Anglo American Regulatory News (AAL)

Anglo American announces the appointment to the Group Management Committee of Anik Michaud as Group Director - Corporate Communication, with effect from 30 March 2015.

Mark Cutifani, Chief Executive of Anglo American, said: "Repositioning our corporate communication activities to the heart of our decision making under Anik Michaud's proven leadership will help us achieve our strategic goals and ensure that our reputation and licence to operate are given the appropriate consideration. We are absolutely focused on the need to engage more effectively with our ever more diverse range of stakeholders, starting with our employees. We recognise that those companies that excel in these areas will gain significant competitive advantage by articulating and delivering the real value that can be unlocked for all stakeholders through responsible mining."

Anik Michaud commented: "Bringing greater focus to our engagement work will enhance our ability to listen to and understand our myriad connected stakeholders so that we build effective and sustainable relationships. By articulating the considerable societal benefits that we bring, to our host countries and communities and to our customers and ultimate users of the products that we make possible, we will build further differentiation for Anglo American and our investment case. The organisation and cultural changes that we are making to Anglo American also require intensive engagement with our employees in order to yield positive, enduring results."

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Anik Michaud, age 47, joined Anglo American in January 2008 as Group Head of Corporate Communication and has developed an integrated global communication function that has successfully transformed Anglo American's corporate narrative, media and employee engagement, digital presence and brand. Anik's more than 20-year career in the full range of communication and public affairs disciplines has brought her from Quebec, Canada, where she was ultimately Director of Public Affairs for Rio Tinto Alcan after 10 years with the Alcan group. Anik began her career as the political attaché to the Minister of Finance for Quebec having qualified as a lawyer at the University of Ottawa and with a degree in Health Sciences.

Anglo American is a global and diversified mining business that provides the raw materials essential for economic development and modern life. Our people are at the heart of our business. It is our people who use the latest technologies to find new resources, plan and build our mines and who mine, process and move and market our products - from bulk commodities and base metals to precious metals and diamonds (through De Beers) - to our customers around the world. Our diversified portfolio of products spans the economic development cycle and, as a responsible miner, we are the custodians of precious resources. We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the long-term value that those resources represent for our shareholders, but also for the communities and countries in which we operate - creating sustainable value and making a real difference. Our mining operations, growth projects and exploration and marketing activities extend across southern Africa, South America, Australia, North America, Asia and Europe.

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