Sir Mick Davis has extensive capital markets and corporate transactions experience.
During his career, he has raised almost US$40 billion from global capital markets and successfully completed over US$120 billion of corporate transactions. His successes include the listing of Billiton on the London Stock Exchange; the merger of BHP and Billiton into the largest diversified mining company in the world; the initial public offering of Xstrata on the London Stock Exchange in 2002 and Xstrata’s subsequent acquisitions of MIM Holdings and Falconbridge, and the successful merger of Xstrata and Glencore.
Sir Davis is a Chartered Accountant by profession and an alumnus of Theodor Herzl School in Port Elizabeth. He holds an honours degree in Commerce from Rhodes University in South Africa and an Honorary Doctorate from Bar Ilan University.
In 2015, he was made a Knight’s Bachelor.