Mark Moody-Stuart
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart Order of [St Michael and St George|KCMG] is a British businessman, He was appointed non-executive chairman of Anglo American PLC in 2001, serving until 2009. He has been chairman of Hermes Equity Ownership Services since 2009.
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 and was a director of the Global Reporting Initiative until December 2007. He is a director of Saudi Aramco. He was knighted in 2000.
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".
Family and education
He was born in Antigua the son of a sugar plantation owner, 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.In 1964, he married Judy McLeavy. They have three sons and a daughter.
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
- 2001 Gave up Chair of Shell but remained on the Board
- 2005 Retired from Shell
Publications
- Responsible Leadership: Lessons From the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics, Greenleaf Publishing, 2014.