For 25 years, the Ad-Hoc Industry Natural Resource Management Group has been a formidable resource, facilitator, educator and catalyst to industry and other stakeholders.

The Ad-Hoc Industry Natural Resource Management Group, founded in 1988, is comprised of multinational industrial companies representing all industry sectors exclusively focused on the interface between industrial operations and natural resources. The Group's work has aimed to prevent and resolve environmental liabilities and optimize natural capital. With active programs in the US, Europe and elsewhere, the Group provides unparalleled support and resources to its members relative to natural resource liability solutions and restoration projects. Over the years, the Group’s purview has expanded to include issues with intersect with natural resource liability matters, including emergency response, remediation, sustainability, biodiversity and environmental stewardship.

The Group has worked on and published numerous documents concerning the development of “best practices” under US and European natural resource liability regimes. Over the course of its 25 year history, the Group has earned the respect of government officials and a wide set of stakeholders worldwide and is viewed as a leading authority on legal, scientific, economic, policy and regulatory aspects of natural resource and environmental liability and related conservation and biodiversity issues.

For further information on the Ad-Hoc Industry Natural Resource Management Group, see www.NRDonline.org.

The Symposium is being held in cooperation with The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and
the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.