Petra Diamonds Limited announces that Jon Dudas has been appointed as an independent Non-Executive Director of the Company, effective 1 March 2022. Jon is currently Chairman of Samruk-Kazyna, Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund, which he joined in 2020. Prior to this, he was independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the National Atomic Company Kazatomprom, whilst an IPO and LSE/AIX dual listing of the world's natural uranium mining company was concluded.

Jon was previously at BHP in various roles, including President and Chief Executive Officer of their global US$5 billion per annum revenue Aluminium division and as their Group Chief Information Officer, as well as holding senior business leadership and commercial roles in marketing and business development. He has also been Executive Chairman of Worsley Alumina in Australia and Mozal Aluminium in Mozambique and Non-Executive Director of the Guinea Alumina Corporation in West Africa. He has a broad practical base in mining, commencing in South Africa as a Graduate Mining Engineer with Harmony Gold Mines, progressing to General Manager of Winkelhaak Gold Mine after moving to Gencor.