Dr Ellin Lede

Career chronology

• Prior career and Tivan roles; exact start dates not fully disclosed: Fortescue Future Industries; Northern Territory Chief Minister’s Office; Tivan Limited — Led Fortescue Future Industries’ Office of Northern Australia; served as Policy Director and Adviser (including Major Projects and Investment) to a Northern Territory Chief Minister; Strategic/Scientific/Project adviser; Tivan Head of Northern Australia before Chief Development Officer promotion in May 2025; added as Executive Director in July 2026.. Tivan announces formation of Leadership Team (Appendix A, Dr Ellin Lede biography, pp. 2–3; promotion notice, lines 14–20)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional credentials

Credential history; dates not disclosed in reviewed source · issuer reported · low materiality

PhD title appears in issuer announcement; field/institution not established.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The profile identifies the stated qualifications; graduation dates and independent register verification were not located.

Relevance: Relevant to the technical, finance or governance responsibilities described in the current role.

Quarterly Activities/Appendix 5B Cash Flow Report (Dr Ellin Lede profile; career/role section)

Climate policy and Northern Australia credentials

Career history; issuer biography dated 14 May 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Tivan’s May 2025 leadership announcement describes Lede’s 15-plus years of Northern Australian and international experience, prior work leading Fortescue Future Industries’ Office of Northern Australia and advising the Northern Territory Chief Minister, a PhD from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and an MSc from Wageningen University. These issuer-published biography details have not been independently verified.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The source reports credentials and prior roles, but no graduation dates or independent verification.

Relevance: Relevant to stakeholder, government and development responsibilities.

Tivan announces formation of Leadership Team (Appendix A, Dr Ellin Lede profile, pp. 2–3)

Personal achievements

Relevant professional experience

Earlier career; exact dates not established in reviewed profile · issuer reported · medium materiality

Chief Development Officer and executive director; detailed earlier career and qualifications were not present in the July leadership source reviewed.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The cited profile describes the person’s roles and involvement; outcome attribution is limited to what it explicitly states.

Relevance: Provides role-relevant experience; profile claims are issuer-reported and not a substitute for independent delivery evidence.

Quarterly Activities/Appendix 5B Cash Flow Report (Dr Ellin Lede profile; career/role section)

Environmental record

2025 Speewah HPA breach during leadership tenure

2025 activity; apology and remedy dated 22 September 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

Tivan’s Board stated on 22 September 2026 that it unintentionally breached its HPA during 2025 exploration, citing deficient processes and record-keeping. The Board apologized, said it had executed a Deed of Release with Giliwinggin Aboriginal Corporation and would pay $50,000, and reported stronger procedures and cultural-awareness training for staff and executives. Lede was Head of Northern Australia and then CDO during the period, according to Tivan’s dated May 2025 leadership announcement. The source does not name her as a decision-maker or allege personal misconduct; no regulator outcome was identified in targeted searches.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Company-level admission is relevant context during Lede’s executive stakeholder remit, but individual knowledge, control, or fault is not established. Company says deed executed and payment would be made; payment completion itself was not separately verified.

Relevance: Material to stakeholder and heritage-management role fit; documented company remediation, with responsibility for the breach not assigned individually.

Statement from the Board of Tivan (Board statement dated 22 September 2026, pp. 1–2); Tivan announces formation of Leadership Team (Leadership announcement, lines 14–20; Appendix A, pp. 2–3)

Suitability for the current role

Role fit and evidence limits

Assessment at cutoff 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Large-project execution, technical-development and finance/government experience fit project development; a documented heritage-agreement breach raises an oversight issue during the relevant company period.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is an analytical inference from the cited career profile and the company’s stated stage; it does not claim personal causation of company outcomes.

Relevance: Connects prior experience to the role’s execution and oversight needs.

Quarterly Activities/Appendix 5B Cash Flow Report (Dr Ellin Lede profile; career/role section)

Evidence gaps

• Exact dates for prior roles and independent confirmation of profile claims were unavailable in the reviewed materials.

• The Board statement does not identify individual responsibility or the regulator status of the company-level HPA breach; no personal finding against Lede was located. Credential dates and independent verification were unavailable.