Dr. Dietsche joined the Panel for a five-year term from April 8. 2024. She is a German citizen resident in Switzerland with nearly 30 years of operational and strategic-managerial experience in the multinational corporate sector and the international advisory and consultancy business.

A recognized international expert, Dr. Dietsche holds extensive practical knowledge on natural resource governance, while also having regularly taught as well as supervised, published, and peer-reviewed research on this and related topics, including with the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at University of Dundee, the International Affairs think tank Chatham House, the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at Queensland University, and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER).

Following an advisory position with the Namibian Ministry of Finance, Dr Dietsche served the development consultancy Oxford Policy Management Ltd, based in the United Kingdom, as a fiduciary risk and public policy analyst for a variety of assignments mainly across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East, alongside providing thought leadership for a multi-year initiative on leveraging and mitigating the impacts of the mining sector on developing countries, funded by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Bank.

In 2009, she joined the social performance team of BG Group (now part of Shell) as sustainable development manager before setting up her own company in 2013 and continuing to provide BG Group and other extractive industry companies with hands-on operational and strategic advice on the macroeconomic and social impacts of their investments. Alongside, she also advised several multinational and bilateral development agencies on policies for the management of cumulative sector impacts and on local content and skills development, as well as on the impacts of climate policies.

In 2020 she joined swisspeace, a peace and conflict research and practice institute affiliated with the University of Basel, Switzerland, to lead and develop its business & peace and resources & conflict programs, which included delivering mandates and commissioned research and providing training on responsible business conduct and conflict sensitivity with focus on fragile and conflict-affected situations.

Dr. Dietsche holds a Doctorate in Resources Sector Governance from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (University of Dundee, Scotland), an MSc in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), and an MA in Public Policy and Management from Konstanz University (Germany).