Anglo American's Sponsorship at the B20 2025

Duncan Wanblad is Chief Executive of Anglo American and co-chair of the B20 Trade & Investment Task Force. With more than 30 years of international mining experience, he has led major businesses across the Group – including Base Metals and Copper – and held senior roles in portfolio strategy and business development. This depth of expertise gives him a clear perspective on how trade frameworks, investment climates and infrastructure reform can unlock growth across critical mineral supply chains.

In his public leadership at global industry forums, Duncan has emphasised that mining plays a vital role in driving economic growth, enabling innovation and supporting sustainable development. He consistently highlights the importance of critical minerals, bold partnerships and modernised infrastructure as essential to Africa’s trade and investment future.

At the B20, Duncan focuses on modernising trade systems to reflect the strategic importance of critical minerals, strengthening regional integration and ensuring that local value creation goes hand in hand with global competitiveness. His participation reflects our commitment to shaping policy outcomes that enable inclusive, sustainable growth.

Mpumi Zikalala is Chief Executive Officer of our Kumba Iron Ore business and a member of the B20 Business Advisory Committee. With over two decades of experience across De Beers Group and Anglo American, she has led mining operations in South Africa and Canada and now oversees one of the world’s leading suppliers of premium iron ore for greener steelmaking.

Mpumi has played a leading role in advancing transformation within mining. She has long advocated for inclusion and diversity not as a compliance exercise but as a business imperative that strengthens performance, safety and trust with communities. Recognised by Women in Mining UK among the Top 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining, she brings both technical expertise and leadership insight to her role.

At the B20, her focus is on strengthening public–private partnerships and advancing regional trade and infrastructure that enable Africa’s resources to drive inclusive growth. Drawing on her record of transformation and skills development, she ensures global policy discussions reflect the importance of creating opportunities that extend beyond the mine into communities and economies.

Nolitha Fakude is Chair of Anglo American South Africa and a member of the B20 Business Advisory Committee. With more than 30 years of leadership experience across industries, including oil and gas, petrochemicals, financial services and retail, she brings deep expertise in strategy, governance and transformation to global policy discussions.

Throughout her career, Nolitha has held senior roles in corporate affairs, strategy and human resources, and has served on numerous boards, including the JSE Limited and Discovery Bank. She is a former president of the Black Management Forum and author of Boardroom Dancing, a memoir on corporate activism and inclusive leadership.

At the B20, Nolitha contributes her long-standing commitment to socio-economic transformation and inclusive growth, themes she has consistently championed in both business and public platforms. Her focus is on strengthening public–private partnerships and ensuring that Africa’s development priorities, from infrastructure to digital transformation, are represented in global outcomes.

Nevashnee Naicker is Anglo American’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs in South Africa and a member of the B20 Sustainable Food Systems & Agriculture Task Force. With a career spanning both the food industry and the resources sector, she brings a unique perspective on how business, government and society can work together to address hunger and strengthen food systems.

Through the B20, Nevashnee contributes Anglo American’s experience in partnerships, land and water management and inclusive enterprise development to global policy discussions. Her vision is for Africa to move from being seen only as a supplier of resources to becoming an active driver of sustainable agriculture and food value chains, shaping solutions that create opportunities, equity and resilience across society.

Stan Pillay is the Regional Carbon and Innovation Lead at Anglo American South Africa and a member of the B20 Energy Mix & Just Transition Task Force. He advocates our perspective that secure, affordable and sustainable energy is essential to competitiveness, investment and inclusive growth, from households and small enterprises to mining operations and national economies.

In his role, Stan has been closely involved in Anglo American’s renewable energy work, collaborating with government and industry to open regulatory pathways, support permitting frameworks and assess the economics of renewables. This experience shapes his contributions to energy transition debates and reflects a career focused on how energy costs and supply directly affect business competitiveness and development.

Within the B20 context, Stan applies these insights to discussions on how energy policy can support Africa’s industrialisation, from tackling energy poverty and strengthening regional power trading systems to building manufacturing hubs across the energy value chain. He also highlights the importance of skills development and technology transfer in ensuring the energy transition is just and future-ready.

Vanessa Naicker is Vice President of Social Impact for Anglo American in South Africa and a member of the B20 Industrial Transformation & Innovation Task Force. With nearly three decades in engineering and mining, she brings deep sector and technical insight to shaping how industrial transformation can drive inclusive and sustainable growth, bridging boardrooms and society with a focus on industrialisation as a foundation for economic development.

Vanessa emphasises the need to move beyond policy recommendations to practical action, highlighting Africa’s opportunity to shift from being a supplier of minerals to becoming a central participant in global industrial value chains. For her, the continent’s growing youth population, combined with investment in skills, SMEs and infrastructure, can unlock the innovation and resilience needed for long-term growth.

Through her work at Anglo American, she has engaged governments, communities and industry across diverse contexts, giving her a practical perspective on how industrial ecosystems can be strengthened. At the B20, she contributes insights on scaling innovation, strengthening of skills ecosystems, building supplier networks and embedding sustainable technologies that deliver benefits for business, government and society alike.

Phakamani Lisa is a Government and International Relations Specialist for Africa at Anglo American and a member of the B20 Sustainable Food Systems & Agriculture Task Force. Drawing on her experience at the intersection of mining, agriculture and political risk management, she positions food security as a matter of dignity and highlights Africa’s vital role in shaping inclusive future-ready food systems.

Her perspective is shaped by more than 12 years of engaging governments, policymakers and civil society across Africa on issues such as land use, water and ecosystem stewardship. She has seen first-hand how agricultural entrepreneurs can build resilient food systems. She also draws on international lessons, such as Anglo American’s co-investment in water reservoirs and irrigation systems in Peru and Chile, which benefit both mining operations and surrounding farming communities.

Because mining operations and agriculture often co-exist in the same geographies, she emphasises the importance of coordinated planning to ensure resilient food systems that support shared prosperity.

Lindo Khuzwayo is the Sustainability Principal at Anglo American South Africa and a member of the B20 Integrity & Compliance Task Force. An attorney by training, she brings a legal and sustainability perspective to global policy debates, focusing on how governance, ethics and societal expectations intersect.

Within the Task Force, she contributes expertise on how stronger compliance and integrity systems can support inclusive growth, including the role of whistleblowing mechanisms, digital tools and transparent governance frameworks to strengthen accountability and build trust with communities and stakeholders.

She stresses that compliance must move beyond formalities to become a shared responsibility across government, business and communities. For Lindokuhle, the value of the Task Force lies in turning global recommendations into context-specific actions, ensuring that policies are measurable, outcomes are tracked, and integrity is embedded in sustainable economic development.

Michael Mapstone is Chief Executive Officer of the Anglo American Foundation and a member of the B20 Employment & Education Task Force. Since 2022, he has led the Foundation’s refreshed strategy and launched programmes in Southern Africa and Latin America that strengthen education systems, skills development and community resilience.

With more than 20 years of international experience across civil society, philanthropy and partnerships, Michael has held senior roles at the Charities Aid Foundation, the Commonwealth Secretariat and Voluntary Services Overseas. His career has centred on building collaborations between governments, civil society and business to expand opportunity and drive sustainable development.

In the B20, Michael brings this experience to policy discussions on youth employment and workforce readiness. His insights support the development of inclusive education and skills frameworks that prepare future generations to participate in and shape competitive, sustainable economies.