This CEO of a $6b company was told he ‘could do better’ at school
Whitehaven chief Paul Flynn may not have been an enthusiastic student, but he learnt to debate around the kitchen table with his parents and eight siblings.
Paul Flynn, chief executive of coal miner Whitehaven Coal, attributes his willingness to take the unpopular side in the energy transition argy-bargy to growing up in a family of nine children where his father encouraged debate on a nightly basis.
Paul Flynn grew up in a “good Catholic family” of six girls and three boys. Dominic Lorrimer
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