Ian Cockerill

**Ian David Cockerill** (an haife shi a ranar 4 ga Agusta 1954 a Cheshire, Ingila)  masanin ilimin ƙasa ne kuma babban jami'in haƙar ma'adinai. Cockerill ya fara aikin haƙar ma'adinai a Afirka ta Kudu a shekarar 1975 bayan ya kammala karatunsa na farko a fannin ilimin ƙasa a Kwalejin Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Chelsea . Daga baya ya kammala karatunsa na digiri na biyu a fannin Gudanar da Haƙar Ma'adinai da Samar da Ma'adinai a Makarantar Royal of Mines, Shirin Ci gaban Gudanarwa a Jami'ar Afirka ta Kudu, da kuma Shirin Gudanarwa na Ci gaba a Kwalejin Templeton, Oxford . Tun daga shekarar 2024, shi ne babban jami'in gudanarwa na Endeavor Mining .

## Sana'a
A shekarar 1975, Cockerill ya fara aiki a Welkom ta Afirka ta Kudu a Union Corporation . Aikinsa tare da Anglo American plc Group ya fara ne a shekarar 1979 lokacin da ya shiga De Beers a matsayin mataimakin fasaha a ayyukan lu'u-lu'u na Kleinzee a Port Nolloth . Bayan wani lokaci a Burtaniya a Ofishin Daraktan Fasaha na Minorco, Cockerill ya koma Afirka ta Kudu bayan an canza shi zuwa sashin zinare na Anglo American Corporation, wanda daga baya aka nada AngloGold Ltd, a matsayin Manajan Elandsrand da Western Deep Levels West Mine (1992 zuwa 1996). Tsakanin 1996 da 1999, Cockerill ya kasance babban darektan (Business Development) kuma Babban Jami'in Gudanarwa (African International Operations) na AngloGold Limited. A shekarar 1999, Cockerill ya zama manajan darakta kuma Babban Jami'in Ayyuka na Gold Fields Limited, kuma a shekarar 2002 aka naɗa shi shugaban kuma babban jami'in gudanarwa na Gold Fields Ltd. A watan Yunin 2008, Cockerill ya sake komawa Anglo American plc a matsayin babban jami'in gudanarwa (Anglo Coal), wanda ke da alhakin dukkan ayyukan duniya har zuwa lokacin da ya yi ritaya daga wannan matsayi a shekarar 2009. Cockerill shi ne Shugaban Gudanarwa (2009 zuwa 2015) kuma Shugaban (2015 zuwa 2017) na Petmin Limited, babban mai samar da ƙarfe na anthracite a Afirka ta Kudu.

Daga shekarar 2019 har zuwa mamayar da Rasha ta yi wa Ukraine a shekarar 2022, Cockerill shi ne shugaban Polymetal International . Daga nan ya koma Cornish Lithium a matsayin shugaban da ba na zartarwa ba, inda ya bar mukamin a shekarar 2024. Ya kuma bar kwamitin gudanarwa na BHP a watan Maris na 2024.   A shekarar 2024, Cockerill, wanda shi ne mataimakin shugaban Endeavour Mining, ya maye gurbin Sébastien de Montessus a matsayin shugaban kamfanin bayan an kori Montessus bayan zargin aikata ba daidai ba a fannin kuɗi.  

## Takaddama da kyaututtuka
A watan Oktoba na 2004, yayin da Cockerill yake shugaban kamfanin hakar ma'adinai, kamfanin hakar ma'adinai mai hamayya Harmony Gold Mining Company ya ƙaddamar da wani mummunan tayin kwace iko ga Goldfields Ltd. Cockerill ya jagoranci kare kai daga tayin kwace iko, yana nuna cewa yarjejeniyar da aka tsara za ta haifar da rage ma'aikata da kuma raguwar gasa a masana'antar haƙar zinare ta Afirka ta Kudu da ta duniya. An sha kaye a ƙoƙarin Harmony Gold na ƙiyayya a watan Mayu na 2005.   Yunkurin kwace iko mai ƙarfi, da kuma rawar da Cockerill ya taka wajen kare Goldfields daga kwace iko, ya zama batun rubutun da ba na almara ba mai cike da ce-ce-ku-ce "Battlefields of Gold: How Gold Fields Fought for Survival and Win" na Rex Gibson (Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2012) 

A watan Oktoban 2009, an tilasta wa Cockerill barin mukaminsa na Shugaba na Anglo Coal a wani mataki na shugabanci da Shugabar Anglo Cynthia Carroll ta ɗauka.  Carroll ya zaɓe shi da hannu a matsayin shugaban kamfanin a watan Afrilun 2008, lokacin da ya sauya daga matsayinsa na Shugaba na Gold Fields.   Hasashe a cikin jaridun kuɗi da ma'adinai na duniya ya nuna cewa an kori Cockerill ne saboda yana barazana ga matsayin Carroll.  

A watan Nuwamba na 2007, an nada Cockerill a matsayin Babban Manaja na Afirka ta Kudu a shekarar 2007.  

## Kiyayewa
A matsayinsa na wanda ya kafa kungiyar agaji mai zaman kanta ta Leadership for Conservation in Africa (2006 zuwa 2016), Cockerill ya himmatu wajen inganta kiyayewa da ci gaba mai dorewa a fadin nahiyar Afirka tare da hadin gwiwar Hukumar Kula da Wuraren Shakatawa ta Kasa ta Afirka ta Kudu, shugabannin kasuwanci na duniya da kuma Kungiyar Kare Yanayi ta Duniya. 

## Dandalin Shahararrun Ma'adanai na Afirka ta Kudu
A ranar 3 ga Oktoba, 2017, an shigar da Cockerill cikin Zauren Ma'adinai na Afirka ta Kudu a bikin Mining Indaba na 2017 da ke Johannesburg, Afirka ta Kudu.  

## Manazarta