Jakob Stausholm joined Rio Tinto in September 2018 as executive director and chief financial officer, and became chief executive on January 2021.
Prior to Rio Tinto, Mr Stausholm was the chief strategy, finance and transformation officer of Maersk Group; group chief financial officer of the global facility service provider ISS; and spent 19 years at Shell across Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific where he was vice president of finance for Asia Pacific and chief internal auditor.