Giulio Carini is a Campaigner at Global Witness where he has been instrumental in the preparation of various submissions to the SEC on Section 1504 of Dodd-Frank on the disclosure of payments by resource extraction issuers. He was also involved in successfully lobbying the European Commission to commit to implement mandatory transparency reporting standards in the European Union. Prior to joining Global Witness, Giulio received a Juris Doctor from Cornell University Law School and spent several years working as an international associate with two leading energy law firms in their offices in New York, Milan and London as well as publishing an article on the oil industry in an academic journal. He is registered with the New York Bar and is specialised in securities offerings and energy law.