Stephen Gardiner

Mr Gardiner has over forty years of corporate finance experience at major companies listed on the ASX, culminating in 17 years at Oil Search Limited, including eight years as Chief Financial Officer. While at Oil Search, he covered a range of executive responsibilities including corporate finance and control, treasury, tax, audit and assurance, risk management, investor relations and communications, ICT and sustainability. He also served as Group Secretary for ten years while performing his finance roles. Prior to Oil Search,he held senior corporate finance roles at major multinational companies including CSR Limited and Pioneer International Limited. He has particular strength in capital management and funding, both debt and equity, having raised many billions of dollars, including via structured financings such as working on the US$15 billion PNG LNG Project financing, the largest such financing ever undertaken at the time