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Jonathan Samuel Head of Social Performance Anglo American Jon Samuel is Head of Social Performance at Anglo American. In this role he has responsibility for the development and delivery of policies, strategies, training programmes and guidance documents relating to the company’s host communities. This work has included development and implementation of: the Anglo American Social Way, the company’s highly regarded management standards for social performance; an innovative suite of social performance indicators; the mining industry’s first standardised stakeholder complaints and grievance procedure; a unique postgraduate level programme for Anglo American’s senior managers on the changing expectations of our host societies, and how we can adapt and prosper from them; and the SocioEconomic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT), Anglo’s award winning guidance manual for community relations practitioners. Under Jon’s leadership, Anglo American’s management of community issues has increasingly been cited as a benchmark for the extractive industries and the company consistently tops key industry rankings for social performance. Jon is a regular guest lecturer, and has been asked to give talks on Anglo American’s approach to social performance at a number of prestigious universities including Cambridge and Oxford in the UK, Queensland in Australia and New York’s Columbia University. Jon studied at University College London and the University of Cambridge and lives in London with his wife and two young daughters.

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Jonathan  Samuel    Head  of  Social  Performance  Anglo  American    Jon  Samuel  is  Head  of  Social  Performance  at  Anglo  American.    In  this  role  he  has  responsibility  for  the  development   and   delivery   of   policies,   strategies,  training   programmes   and   guidance   documents  relating  to  the  company’s  host  communities.        This   work   has   included   development   and  implementation  of:      • the  Anglo  American  Social  Way,  the  company’s  highly  regarded  management  standards  

for  social  performance;    • an  innovative  suite  of  social  performance  indicators;    • the   mining   industry’s   first   standardised   stakeholder   complaints   and   grievance  

procedure;    • a  unique  post-­‐graduate  level  programme  for  Anglo  American’s  senior  managers  on  the  

changing  expectations  of  our  host  societies,  and  how  we  can  adapt  and  prosper   from  them;  and    

• the   Socio-­‐Economic   Assessment   Toolbox   (SEAT),   Anglo’s   award   winning   guidance  manual  for  community  relations  practitioners.          

Under   Jon’s   leadership,   Anglo   American’s   management   of   community   issues   has  increasingly   been   cited   as   a   benchmark   for   the   extractive   industries   and   the   company  consistently  tops  key  industry  rankings  for  social  performance.        Jon   is   a   regular   guest   lecturer,   and   has   been   asked   to   give   talks   on   Anglo   American’s  approach   to   social   performance   at   a   number   of   prestigious   universities   including  Cambridge   and   Oxford   in   the   UK,   Queensland   in   Australia   and   New   York’s   Columbia  University.        Jon   studied   at   University   College   London   and   the   University   of   Cambridge   and   lives   in  London  with  his  wife  and  two  young  daughters.