Dr. Fiona Perrott-Humphrey 2024 Speaker

Senior Advisor

Rothschild and Co

Biography

Fiona Perrott-Humphrey is an independent senior adviser to Rothschild & Co’s Mining Team. Her focus is on the constantly changing trends in the sector which impact on both corporate strategy issues as well as on the communication process between companies, their shareholders and host governments. She believes that current developments underway in the energy transition and ESG issues are driving some of the most seismic shifts in investor perceptions of the sector in decades. She is regularly invited to chair panels at mining conferences on these topics.

Before joining Rothschild & Co in this role in 2003, she had seventeen years of experience in the City of London at major financial institutions where she was consistently rated as one of the top investment analysts in mining, ending up as head of the European Mining Research at SSMB (part of Citigroup).

In 2006, Fiona formed AIM Mining Research and, in the same year, published “”Understanding Junior Miners”” in conjunction with three geologists and a mining engineer. The book aims to help investors and mining company managers to understand the specialist geological and mining issues facing early stage juniors, in order to interrogate and analyze them.

Prior to arrival in the City of London in 1986, she had six years of experience in financial journalism and academia in South Africa, building up a broad knowledge of managerial and financial topics.