Dame Carol Kidu has been appointed to the board of directors of Bougainville Copper Ltd. Dame Carol would stand for election at the company's Annual General Meeting in Port Moresby on April 8 and the directors have recommended that shareholders vote in favour of this appointment. She will join another distinguished Papua New Guinean, former Prime Minister Sir Rabbie Namaliu, on the board of BCL. Dame Carol, a teacher by profession, retired from the Parliament of Papua New Guinea in 2012 after 15 years in politics.

She was the Minister for Community Development for nine years and finished her political career as Leader of the Opposition. In addition to her Ministerial work, she established the Parliamentary Committee on HIV in 2003 and the PNG Parliamentary Group on Population and Development in 2008.