Woodside appoints Cilento to board

Deputy chief executive of the Business Council of Australia, Melinda Cilento, has been appointed to the board of Woodside Petroleum.

The announcement is below:

Woodside Chairman Michael Chaney announced today that Melinda Cilento would join the company's Board as a non-executive director effective immediately. She joins Woodside as an independent director.

Ms Cilento is the deputy chief executive of the Business Council of Australia. She joined the Business Council of Australia in April 2002 and has significant public and private sector experience in economic policy development and analysis.

Ms Cilento previously worked with County Investment Management (now Invesco) as Head of Economics. She has also worked with the Department of Treasury in various roles, and spent two years working at the International Monetary Fund as the technical assistant to the Australian Executive Director.

Ms Cilento has a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from Flinders University, and a Masters of Economics from the Australian National University.