Alison Atkinson
Projects and Development Director
Anglo American
As Projects and Development Director, Alison leads the Projects and Carbon and Innovation disciplines at Anglo American.
Prior to joining Anglo American in 2023, Alison was CEO of AWE plc from 2020- 2023, an organisation with a critical mission to support the defence and security of the UK. Alison joined AWE in 2005 and fulfilled a number of senior roles, delivering multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects and technology programmes and developing capabilities and products that support the UK's nuclear defence programme. Prior to AWE, Alison spent 14 years at Halcrow, the global engineering consultancy, managing a wide variety of capital projects in the UK and overseas in both the public and private sectors.
A champion for diversity in science and engineering, Alison was voted as one of the top ten most ‘Influential Female Engineers in the UK and Europe’ by the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards in 2019. Alison is a Chartered Civil Engineer and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is also a non-executive director of Kier Group plc and chair of its safety, health and environment committee.
Speaker Programm
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Raw Materials Security – Milestones, Challenges and next Steps
Die sichere Rohstoffversorgung ist entscheidend für Energiewende und Digitalisierung, doch geopolitische Spannungen, Ressourcenknappheit und Handelsbarrieren gefährden stabile Lieferketten. Im globalen Wettbewerb um kritische Mineralien braucht es kluge politische Strategien, um den steigenden Bedarf zu decken und Handelsrisiken zu reduzieren. Diskutieren Sie mit, welche Maßnahmen unsere Versorgung sichern, wie Innovationen Abhängigkeiten senken können und welche Chancen internationale Partnerschaften bieten.
Alison Atkinson, Member of Executive Leadership Team, Director of Projects & Development, Anglo American
Hildegard Bentele MEP, Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments
Abigail Hunter, Executive Director, Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, SAFE
Thomas Schäfer, Chief Executive, Volkswagen Brand und Vorsitzender der Subsahara-Afrika-Initiative der Dt. Wirtschaft
