Antofagasta plc announced that the Board of the Company has appointed Heather Lawrence as an Independent Non-Executive Director and member of the Company's Audit and Risk Committee. Ms Lawrence is a qualified chartered accountant and has spent well over a decade working in senior roles within corporate finance and investment banking, with particular experience across industrial and transportation businesses. Ms Lawrence has significant non-executive directorship experience.

She is currently a non-executive director and the audit committee chair of Melrose Industries plc. Previously, she has been a non-executive director of Coats Group plc and a non-executive director and the audit committee chair of FlyBe Group plc.