Mohammed Valli Moosa

Mr Moosa has held numerous leadership positions across business, government, politics and civil society in South Africa and internationally. Mr Moosa has expertise in finance, general business and mining. He has extensive leadership experience in the public and private sector. He is also an international expert on sustainable development and climate change.

Mr Moosa previously served as Chairman of the world’s biggest platinum producer, Anglo Platinum Limited and as Chairman of Sun International Limited. He served on the boards of the financial services group, Sanlam Limited, which has operations in South Africa, India, the United Kingdom and in a number of African countries. He also served on the board of transport and logistics company, Imperial Holdings. Imperial operates in sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.

He also participated in establishing two Johannesburg-based private equity funds and the investment house, Lereko Investments.

He was South African Minister of Constitutional Development; the President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature; Chairman of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development; Chairman of WWF(SA) and he served as a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress until 2009 and currently serves on the steering committee of the Tokyo-based Innovation for a Cool Earth Forum.