Kevin D'Souza

Senior Vice President, Sustainability Kinross

Kevin is a recognized professional and thought leader, with over 30 years of direct experience in over fifty countries in sustainability-related issues in the mining sector. Kevin has a proven and successful track record focused on creating sustainability value through informed strategic planning, governance, and tactical operational implementation for numerous top, mid-tier, and junior mining companies. He has worked directly for or consulted to, numerous mining companies including many of the industry’s majors such as Barrick Gold, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, and De Beers. Prior to joining Kinross he was the Chief Sustainability Officer with Resource Capital Funds where he led the full integration of sustainabiloity throughout the company’s investment processes, before that, he was the VP of Security, Sustainability & Environment for Centerra Gold and also Senior Director Community & Environment for Barrick Gold.

Kevin has also worked extensively on mining-related developmental programs with International Funding Institutions (IFIs) supporting emerging market Governments on mining policy reform and investment programs (including the World Bank, IFC, EBRD, ILO, USAID and the UK’s DFID).

He is currently a member of the technical advisory committee for Mining 2030 (Global Investor Commission on Mining); an advisory panel member for Diversity in Sustainability (DiS); an advisory board member for International Women in Mining (IWiM). He was prevsioulsy on the Board of Women in Mining (Canada) as well as an advisor to the Black North Initiative (BNI).

He is a mining engineering (MEng) graduate from Royal School of Mines, Imperial College in London and is Charted Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the Institution of Materials, Metallurgy and Mining (FIMMM) and a Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (FIEMA).