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

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]

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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Business positions Preceded byCor Herkströter Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directorsof Royal Dutch Shell 1998–2001 Succeeded byPhilip Watts Preceded byJohn Southwood Jennings Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading 1997–2001