Ingrid Oyarzún Olave

Head of Sustainability Innovation

BHP

Keynote presentation: Re-thinking tailings and water technology strategies

Ms. Ingrid Oyarzún Olave has 22 years of combined experience in the mining industry. She has been working with BHP for 19 years in operational and various strategic corporate roles including Global Sustainability Innovation, Global Tailings Management, Planning and Technical Management, Studies & Project Management and Escondida Mine Operations.

Ingrid’s approach of building collaborative relationships both within BHP and across the industry has enabled her to deliver global strategies in an effective and inclusive manner. Currently, she is working as Head of Sustainability Innovation as part of the Portfolio Strategy & Development, in which she is responsible for the Decarbonisation of BHP's value chain and elimination of tailings as a material risk by focusing on enablement of technology development and acceleration of the sustainability journey across BHP.

Most recently, she led the development of the BHP Long Term Tailings Strategy as part of the BHP Tailings Taskforce team. In her previous assignment, she was responsible for the Minerals Americas studies portfolio as Head of Directional Studies. Ingrid also has experience in several Major Projects across all project phases - prefeasibility, feasibility and execution including as Project Engineering Manager in Escondida Water Supply -Desalination Plant ~3.000 lps - US$ 3.5 billion during its execution phase. Ingrid also has deep experience in the Escondida operation in the water and tailings managements areas and has held various senior technical and commercial project roles in her career to date.