PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Diversified miner BHP has appointed Michelle Hinchliffe to its board as an independent nonexecutive director with effect from March 2022.
Hinchliffe will also become a member of the risk and audit committee.
She is currently the UK chair of audit for KPMG, but will retire from KPMG UK in February 2022 before joining the BHP board.
Hinchliffe has over 30 years’ experience in KPMG’s financial services division and has spent time as a partner and member of the board of KPMG’s Australian and UK practices. She has been a member of KPMG’s UK board and the UK chair of audit since 2019. Prior to this, she was a member of the KPMG UK executive committee in her role as head of audit from 2017 to 2019.
She qualified as a chartered accountant and has a BCom from the University of Queensland.