AGL Energy Limited (AGL) announced that the Board had appointed Graeme Hunt to succeed Jerry Maycock as Chairman following the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 27 September 2017, at which point Mr. Maycock will retire. Mr. Hunt has been a Non-Executive Director of AGL since September 2012, chairs the Safety, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committee and sits on the People and Performance Committee. He is a former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Broadspectrum Limited and Lihir Gold Limited and a former senior executive of BHP Billiton Limited, where he served as President, respectively, of the Iron Ore, Aluminium and Uranium divisions. He chaired the Federal Government's Renewable Energy Committee, the precursor to the formation of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, ARENA.