Sir Michael Lawrence Davis was born on 15 February 1958 and is a British-South African businessman, financier, philanthropist, and former politician.
25 Facts About Mick Davis
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Mick Davis was the chief executive of Xstrata plc, an Anglo-Swiss multinational mining company, until its merger with Glencore in 2013, and former chief executive and treasurer of the Conservative Party.
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Mick Davis was the Chairman of the British Conservative Party until he exited that post in July 2019 along with outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May Davis is the founder and CEO of Vison Blue Resources, commodities investment company.
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Mick Davis was born to a South African Jewish family on 15 February 1958.
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Mick Davis was educated at Theodor Herzl School, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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Mick Davis has a bachelor of commerce degree from Rhodes University and is a qualified accountant.
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Mick Davis was an executive director of the South African state-owned Eskom, one of the world's largest electricity utilities, before joining Gencor Ltd in 1994.
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Mick Davis fixed Eskom's finances; however he left the company after not being selected as the chief executive officer.
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Mick Davis was executive chairman of Ingwe Coal Corporation Ltd from 1995, until appointed in July 1997 as chief financial officer and an executive director of Billiton PLC.
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Mick Davis was CEO of Xstrata from 2001 until he left in 2013, after the company was taken over by Glencore in a merger that was characterized by some as "forced".
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In 2013, Mick Davis formed the mining venture, X2 Resources, with former colleagues including former Xstrata finance director Trevor Reid and executives Thras Moraitis, Andrew Latham, Ian Pearce and Benny Levene.
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In 2016, Mick Davis shut X2 Resources after the company failed to make any deals.
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Mick Davis was noted for being responsible for the successful merger of Xstrata and Glencore.
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In 2021, Mick Davis founded Vision Blue Resources, a commodites investment company.
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In May 2019 it was revealed by Global Witness that the mining firm Niron Metals, of which Mick Davis was director and co-founder, was to take over the mining rights at the Zogota property in Guinea from the Israeli mining billionaire tycoon Beny Steinmetz' company BSGR after a surprise resolution to the bribery case between BSGR and the Guinean government in February 2019.
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From 2009 to 2017 Mick Davis was president of the council of members and chairman of the board of trustees of the Jewish Leadership Council of the United Kingdom, the umbrella body of the largest Jewish charities and Institutions in the UK responsible for the strategic imperatives of UK Jewry.
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Mick Davis is chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Commission of the United Kingdom.
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Mick Davis is a trustee of the Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Mick Davis is a member of the Brookings International Advisory Council and a trustee of the Institute of National Security Studies.
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In February 2018 Mick Davis came under criticism for allegedly participating in a cover-up in 2013 of alleged financial impropriety at the Jewish Leadership Council charity where he was Chair.
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The Jewish Chronicle subsequently published parts of emails by Mick Davis outlining his proposed resolution to have the CEO resign on the grounds of ill health and that he hoped the full details would not be leaked.
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In 2016, Mick Davis was appointed treasurer of the British Conservative Party.
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In March 2018, along with David Brownlow, Mick Davis donated money to pay Ben Bradley's legal bills resulting from Bradley's tweet falsely accusing Jeremy Corbyn of "selling British secrets to communist spies in the 1980s".
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Mick Davis resigned as CEO and Treasurer of the Conservative Party on 24 July 2019.
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Mick Davis holds an honorary doctorate from Bar Ilan University.