Peter Elam, CIA, QIAL, CRMA is Group Head of Risk and Assurance at Anglo American plc, a position he assumed on joining the company on 1 June 2019. He is responsible for enterprise risk management, internal audit, ethical business conduct, investigations and insurance globally.

Peter was previously Head of Internal Audit at Novartis, based in Basel, Switzerland, from 2010.

Peter began his career with Shell, where he spent 15 years in positions of increasing responsibility in various countries, latterly as Shell’s CFO in China.

Peter graduated from Oxford University and also studied at McGill University in Montreal and Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest. He is a member of the International Internal Audit Standards Board, Council member of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (UK and Ireland) and a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.