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Dr Hawley is based in London and has extensive technical qualifications and substantial expertise in the nuclear energy industry as well as broader public company management. He was Chief Executive of British Energy Plc from 1995 to 1997, Chief Executive of Nuclear Electric Plc from 1992 to 1996 and prior to this enjoyed a long career in senior engineering and management positions with CA Parsons & Co Ltd, Northern Engineering Industries Plc and Rolls-Royce Plc. Dr Hawley has been Managing Director of CA Parsons & Co Ltd, Managing Director of Northern Engineering Industries Plc, a Director of Rolls-Royce Plc, Chairman of Taylor Woodrow Plc, an Advisor Director of HSBC Bank Plc and is presently a director of Colt Telecom Group S.A. and Rutland Trust Plc.

Dr Hawley’s experience in managing Nuclear Electric Plc, the largest nuclear generator in the United Kingdom, and British Energy Plc, the United Kingdom’s leading electricity supplier, gives him a unique understanding of the nuclear generation sector in Europe and he is acknowledged as an international expert on power generation and energy.

Dr Hawley was appointed a director of Berkeley Resources Limited on 20 April 2006

Mr Syme is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. He has over 15 years experience as a senior executive of a number of companies in the Australian resources and media sectors. He was a Manager in a major international Chartered Accounting firm before spending 3 years as an equities analyst in a large stockbroking firm. He was then Chief Financial Officer of Pacmin Mining Limited, a successful Australian gold mining company, as well as a number of other resources companies.

Mr Syme was appointed a director of Berkeley Resources Limited on 27 August 2004.

Sean James
Non-Executive Director
Qualifications – B.Sc. (Hons)

Mr James is a mining engineer and was formerly the Managing Director of the Rossing Uranium Mine in Namibia which is the world's largest low grade, open pit uranium mine. After 16 years at Rossing, he returned to London as a Senior Group Mining Executive at Rio Tinto Plc in London. Mr James' experience in managing the Rossing mine is ideally suited for the type of uranium mining operations the Company aims to develop in the Iberian Peninsula.

Mr James was appointed a Director of Berkeley Resources Limited on 28 July 2006.

James Ross
Non-Executive Director
Qualifications – B.Sc. (Hons.), PhD, FAusIMM, FAICD

Dr Ross is a leading international geologist whose technical qualifications include an honours degree in Geology at UWA and a PhD in Economic Geology from UC Berkeley. He worked for Western Mining Corporation Limited for 25 years before becoming an Executive Director at Aerodata Holdings Limited and Managing Director of World Geoscience Limited in 1988. He was Technical Director with the Emperor Mines Limited Group from 1990 to 1992, Managing Director of Odin Mining Investment Company Limited from 1990 to 1995, Chairman and Executive Director of Tanganyika Gold Limited from 1996 to 2000, and Executive Director of Renewable Energy Corporation Limited from 2000 to 2001. He has considerable international experience in exploration and mining, particularly in developing countries.

Dr Ross was appointed a director of Berkeley Resources Limited on 4 February 2005.

Senor Esteruelas is an experienced Spanish executive whose senior executive roles have included Director General of Correos y Telegrafos (the Spanish postal service), President of Minas de Almaden y Arrayanes SA (formerly the world’s largest mercury producer) and Chief Executive Officer of Compania Espanola de Tabaco en Rama S.A., the leading tobacco transforming company in Spain.

Senor Esteruelas was appointed a Director of Berkeley Resources Limited on 16 November 2006.

The Board considers that the Company is not currently of a size, nor are its affairs of such complexity to justify the formation of separate or special committees at this time. The Board as a whole is able to address the governance aspects of the full scope of the Company’s activities and to ensure that it adheres to appropriate ethical standards.

The Board has sole responsibility for the following:

• Appointing and removing the Managing Director and any other executives and approving their remuneration;
• Appointing and removing the Company Secretary / Chief Financial Officer and approving their remuneration;
• Determining the strategic direction of the Group and measuring performance of management against approved strategies;
• Review of the adequacy of resources for management to properly carry out approved strategies and business plans;
• Adopting operating and capital expenditure budgets at the commencement of each financial year and monitoring the progress by both financial and non-financial key performance indicators;
• Monitoring the Group’s medium term capital and cash flow requirements;
• Approving and monitoring financial and other reporting to regulatory bodies, shareholders and other organisations;
• Determining that satisfactory arrangements are in place for auditing the Group’s financial affairs;
• Review and ratify systems of risk management and internal compliance and control, codes of conduct and compliance with legislative requirements; and
• Ensuring that policies and compliance systems consistent with the Group’s objectives and best practice are in place and that the Company and its officers act legally, ethically and responsibly on all matters.

Berkeley Resources Ltd.
Level 9, BGC Centre, 28 The Esplanade Perth,
Western Australia 6000