Peter Cunningham

Career chronology

• 2021-06-17 onward: Rio Tinto — Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director. Peter Cunningham biography (Named issuer executive biography or dated appointment; role and career); Annual report 2025 (physical pp. 107–108, executive committee and secretaries)

• Earlier roles; exact dates unverified: Rio Tinto — Group Controller; Head of Investor Relations; Global Head of Health, Safety, Environment and Communities. Peter Cunningham biography (Named issuer executive biography or dated appointment; role and career); Annual report 2025 (physical pp. 107–108, executive committee and secretaries)

Education and qualifications

Reported qualifications

Career background · issuer reported · low materiality

BA honours and chartered accountancy in England and Wales are issuer-reported.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer-reported qualifications and memberships are not independently verified.

Relevance: Relevant professional background.

Peter Cunningham biography (Named issuer executive biography or dated appointment; role and career); Annual report 2025 (physical pp. 107–108, executive committee and secretaries)

Contributions and company outcomes

Operating output in the first nine months

Nine months to September 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Rio Tinto reported Oyu Tolgoi copper output increased 29% year-on-year for the first nine months of 2026 and global iron ore sales rose 3%. It reported Simandou’s third-quarter production run rate at about 10 million tonnes a year on a 100% basis, a run rate rather than annual output.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. These are corporate results affected by project teams, commissioning and market conditions, not a quantification of individual contribution.

Relevance: Evidence of current operating delivery.

Third quarter 2026 production results (14 October release, introductory operating results)

Governance and interests

Workplace review and representative claim

2021–October 2026 · documented · high materiality

An independent 2024 survey review found 39% of respondents reported bullying in the prior 12 months, compared with 31% in 2021. Rio Tinto reported a representative workplace claim commenced in December 2024. On 23 October 2026 the Federal Court struck out specified claims and pleading paragraphs, allowed some repleading, and otherwise dismissed Rio Tinto’s interlocutory application; this was a procedural ruling, not a finding on the merits.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Cunningham became CFO on 17 June 2021, before the survey and case filing. His finance and board remit overlaps the relevant period; no personal involvement in the alleged conduct is established.

Relevance: Relevant to workplace culture and governance.

Everyday Respect progress review (printed pp. 27–28, survey results); Federal court claim (company response); KTM24 v Rio Tinto Limited (Strike Out) [2026] FCA 1579 (orders 4–7 and reasons [1]–[9], 23 October 2026); Rio Tinto confirms Peter Cunningham as CFO (17 June 2021 appointment)

Historic Guinea controls settlement

2011–2023 · documented · medium materiality

The SEC found Rio Tinto’s records and internal controls deficient in connection with a 2011 consultant’s attempted improper payment in Guinea. In 2023 Rio Tinto agreed a US$15 million civil penalty without admitting or denying the SEC findings.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. No involvement by this executive in the 2011 matter is established; the settlement concerned the company.

Relevance: Historical corporate controls context.

SEC charges Rio Tinto with bribery controls failures (SEC findings and corporate settlement); Rio Tinto resolves SEC investigation (issuer response)

Suitability for the current role

Experience relevant to the role

Career through October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Rio Tinto reports he joined in 1993, became CFO and executive director in June 2021, and held roles as group controller, head of investor relations and global head of health, safety, environment and communities.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Career claims are sourced to issuer accounts; their relevance to current duties is an analytical inference, not a measured contribution.

Relevance: Experience relevant to the stated remit.

Peter Cunningham biography (Named issuer executive biography or dated appointment; role and career); Annual report 2025 (physical pp. 107–108, executive committee and secretaries)

Evidence gaps

• Independent credential and membership verification remains incomplete.

• Prior-employer and person-specific court, regulator, fraud, environment and safety searches are incomplete; documented screening is not a clearance.

• The final outcome of the representative workplace claim remains unresolved as at the evidence cutoff.