Tracey Winters

Tracey Winters joined Santos in 2017 and is Chief Strategy Officer, responsible for corporate, portfolio and ESG strategy, commercial, business development and M&A functions, government affairs and social performance. Tracey is also a member of the Santos Foundation Board. She has previously held a number of senior roles at Santos.

Santos is an LNG producer with three world-class LNG projects in Australia and Papua New Guinea, serving markets across Asia. It is developing the Pikka oil project on Alaska's North Slope and has domestic gas assets across Australia.

Tracey has 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, in diverse roles including government and regulatory affairs, media and communications, environment, land access, project commercialisation, construction and asset management. She held a senior role in federal resources and energy policy and politics for seven years, and over more than a decade built a successful government approvals and environmental management consultancy, serving some of Australia’s biggest resource companies and delivering major project approvals for some of the nation’s biggest gas and pipeline projects.

From 2011 to 2016, Tracey drove the environmental approvals and land access processes to deliver the QCLNG project. In 2016-17, she advised Caltex Australia (now Ampol) on public affairs and strategic issues management, in particular wage underpayment by franchisees.

Tracey is an experienced non-executive director, having served on the Queensland Rail Board from 2020 to 2025, including as a member of the People and Safety Committee, and chair of the Major Projects Committee.