Nigel Beck

Head of Sustainable Finance

Standard Bank

Nigel is the Chair of the Equator Principles steering committee and a working group lead at the International Chamber of Commerce on Sustainable Trade Finance. Within Standard Bank, his team provides an advisory role to clients and deal teams on transactions and projects, around environmental and social risk mitigations and opportunities. His responsibilities include the development, implementation and management of the Equator Principles and leads on E&S matters within the Standard Bank Group, as well as the development of green/social/climate products and services within business (Corporate & Investment Banking, Personal and Business Banking and Wealth).
 
Prior to working in banking, he was a consultant on large and small infrastructure/resource transactions and worked within the British Public sector.

He is a Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (MIEMA) and is a Chartered Environmentalists. Nigel has a BSc from the University of Cape Town, BSc (Hons) from Pretoria University, MSc & DIC (Environmental Technology) from Imperial College, University of London, and an MBA (Finance) from Wits Business School and Executive Leadership Programme from Duke Fuqua School of Business.

Sabine Dall'Omo

CEO

Southern & Eastern Africa, Siemens

Of German descent, Sabine Dall’Omo has worked at Siemens for over 25 years and is additionally a permanent South African resident.

After attaining her Higher Commercial Certificate from Heinrich-Thoene College in 1985, Sabine did her vocational training at Siemens Germany from 1986-1989. Progressing up the ranks, she took on the responsibility of Commercial Officer: Accounting Services and shortly thereafter as Commercial Officer: Sales Office until 1995. Dall’Omo’s career path at Siemens then led her to California, USA as a Financial Analyst for Siemens Rolm Communications after which she returned to Siemens Germany as a Senior Financial Officer: Corporate Planning & Controlling.  In 1998, Sabine became Commercial Manager within Siemens’ Automation & Drives business, first at Siemens Germany for just over three years, and then at Siemens in Shanghai, China.

In May 2004, Sabine made the move to South Africa as Head of Performance Controlling for Siemens Southern Africa. She continued in this role until August 2008. From September 2008 to January 2012, she was appointed CFO for Siemens Africa’s Healthcare Sector.  During this time she also served as a member on the board of Siemed (Pty) Ltd, Impilo (Pty) Ltd and Siemens Medical Services Diagnostics (Pty) Ltd. In February 2012 Sabine became the CFO of Siemens (Pty) Ltd. Additional responsibilities for assigned countries: Botswana, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

H.E. Mokgweetsi Masisi

President

Republic of Botswana

Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi is the fifth and current President of Botswana, serving since 2018. He has also served as Minister of Education since 2014, and previously he was Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration from 2011 to 2014. He was first elected to Parliament in 2009.

Hon. Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane

Minister of Tourism

South Africa

Nicky Black

Director - Social & Economic Development Programme

ICMM

Nicky joined ICMM in June 2017.  She is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership to ICMM’s work in this area, including the skills for the common future, community relations, security and human rights, tax and mineral resource governance.

Nicky has over 15 years' experience working in sustainable development.  Before joining ICMM, Nicky spent seven years with the De Beers Group of Companies in London. Her last role with De Beers was as the Head of Social Performance, with responsibility for the company’s social management programme, sustainability reporting and communications, and working with the board and executive committee to set and align sustainability strategy. 

Nicky holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Waikato in New Zealand, a  Master’s degree in Political Sociology from McGill University in Canada, and a degree in Human Sciences from the University of Oxford in the UK.

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Shirley Webber

Managing Director - Head of Natural Resources

Absa Bank

Shirley joined Absa Bank Limited in 2011 and is the Coverage Head for Natural Resources at Absa (Corporate and Investment Banking). Her responsibilities include maintaining and growing relationships in the mining, metals, oil, gas and chemical industries. She has a wealth of experience working with key clients such as Anglo American, Glencore, Petra Diamonds, First Quantum Minerals, Tullow Oil and Sasol amongst others.

She was previously the Sector Director of Mining, Resources and Commodities at FirstRand Bank Limited in Johannesburg.Shirley holds a CAIB (SA) Associate Banking Diploma, a B.Com (Ed)(Cum Laude) and a B.Com Honours degree in Financial and Strategic Management

Susannah McLaren

Head of Responsible Sourcing & Sustainability

Cobalt Institute

Susannah is Head of Responsible Sourcing & Sustainability at the Cobalt Institute - the global industry association composed of producers, users, recyclers, and traders of – established to promote the safe, sustainable and responsible production and consumption of cobalt in all its forms and uses. She has over 20 years' in-house and consultancy experience across numerous sectors and markets.

Susannah is a Board member of the Global Battery Alliance and represents the Cobalt Institute on several prominent platforms, including ICMM and the Fair Cobalt Alliance.

Susannah previously managed the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) Responsible Gold Programme, which is an OECD-aligned standard mandatory for all Good Delivery Refiners. She also spent a period working for Shift - the leading centre of expertise on the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights - where she advised progressive global companies on human rights. Prior to this, Susannah spent ten years employed with a global engineering contractor to the extractives sector, latterly as the Global Head of Social Sustainability.

Dr. Jacek Guzek

Associate Director

Deloitte South Africa

Jacek leads the Strategic Sensing and Insight competency in the Strategy practice of Deloitte Consulting South Africa. He is a seasoned strategist with a considerable experience in strategy assessment, articulation and implementation, market analysis, and crafting diversification and growth strategies. Jacek focuses on helping organisations in sensing and interpreting major shifts and changes in their external environment that may result in substantial impact, and positioning organisations to take advantage of emerging opportunities and improve their strategic decision-making.

Lord Charles Vivian

Director

Tavistock

Charles Vivian started his communications career at Citigate Dewe Rogerson in 1997 before co-founding Pelham Public Relations in 2004. During that time he created a successful mining practice at the agency as well as growing the business into one of the fastest growing financial and corporate communications businesses in the UK; until 60% of the agency was sold to Bell Pottinger in 2011. He then continued to work with the financial and corporate business at Pelham Bell Pottinger, before being promoted to Managing Director of the Geopolitical division that focussed on international strategic communications and advised individuals, corporates, ministries, and governments, with a main focus on Africa. Charles decided to leave Bell Pottinger in 2016 and then joined Tavistock in September 2017.

Rebecca Campbell

Partner

White & Case

Rebecca, who leads our Global Mining & Metals Industry Group, is a mining and metals sector expert who brings an industry-focused approach to every aspect of her work. She has forged her expertise as in-house counsel at BHP and in private practice at top law firms in Australia, New York and London.

Rebecca brings her knowledge and experience to a broad range of transactions across the mining & metals sector globally, regularly taking the lead on financing, M&A/corporate, project development and restructuring transactions, as well as operational improvement and best practice projects for corporate clients. Rebecca has extensive experience assisting mining & metals companies and their boards in relation to business-critical risks and events, as well as in contributing to the development of industry-wide standards. She was recently on the advisory panel for the new Global Tailings Standard with the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), established after the Brumadinho tailings storage facility disaster in Brazil.

Claudia-Liza Armah

News Anchor and Broadcaster

Channel 5

With more than 15 years journalism experience, Claudia-Liza Armah has notched up hours of live broadcasting, working with the UK’s biggest television channels including Sky, BBC, ITV and of course Channel 5. Currently the face of 5 News Tonight, Claudia-Liza is the first black lead anchor to present the programme. Covering the day’s big and topical stories with discussion, debate and in-depth interviews with political leaders and those at the centre of major events.

Born and brought up by her Ghanaian mother on an estate in London, but still very close to her father who lives in Ghana, her passion for education saw her excel in school and go on to study a degree in History and Journalism at Queen Mary University of London and City University, then later completing a Master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism. She is a strong advocate of social mobility and mentors a number of young people supporting their applications to some of the UK’s top universities and offers advice and support to those who want to enter the world of broadcast journalism. She's also committed to work on equality, gender equality, education, diversity and inclusion.
 

Bold Bataar

CEO Energy and Minerals

Rio Tinto

Bold has been the chief executive of our Energy & Minerals (E&M) product group since 2016. Through the development of new products and markets, a responsive market approach and the successful divestment of our coal business, Bold has helped drive the optimisation of our portfolio with a focus on a low carbon future and in doing so, helped generate significant shareholder value. He has also re-energised the Group’s focus on Africa and driven the development of Rio Tinto Ventures, which focuses on assessing growth opportunities in the minerals and metals of the future.

Bold joined Rio Tinto in May 2013 as president of Copper International Operations. He earlier held executive positions with a diversified investment management business, a gold mining company in his home country of Mongolia and as an investment banker with JP Morgan in New York and London. He was the chairman of the Mongolian Stock Exchange from 2010-12 and chairman of the Mongolian Mining Association from 2012-14.

Mpho Makwana

Chair

IIAMI

Mpho is an accomplished business leader with diverse experience spanning a period of more than 29 years in executive and C-Suite roles in the public and private sectors. He is currently Independent Non-Executive Chairman of JSE-listed ArcelorMittal South Africa Limited as well as Lead Independent Director – Nedbank Group Ltd (NDBKF.PK), Nedbank Ltd. Furthermore, he serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Investing in Africa Mining Indaba, Illovo SA (Pty) Ltd, Gibela Rail (RF) (Pty) Ltd. He is Chairman of SAFCOL SOC Limited (State Forestry SOC) and family owned business Epitome Investments (Pty) Ltd.

e is also Chairman of Boardroom Alliance (Pty) Ltd – which holds the sub-Saharan trading license for Executive Search firm Heidrick & Struggles. Non-Executive Director BioTherm Energy (PTY) Ltd; one South Africa’s foremost renewable energy companies. He also volunteers as a Member of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital Fund’s Fund Raising Committee and is a Trustee on the Board of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. In April 2016 he was one 14 trustees appointed by HE The President of the Republic of SA to serve as a Trustee on the Board of Trustees of BRAND SA. During the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Mpho led the team that kept the lights on; firstly, as Interim Chairman & CEO (3rdQ 2009) and as Chairman of Eskom Holdings Limited SOC from 10 June 2010 until his term as Director concluded on 27 June 2011, after serving on that board for nine years. Qualifications: Bachelor of Administration (B.Admin) University of Zululand, B.Admin (University of Pretoria), EDP, Kellogg School of Management and Post. Grad Diploma, Retailing Management, University of Stirling.

Roger Baxter

CEO

Minerals Council South Africa

Roger Baxter is the Chief Economist of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa and Chairman of the Business Unity South Africa Standing Committee on Economic Policy. Roger has been employed at the Chamber since 1992 (since 2000 as Chief Economist). He has been involved in most matters related to the economics of minerals and mining policy, but has also played a much more encompassing role in organized business. For example, he chairs the BUSA Committee on Electricity and has been intricately involved in the National Electricity Response Task Team, the Presidential Join Working Group on Electricity and in the NEDLAC electricity emergency process, which culminated in the Energy Summit on 16 May 2008. Given the key issue of electricity, it is interesting to note that Roger was a member of the Business Team that negotiated the National Energy Policy White Paper in NEDLAC in 1998.

Roger has served on a wide range of committees and structures both within the Chamber and externally. He has participated in the Chamber team negotiating a new mineral policy with the new democratic government. In this context he has researched position papers on beneficiation, black economic empowerment, the economics of the new Minerals Act, minerals taxation and the proposed new Minerals Royalty Bill. Roger was a Chamber negotiator on the Mining Charter, the Charter’s Scorecard and for the Mineral Royalty Bill discussions. He has dealt with a multiplicity of other mining specific issues including participating on task-teams dealing with the World Bank Group Extractive Industries Review, the Water Research Commission Steering Committee on the development of a Waste Water Discharge Charge System for South Africa, the first and second gold lobby efforts to prevent open market sales by the IMF, the EU Registration and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) proposals, the Rail Industry Transport Collaboration Forum, to mention but a few. He was a member of the Chamber team on the Diamonds Amendment Bill and Money Bill and gave the Chamber’s presentation to Parliament. In 2006 he was appointed to the Board of the Precious Metals and Diamond Regulator. He has also done a substantial amount of research on minerals beneficiation. In the past two years he has completed a significant amount of research on the economics of the international and local mining sectors and has led the Chamber’s input to the Mining Industry Task Team on Investment established in November 2006 to investigate the reasons for the decline in mining investment in South Africa in 2004 and 2005. He also co-chairs the Regulatory and Investment Task Team established by the gold mining industry via the Monitor Gold Study. He is a member of the Platinum Beneficiation Committee investigating the potential for greater beneficiation in South Africa.

Roger has played an active role in organized business through Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) and has played an active role in tripartite discussions that go back to the original National Economic Forum established in 1994 to the current National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC). Roger is the current chairman of BUSA’s Economic Policy Committee and is one of the business principal members of the NEDLAC Trade and Industry Chamber. He was involved as a principal member of the BUSA negotiating teams in NEDLAC for the new Skills Development Bill, the Energy Policy White paper, the Water Pricing Policy and led the BSA teams input on the Nuclear Regulatory Bills, the negotiations on Industrial Policy (including helping to write the business position papers), the Integrated Manufacturing Policy and the Minerals Development Bill in NEDLAC. He also was part of the BUSA competition policy task team. He led the business input to the Presidential Growth and Development Summit on investment issues. He has participated in engagements with members of the Harvard team doing a “Growth Diagnostic” on South Africa.

He has played roles in a number of other BUSA projects including previously chairing the BUSA Privatisation Task Team and Chairing the BSA Steering Committee on the research project entitled “Breaking through the Economic Growth Barrier”. He is currently leading the BUSA input on administered prices and on raising the economic growth rate in NEDLAC. He developed a briefing note on Social Pacts and the Irish experience, which he presented to the National President and other Cabinet members at a BUSA-Presidential Working Group meeting in July 2005. Roger chairs the BUSA “Economic Growth Task team” which is engaging government on the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (ASGISA). He presented BUSA’s views to the President, Deputy-President and members of Cabinet in a series of meetings in 2006 and 2007.  He has participated in the external reference group selected to assist the government in developing a new industrial policy for South Africa. Other issues he has been involved in include macroeconomic policy, fiscal policy, the national budget, transport and electricity restructuring, migrant labour policy, labour market policy, microeconomic policy reforms, energy policy, environmental policy, sustainable development policy and so on. He has published articles in various financial and economic journals. He has presented to a multiplicity of conferences and seminars on issues as diverse as minerals policy right through to South Africa’s competitiveness versus the key international competition.

Roger completed post graduate studies in economics at the University of Natal before joining the Chamber of Mines. He was a member of the State President’s Adjudication Committee for Export Achievement awards for 4 years. He has played a role in the South African Chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce (on the Executive Committee) and was previously a director on the boards of the Rand Refinery and the National Productivity Institute. He is currently a board member of the Precious Metals and Diamond Regulator. He is a member of the Investment Analysts Society of South Africa and the Economic Society of South Africa. He previously sat on the Central Council of the Economic Society between 2002 and 2007 as the Chair of the Finance Committee.

Garyn Rapson

Partner - Environmental Law Specialist

Webber Wentzel

Garyn is an environmental law expert. His work is cross-sectoral and his clients operate in the energy, mining, oil and gas, industrial, waste management, biotechnology and construction sectors, to name a few. The nature of his work requires Garyn to be involved in every phase of his client's businesses, from the initial permitting stages, all the way through to the rehabilitation and closure of the operations. Throughout this business lifecycle, Garyn also runs complex environmental litigation matters, and is intimately involved in corporate transactional advice, including mergers, acquisitions, listings and disposals.

Advocate Thabo Mokoena

Director-General, Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources

Republic of South Africa

Adv Thabo Mokoena was born on 20 March 1975 in Senekal, situated in the eastern part of the Free State province. He attended various farm schools from 1984 to 1989. In 1990, he moved to Tembisa Township and studied at the Jiyana Senior Secondary School until 1996, when he completed his matric. Advocate Thabo Mokoena, holds an LLB degree from the University of the Western Cape as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Law. In 2014, he was appointed to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the Free State Legislature until 2017.
In 2017, he was appointed to serve as the Director-General of the Department of Mineral Resources, which is now the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy.

Jeff Quartermaine

CEO

Perseus Mining

Mr Jeff Quartermaine has more than 25 years’ experience in senior financial and strategic management roles with ASX and TSX-listed resources companies. Mr Quartermaine is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) who holds both business management (MBA) and engineering qualifications (BE).

As Perseus’ Chief Financial Officer from 2010 to 2013, Mr Quartermaine was a significant contributor to the team advancing Perseus’s Edikan Gold Project in Ghana to production, and preparing the Sissingué Gold Project, Côte d’Ivoire, for a development decision.

Mr Quartermaine was appointed Managing Director in January 2013.

Dr. Nombasa Tsengwa

Managing Director - Minerals

Exxaro Resources

As Executive Head Coal Operations, it is my responsibility to oversee the operations and functioning of the Coal Business and its ventures that are managed by Exxaro Coal, where I have been working for the past fourteen years. Additionally, I assist the CEO with the formulation and execution of Exxaro’s strategy. Managing the growth of the Coal commodity through strategic initiatives, as well as the marketing and logistics of all products, is my mandate.

Fortune Mojapelo

CEO

Bushveld Minerals

Fortune is a mining entrepreneur and founding shareholder of VM Investment Company (Proprietary) Ltd, a principal investments and advisory company focusing on mining projects in Africa. He has played a leading role in the origination, establishment and project development of several junior mining companies in Africa. Fortune graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BSc (Actuarial Science). He was previously at McKinsey & Company where he worked as a strategy consultant on corporate strategy and organisational development in several sectors in South Africa and Nigeria.