She was once asked to fetch coffees. Now Liz Westcott runs Australia’s largest energy company

Six months into Woodside’s top job, Liz Westcott is making tough calls on clean energy, betting big on gas and drawing on a career built by defying expectations.

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It’s been only two days since Liz Westcott, the CEO of Australia’s largest energy company Woodside Energy, announced a dramatic paring back of the company’s planned $5 billion expansion of clean energy projects, but she looks absolutely unruffled.