Company: CENX
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001552781-25-000153
Chunk: 2

Company: CENTURY ALUMINUM CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 2
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 by U.S. Department of Energy to receive $500 million grant to build the first new aluminum 
 smelter in the U.S. in 50 years.                                                           |

Corporate Governance Snapshot We are committed to strong corporate governance practices which promote long-term value creation for our stockholders by strengthening Board and management accountability. Our key corporate governance practices are listed below and described in more detail below under “Corporate Governance.”

| • | Independent    
 Board Chairman |

| • | Regular                               
 meetings of the Independent Directors |

| • | Fully                                                                  
 independent Audit, Compensation and Governance & Nominating Committees |

| • | 100%                                          
 director attendance at Board meetings in 2024 |

| • | 100%                                              
 director attendance at Committee meetings in 2024 |

| • | Annual                      
 elections for all directors |

| • | 71%                                  
 of director nominees are independent |

| • | Annual                               
 Board and Committee self-evaluations |

| • | Proactive                                       
 shareholder outreach with regular board updates |

| • | Stock                                                                   
 ownership guidelines that apply to all executive officers and directors |

| • | Policies                                                                                      
 prohibiting short sales, hedging, margin accounts and pledging of Century stock by employees, 
 directors and officers                                                                        |

*Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure, and a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measure is included on page 73 .

| 2025            
 Proxy Statement | 3 |

Proxy Summary 2024 Executive Compensation Summary Our compensation program is designed to (i) attract, retain and motivate talented executives, (ii) incentivize and reward our executives for achieving the Company’s short- and long-term performance goals and (iii) align management’s interests with those of our stockholders by focusing on long-term value creation throughout the economic cycle, with a significant portion of executivecompensation variable and at-risk. For more detail regarding our executive compensation program, including definitions for various of the defined terms used below, please see the “Executive Compensation” section of this Proxy Statement. The following aspects of our executive compensation program demonstrate our pay-for-performance philosophy and our commitment to good governance:

| • | Setting                                                                                  
 target total compensation at competitive levels compared to our peers while using annual 
 and long-term incentive compensation to reward and motivate exceptional performance;     |

| • | Allocating                                                                           
 a significant portion of each named executive officer’s (“NEO”) compensation         
 to “at risk” compensation, the ultimate payouts or value of which are substantially  
 dependent on the successful achievement