INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN

www . twitter . com / pippajeffcock Exploration professional , Pippa Jeffcock , discovered a gold deposit in Ecuador and brought it to production with her company Revenge Mining – the first independent foreign company in Ecuador to open a mine . During the eight years , she spent in Ecuador , Pippa was elected as the first woman director of the Ecuadorian Chamber of Mines . Elsewhere over her 30 years ’ experience in the industry , she has spent time working with AngloGold Ashanti in the DRC and BHP Billiton in Guinea , as well as 10 years doing mining analysis and project

Director African Natural Resources Centre for African Development Bank , Sheila Khama has been a “ champion of sustainable resources development .” Khama was once the Compliance Head for Anglo American , and then the CEO of De Beers in Botswana . Then came a stint as the Director at the African Centre for Economic Transformation in Ghana and a member of the executive team at First National Bank , Botswana . A member of the Technical Advisory Group of Oxford University ’ s Natural Resources Charter and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network on Extractives and Land Resources . Sheila also chairs the board of AGAMAL , a non-profit entity financed by the Global Fund to contain malaria infection in Ghana .

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