Ardea Resources Limited announced the appointment of Maree Arnason as an independent Non-Executive Director, effective from 10 July 2023. Ms. Arnason is a highly experienced and well-regarded director and as a senior
executive in the natural resources sector with companies including BHP Billiton, Wesfarmers Energy and CITIC Pacific Mining and has worked across commodities including gold, copper, iron ore, coal and mineral sands from exploration and full production environments. Ms. Arnason is a non-executive director of Gold Road Resources Limited, an ASX-200 company, where she is Chair of the Risk and ESG Committee and serves on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Corporate Governance Consultative Panel. Maree holds a Bachelor of Arts, is an Australian Institute of Company Directors Fellow, Western Australian Divisional Councillor, and member of AICD's Corporate Governance Committee. A Co-Founder and Director of Energy Access Services, which operates an independent WA-focused digital trading platform for wholesale as buyers and sellers, Ms. Arnason is also Chair of Juniper. In 2018, Maree was recognised as one of the Top 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining and her previous ASX-200 directorship includes Sandfire Resources. In her executive career, Ms. Arnason was a member of divisional leadership teams for several ASX-listed companies with businesses and services located globally. She has worked in many complex corporate, site-based and project environments with a focus on risk and reputation and has expertise in strategy, sustainability, risk, stakeholder relations, business transformations, and corporate affairs including with government, Indigenous and regulatory bodies.