Sheila Khama
Consultant/Author, Non Executive Director, Tullow Oil @
Bio
Sheila Khama is a consultant, non-executive director of Tullow Oil (a FTSE 250 company) and The Metals Company (a NASDAQ) and is a member of the companies’ sustainability and remuneration subcommittees, respectively. She is a former non- executive director CEO of subsidiaries of De Beers, and compliance officer for Anglo American Corporation Groups’ diamonds, thermal coal, copper nickel, soda ash and a range of upstream mining support services in Botswana. Sheila is a recently self-published author of a book on extractives corporate governance. She has spent 10 years leading teams of experts including at the World Bank and the African Development Bank advising policymakers in extractives governance in parts of Africa, the Caribbean, Central Asia, and Latin America. She has been a member of teams managing green, brown fields projects and mining operations and mineral processing facilities. Areas of knowledge are regulatory frameworks, strategies for ESG, negotiations, joint venture arrangements, government relations, sovereign, and reputation risk. In her personal capacity, she served on sustainability advisory panels of LafargeHolcim, (the leading producer of cement and aggregates) and AngloGold Ashanti (Africa’s leading gold producer). She was a member of technical committees of Oxford University’s Natural Resources Charter, Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Investment, the African Union Commission’s Africa Mining Vision Technical Committee and the UN’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network. She has advised boards of NGOs and acted as an observer on the International Board of the EITI. She has lived in different parts of Africa, the UK, and the US. She is a citizen of Botswana and holds an MBA from Edinburgh University in Scotland.