Past President of CIM (2020-2021)

Samantha is a mining executive with 37 years of industry experience leading operations, technical services, and as a corporate director with international mining companies: Vale, Inco, Glencore, Noranda, Falconbridge, Denison.  She is a non-executive board member of Paramount Gold Nevada, Northern Graphite Corporation, and Canadian Academy of Engineering, Past President of CIM, and Chair of the CIM Health and Safety Society. She is a senior mining advisor for Stantec leading mining project studies in exploration through to closure phases. She leads cross-sector collaboration to rapidly seek out and implement value-added solutions. The cornerstones of Samantha’s values are respect and dignity.  Samantha is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a founding director of WISE (Sudbury) and received achievement awards: WIM Trailblazer, Top 100 Global Women in Mining, CIM Distinguished Service, UofT Mid-Career, PEO Engineering Management, Engineers Canada Leadership, and the Governor General’s Gold Medal. She is a CIM Past President.

Mary-Jane Piggott is a senior water resources engineer with more than 25 years’ experience in investigation, design and project management of mining, civil and water resource projects throughout North America, South America, and Australia.  One of the fewer than 20% of students with a STEM background in her graduating MBA class in 2019, she is also the first female principal and vice president of KCB’s Mining Environment Group, where she spearheaded policy changes that encourage women to stay in the engineering profession. She is both a mentor to and an advocate for women in engineering. A past chair of KCB’s Women-in-Klohn Committee, working to educate staff on issues that impact women, she promotes engineering as a career to girls and youth through her local high school and the Girl Guides.