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The Directors

Dr Ross Garnaut AO, BA, PhD
Chairman

Appointed by BHP Billiton on 20 May 2002. Dr Garnaut is Professor of Economics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He has written extensively on East Asia and the Southwest Pacific economies, and serves on university and research institution boards in Australia, the US, China, and Indonesia. He has been Head of the Department of Economics and Director of the Asia Pacific School for Economics and Management. He was Senior Economic Adviser to Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke, and subsequently served as Australia's Ambassador to China. He is currently Chairman of Lihir Gold Ltd; Chairman of Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd; and former Chairman of the Bank of Western Australia Ltd and of the Primary Industry Bank of Australia Ltd. Dr Garnaut is also a director of Ok Tedi Mining Ltd as the nominee of PNG Sustainable Development Program Limited. He served as First Assistant Secretary responsible for financial and economic policy in the Department of Finance in Port Moresby in 1975 and 1976.

Honorable Sir Ebia Olewale Kt

Appointed to the Board on 9 April 2003 on the nomination of the Minister for Treasury. Sir Ebia, from the Western Province, was a member of the House of Assembly from 1968 to 1982. He was a member of the Select Committee that played a major role in the nation's preparation for Independence, and held the Ministries for Education and Commerce in the self-government period, 1972-75. During the year of Independence in 1975, Sir Ebia was Minister for Justice and therefore politically responsible for the adoption of Papua New Guinea's Independence Constitution. After the 1977 election he served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Justice and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. He also served as a member of the Commonwealth Observer Mission to the first multi-racial elections in post-apartheid South Africa in 1994. He is currently Chancellor of the University of Goroka. Prior to his appointment he was a consultant to Ok Tedi Mining Ltd.

Honorable Jim Carlton AO, BSc

Appointed to the Board on 20 May 2002 on the nomination of BHP Billiton. Mr Carlton was, for seven years, the Secretary-General of the Australian Red Cross. Prior to that he was a Federal Member of Parliament in Australia from 1977 to 1994, serving as Minister for Health, and Minister Assisting the Minister for National Development and Energy. He also held a number of Shadow Ministry positions in Opposition, including Sustainable Development and Environment, Health, Treasury, Education and Defence. Mr Carlton led two Australian Parliamentary delegations overseas and served as a Commonwealth Observer at the return of Zambia to democracy in free elections. He also served on the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the Australian Foreign Minister's Aid Advisory Council, and the Australian National Advisory Council on Peace and Disarmament. He is a former Chairman of the Advisory Council of the National Archives of Australia. He is currently Chairman of the Australian Innovation Association, Council Member of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Board Member of the Australian New Zealand School of Government, Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group, and a Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Public Policy at Melbourne University.

Mr Donald Manoa

Appointed to the Board on 10 October 2002 on the nomination of the Papua New Guinea Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Mr Manoa was most recently a Commissioner with the Commission of Inquiry into the National Provident Fund. He served as General Manager of the Papua New Guinea Electricity Commission in 1987, and subsequently joined Shell and was General Manager of Shell Papua New Guinea Limited from 1991 to 2000. He is at present Chairman of New Guinea Islands Produce, a director of Barclay Bros (PNG) Ltd, Agmark Pty Ltd and First Investment Finance Ltd. Mr Manoa has served as Chairman of Shell (PNG) Ltd, and as a director of ANZ Banking Group (PNG) Ltd, Air Niugini and Shorncliffe PNG Ltd. He has also served in community services roles, including in the National Volunteer Service.

Ms Patricia Caswell, BA (Hon), BEd

Appointed to the Board on 20 May 2002 on the nomination of BHP Billiton. Ms Caswell is Executive Director of the Global Sustainability Institute at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Melbourne. She has served as the Executive Director of the Australia Conservation Foundation, Executive Director of PLAN International Australia, as a secondary school and TAFE teacher, a trade union leader, and on various public and private bodies in Australia.

Dr Jakob Weiss, BA Econ, MA Econ, MBA, PhD

Appointed to the Board on 13 November 2001 on the nomination of the Bank of Papua New Guinea. Dr Weiss, from Tel Aviv, Israel, is currently Dean of the Department of Economics at the College of Management in Israel. He was a long-serving official with the Bank of Israel and the US Federal Reserve Bank. He was seconded from the IMF to the Bank of Papua New Guinea from 1988 to 1994 and was an advisor to the Bank of Papua New Guinea until August 2002. He was an advisor to several former Soviet Republics, served as a member of the Board of the Mercantile Discount Bank of Israel, and on the Board and as Chairman of the Investment Committee of a large pension-superannuation fund with operations in the United States, Europe and Israel. Dr Weiss is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at Ben Gurion University in Israel and Georgetown University and the State University of New York.

Mr Lim How Wek, BAcc, CPA, FCMA, AIBA, PBM

Following an extensive independent search by the international executive search firm Egon Zehnder International, Mr Lim was appointed to the Board on 31 January 2003 as a Singapore resident director by the Board of PNG Sustainable Development Program Limited. Mr Lim, a certified public accountant, is at present a Board member, Executive Director and Group Chief Financial Officer of Neptune Orient Lines Ltd of Singapore. He continues to serve on several statutory boards in Singapore and corporations around the world. He has been honored by the Singapore Government for his contribution to Singapore with a PBM.