Ben Magara
CEO Exxaro Resources
Ben is a seasoned mining industry leader with over 35 years of extensive operational management and business executive leadership experience in leading global mining companies including at Anglo American. He is the former Chief Executive of Lonmin Plc. During his tenure at Lonmin, he restructured and returned the company to profitability and subsequently consolidated its assets with Sibanye-Stillwater, creating the world’s largest PGMs producer. Ben was appointed CEO of Exxaro Resources Limited in April 2025. As a visionary, focused and strategic leader who exhibits participatory leadership, Ben is a perfect fit to lead Exxaro as it diversifies to include coal, minerals of the future and energy solutions and powering possibilities in Africa and beyond.
2026 Agenda Sessions
Voices of progress – Exxaro
Positioning Exxaro to be a diversified natural resources champion in Africa and beyond
Mining’s most influential CEOs take the stage to share bold business strategies. These sessions offer a candid look at leadership decisions shaping the future, and progress, of mining.
Monday 09 February 16:00 - 16:20 Table Mountain Stage (CTICC1 - Ground Floor - Exhibition Hall)
Leadership
Positioning Exxaro to be a diversified natural resources champion in Africa and beyond
Mining’s most influential CEOs take the stage to share bold business strategies. These sessions offer a candid look at leadership decisions shaping the future, and progress, of mining.
Reimagining mining partnerships through empathy
Step into the “veil of ignorance” – an experiment CEOs speakers temporarily shed their identities and biases to adopt the roles of other stakeholders in the mining ecosystem.
From community leaders and regulators to industry bodies and investors, each CEO will embody a perspective not their own, challenging assumptions and fostering deeper understanding.
Through moderated dialogue and immersive role-play, the session will explore:
- How decisions might shift if stakeholders were unaware of their own position or power
- What true partnership looks like when empathy precedes strategy
- How this exercise can inform more inclusive policy, investment, and operational frameworks
Tuesday 10 February 09:00 - 10:20 Table Mountain Stage (CTICC1 - Ground Floor - Exhibition Hall)
Leadership
Step into the “veil of ignorance” – an experiment CEOs speakers temporarily shed their identities and biases to adopt the roles of other stakeholders in the mining ecosystem.
From community leaders and regulators to industry bodies and investors, each CEO will embody a perspective not their own, challenging assumptions and fostering deeper understanding.
Through moderated dialogue and immersive role-play, the session will explore:
- How decisions might shift if stakeholders were unaware of their own position or power
- What true partnership looks like when empathy precedes strategy
- How this exercise can inform more inclusive policy, investment, and operational frameworks
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