Michael Fitzpatrick

B Eng, BA (Oxon), age 57.

Appointment and election: Director of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited since June 2006.  Michael was elected by shareholders in 2007 and stands for re-election in 2010 (notes a, b, c and e).

Skills and experience: Michael sold his interest in, and ceased to be a director of, Hastings Funds Management Ltd during 2005, the pioneering infrastructure asset management company which he founded in 1994. He is chairman of Treasury Group Limited, an incubator of fund management companies. He is chairman of the Australian Football League having previously played the game professionally, and is a former chairman of the Australian Sports Commission.

External appointments (current and recent):
Chairman of Treasury Group Limited since 2005
Director of the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research since 2001
Chairman of the Victorian Funds Management Corporation from 2006 to 2008
Managing director of Hastings Funds Management Ltd from 1994 to 2005
Director of Australian Infrastructure Fund Limited from 1994 to 2005

Notes
(a) Audit committee
(b) Nominations committee
(c) Remuneration committee
(d) Committee on social and environmental accountability
(e) Independent