Anglo-Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced the appointment of a new non-executive director, Baroness Shriti Vadera, to the board of BHP Billiton, effective as of January 1, 2011.
Shriti Vadera is expected to bring wide-ranging expertise in finance, economics, and public policy to the BHP Billiton board, as well as extensive experience in emerging markets, the company said. She has held a number of advisory and ministerial roles in the British government, most recently serving as Minister for Africa and Minister for Economic Competitiveness and Enterprise.
Born in Uganda, Baroness Vadera's family moved to India and then England, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford.