# Timothy Burt General Counsel and Company Secretary ## Career chronology - **Issuer FY2026 executive roster; earlier role dates described in the finding: Whitehaven Coal Limited** — General Counsel and Company Secretary. [FY26 Appendix 4E and annual report]() (Printed p13) ## Suitability for the current role ### Reported career and role [exec-whc-timothy-burt-fit] Career and appointments through FY2026 · analyst inference · low materiality Whitehaven says he joined as general counsel and company secretary in July 2009 and previously held senior legal roles at Boral, UGL and Australian National Industries; it reports a University of Sydney Master of Laws. **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 p13) ## 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.