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Mark Moody-Stuart

Mark Moody-Stuart

British businessman

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart KCMG (born 15 September 1940) is a British businessman, He was appointed non-executive chairman of Anglo American PLC[1] in 2001, serving until 2009. He has been chairman of Hermes Equity Ownership Services since 2009.[2][3]

Mark Moody-Stuart and Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete at the World Economic Forum on Africa (2006).

He is a former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and a director of HSBC Holdings and of Accenture. He is chairman of the Foundation for the Global Compact[4] and was a director of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) until December 2007. He is a director of Saudi Aramco. He was knighted in 2000 (KCMG).

Moody-Stuart became a managing director of Shell Transport and Trading Company plc in 1991 and was chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell from 1998-2001. He was succeeded by Sir Philip Watts.

In February 2008, he hit the headlines with a call for a ban on "gas-guzzlers".[5]

Family and education

He was born in Antigua the son of a sugar plantation owner,[6] and educated at Shrewsbury School and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a PhD on a thesis on the Devonian sediments of Spitsbergen. He became a Fellow of this College in 2001.[7]

In 1964, he married Judy McLeavy. They have three sons and a daughter.[7]

Career with Shell

  • 1966 Joined Shell
  • Geologist in Spain, Oman and Brunei
  • 1972 Chief Geologist in Australia
  • 1976 Leader of North Sea exploration teams, Shell UK Expro
  • 1976 Manager, Western Division Shell Petroleum Development Company, Nigeria.
  • 1979 General Manager, Turkey
  • 1982 Chairman and Chief Executive, Malaysia
  • 1990 Exploration and Production Co-ordinator
  • 1991 Group Managing Director
  • 1998 Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group [8]
  • 2001 Gave up Chair of Shell but remained on the Board[7]
  • 2005 Retired from Shell[7]

Publications

  • Responsible Leadership: Lessons From the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics, Greenleaf Publishing, 2014. ISBN 9781906093969

References

  1. [1]
    Anglo American website listing NEDs. See also Guardian article, 22 April 2007, on Anglo, after its AGM
  2. [2]
    Who's who, accessed 30 September 2012
  3. [3]
    HEOS website Archived 15 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. [4]
    List of Board members on official Global Compact website, accessed 13 May 2007 Archived 5 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. [5]
    BBC News Green Room website: Mark Moody Stuart Society depends on more for less. (Accessed 5 February 2008
  6. [6]
    MacAlister, Terry (11 January 2003). "Interview with Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman, Anglo American". The Guardian.
  7. [7]
    Who's who accessed online 13 May 2007
  8. [8]
    Speakers at TERIIN Conference, accessed 13 May 2007 Archived 5 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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