South32 Ltd (ASX: S32) Share Price and News

Mr Pearce has more than 25 years' experience as a director of public companies and more than 40 years of financial and commercial experience in the mining, oil and gas, and utilities industries. He has held a range of roles including Group Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Anglo American plc, a position he held for close to seven years. He also served as Group CFO and Executive Director of Fortescue Metals Group Limited, CFO of Alinta Energy, and as a Director and Strategic Advisor to the Wyllie Group. He is also a Non-Executive Director at BAE Systems plc, where he is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee (Chair until May 2026) and Nominations Committee. In August 2025, he was appointed as a Trustee of the SAS Resources Fund. He brings global experience with resources, finance, commercial and operational experience over more than 40 years in mining, oil and gas, and utilities. He is skilled in finance, strategy and capital projects. He is member of Risk committee and chair of Governance Committee.

Mr Osborn worked as an engineer in the telecommunications and iron ore industries, before joining Alcoa (Australia) in 1979. Mr Osborn held several senior management positions with Alcoa over the course of his career, including having accountability for its Asia Pacific manufacturing operations in China, Japan, Korea and Australia. In 2001, he was appointed Managing Director, leading an integrated business comprised of bauxite mining, alumina refining, coal mining, power generation and aluminium smelting until his retirement in 2008. Since 2008, he has served as a Non-Executive Director in the mining, energy and construction industries. Most recently, he was a Non-Executive Director of Wesfarmers Limited from March 2010 to October 2021. Other key roles he has held include Chairman of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Chairman of the Western Australia Branch of the Australia Business Arts Foundation and Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Western Australia. He brings experience in mining and smelting operations, capital projects and commodity value chain management to our Board. He is member of Governance Committee and Sustainability Committee.

Ms Warburton has more than 25 years' experience across the project infrastructure, property development and resources industries. She has previously held executive roles with Brookfield Multiplex, Citigroup and Rio Tinto, working across Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Her previous board experience includes as a Director of Perth Children's Hospital Foundation, Gold Road Resources Limited, NEXTDC Limited, Barminco, Western Power, Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, Karlka Nyiyaparli Aboriginal Corporation, Thiess Group Holdings Pty Limited and Blackmores Limited. She was also a Director of Fortescue Metals Group, a part-time member of the Takeovers Panel and, from February 2019 until August 2025, a Non Executive Director of Worley Limited. She is also an Independent Director of Mirvac Funds Management Australia Limited. She has executive experience in the areas of corporate governance, accounting and finance, and risk management. She is chair of Risk Committee and member of Governance Committee.

Dr Liu joined the Rio Tinto Group as a senior research scientist in 1988. Over her 26-year career with Rio Tinto, Dr Liu held roles in smelting operations, including General Manager Operations at Bell Bay (Tasmania), leading to other senior management roles, including Managing Director Technical Services, where she led Rio Tinto's global technical services unit. Prior to her retirement, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of Rio Tinto Minerals, with responsibility for integrated operations of mining, processing, supply chain, marketing and sales for its Borates business in the United States, Europe and Asia. Dr Liu has served as Vice President of the Board of the Australian Aluminium Council, a Board Member of the California Chamber of Commerce, a Director of Melbourne Business School and Chancellor of Queensland University of Technology. She has also served as a Non Executive Director at Newcrest Mining Limited (from September 2015 to November 2020), Iluka Resources Limited (from February 2016 to April 2019) and Incitec Pivot Limited (from November 2019 to May 2024). With her career as a global executive in the resources industry, she brings experience in mining and processing operations, the execution of capital projects and commodity value chain management. She is chair of Sustainability Committee and member of Governance and Risk Committee.

Ms Kaufman has 30 years' international experience in the resources sector, spanning a range of commodities including copper, diamonds, aluminium, bauxite and iron ore. She joined Rio Tinto in 1997 as a geologist and has held a range of senior technical, operational and executive roles globally. Her most recent role was Chief Executive Minerals, where she was accountable for a global portfolio of critical minerals operational assets, including lithium. In this role, she was responsible for building and scaling Rio Tinto's position in battery materials, including through the acquisition of the Rincon and Arcadium lithium businesses. She brings international experience in the resources sector, with technical and operational experience across a range of commodities. Her background includes leadership accountability for operations, portfolio management, safety and sustainability performance, and organisational transformation in regulated environments. She has experience in strategy execution, capital discipline, stakeholder engagement and leading divestment and change programs. She is member of Governance Committee and Sustainability Committee.

Mr Mesquita has worked in the mining and metals industry for more than 40 years and has experience in mining and processing operations and capital projects. He spent 30 years with BHP where he held positions in the company's base metals and aluminium businesses, including Asset President of Mozal Aluminium and Asset President of Escondida, a copper mine. During this time he also served as Vice President Major Projects where he led the base metals projects program, overseeing more than US$10 billion in mining investments in countries including Chile, Australia and Peru. Mr Mesquita has also previously advised mining companies and private equity funds on acquisitions of mining assets in South America and, from 2014 to 2015, he was a Non-Executive Director of Mineraco Serra Verde, a mid-sized rare earth minerals mine in central Brazil. In the first half of 2022, Mr Mesquita was a consultant for South32, providing in country support following our acquisition of a 45% interest in the Sierra Gorda copper mine. Mr Mesquita has experience in the global mining and metals industry with a focus on base metals and aluminium in the Americas and Africa. He is member of Governance Committee and Sustainability Committee.

Ms Nelson has a 30-year career researching and advocating for business practices and was the founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Corporate Responsibility Initiative in 2004, where she is now a senior research fellow. She has co-authored seven books and more than 100 publications on the role of the private sector and multistakeholder partnerships in supporting sustainable development. She is a non-resident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings and a former senior associate of Cambridge University's Programme for Sustainability Leadership. Since 1992, Ms Nelson has served on advisory councils for over 45 corporations, non-governmental organisations, and government bodies. These have included ExxonMobil's External Sustainability Advisory Panel, the Independent Advisory Panel to the ICMM's Resource Endowment Initiative, GE's Sustainability Advisory Council, the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Future Councils on Good Governance and on Transparency and Anti-Corruption, co-chair of the Business Commission to Tackle Inequality, and advisory councils for other companies, the World Bank Group and the United Nations. She also worked for The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum in the UK, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Africa, FUNDES in Latin America and as a Vice President at Citibank working in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In December 2023, Ms Nelson was appointed a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (CMG) in the UK's Overseas and International Honours List, for services to business and to sustainability. Ms Nelson is a Non-Executive Director of NYSE, ASX and TSX-listed Newmont Mining Corporation (since 2011) and Chair of its Safety and Sustainability Committee. She is a Co-Chair of the WEF's Global Future Council on the Energy Nexus, a member of WBCSD's Imperatives Advisory Board, and an Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance, a Cambridge University Press publication. She serves on the Board of Chevron's Niger Delta Partnership Initiative foundation and on sustainability-related advisory councils for Bank of America, Abbott Laboratories and Griffith Foods. Her career comprises a portfolio of roles across academia, international policy, business leadership groups and not-for-profit organisations. She has experience in sustainable development including in human rights, cultural heritage and Indigenous issues, and understanding of climate change and biodiversity issues. She is member of Governance Committee and Sustainability Committee.

Ms Msimang is an executive with more than 20 years of information and communications technology experience. Her professional area of experience is regulation, with a focus on economic and infrastructure regulation, public policy, universal service and access, competition policy, and broadband policy and funding. She is currently Chief Executive Officer of Nozala Women Investments, a female-owned private equity firm that owns and manages a portfolio in the minerals and energy sector as well as industrial and consumer services. Ms Msimang served as a Non-Executive Director at Exxaro Resources Limited, from March 2021 to September 2025, and was a member of the Investment Committee and Risk and Business Resilience Committee. She is a Non-Executive Director of JSE-listed Telkom SA Limited. She also serves on the International Advisory Board of the University of Johannesburg Business School, and the Board of Research ICT Africa. She brings regulatory, public policy and information, communications and technology experience, as well as knowledge and experience across Africa and the Middle East. She has leadership, strategy and risk management skills and regulatory and legal compliance knowledge. She is member of Governance Committee, Risk Committee and Sustainability Committee.

Mr Healy has 35 years' executive experience, in the natural resources and professional services sectors. He is currently a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), having previously been appointed as a Managing Director and Partner of BCG in 2022. He advises global clients across industries on strategy, transformation, new market entry, geopolitics, and sustainability (and the energy transition). In 2013, He joined BHP as its Chief Legal Counsel, and as a member of its Executive Leadership Team. In 2016, he became Chief External Affairs Officer. In that role, Mr Healy had oversight of Legal, Governance, Compliance, External Affairs, Health, Safety and the Environment, Risk, and Audit. Mr Healy began his career at Freehills in 1990. He was a Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (HSFK) for 16 years from 1997, and a member of its Global Council on the merger of Freehills and Herbert Smith in 2012. While at HSFK, Mr Healy is in legal and reputational crises for Asia-Pacific based institutions. He has been a member of the Board of the Grattan Institute, an Australian not-for-profit public policy think-tank, a member of the Law Society Professional Conduct Review Board, and a strategic advisor to the Red Cross. He is Senior Advisor, BCG. He brings experience to this role, having worked for HSFK, BHP and BCG on strategic and decision-making, with a focus on natural resources. He has developed functional skills in the law, governance, health and safety, risk and audit, sustainability, corporate development, ethics and compliance, and external affairs. His experience in natural resources crosses a range of commodities (bulk and base metal) and markets (Australia, North, Central and South America, Asia and the Middle East). Mr Healy has worked both as advisor and executive across industries and geographies. He is member of Governance Committee.

Mr Daley is an executive in the mining and metals industry with more than 20 years' experience spanning underground and open cut mining, smelting, refining, projects and commodity trading. He has held leadership roles around the world in operations, regional management, and as a corporate executive across a range of commodities and disciplines. Mr Daley is currently the Technical and Operations Director at Anglo American plc and a member of the executive leadership team. His previous roles include Group Head of Mining at Anglo American, Executive General Manager for Glencore's Canadian copper division, Project Head at Minera Alumbrera for the Agua Rica Project in Argentina, Trader for Xstrata based in Dubai, and Mine Manager for Xstrata at the Mount Isa Copper Mine in Queensland, Australia.

-

-

-

-