Stefanie Wilkinson

Career chronology

• 2024-04-02 onward: BHP Group — Group General Counsel and Group Company Secretary. Stefanie Wilkinson (Stefanie Wilkinson biography); Annual Report 2026 (physical p.106, executive leadership; p.112, company secretary); Annual Report 2026 (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary)

• March 2021 onward: BHP — Group Company Secretary. Stefanie Wilkinson (Career and experience); Annual Report 2026 (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary)

• Before joining BHP; 15 years, dates unconfirmed: Herbert Smith Freehills — Partner. Stefanie Wilkinson (Career and experience); Annual Report 2026 (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary)

• Earlier career; dates unconfirmed: Allen & Overy — Solicitor. Stefanie Wilkinson (Career and experience); Annual Report 2026 (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary)

Education and qualifications

Reported professional qualifications

Career background · issuer reported · low materiality

BA, LLB and LLM and Governance Institute fellowship, issuer-reported.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Reported by the issuer; credentials and membership were not independently checked.

Relevance: Professional training relevant to the role.

Stefanie Wilkinson (Qualifications and experience)

Environmental record

Fundão dam litigation and continued remediation

2015–October 2026 · documented · high materiality

The 2015 Samarco Fundão dam collapse resulted in extensive harm. In 2025 the English High Court found BHP liable; in May 2026 the Court of Appeal refused permission on the substantive liability grounds. A separate October 2026 appeal concerned prejudgment interest on costs.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. BHP is a party and leadership responsibilities concern subsequent legal, remediation or Americas oversight; individual involvement in the 2015 collapse is not established.

Relevance: Material continuing group governance and remediation exposure.

Municipio Mariana v BHP [2026] EWCA Civ 502 (paragraphs 4–7 and 143, liability and refused appeal permission); Judgment explained: Mariana v BHP and pre-judgment interest on costs (16 October 2026 judgment entry); Stefanie Wilkinson (current responsibilities)

Suitability for the current role

Experience relevant to current remit

Career through October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Group Company Secretary since March 2021 and General Counsel since 2 April 2024; formerly partner at Herbert Smith Freehills and solicitor at Allen & Overy.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The chronology is issuer-reported; the role-fit conclusion is an analytical inference, not a measured individual contribution.

Relevance: Relevant experience for group general counsel and group company secretary.

Stefanie Wilkinson (Stefanie Wilkinson biography); Annual Report 2026 (physical p.106, executive leadership; p.112, company secretary)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and some prior-job dates was not obtained.

• Broader employer-specific, regulator and court searches are incomplete; absence of a finding is not a clearance.

• Ongoing Mariana damages, remediation and proceedings require continued monitoring; post-cutoff developments are excluded.

• A single combined named query was reused across the nine broad topics; individual topic, prior-employer and official-record searches remain incomplete.