{"id":1457,"date":"2026-01-03T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1457\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:50:10","slug":"total-assigns-female-country-chair-in-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1457\/","title":{"rendered":"Total assigns female country chair in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General \u2013 Appointment<\/p>\n<p>TotalEnergies has appointed an experienced female African specialist within its management ranks as its Country Chair in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/total.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56314\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Mariam Kane-Garcia succeeds Laurent Roch\u00e9, the French drilling engineer who oversaw the company\u2019s aggressive campaign in the country from July 2022 to November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>She returns to Africa from Paris, where she was, for the last year, Senior Vice President HSSE TotalEnergies MS.<\/p>\n<p>Her prior assignment before the last job was a five-year role as MD &amp; CEO Total South Africa and Executive VP Southern Africa Total M&amp;S, for which she was domiciled in Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Kane-Garcia comes to the Namibian position with a different, but highly valued set of skills than core geoscience or engineering, as she takes the helm at Total\u2019s likely next largest exploration and production heartland on the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"General \u2013 Appointment TotalEnergies has appointed an experienced female African specialist within its management ranks as its Country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102],"class_list":{"0":"post-1457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-namibia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}