Kevin PCJ D'Souza
Chief Sustainability Officer
Resource Capital Funds

Kevin is a recognized professional and thought leader with 30 years of direct experience in responsible mining including Environment Social Governance (ESG) related issues, security management, and diversity & inclusion. Kevin is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer with Resource Capital Funds where he leads the full integration of ESG throughout the company’s investment processes. Kevin has a proven and successful track record focused on creating value through informed strategic planning, governance, and tactical operational implementation for numerous top, mid-tier, and junior mining companies. He has worked directly for or consulted to, numerous mining companies including many of the industry’s majors such as Barrick Gold, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Kinross, and De Beers and was recently the VP of Security, Sustainability & Environment for Centerra Gold. He has gained wide-ranging knowledge and experience in a variety of operational, managerial, and executive leadership roles from remote exploration camps, mine construction sites, operational mines, and closure sites, to Corporate and Ministerial offices. Kevin is known for his strong cross-cultural competency and deliberate relationship-based approach and has also worked extensively on mining-related developmental programs for major NGOs and with International Funding Institutions (IFIs) supporting emerging market Governments on mining development policy reform and mining investment programs (including the World Bank, IFC, EBRD, ILO, USAID and the UK’s DFID). Throughout his career, Kevin has amassed direct mining experience in over fifty countries worldwide with a deliberate and dedicated focus on developing countries in Central Asia, Oceania, South America, and sub-Saharan Africa. He has an MEng in Mining Engineering from the renowned Royal School of Mines in London, England (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine).
