Person
Andrew Forrest
Founder and chair of Minderoo Foundation, as reported by ABC News.
Founder and chair, Minderoo Foundation
Andrew Forrest founded Minderoo Foundation and, as ABC News reported, is its chair. ABC News also reported that ExxonMobil claimed the Intergenerational Environment Justice Fund is a subsidiary of Minderoo, and that a Minderoo spokesperson said that characterisation of the relationship is incorrect.
As reported by ABC News, the first Plastic Waste Makers Index, published in 2021 by Minderoo, alleged that ExxonMobil was the largest producer of the plastic polymers which are then turned into single-use plastics — a claim ExxonMobil denies. In a statement reported by ABC News in connection with ExxonMobil’s defamation suit, Forrest said he was “delighted Exxon has walked themselves into the court and opened themselves up to cross-examination”.