# Michael van Maanen Executive General Manager, Corporate Affairs ## Career chronology - **Issuer FY2026 executive roster; earlier role dates described in the finding: Whitehaven Coal Limited** — Executive General Manager, Corporate Affairs. [FY26 Appendix 4E and annual report]() (Printed p14) ## Suitability for the current role ### Reported career and role [exec-whc-michael-vanmaanen-fit] Career and appointments through FY2026 · analyst inference · low materiality Whitehaven reports appointment in May 2018 and describes prior Newgate Communications and Australian government advisory work. The issuer reports BA honours; its biography does not independently establish degree details. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The biographical facts are issuer-reported; their relevance is an analytical inference, not independent qualification verification. **Relevance:** Experience is relevant to the executive’s reported responsibilities. [FY26 Appendix 4E and annual report]() (Printed p14) ## Evidence gaps - Person-specific targeted searches across all topics, previous employers, court and regulator records are incomplete; the broad combined searches cannot establish an exhaustive negative result. - Independently verified qualifications, precise previous-employer tenure and person-specific project contributions are unavailable or were not established in this limited pass. - Dated FY26 roster and the undated leadership page support the described roles, but every role’s exact continuation on the cutoff date is not independently established. - The original research checkpoint records the searches and source reviews, but the original tool-call transcript was unavailable to this retrospective audit, so the precise historical calls cannot be independently verified. The broad query is reused across topic rows and does not establish dedicated topic searches.