LLB, FAICD

Mr Hay was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board on 1 January 2014 after being appointed to the Board in August 2013. He is the Chairman of the Nominations Committee. 

Skills, experience and expertise
Mr Hay has a strong background and breadth of experience in business, corporate law, finance and investment banking advisory work, with particular expertise in relation to mergers and acquisitions. He has also had significant involvement in advising governments and government-owned enterprises. Mr Hay was a partner of the legal firm Freehills until 2005, where he served as Chief Executive Officer from 2000.


Current Listed Directorships
Chairman of Vicinity Centres (from 2015)
 

Other Current Directorships / Appointments
Member of the AICD Corporate Governance Committee
 

Former Listed Directorships (last 3 years)
Director of GUD Holdings Limited (2009-2015)
Director of Novion Limited (2014-2015)

BEng (Chem) (Hons), FAusIMM

Mr Biswas was appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer on 4 July 2014. He joined Newcrest in January 2014, as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer.
 

Skills, experience and expertise
Mr Biswas was previously Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Aluminium, a wholly owned subsidiary within the Rio Tinto group, which incorporated the bauxite, alumina, refining and smelting operations in Australia and New Zealand. He began his career with Mount Isa Mines, working in both Australia and Europe. Mr Biswas has also worked for Western Mining in Australia and Rio Tinto in Canada and Australia.  He has experience in research, operations, business development and projects, across commodities including aluminium, copper, lead, zinc and nickel.
 

Other Current Directorships / Appointments
Vice Chairman of the Minerals Council of Australia
Director of the World Gold Council (from 2017)
Member of ICMM Council

BComm, Graduate Diploma Applied Finance and Investment, Chartered Accountant, F Fin

Mr Bond was appointed to the Board in February 2012, after joining Newcrest as Finance Director and Chief Financial Officer in January 2012.

Skills, experience and expertise
Mr Bond has experience in the global financial and resources industry with Newcrest, BHP Billiton, Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. Prior to joining Newcrest, Mr Bond was with BHP Billiton for over 14 years where he held a number of senior executive roles in Europe and Australia including in Mergers and Acquisitions, Treasury, as Deputy CFO of the Aluminium business, CFO and then Acting President of the Nickel business, and most recently was BHP Billiton’s Head of Group Human Resources.

Other Current Directorships / Appointments
Alternate Director of the World Gold Council

BEng (Chemical), Advanced Management Program (HBS)

Mr Aiken was appointed to the Board in April 2013.  He is Chairman of the Human Resources and Remuneration Committee and a member of the Safety and Sustainability Committee and the Nominations Committee.

Skills, experience and expertise
Mr Aiken has extensive Australian and international business experience, principally in the engineering and resources sectors.  He was Group President Energy BHP Billiton, President BHP Petroleum, Managing Director BOC/CIG, Chief Executive of BTR Nylex and Senior Advisor Macquarie Bank (Europe).  

Current Listed Directorships
Chairman of Aveva Group plc (from 2012)
Chairman of Balfour Beatty plc (from 2015)

Other Current Directorships / Appointments
Business Ambassador, Business Events Sydney Pty Ltd (from 2016)
Chairman of Australian Day Foundation (from 2007)
Director of Gammon China Limited (from 2018)

Former Listed Directorships (last 3 years)
Director of National Grid plc (2008-2015)

PhD (Extractive Metallurgy), BEng (Extractive Metallurgy), GAICD, FAusIMM

Dr Liu was appointed to the Board in September 2015. She is a member of the Human Resources and Remuneration Committee, the Audit and Risk Committee, and the Nominations Committee.

Skills, experience and expertise
Dr Liu has extensive executive experience in leading global mining and processing businesses.  Her last executive role was as President and Chief Executive Officer of Rio Tinto Minerals based in Denver, where she ran integrated mining, processing and supply chain operations in the United States, Europe and Asia. Prior to her last executive role, Dr Liu held senior management and operational roles at Rio Tinto throughout her career including President – Primary Metal Pacific, Managing Director - Global Technical Services and General Manager Bell Bay Smelter.

Current Listed Directorships
Director of Iluka Resources Limited (from 2016)
Director of South32 Limited (from November 2017)

Other Current Directorships / Appointments
Director of Melbourne Business School
Member of the China Matters Advisory Council (from 2017)

BE (Civil Engineering) (Hons), MSc (Hydraulics), PhD (Water Resources)

Dr Higgins was appointed to the Board in October 2015.  He is Chairman of the Safety and Sustainability Committee and a member of the Human Resources and Remuneration Committee.

Skills, experience and expertise
Dr Higgins brings extensive experience leading mining companies and operations, and has deep working knowledge of Papua New Guinea as a current Non-Executive Director and a former Managing Director of Ok Tedi Mining Limited in Papua New Guinea.  In his most recent executive position, Dr Higgins served as Senior Vice President, Copper at Canadian metals and mining company, Teck Resources Limited.  Prior to this role he was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer with BHP Billiton Base Metals Customer Sector Group working in Australia and also held senior positions with BHP Billiton in Chile.  He holds the position of Adjunct Professor with the Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland.

Current Listed Directorships
Chairman of Minotaur Exploration Limited (from 2016)
Director of Metminco Limited (from 2013)
Director of WorleyParsons Limited (from 2019)

Other Current Directorships / Appointments
Director of Ok Tedi Mining Limited

BComm, LLB
 

Ms McFadden was appointed to the Board in October 2016. She is Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee and a member of the Human Resources and Remuneration Committee.
 

Skills, experience and expertise
Ms McFadden has an extensive background in finance and law and is a former investment banker with considerable experience in corporate finance transactions, having served as Managing Director of Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch in Australia and as a Director of Centaurus Corporate Finance.  Vickki has broad experience in several roles as member or chairman of audit committees.
 

Current Listed Directorships
Director of Tabcorp Holdings Limited (from 2017)
Chairman of The GPT Group (from 2018)

Other Current Directorships / Appointments
Director of The Myer Family Investments Pty Ltd (from 2011)
President of the Australian Takeovers Panel (Member from 2008, President from 2013)
Member of the Advisory Board and Executive Committee of the UNSW Business School (from 2006)
 

Former Listed Directorships (last 3 years)
Chairman of Skilled Group Limited (Director from 2005, Chairman from 2010-2015)

BEng (Mining) (Hons), MSc (Mineral Production Management), GAICD

Mr Tomsett was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Board in September 2018. He is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and Safety and Sustainability Committee.

Skills, experience and expertise
Mr Tomsett has extensive and deep gold mining and international business experience as both an executive and non-executive director of a broad range of mining companies listed on the Australian, Toronto, New York and London stock exchanges. His last executive role was as the President and Chief Executive Officer of global gold and copper company, Placer Dome Inc, where he worked for 20 years in project, operational and executive roles.

He has been the Chairman and Managing Director of Kidston Gold Mines Ltd and the Non-Executive Chairman of Equinox Minerals Ltd and Silver Standard Resources Inc. He has also held numerous other Board positions in mining, energy and construction companies and associations including as a Director of OZ Minerals Ltd, Acacia Mining plc, Talisman Energy Inc, North American Energy Partners Inc, Africo Resources Ltd, World Gold Council, Minerals Council of Australia, and International Council for Mining and Metals.

Former Listed Directorships (last 3 years)
Director of OZ Minerals Ltd (2017-2018)
Director of Acacia Mining plc (2013-2017)
Chairman of Silver Standard Resources Inc (Director 2006-2017, Chairman 2008-2017)