Leadership team
Strong and accountable leadership
Anglo American aims to be the leading global mining company. This means being the industry’s employer, partner, developer and investment of choice. Strong, accountable and safety-conscious leadership is essential to achieve this goal.
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is responsible to shareholders for Anglo American’s performance.
Executive team
The Group Management Committee (GMC) is responsible for formulating strategy (for discussion and approval by the Board), monitoring performance and managing the Group's portfolio.
Sir John Parker
Non-executive chairman
since August 2009; chairman of the Nomination Committee; a non-executive director since July 2009
Sir John became the non-executive chairman of Anglo American plc on 1 August 2009. He succeeded Sir Mark Moody-Stuart as chairman and is also chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Safety and Sustainable Development (S&SD) Committee. He is chairman of National Grid plc, a non executive director of Carnival Corporation, EADS and deputy chairman of DP World. He is a former joint chairman of the Mondi Group and recently stepped down as senior non-executive director (Chair) of the Court of the Bank of England. Sir John is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Chancellor of the University of Southampton and a Visiting Fellow of the university of Oxford. He is a recipient of honorary doctorates from a number of universities in the UK and Ireland. Sir John was re-elected to the board in April 2010.
Cynthia Carroll
Chief executive
since March 2007; Board member since January 2007
Cynthia Carroll chairs the Group Management Committee (GMC) and the Executive Committee (ExCo) and sits on the Safety and Sustainable Development (S&SD) Committee. She is the former president and chief executive officer of Alcan’s Primary Metals Group and a former director of Anglo AmericanGold Ashanti Limited and the Sara Lee Corporation. She is chairman of Anglo American Platinum Limited, a non-executive director of BP plc, and De Beers. She was re-elected to the board in April 2010.
Board of Directors
- Sir John Parker, Chairman
- Cynthia Carrol, Chief Executive Officer
- René Médori, Finance Director
- David Challen, Chairman of the Audit Committee
- SSir CK Chow, Board Member since April 2008
- Sir Philip Hampton, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
- Nicky Oppenheimer, Board member since March 1999
- Ray O’Rourke, Board member since December 2009, member of the Audit and Safety and Sustainable Development Committees
- Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Board member since April 2006, member of the Nomination and the Safety and Sustainable Development (S&SD) Committees
- Jack Thompson, Board member since November 2009, member of the Remuneration and the Safety and Sustainable Development (S&SD) Committees
- Peter Woicke, Board member since January 2006, Chairman of the Safety and Sustainable Development Committee
Executive Team
- Cynthia Carroll, Chief Executive Officer
- René Médori, Finance Director
- Brian Beamish, Group Director Mining and Technology
- Mervyn Walker, Group Director of Human Resources and Communications
- David Weston, Group Director Business Performance and Projects
- Walter De Simoni, Chief Executive of Anglo American Nickel
- Seamus French, Chief Executive of Metallurgical Coal
- Godfrey Gomwe, Executive Director, Anglo American South Africa Ltd
- Chris Griffith, Chief Executive of Kumba Iron Ore
- John MacKenzie, Chief Executive of Copper
- Norman Mbazima, Chief Executive of Thermal Coal
- Neville Nicolau, Chief Executive of Anglo American Platinum
- Duncan Wanblad, Group Director Non-Core Assets
- Stephan Weber, Chief Executive of Iron Ore Brazil
- Peter Whitcutt, Group Director Strategy and Business Development