In 1999, the BHP Forum on Corporate Responsibility (FCR) was created in response to increasing interest from external stakeholders in the complex social and environmental issues associated with company operations, combined with BHP’s desire to actively engage with these stakeholders.  

Together with BHP’s CEO and other members of the Executive Leadership Team, the FCR comprises independent civil society leaders in various fields of sustainability, who make an important contribution to our approach across a range of sustainability-related topics and to the development of our related policies, strategies and standards. The FCR provides insight into current and emerging issues, challenges our thinking and allows us to understand and consider the broader impacts of our actions. The civil society members advise our operational management teams as well as BHP’s Board and its Sustainability Committee.  

The FCR met twice during FY2025 (in Australia and Chile). As part of the FY2025 briefings, the FCR discussed a range of topics, including our co-creation principles and opportunities to embed them in projects in both Australia and Chile, our Indigenous relationship health assessment results and our plans to further operationalise our Indigenous Peoples Policy Statement. In addition to engagements with a range of BHP teams, FCR members also met with local community and Indigenous representatives in Chile to better understand local perspectives. Representatives from the FCR shared key observations from these briefings with the BHP Board’s Sustainability Committee in August 2025. 

The civil society members of the FCR are: 

• Catalina Cock Duque, Executive Director, Fundación Mi Sangre (Colombia) 
• Jean Paul Gladu, Founder and Principal, Mokwateh (Canada) 
• Professor Don Henry, Public Policy Fellow – Environmentalism, University of Melbourne (Australia) 
• Tanya Hosch, former Executive General Manager of Inclusion and Social Policy, Australian Football League (Australia)  
• Dr Simon Longstaff, Executive Director, The Ethics Centre (Australia) 
• Ray Offenheiser, Director, Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (United States) 

Dr Simon Longstaff, BHP Forum on Corporate Responsibility Chair