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

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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

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  • 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

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

References

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Business positions
Preceded by Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors
of Royal Dutch Shell

1998–2001
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading
1997–2001