Aidan Davy - MINING SUMMIT

Aidan Davy joined ICMM in June 2007. As Co-COO he provides strategic support across ICMM’s programmatic work and plays a central role in strategy development and implementation. He leads ICMM’s work on mining standards (including work related to consolidation of mining standards), sustainability reporting and policy engagement. He led the work to develop ICMM’s Mining Principles - which define good practice environmental, social and governance requirements for the mining and metals industry - and formerly led ICMM's work on environmental resilience, social performance, and governance and transparency. Since late 2018, he led ICMM’s work on tailings management encompassing the establishment of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings
Management and more recently the related Global Tailings Management Institute.

Aidan has over 37 years of cross-sectoral experience on sustainable development issues, working with a range of private, multi-lateral and not-for-profit organizations, including the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation in Washington DC. For the first decade of his career, Aidan primarily worked on environmental issues, within an international consulting company, a multinational manufacturing company and at the World Bank. He then shifted his focus to social responsibility and accountability issues, with a strong emphasis on the mining industry.