeme established Resource Advisors in 2004 to embrace the many facets of his consulting experience.


Donal O'Neill (Manager, Europe and Africa)

Donal O'Neill provides general consultancy services in the area of impact of industry on host societies, with emphasis on socio-economic factors and long-term effects, including advice on strategies and organisational structures required to mitigate negative impacts and achieve "win-win" solutions for both industry and the society (at local, regional and national level) in which it operates.

An extension of the above, and integral with it, is development of scenario-based role-playing simulation tools, primarily for industry but also used in university coursework in Oxford (UK) and Columbia (New York City), George Washington (Washington) building on insights gained from earlier experience in the Oil and Gas Industry worldwide and marketing of these to companies on a consultancy basis.

Prior to becoming a consultant Donal spent some 36 years with Shell, almost a third of them in Sub-Saharan Africa. The last position he held between 2000 and 2004 was Vice President: External Affairs and Social Performance, a position specifically requested by Donal so that he could "plough back and institutionalise" the experience he had gained in managing oil and gas ventures in challenging environments and implement his belief that "Management of the industry's impact on its host societies is as important as its technical and economic management of its oil and gas assets". Before that time Donal held a number of senior operational positions with the company including Managing Director of Shell Venezuela Exploration and Production between 1996 and 2000.

Annette Helbig (Manager, South East Asia)

Annette Helbig graduated with a Master Degree in Development Management from the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines in 2007. She has lived in the Philippines for 23 years and has an enormous amount of experience in community development through the foundation she founded and manages, The Springboard Foundation. Springboard distributes millions of pesos to needy projects focused on developing healthy, nurturing environments for children in the Philippines

Annette also has extensive experience in developing sustainable projects in the fields of healthcare, nutrition, education and capacity building. In addition Annette carries a depth of knowledge of the issues facing the mining sector in the Philippines and has recently undertaken some valuable work to assist foreign mining companies establish sustainable community development strategies.