ATHENA RESOURCES LIMITED — Board/Management Information 2008

Jun 16, 2008

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63 Lindsay Street Perth WA 6000 p 61 8 9428 2900 f 61 8 9328 5188 e ahn@athenaresources.com.au www athenaresources.com.au ABN : 69 113 758 900

17 June 2008

The Company Announcements Office Australian Stock Exchange Limited 4 Floor, 20 Bridge Street SYDNEY NSW 2000

APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR

The Board of Athena Resources Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of The Honourable Andrew P Thomson BA, LLB, LLM as non executive Director of Athena Resources Limited.

Mr. Thomson lives in Singapore and works as a consultant to Minter Ellison Lawyers working in the Middle East and Asia on investment and government relations matters. He is also chairman of Citadel Resources Group Limited (ASX - CGG) and chairman of Gulf & Asian Mining Pty Ltd.

Until 2005 Mr. Thomson lived in Washington D.C. where he served at the World Bank as an Assistant and Acting Executive Secretary of the Inspection Panel. In this role Mr Thomson conducted investigations of developing world projects. He also practiced as an attorney with Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

Mr Thomson spent the early years of his career in Tokyo working as a fund manager for GT Management (Japan) Ltd and later as an investment banker at Credit Suisse-First Boston (Japan) focusing on Japanese equities and fixed income funds and commodity-based derivatives.

Before moving to Washington D.C. in 2001 Mr Thomson was a Member of Parliament in Australia, representing a district in Sydney in the House of Representatives. During the 1990s he served as Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Sport, Tourism, and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Sydney 2000 Games, Chairman of the Australia-Japan Parliamentary Friendship League, and Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT).

Mr Thomson is a graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Melbourne, the International Center of Keio University in Tokyo, and Georgetown University Law Center. His other languages are Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic.

E.W. Edwards Executive Chairman