Fortescue
Established in Western Australia in 2003, Fortescue has become a global green technology, energy and metals company that is working to accelerate commercial decarbonisation through heavy industry, rapidly, profitably and globally.
As one of the world’s lowest cost iron ore producers, Fortescue is now shipping at an annual rate of over 180 million tonnes with more than 1.7 billion tonnes of iron ore delivered to their customers since 2008. Through their green energy and technology company FFI, they are rapidly diversifying the business to become an integrated, global green energy and resources company. Key to this transition are their industry leading targets to achieve carbon neutrality for Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030 and net zero Scope 3 emissions by 2040. For Fortescue’s size and scale, there is no other mining company in the world that is taking the action they are to eliminate emissions.
ADVISORY COUNCIL NOMINEE
Sara Edmonson
Global Advocacy
FortescueSara Edmonson joined Fortescue in January 2021 as European Lead with a focus on delivering the company’s growth strategy in Europe.
Sara has overseen a few roles at Fortescue over the last 4 years including having built the initial Fortescue team on the continent from ground up. She currently leads Global Advocacy across a variety of key topics including maritime decarbonisation policy.
Sara has extensive experience in natural gas and the energy markets having been the Chief Executive of two independent listed energy companies for a combined period of 10 years.
Ms Edmonson was founding Chairwoman of Associazione Energia Nazionale, an Italian association created to promote sustainable production, transportation and use of domestic energy.
She is fluent in Italian, having previously worked both in Italy and internationally for EY Parthenon and Transaction Advisory Services. During her tenure at EY, Ms Edmonson advised numerous blue-chip corporate clients on transactions in Russia, Romania, Turkey and the US including the US$5 billion acquisition of DRS Technologies by Finmeccanica in 2008.
Sara holds an MBA from St John’s University in New York and is completing a Masters in Sustainability Sciences at Harvard University.
