Catherine Raw

Chief Development Officer of the world’s leading resources company, BHP, with over 20 years of geoscience, fund management, finance and operations experience. Catherine has global accountabilities for Group strategy, investment evaluation and capital planning, prioritisation and allocation, corporate business development, mergers and acquisitions and BHP Ventures. In 2018, Catherine was presented with the Eira Thomas Award at the Young Mining Professional awards in Toronto Canada, recognising exceptional leadership skills and innovative thinking. Catherine was also a member of the 2018 World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders class – a community of next-generation leaders from around the world who are committed to forging positive change and collective action in tackling the world’s most critical challenges, for a sustainable and inclusive world. Catherine holds a Master of Arts, Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, a Master of Sciences in Mineral Project Appraisal from Imperial College, and is a CFA Charterholder.