Xolani Mkhwanazi

Xolani joined the Board in August 2014 and is a member of the risk management committee. Xolani is a physicist with an MSc and PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Lancaster (UK) and has completed an Executive Development Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, in partnership with Harvard University. He is currently a non-executive director of South 32 Limited.

Xolani has experience in the Power, Engineering and Mining sectors, and was Chairman of BHP Billiton’s South African Operations, having joined BHP after establishing Bateman Africa as the first BEE Engineering company. Prior to that, Xolani played an important role in the restructuring of the electricity supply industry in South Africa, heading up the National Electricity Regulator. He has also worked at the CSIR, the Atomic Energy Corporation and spent time as a Physics Researcher in Australia.