Mark Moody-Stuart


Sir Mark Moody-Stuart KCMG 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 until December 2007. He is a director of Saudi Aramco. He was knighted in 2000.
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