ABOUT SHEILA

Sheila Khama is a non-executive director who has serve on boards of private and listed companies in parts of Africa, Australia, Saudi Arabia, the UK and US in energy, water, mining, oil, and gas industries. She brings more than 25 years experience in strategic leadership, mining concessions negotiations, offtake agreements, mergers, and acquisitions, as well as natural resources policy. 

Sheila is former executive of a diversified and vertically integrated mining group, a water development company, and First National Bank of Botswana. As former executive of Anglo American Corporation and De Beers Group in Botswana, much of her expertise is in upstream and midstream mining operations. For five years, she was CEO of De Beers Botswana and non-executive director of www. Debswana., the largest diamond producer by value at 26% of global market. Sheila was a member of client project management teams for infrastructure and resources management projects.

Sheila is a natural resources policy expert focused on renewable and non-renewable resources regulatory frameworks. For more than five years she led teams of experts at the African Development Bank followed the World Bank Groups implementing programs in parts of Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America Between. She is versed in multilateral development finance, geopolitics of transition to clean energy, and business to government investments.

Sheila is a governance and sustainable development practitioner. For more than a decade, she served on advisory boards of multinational companies, academic institutions, and donors. Notably, Columbia University Center for Sustainable Investments, Oxford University’s Natural Resources Charter, United Nations Office of Projects, United Nations Sustainable Development Networks for Extractives and Land Resources and the African Union Commission’s Mining Vision.

She is an associate fellow of Chatham House and holds Bachelors and MBA degrees from the Universities of Botswana and Edinburgh, respectively.