The BHP Forum on Corporate Responsibility (FCR) is a key part of our stakeholder engagement program. Together with the BHP’s CEO and other members of the Executive Leadership Team, the FCR comprises independent civil society leaders in various fields of sustainability, who make an important contribution to our approach across a range of sustainability-related topics and to the development of our related policies, strategies and standards. The majority of the membership is civil society members. They provide insight into current and emerging issues, challenge our thinking and allow us to understand and consider the broader impacts of our actions. The civil society members advise our operational management teams as well as BHP’s Board and its Sustainability Committee.

The FCR met twice during FY2024 and discussed a range of topics, including our proposed BHP Values, the embedment of social value into the risk framework to further support complex decision-making, the intersection between development and nature, and our approach to government business partnering and to employee relations. The civil society members of the FCR are:

• Catalina Cock Duque, Executive Director, Fundación Mi Sangre (Colombia)
• Jean Paul Gladu, Founder and Principal, Mokwateh (Canada)
• Professor Don Henry, Public Policy Fellow – Environmentalism, University of Melbourne (Australia)
• Tanya Hosch, Executive General Manager of Inclusion and Social Policy, Australian Football League (Australia)
• Dr Simon Longstaff, Executive Director, The Ethics Centre (Australia)
• Ray Offenheiser, Director, Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (United States)

Dr Simon Longstaff, BHP Forum on Corporate Responsibility Chair