
Anne is the co-founder of Brazilian Nickel a company with sustainability and ethical principles at the forefront of its Agenda. Its flagship Piauí Nickel Project is a nickel heap leach which produced its first intermediate products in 2022. Heap leaching is a low cost and inherently low carbon footprint process and BRN is looking at innovative ways to reduce the project carbon footprint even further with the vision of being carbon negative The Piauí site was awarded the Nickel Mark in May 2024. BRN is a member of the Nickel Institute (the global association of leading primary nickel producers) and in 2025 Anne became Chair of its Board of Directors.
In 2022 Anne was named one of the 25 inaugural ESG champions by the Natural Resources Forum particularly for her work on gender diversity and inclusivity in the mining sector.
Anne is a Chartered Metallurgical Engineer from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London. She has over 30 years’ experience in the natural resource sector and has been working in nickel and cobalt since 2003. She is also a scientific associate of the Natural History Museum in London were she continues to contribute to fundamental nickel and cobalt research.