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Paul Sinclair Heithersay PSM FTSE is a public servant employed by the Government of South Australia. He is the chief executive of the Department for Energy and Mining.[1] He was appointed to this role by the then recently elected Liberal government in June 2018.[2]
Prior to that he had been deputy chief executive of the Department of State Development (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 BHP, 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 North Limited and Geopeko.[3] 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).[4]