Forum on Corporate Responsibility

In 1999, the BHP Forum on Corporate Responsibility (FCR) was created in response to increasing interest from external stakeholders in the complex social and environmental issues associated with company operations, combined with BHP’s desire to actively engage with these stakeholders.  

Together with BHP’s CEO and 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 FCR provides insight into current and emerging issues, challenges our thinking and allows 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 meets twice a year and, as part of its briefings, members discuss a range of sustainability challenges with BHP teams. They also periodically visit BHP's assets to meet with employees, as well as members of the community and Indigenous representatives, to better understand local challenges and perspectives. In addition, representatives from the FCR meet with the BHP Board's Sustainability Committee to share their observations. 

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, Consultant, Director GO Foundation (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