Global Tailings Management Institute appoints Directors
The Board will oversee the implementation of tailings standards.
The Global Tailings Management Institute was established in January 2025 to implement the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM).
Mark Cutifani FIMMM, former CEO of Anglo American, will Chair the board.
More than 150 individuals from multiple stakeholders – including from the mining industry, academics and Indigenous people – responded to the call to join the Board.
‘The Institute is…a unique collaboration, focused on aligning standards and supporting each other to create a safer and more socially sensitive mining industry’ says Cutifani.
The Institute will now focus on developing its core activities of establishing a technical committee, developing framework for tailings auditing, creating training and accreditation programmes, and certifying facilities against GISTM.
The following individuals have been added to its board of directors:
- Chair: Mark Cutifani FIMMM, Former CEO of Anglo American (Australia)
- Deputy Chair: Vicente Mello, Senior Vice President, AECOM (Brazil)
- Janis Shandro, Owner/Managing Director, Arrowsmith Gold Inc. (Canada)
- Mutuso Dhliwayo, Executive Director, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Organisation (Zimbabwe)
- Jacqui Hex, Environmental Scientist, Jones & Wagener (South Africa)
- Andressa Lanchotti, Public Prosecutor (Brazil)
- Edson Krenak, Indigenous scholar and advocate (Brazil)
- John Howchin, Special Advisor, The Global Investor Commission on Mining
- 2030 (Sweden)
- Jeronimo Covacevich, Tailings Subject Matter Expert, BHP (Chile)
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