Paul Sinclair Heithersay is a

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employed by the

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. He is the chief executive of the Department for Energy and Mining. He was appointed to this role by the then recently elected

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government in June 2018. Prior to that he had been deputy chief executive of the

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(previously known as DMITRE) since July 2014. He was the chief executive of the Resources Infrastructure & Investment Task Force, to which he was appointed in December 2010. He is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the State Government's interaction with

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, which owns the Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine. Heithersay joined the public service in 2002 after 20 years of working for the mining companies

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and Geopeko. His first role for the government was as executive director of the Geological Survey of South Australia within Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA).

Honours

Heithersay received a Public Service Medal for his work in the South Australian mineral resource sector in the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (ATSE) in November that year. In October 2013 Heithersay received the annual ResourceStocks magazine Legend in Mining award for his role in increasing investment in South Australian energy and mineral resources. This award acknowledged his role in the development of the PACE 2020 program (Program for Accelerated Exploration) and the establishment of DMITRE as a single access point for investors in the resources sector. In 2014 the

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appointed Heithersay as its international exchange lecturer.

Board memberships

* Institute for Mineral & Energy Resources (IMER) Advisory Board –

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* Resources Industry Development Board (RIDB) – Department of State Development, South Australia * Resources & Energy Skills Alliance (RESA) Board

References

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