Mark Moody-Stuart

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (born 15 September 1940, Antigua) was appointed non-executive chairman of Anglo American PLC in 2001 [1] and is an ex-chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and a director of HSBC Holdings and of Accenture. He is a Chairman, Foundation for the Global Compact[2] and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) until December 2007. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Saudi Aramco. He was knighted in 2000 (KCMG).

Moody-Stuart became a Managing Director of The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, p.l.c. 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".[3]

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Family and education

He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Ph.D. on a thesis on the Devonian sediments of Spitsbergen. He became a Fellow of this College in 2001.[4]

In 1964, he married Judy McLeavy. They have three sons and a daughter.[4]

Career with Shell

Management style

At Shell, in stark contrast to both his predecessor, Cor Herkströter,[6] and successor, Philip Watts, at Shell, Mark was popular and had a reputation for being both listening and thoughtful.

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