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Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Postmasburg, Northern Cape, South Africa

Strategy Development and Implementation: Supported execution of Kumba's sustainability strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business goals, while providing strategic insights and guidance for day-to-day operations and business planning processes.Performance Monitoring and Measurement: Contributed to setting and monitoring sustainability performance targets, identifying risks, and assessing progress, while providing structured reporting and insights for management and board reports, enhancing accountability and informed decision-making.Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborated across departments to embed sustainability considerations into daily activities, built strong relationships with site teams to address unique challenges by fostering a culture of awareness and practical sustainability initiatives.Innovation and Best Practice: Stayed informed about emerging trends in sustainable mining, contributed to developing best practices, and promoted innovative solutions to enhance sustainability performance, ensuring alignment with international disclosure standards and investor requirements.Health of Discipline: Conducted sustainability materiality assessments, self-assessments, and provided input into ESG protocol harmonization efforts, managing sustainability risks and ensuring alignment with evolving industry standards.

Johannesburg

My role as a climate risk specialist was to assist with the management of climate-related risks into the traditional financial risk types. In addition I was part of a team that actively manages climate-related risks and opportunities across the bank by providing effective support, advice and monitoring and ensure Nedbank aligns with global best practices, including the Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).

Acting responsibly is no longer a choice - it’s a business imperative.Sustainability ReportingAnalysis on climate-related risks and opportunities in the mining sector through development of an internal diagnostic on readiness to respond to climate-related Financial DisclosuresNet Zero TransformationInvolved in effectively manage and improve the quality of client data, supporting them in their mandatory and voluntary disclosures and helping them to satisfy the changing demands of best practice.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

We’re helping to future-proof businesses by making them more resilient, agile and sustainable.Sustainability strategyConducting sustainability landscape assessments, identify business opportunities, and establish key performance indicators for steering transformation to achieve sustainable growth. Evaluating theESG landscape, materiality analysis and undertaking current state analysis for companies across the globe.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

We help organisations to look at the bigger picture, by striking a balance between staying competitive, driving innovation and preserving our environment. Sustainability Reporting and AssuranceProviding independent and expert verification of non-financial indicators for large JSE, NYSE and LSE companies across the globe. Providing advice on the quality of non-financial reporting process and on possible ways to improve reporting practices.Asset Retirement Obligation (ARO)Decommissioning and environmental obligations are complex and involve significant management judgements and estimates. Assessments of environmental AROs for PwC financial audit teams around the world. ESG Due Diligence:An assessment of a Target’s material ESG considerations to identify risks / opportunities in support of an investment decision making process. It includes a detailed understanding of ESG trends impacting different points of the industry value chain, and how that affects the Target.

Port Shepstone, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

The Foundation offers the exceptional Allan Gray Fellowship to Southern Africa’s pioneering bright young students. This initiative aims to develop students, known as Allan Gray Candidate Fellows, into Southern Africa’s future high impact responsible entrepreneurs.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

As an Human Geography tutor, my responsibilities included teaching one three-hour tutorial group per week, marking weekly tutorial hand-ins, invigilating tests, and managing tutorial-related administration. I was able to provide support to first year students for test and exam preparation. The course draws together political, economic and environmental analyses at macro-, meso- and micro-scales to consider the question: why, despite an intensive focus on development, has inequality increased at all scales?

Cape Town Area, South Africa

As an Human Geography tutor, my responsibilities included teaching one three-hour tutorial group per week, marking weekly tutorial hand-ins, invigilating tests, and managing tutorial-related administration. I was able to provide support to third year students for test and exam preparation, as well as advice for further postgraduate studies. The course focuses on international debates in classical and contemporary human geography. It consists of four important thematic areas in the geographical literature: development; spatiality, urban; political and feminist geographies. The course lays the foundations for postgraduate course work and research, emphasizing academic reading and writing skills taught in the practical sessions.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

An undergraduate studentship in paleoenvironmental science, specifically focusing on the Duynefontein collection with Dr Stynder in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Master Of Science - Ms, Sustainable Development, Distinction

Interdisciplinary MSc equipping students to lead sustainable transformation in business and society at large. Courses include: •.

Bachelor Of Science (Hons), Environmental Management, Cum Laude

Thesis: Investigating the extent to which coal mining companies listed on the JSE in South Africa align with the recommendations of TCFD.

Bachelor Of Science (Hons), Environmental And Geographical Sciences And Archaeology

Activities and Societies: Connoisseur Society, Palestinian Solidarity Forum

Bachelor Of Science, Environmental And Geographical Sciences

Activities and Societies: Connoisseur Society, Thethani Debating League, Equal Education, Palestinian Solidarity Forum

Oxford Climate Society, Oxford School Of Climate Change

Capstone project: Investigating the link between COVID-19 and the development of the Circular Economy (C.E) - Worked in a small group.

National Senior Certificate

English (Home Language) Afrikaans (First Additional Language) Mathematics Life Orientation History Geography Life Sciences