Fiona Macaulay

Fiona MacAulay was appointed as an independent non-executive director in April 2022 and has chaired the Remuneration Committee since May 2022. Fiona is an experienced public company director with deep knowledge of executive remuneration and ESG matters. Prior to transitioning in 2018 to a portfolio of non-executive and advisory roles within the resources and industrial sectors, Fiona, with over 35 years’ experience in operations, large programme management, global supply chain and stakeholder management, held senior roles and board positions in the upstream oil and gas sector across a number of large and small cap companies. These included BG Group, Mobil and latterly as COO of Rockhopper Exploration plc (2013-2017) and CEO of Echo Energy PLC (2017-2019). Fiona was also until recently a non-executive director of Coro Energy PLC (2017-2022) at which she was also HSE committee chair and remuneration committee chair. She was a member of the Exploration Advisory Board of Cairn India Ltd (2019-2021) and is past President of American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Europe, receiving an Honorary Membership Award in 2021. Fiona is a member of the Geological Society of London Investment Committee and a scrutineer for its Chartership Programme.