Mmetla Masire: Okavango to resume diamond sales in January

Botswana’s state-owned Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) is set to resume diamond sales in January 2025, whether the market remains depressed or not. ODC managing director Mmetla Masire told Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa on the side-lines of...

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Helga Pombal: Angola's Stardiam finds solution to the threat posed by lab-grown diamonds

Stardiam manager of production Helga Pombal told Rough&Polished's Mathew Nyaungwa on the sidelines of the Angola International Diamond Conference that lab-grown diamonds are creating a parallel market for more accessible stones, combined with lower...

11 november 2024

Ellah Muchemwa: ADPA to launch Africa's first diamond mining standard next year

The African Diamond Producers Association (ADPA), which is based in Luanda, Angola, and represents the interests of mainly African diamond producers and those with the potential to produce diamonds, will next year launch the Sustainable Development...

04 november 2024

Dmitry Fedorov: I want our jewelry to be displayed at a museum in the future

Dmitry Fedorov is the founder of the eponymous jewelry house. His main focus is the creation of Orthodox-inspired premium luxury jewelry of high artistic merit. He told Rough&Polished about his journey in the jewelry industry, about choosing the ‘Orthodox...

28 october 2024

Responsible business practices ‘no longer optional’, says WDC President Feriel Zerouki

The president of the World Diamond Council takes time out of her busy schedule to tell Rough&Polished readers about the critical work of the WDC. Zerouki, the first female present of the body, which includes all the important industry organizations among...

14 october 2024

Russian Finance Minister re-elected to head ALROSA Supervisory Board

13 july 2020
alrosa_logo.jpgFollowing the absentee vote on Friday, July 10, ALROSA Supervisory Board members elected Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Supervisory Board members also elected Chairman’s deputies and members of special-purpose committees. This was stated in a press note distributed by ALROSA on Monday, July 13. Anton Siluanov has been the Chairman of ALROSA Supervisory Board since 2015.
Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Aysen Nikolaev and ALROSA CEO Sergey Ivanov were re-elected as First Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board, respectively.
Supervisory Board members also elected members of the Board committees. Alexei Moiseev, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, remains the Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee. Other member of the Committee are Aysen Nikolaev, Sergey Ivanov, Kirill Dmitriev, Andrey Donets, Maria Gordon (independent director), Evgenia Grigorieva, Sergey Mestnikov, Alexey Noskov (independent director), Vladimir Rashevsky, Maxim Tereshchenko, and Oleg Fedorov.
Like last year, all members of the Audit Committee are independent directors. Maria Gordon heads the Audit Committee. Dmitry Konov and Alexey Noskov are members of the Committee.
Evgenia Grigorieva chairs the HR & Remunerations Committee. Independent directors Maria Gordon, Dmitry Konov and Alexey Noskov are members of the Committee.