Full background report
Daniel Havas
Chief External Affairs Officer
Career chronology
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Identified on 29 October 2026; commencement date unknown: Lynas — Chief External Affairs Officer. September quarter investor briefing transcript (opening speaker introduction)
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From December 2020; change date not established: Lynas — VP Strategy and Investor Relations. December 2020 quarterly report (p. 3)
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Dates not disclosed: Austrade — Senior trade and investment commissioner, Malaysia and Brunei; earlier commissioner Peru and Ecuador. December 2020 quarterly report (p. 3)
Personal achievements
Reported career and responsibilities
Career prior to and at Lynas · issuer reported · low materiality
Lynas reports prior Austrade roles. Its FY2026 annual roster names him VP Strategy and Investor Relations; the 29 October 2026 briefing transcript identifies him as Chief External Affairs Officer, consistent with the undated leadership page. The effective date of the title change is unconfirmed.
Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Past roles and dates are issuer-reported; qualifications not independently verified.
Relevance: Experience relevant to stated senior position.
FY2026 annual report and Appendix 4E (p. 8); Our leadership team (Daniel Havas); September quarter investor briefing transcript (opening speaker introduction)
Evidence gaps
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Independent credentials, exact past-employer dates, full business outcomes and original court/regulator records are not comprehensively verified.
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Open-web screening is not an exhaustive criminal, sanctions or professional clearance.
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Targeted person, prior-employer and regulator/court searches are incomplete; the earlier repeated broad-query log could not be independently reconstructed from the preserved checkpoint.
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The effective date of Havas’s title change is unknown; the October briefing identification is a third-party transcript.