Mark Moody-Stuart

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart KCMG (born 15 September 1940) 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 (GRI) until December 2007. He is a director of Saudi Aramco. He was knighted in 2000 (KCMG).

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. ISBN 9781906093969