Kym Winter-Dewhirst

Kym Winter-Dewhirst is a senior South Australian public servant, former mining industry professional and political lobbyist. He was appointed to the role of Chief Executive Department of the Premier & Cabinet in the Government of South Australia in January 2015, where he became the highest paid public sector employee in South Australia's history. He was previously employed as Vice President of Coal at mining company, BHP Billiton, and had worked extensively on the Olympic Dam mine expansion project as an employee of Western Mining Corporation prior to 2005 and BHP Billiton thereafter.

Winter-Dewhirst studied politics at Flinders University and journalism at the University of South Australia. Also a musician and songwriter, his band, Kym Winter-Dewhirst and the Love Muscles, released an album called Dirty World in 1994. He established the firm Winter-Dewhirst & Associates in 1996 and worked as a political lobbyist until 2002. Between 2002 and 2004, he was the Chief of Staff to the Government of South Australia's Environment Minister, John Hill.

Kym Winter-Dewhirst has had a long professional association with the Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine near Roxby Downs in South Australia. Prior to BHP Billiton's acquisition of Western Mining Corporation and its assets in 2005 (which included the Olympic Dam mine), Winter-Dewhirst worked for WMC as manager of government relations. Under BHP Billiton's ownership, his senior executive positions related to the mine have included Vice President External Affairs - Uranium Customer Sector Group and Vice President Government and Community Relations Olympic Dam. He has worked as part of the company's environmental regulatory approvals team with a focus on the Olympic Dam environmental impact study (EIS) and the revision of the Roxby Downs (Indenture Ratification) Act 1982.

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