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John Mogford Shriti Vadera Dion Weisler Governance at BHP
BEng, 67 MA, 58 BASc (Computing), Honorary Doctor of Laws, 53
Independent Non-executive Director Senior Independent Director, Independent Non-executive Director
Director of BHP Group Limited and BHP Group Plc Director of BHP Group Limited and
BHP Group Plc since October 2017. Director of BHP Group Limited and BHP Group Plc since June 2020.
Skills and experience: BHP Group Plc since January 2011. Skills and experience:
Mr Mogford has significant global executive Skills and experience: Mr Weisler has extensive global executive
experience, including in oil and gas, capital Ms Vadera brings wide-ranging and experience, including in chief executive officer
allocation discipline, commodity value chains global experience in economics, public and operational roles. In particular, Dion has Remuneration Report
and health, safety and environment. John has policy and strategy, as well as deep valuable transformation and commercial
also held roles as a non-executive director understanding and insight in relation experience in the global information technology
on a number of boards. to global and emerging markets and the sector, a focus on capital discipline, as well
John spent the majority of his career in various macro political and economic environment. as perspectives on current and emerging
ESG issues.
leadership, technical and operational roles Shriti has held executive roles and has broad
at BP Plc. He was the Managing Director and extensive non-executive experience. She is Dion served as the President and Chief
and an Operating Partner of First Reserve, currently Chair of Santander UK Group Holdings Executive Officer of HP Inc. from 2015 to 2019
a large global energy focused private equity Plc and Santander UK Plc, a Non-executive and after stepping down from his President
firm, from 2009 until 2015, during which Director of Prudential Plc, and is expected and CEO role, remained at HP Inc. as a Director
he served on the boards of First Reserve’s to become the next Chair of Prudential and Senior Executive Adviser until May 2020. Directors’ Report
investee companies, including as Chair from 1 January 2021. Shriti was formerly Prior to joining HP in 2012, Dion held a number
of Amromco Energy LLC and White Rose a Non-executive Director of AstraZeneca Plc of senior executive roles at Lenovo Group
Energy Ventures LLP. John retired from the (from 2011 to 2018). She was an investment Limited, including as Vice President and
boards of Weir Group Plc and one of First banker with S G Warburg/UBS from 1984 Chief Operating Officer of the Product and
Reserve’s portfolio companies, DOF Subsea to 1999, on the Council of Economic Advisers, Mobile Internet Digital Home Groups, and
AS, in 2018, and is currently a non-executive HM Treasury from 1999 to 2007, Minister in the as Vice President and General Manager,
director of ERM Worldwide Group Limited. UK Department of International Development South East Asia. Dion also has experience at
Other directorships and offices in 2007, Minister in the Cabinet Office and Telstra Corporation as the General Manager
(current and recent): Business Department from 2008 to 2009 with Conferencing and Collaboration, and from
responsibility for dealing with the financial
1987 to 2001 held various positions at Acer
• Non-executive Director of ERM Worldwide crisis and G20 Adviser from 2009 to 2010. Inc., including as Managing Director, Acer UK.
Group Limited (since 2015) Shriti advised governments, banks and Dion is currently a Non-executive Director of Financial Statements
• Former Non-executive Director of Network investors on the Eurozone crisis, banking Intel Corporation and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Rail Limited (from 2016 to 2017) sector, debt restructuring and markets from
• Former Managing Director (from 2012 to 2010 to 2014. Other directorships and offices
2015) and Operating Partner (from 2009 (current and recent):
to 2012) of First Reserve Corporation Other directorships and offices • Director of Intel Corporation
(current and recent):
• Former Non-executive Director of Midstates • Non-executive Director of Prudential Plc (since June 2020)
Petroleum Company Inc. (from 2011 to 2016) (since May 2020) • Director of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
• Former Non-executive Director of CHC (since 2017)
Group Limited (from 2014 to 2015) and • Chair of Santander UK Group Holdings Plc • Former President and Chief Executive
CHC Helicopters SA (from 2012 to 2015) and Santander UK Plc (since March 2015) Officer (from 2015 to October 2019),
• Former Non-executive Director of • Former Non-executive Director of Director (from 2015 to May 2020), Additional information
DOF Subsea AS (from 2009 to 2018) AstraZeneca Plc (from January 2011 and Senior Executive Adviser (from
to December 2018)
November 2019 to May 2020) at HP Inc.
• Former Non-executive Director of
Weir Group Plc (from 2008 to 2018) Board Committee membership: Board Committee membership:
Board Committee membership: • Member of the Nomination and • Member of the Remuneration Committee
Governance Committee
• Chair of the Sustainability Committee
• Member of the Remuneration Committee

Caroline Cox
BA (Hons), MA, LLB, BCL, 50 Shareholder information
Group General Counsel & Company Secretary and Chair of the Disclosure Committee
Ms Cox was appointed Group Company Secretary of BHP effective March 2019. Ms Cox joined
BHP in 2015 as Vice President Legal and was appointed Group General Counsel in March 2016,
a role she continues to hold. Prior to BHP, Ms Cox was a Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, a firm
she was with for 11 years, specialising in cross-border regulatory investigations, inquiries and
disputes. Earlier in her career, Ms Cox was a solicitor at the Canadian law firm, Osler Hoskin
& Harcourt and clerked for Judges at the Alberta Court of Appeal and Court of Queen’s Bench.

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