Sheila Khama

Frmr CEO, De Beers Botswana; Non-Executive Director, Development Partner Institute Development Partner Institute

Sheila Khama is a non-executive director of listed companies, an independent mineral, oil and gas policy advisor, author, and podcast host with more than two decades’ work experience in extractives. She is a non-executive director of Tullow Oil, an FTSE 250 company, The Metals Company listed on the NASDAQ, and the Chair of the Audit Committee of the UN Office of Operations and member of the Advisory Committee of CONNEX. She is a former CEO of De Beers Botswana and served as a non-executive director of several companies including Debswana. She is a former compliance officer for 20 subsidiaries of Anglo American Corporation and De Beers Groups in Botswana. She worked for the World Bank and African Development Bank’s mineral, oil and gas policy advisory units, leading teams of experts advising governments in Africa, Latin America, and Central Asia. She served on Advisory Boards and Committees at Oxford University’s Natural Resources Charter and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment She has served on Sustainability Panels of AngloGold Ashanti plc and LafargeHolcim S.A.