Jakob Stausholm is a Danish businessman, and the CEO of Rio Tinto Group since January 2021. Stausholm earned a degree from the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...

. Stausholm joined Rio Tinto in September 2018 as an executive director and chief financial officer (CFO). He succeeded

Jean-Sébastien Jacques Jean-Sébastien Dominique Francois Jacques (born October 1971) is a former chief executive officer of Rio Tinto Group. He succeeded Sam Walsh in July 2016. He was succeeded by Jakob Stausholm in early 2021. He resigned as CEO in 2020 following ...

as CEO on 1 January 2021. Before Rio Tinto, Stausholm was the Chief Strategy, Finance and Transformation Officer for

Maersk (), also known simply as Maersk (), is a Danish shipping company, active in ocean and inland freight transportation and associated services, such as supply chain management and port operation. Maersk was the largest container shipping line a ...

. Prior to this, Stausholm worked for Shell for 19 years.

References

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