Andy Booth
Director
SusCircle Partners helps energy, extractives and nature projects turn social performance commitments into practice that works on the ground.
Andy Booth is the Director of SusCircle Partners. He is a senior social performance specialist with extensive strategic and implementation experience across the extractives, energy and nature sectors. Andy has held senior social performance roles at Anglo American, Tullow Oil, ERM and BG Group.
His experience across both corporate and field-based roles gives him a strong appreciation of local operating realities alongside the organisational systems needed to manage social risks and impacts effectively. His expertise spans social performance strategy, stakeholder engagement, socio-economic development, land access, displacement and resettlement, mine closure and social transition.
SusCircle provides specialist social performance support across the following areas.
Governance, stage gates and reporting that determine how land, community and human rights risks are managed across a project, defined within corporate frameworks and built for operating teams.
Land access and resettlement processes that meet IFC Performance Standard 5 and work in the field, from establishing dedicated functions to Group-level governance and assurance across multiple countries.
The human side of closure and asset transition, from Life of Asset planning to managing the effects on communities as an operation winds down.
Engagement and grievance systems that give project teams practical tools to engage meaningfully and proactively, from engagement planning and consultation records to grievance mechanisms that are accessible, responsive and used to inform management decisions.
Alignment of corporate standards and project practice with the IFC Performance Standards and lender requirements, including Investment Assurance and Independent Monitoring reviews.
Independent assessment that shows where a site actually stands, through assurance frameworks and audits that identify real risks and set practical priorities.
01Leading implementation of an Environmental and Social Management System for nature-based carbon projects across Ghana and Sierra Leone, covering governance, engagement, grievance management and monitoring.
02Supporting resettlement improvements at the Ahafo mines, following a strategic review, to align practice with IFC Performance Standard 5 and Newmont's own commitments.
03Leading the social performance and human rights function across the group's operating assets in Brazil and Canada, aligning practice with the IFC Performance Standards and UN Guiding Principles.