Africa

Consulting Director Deloitte Sthembiso is an experienced business advisor and has built many strong business relationships over many years. He works with his clients to harness culture and build competitive advantage through strategic focus, business connection and execution excellence. He has deep passion for organisation design and behavioural change management. He uses his extensive organizational… read more »

Chief Sustainability & Corporate Affairs Officer AngloGold Ashanti Mr Bailey’s portfolio includes stakeholder relations and the broader ambit of sustainability policy and oversight. He leads a strong team of specialists covering investor relations and communications, alongside the core sustainability disciplines, namely safety, health, environment, community and government relations, and security and human rights. Over 11… read more »

Managing Director Women in Mining UK Stacy has more than 14 years’ experience working as an International Development Specialist and Strategic Advisor on areas surrounding gender, natural resources, renewable energy, social impact investment, disaster risks and climate resilience, and large national and international infrastructure development projects across the commercial, public and multilateral sectors. She is… read more »

Vice President BHP Xplor Sonia Scarselli was appointed Vice President of BHP’s newly formed BHP Xplor Program in June 2022 to seek out innovative and breakthrough minerals exploration opportunities through a portfolio of early stage, pre-commercial start-ups.  This new organisation is designed to increase BHP’s access to a larger opportunity set of prospects that have… read more »

Chief Executive – Minerals Rio Tinto Sinead became Chief Executive, Minerals in March 2021 Since joining Rio Tinto in 1997 as a geologist, Sinead has held senior leadership and operational roles across Aluminium, Copper & Diamonds, Energy & Minerals, and Iron Ore. Most recently, she was Managing Director, Operations, at Copper & Diamonds. Sinead brings… read more »

Deputy Managing Director Ruashi Mining With more than 30 years in mining, Simon started his career in mining in South Africa with the JCI group in 1992, where he was seconded to the platinum division, which later became part of Anglo American Platinum Division. After a period of 4 years at Bateman Equipment, from 1997… read more »

Africa Energy Transition Advisor National Resource Governance Institute Prior to joining NRGI in 2009, Silas spent three years leading Oxfam International’s advocacy and knowledge sharing initiative in Tanzania. He has also served as financial services advisor with the Netherlands Development Organization, head of the planning department various local government authorities in Tanzania and manager of… read more »

Managing Principal, Coverage Head: Resources and Energy Absa Corporate and Investment Banking (Absa CIB) Shirley joined Absa Bank Limited in 2011 and is the Coverage Head for Resources and Energy at Absa (Corporate and Investment Banking). Her responsibilities include maintaining and growing relationships in the mining, metals, minerals, oil, gas, chemical, power and renewables industries…. read more »

CEO Itochu Africa Born 23 August, 1964 – Shinya Ishizuka graduated from Waseda University, Japan with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering in 1988. – He joined ITOCHU Corporation in April 1988. – Over the years, Shinya’s career has been forged in sales, marketing, investment, M&A and management in ITOCHU. – He has held several… read more »

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,… read more »

Chief Sustainability Officer JSE Shameela is the Chief Sustainability Officer of the JSE. She joined the JSE in 2007. Passionate about the systemic importance of sustainability thinking in corporate strategy, she is responsible for advising the Executive Committee and Board of the JSE Limited on sustainability and the integration into strategy. She is the immediate… read more »

President & CEO Thor Explorations Segun has been the CEO of Thor since August 2011. He has identified and led all of Thor’s acquisitions and financings and Thor’s JV with Acacia Mining. He is a Co-founder of African Star Resources Incorporated where he served as an officer assisting with financing, corporate and business development activities…. read more »

CEO Endeavour Mining Sébastien de Montessus joined Endeavour in 2016. Under his leadership, he has introduced key strategic objectives, the achievement of which have created a sustainable business that generates long-term cash flow. Prior to this, he has held a number of senior positions in the mining industry, including CEO of the La Mancha Group (2012-2016)… read more »

Partner Business Science Corporation & NextGenOpX Sean is a Partner heading up the Productivity Science practice area at Business Science Corporation (BSC). He is also the Digital Stream lead in the NextGenOpX collaborator network. He has more than 10 years of simulation, operational improvement modelling, data analytics, and optimisation experience across multiple industries. He has… read more »

General Counsel Elemental Altus Royalties Corp. Sandra Bates