Inside Polymetal’s drive to increase diversity and set the standard in ESG reportingJan 15, 2021
Maria Lodkina leads the charge to transform how her company and the wider Russian mining industry think about gender diversity and report on ESG factors
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The mining sector has traditionally been male-dominated in western markets, and perhaps even more so in Russia. Maria Lodkina, a young audit manager at accounting firm EY, didn’t think about that too much in November 2013 when she decided the time had come to turn the corner in her career and responded to an interview invitation from the gold-mining company Polymetal International in her native St Petersburg, Russia.