Libby is BHP’s Vice President External Affairs for the company’s growth portfolio, based in Toronto, and is responsible for ensuring above ground risks and opportunities are appropriately considered as the company pivots to future facing commodities critical for the energy transition. Many of these minerals are located in jurisdictions that are not currently in BHP’s operating portfolio and Libby and her team combine strong technical experience in community, environment, Indigenous peoples, Compliance and Government relations with a deep knowledge of the business strategy and how we will need to deliver growth aligned with BHP’s purpose of bringing people and resources together to build a better world.
Libby joined BHP in 2001 and over the past two decades has worked across the company’s Coal, Nickel, Copper and Iron Ore assets in Australia before moving to the Toronto growth headquarters in 2023. She has a background and qualifications in Environmental Science (Geology Honours) and a Masters in Business Administration. She has worked in senior roles with BHP across a variety of functional areas including Environment, Business Improvement and Corporate Affairs, recently as Vice President Global Indigenous Peoples and Community. Libby is honoured to now live on the lands of the Mississauga peoples of the Credit Nation with her husband and four children.