Vandita Pant

A senior executive with 30 years of commercial, finance, supply chain operations and strategy experience with global mandates in resources, finance and banking industries, having worked based in 5 countries spanning across Asia, Europe and Australia. Vandita was appointed the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of one of the world’s largest resources companies, BHP on 1 March 2024. Prior to that, she was the Chief Commercial Officer of BHP for four and a half years. As the CCO, Vandita had global accountability for Marketing and Sales, Procurement, Maritime and warehouses and Logistics; Global Business Services and for developing the Company’s view on macro economic and global commodities markets.Vandita is a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team since July 2019. She is the Chair of the Group Investment Review Committee for the approval of major capital projects globally. Vandita debuted at #11 in the Forbes World's Most Influential Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) 2022 list. In annual survey conducted by Extel in 2025 and in 2026, Vandita was voted the best Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for two consecutive years in Basic Materials sector as voted by the buy side investors and sell-side analysts in Australia and New Zealand. Vandita is an experienced Board Member with a demonstrated history of working in the mining, financial services, standards setting, philanthropic and business chamber bodies. She is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of BHP Foundation. She is a strong business development professional with a MBA majoring in Finance and Marketing from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. Vandita was awarded the prestigious Asian Women of Achievement (AWA) Award, UK in 2017 which celebrates the huge contribution made by high achieving Asian women in Britain both professionally and in their communities, by being inspiring role models. She has also been recognised amongst the Top100 Global inspirational Women in Mining.