Rio Tinto Taps Canadian China Envoy To Be Next Chair

Mining giant Rio Tinto has selected Canadian businessman Dominic Barton to be its new chairman, replacing Simon Thompson, who will stand down in 2022 to take responsibility for the company’s destruction of the 46,000-year-old Aboriginal rock shelters at Western Australia’s Juukan Gorge, The Age reported.

Barton, Canada’s outgoing ambassador to China and a former head of global consultancy group McKinsey & Co, would join Rio’s board in April and be appointed to the role of chairman at its annual investor meeting on May 5, the Anglo-Australian miner announced on Monday, the report said.

Read the full report: The Age.

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Kevin Hamlin

Kevin Hamlin is a financial journalist with extensive experience covering Asia. Before joining Asia Financial, Kevin worked for Bloomberg News, spending 12 years as Senior China Economy Reporter in Beijing. Prior to that, he was Asia Bureau Chief of Institutional Investor for ten years.