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Group Executive and Chief People Officer, Member of the Group Management Committee and Chairman of the US Disclosure Controls Committee, the Disclosure Committee and Global Ethics Panel.
Experience: Formerly Chief Governance Officer. Appointed Company Secretary of BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc in June 2001. Appointed Chief Governance Officer in November 2006 and appointed Special Advisor & Head of Group Secretariat in December 2005. Karen Wood is a member of the Takeovers Panel (Australia), the Business Regulatory Advisory Group (Australia) and the JD (Juris Doctor) Advisory Board of the University of Melbourne. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and a member of the Law Council of Australia and the Law Institute of Victoria. Before joining BHP Billiton, she was General Counsel and Company Secretary for Bonlac Foods Limited. | 