General – Appointment
TotalEnergies has appointed an experienced female African specialist within its management ranks as its Country Chair in Namibia.
Mariam Kane-Garcia succeeds Laurent Roché, the French drilling engineer who oversaw the company’s aggressive campaign in the country from July 2022 to November 2025.
She returns to Africa from Paris, where she was, for the last year, Senior Vice President HSSE TotalEnergies MS.
Her prior assignment before the last job was a five-year role as MD & CEO Total South Africa and Executive VP Southern Africa Total M&S, for which she was domiciled in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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’s likely next largest exploration and production heartland on the continent.
