Rio Tinto taps finance head as new CEO
Jakob Stausholm will assume the CEO role at Rio Tinto in January 2021. Credit: Rio Tinto.
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has named finance head Jakob Stausholm as its next chief executive, replacing incumbent Jean-Sébastien Jacques who had to step down following an international outcry over the miner’s destruction of sacred Aboriginal rock shelters.
Stausholm, a Danish national who joined the company in 2018 from shipping company AP Moller-Maersk, will be tasked with rebuilding the world’s second-largest miner’s reputation.
Rio Tinto fell out of favour with the general public, including investors, following its decision to blast two 46,000-year-old Aboriginal rock shelters at Juukan Gorge to expand an iron mine in Western Australia.
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