Frank Vanclay is a professor, the Head of the Department of Cultural Geography and the Director of the Urban and Regional Studies Institute at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Prof. Vanclay writes in the areas of: social impact assessment; the management of social issues associated with large projects; social license to operate; business and human rights; social aspects of resource extraction; social aspects of project-induced displacement and resettlement; and avoiding the resource curse.